Ekkehart Baumung

지하실에서 비밀스러운 취미를 즐기는 다양한 인물들의 행태를 기록한 이 영화는 비밀 취미 또는 기벽에 대한 인류학적인 보고서이다. 불편함을 견디며 화면을 응시하노라면, 어느 순간 우리 자신의 얼굴과 마주하게 된다.

[수입 수출]은 서로 다른 나라로 향하는 두 사람에 대해 이야기한다. 첫 번째는 젊은 간호사이자 갓난아기의 엄마이며 생계를 짊어지고 있는 올가에 대한 이야기. 그녀는 우크라이나에서 버는 돈으로는 도저히 생계를 유지할 수 없어 결국엔 오스트리아로 떠난다. 그 낯선 나라에서 그녀는 일을 구하지만 번번히 잃고, 가까스로 구한 병원 청소부 일을 하는 올가는 그 곳에서 죽어가는 병자들과 우정을 나누지만 친했던 할아버지가 죽은 뒤 삶의 의욕이 꺾인다. 다른 한 이야기는 젊은 오스트리아인 파울이 풀어간다. 그는 여자친구와의 관계도 원만치 않고, 돈벌이도 시원찮다. 그의 양부는 결국 그를 우크라이나로 데려가 도박게임기 설치하는 일을 맡긴다. 하지만 그들은 사사건건 부딪히고 끝내 파울은 양부를 뒤로하고 나와버린다.

베니스 영화제 심사위원 대상 수상. 비엔나 외곽의 한 시골마을을 무대삼아 스트레스에 가득 찬 세일즈맨, 자신을 학대하는 남자를 떨치지 못하는 노년의 여성, 반쯤 미친 히치하이커, 사실상 부부관계가 실종된 중년 부부 등 여러 인물들이 펼치는 일그러진 삶의 이어달리기. 보다 적나라하게 난교파티, 사도마조히스트적 성행위가 거침없이 등장하기도 한다.

FRANKREICH WIR KOMMEN is a highly enjoyable documentary, obviously intended for TV, but showing at film festivals. It shows us the highlights of the 1998 World Cup Championships in France through the eyes of several interesting and diverse fans of the Austrian national team. Entertaining, even for those not interested in football.

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?

Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs have. Michael Glawogger invited 12 people to talk about their ideas for a film and then shot short fragments for them. The result is a crime-story-erotic-lyrical-experimental-vampire-fantasy-horror-soap-opera-splatter-trash-road-movie-melodrama posing as a documentary!

외로움과 육체적 욕구를 충성스런 애완동물을 통해 해소하려는 사람들에 초점을 맞춘다.

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.

What does modern art mean for ordinary visitors to an exhibition?

Disappointed by failed relationships and the demands set by local women, more and more Austrians search for happiness in a marriage with women from Thailand and the Philippines. Asked about the positive properties of their Asian spouses, the answer of the Austrian husbands quite often is, "They don't talk back." Protagonist of the film is Karl S., a teacher in Vienna in his forties. Following his failed marriage he is now seeking a durable partnership and is on the lookout for a wife who doesn't question her traditional role. His solution: a wife from the Far East. Karl S. rounds up experiences and visits several mixed couples to get a clearer picture and to have his idea proven right. The film accompanies him on his search for the ideal woman and gives an insight into the imagination of these "last real men" who at the beginning seem to have hit the jackpot with their decisions

Works, legend and murders of Carlo Gesualdo, a notorious Italian composer and murderer from 16th century.

A portrait of Attwenger, the duo from Upper Austria (Markus Binder and Hans-Peter Falkner). The attempt to unite the worlds of Austrian folk music and hip-hop has already succeeded in the music of Attwenger.

Daily traffic jams on the South-East Express-Way, the most travelled road in Europe, reflection of a society dependent on cars. The jam makes many things visible for the first time; people showing their true faces in out-of-the ordinary situations.

The hero is an astronaut who has fallen from the heavens; afflicted by nightmares, he vegetates in his hospital room until an aged, sexless humanity needs him again...

In the beginning was the rhythm, then came the melody, or vice versa. At least this is the case in Vienna, where, in the quarter of Alt-Erlaa, one of the most multi-facetted musicians of the free jazz scene, Walter Malli, has his home.

오스트리아와 체코의 국경지대에 있는 랑가우와 사포즈라는 두 마을간의 거리는 겨우 2마일 정도밖에 되지 않지만 전혀 다른 곳이다. 가난과 곤궁이 만연한 한 마을에는 파울라 후터로바라는 한 과부가 살고, 다른 마을에는 보헤미아 전역에서 아내를 구하고자 하는 오스트리아인 세프 마우어가 있다. 인공 조명을 전혀 사용하지 않아 암울한 이미지의 이 영화는 외부 풍경의 분위기를 통해 인물들의 내면을 반영한다. 가난과 피폐화 대 풍요와 소비주의로 나뉘어지는 동서의 분할을 보여주려는 의도로 만들어진 이 영화는 점차 외로움, 채워지지 않은 사랑, 노화, 그리고 죽음 같은 보편적인 문제들에 초점을 맞춰간다.

A staged TV portrait of the Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer; and first collaboration with Maria Hofstätter.

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?