Georg Friedrich

The story of Empress Elisabeth of Austria told from the point of view of her lady-in-waiting, Irma Sztáray. Far from the kitschy “Sissi” cliché, she portrays a woman who, for years without her husband, surrounded only by women, ventured on journeys throughout Europe, mastered six languages, practiced high-performance sports and did not fit at all into the tight corset of the Viennese court.

Ewald moved to Rumania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken. And Ewald is forced to confront a truth he has long suppressed. Sparta is the brother film to Rimini, and the conclusion of Ulrich Seidl's diptych about the inescapability of the past and the pain of finding yourself.

행복해지면 나쁜 일이 일어난다고 믿는 사기꾼 남자. 불행한 삶을 유지해야 하건만, 자신을 조종하는 형과 함께 마피아 조직에 들어가면서 행복과 불행의 균형을 맞추는 데 어려움을 겪는다.

In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.

Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.

당시 독일에서 동성애자라는 이유만으로 감옥에 가야 했던 한스라는 남자의 1945년부터 1969년까지의 여정을 추적한다. 동성애자 박해라는 주제를 다룬 정치영화이면서 주인공 한스와 그가 수감 중에 만난 종신수 빅토르의 러브스토리. (제26회 부산국제영화제)

In the dark middle ages young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. It is there that he meets Narcissus, a brilliant, scholarly novice, who is introverted and aloof. A unique and deep life-long friendship is born. Narcissus chooses to remain detached from the world in prayer and meditation. Goldmund, who is passionate, sensual and impulsive, runs away from the monastery to live a picaresque wanderer’s life, his amorous and artistic adventures leading him to discover the extremes of both ecstasy and pain. Several thrilling years pass, until one day these friends cross paths again...

Russian Oligarch Igor is as rich as he is extravagant: He plans to build his brand new villa right on a world famous and preserved bridge in the middle of Vienna! To bribe all the politicians, he needs the help of his interpreter Nadja. But Nadja has her own idea of what to do with all the bribe money.

Small-time crook Atris is tired of working for Berlin crime lord El Keitar. Yet in order to build his own syndicate, he needs money. When his friend Frank offers him a lucrative deal, Atris thinks his chance has finally come, not knowing that he is about to set in motion a fateful chain of events.

Kings should be treated courteously! At least, that's what famous music critic Georg thinks. But he finds himself counting pennies when his chief editor suddenly fires him from the Viennese newspaper for which he has been writing for decades. While keeping his dismissal a secret from his psychotherapist wife Johanna, whose mind is occupied solely by getting pregnant, Georg begins to plot his revenge.

A father tries to rekindle his relationship with his son after years of absence and lack of communication. He takes him on a car ride across northern Norway, hoping it is not too late.

The first part, "A New World", tells how the young German engineer Karl May comes to America and starts to work for a railway company in the Wild West. Under dramatic circumstances, he meets Apache chief Winnetou and becomes friends with him and his tribe. The Apaches give it the name Old Shatterhand. Together they fight now against the unscrupulous henchmen of the railway company, who wants to lay a route through the Indian area.

Sometimes you just have to know where the dog is buried! A lesson that family man Hans Waldmann will learn in this snappy black comedy. Because Hans's life is in crisis. Not only is he quickly being replaced by a Finn in the paper mill, his family is also more interested in a dog than his worries. For wife Yvonne and daughter Laura, the dog becomes indispensable in no time. All the more hopeless Hans's situation, after he has run over the four-legged rival in an inattentive moment. When then the supposed friend Mike offers his help, ...

Marija, a young Ukrainian woman, earns a living as a cleaning woman in a hotel in Dortmund, but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon, and puts away some money each month. But when she is fired without notice, her dream is suddenly postponed to an uncertain future. Jobless and under financial pressure, she is forced to look for alternatives but, in order to achieve her goal, she is ready to discard her body, her social relationships and her own feelings.

An anarchist young woman breaks the tacit contract with civilization and fearlessly decides on a life without hypocrisy or an obligatory safety net.

현실과 비현실의 경계를 흔드는 독특한 감성의 영화. 고독한 사립탐정 알로이스에게 수수께끼의 여성이 연락을 취해온다. 여성은 그를 “전화 산책”이라는 심리 게임에 끌어들이고, 그녀의 음성에 매혹된 알로이스는 상상의 세계로 진입하여 고독에서 탈피한다. (2016년 제21회 부산국제영화제)

"Pokerface - Grandman Takes Them All" - Rosa Hofer accidentally discovered that her son-in-law Udo is highly indebted . She follows and observes him secretly and finds out that he is trying to make some money in illegal poker games in a more than dubious cafe. To avoid the worst and save the family , and the house , which is already overwritten on the children, Rosa treading unusual ways for her. After initial differences, she gets help from Charly, who works in this cafe.

주인공 에릭은 오토바이 수리점을 운영하며 평범한 삶을 살고 있다. 대부분의 시간을 여자친구와 그녀의 딸을 위해 보내며 만사가 평화롭기만 하다. 늘 평온할 것만 같던 그의 삶에 어느 날 갑자기 헨리라는 이방인이 나타나 에릭의 삶에 관여하기 시작한다. 다른 사람한테는 보이지 않는 유령 같은 존재인 헨리의 등장으로 인해 에릭은 모든 게 혼란스러워진다. 헨리는 에릭에게 그가 기억하지 못하는 과거의 더러운 비즈니스에 합류하지 않을 경우 심각한 위험에 처할 것이라고 경고한다. 벼랑 끝에 몰린 에릭은 과연 다시 과거로 회귀할 것인가? 의지할 곳 없는 에릭은 점점 더 헨리에게 의지하게 되는데 과연 헨리가 믿을 만한 존재인가?

Nick Gutlicht lives of illegally selling valuable books, owes money to a bunch of other crooks and has to hide from them. By chance he ends up in the mansion of the famous, now very old philosopher Curt Ledig, who despite the age related forgetfulness and pathological kitchen phobia resists to move to his daughter. Nick is hired by the family as watchdog. Now Curt can work on a presentation for the upcoming symposium, which anybody thinks he's capable of anymore. Nick thinks he has an excellent hiding place. This partnership of convenience of the two individuals quickly develops its own momentum. Curt regards Nick as an exciting research object and subjects him to an absurd therapy. For Nick it's a unique opportunity to fund his finances with Curt's phenomenal library. The strange couple is going through turmoil of incalculable proportions.

Kurt, who suffers from an incurable disease, gets obsessed with the idea of freeing himself from his sick body - at any price.

A short crime movie directed by Christoph Brunner and Stefan Brunner.

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.

When Ruslana floods her Munich flat, Vladan, a former Boxer from Serbia, comes to her rescue. It is the night when Ruslana's son Bogdan should finally come from Kiev. He rather falls in love with the spoiled pop-starlet Maria, for whom he is working. Both, however, are depending on Maria's rich patron Jora. The same night in Belgrade Vladan's son Zoran meets Jelena. But she intends to leave her homeland the next day, forever. Three cities. Three Love-Stories. One night in Europe.

Life could be wonderful for Livia and Marco: good-looking, young, and Tim's parents. Tim is nine months old. His screaming every night drives his parents around the bend, although he was supposed to cement their relationship. But instead of slumber and sex, it's the same every night: jump out of bed and into the wobbly old Golf whose engine sound is the only thing that calms Tim down. One night, the unbelievable happens…

살인범으로 유죄 선고를 받고 복역 중인 19세의 로만 코글러는 지방자치제에서 운영하는 장례기관에서 일하며 새로운 삶을 꾸려간다. 그러나, 직장의 동료는 그를 믿지 않는다. 로만은 시신들 중에 자신과 같은 성을 가진 시체가 있는 것을 본 후 자신의 어머니에 대한 궁금증이 일기 시작하고, 자신의 정체성을 추적하기 시작한다. (2011년 16회 부산국제영화제)

A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...

진리추구를 지상 최대의 목표로 삼은 박사 파우스트. 인간의 근원을 파악하겠다며 인체 해부도 마다 않지만, 그가 얻은 것은 극심한 생활고뿐이다. 어느 날 돈을 마련하고자 전당포를 비롯한 마을 이곳 저곳을 어슬렁거리던 중, 파우스트는 신비한 처녀 마가레테와 맞닥뜨리고, 그녀의 아름다움에 완전히 매료되고 만다. “어떡하면 마가레테를 가질 수 있지?” “여기 서명만 하면 그녀는 당신 것이오!” 강렬한 욕망에 사로잡힌 파우스트에게 유혹의 순간이 찾아온다. 대금업자 뮐러가 그에게 처녀와 하룻밤을 보내게 해줄 테니 영혼을 달라고 제안한 것이다. 파우스트는 한 치의 망설임 없이 제안을 수락하는데… 당신이라면 이 치명적인 유혹 앞에서 어떤 선택을 할 것인가?

A look at a Bavarian commune of the Indian Bhagwan cult.

Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.

A German flight attendant's life spirals downward after she leaves her husband, quits her job, and joins a radical group of animal rights activists.

About a pathologist with a complicated life. His problems with himself, his colleagues and patients who come down to him, dead or alive.

Following the failure of his last mission, RFG spy Michael Roddick decides to disappear, taking along Elena, the daughter of a Russian spy who died under strange circumstances. They settle in Barcelona and open a restaurant, to help them to forget about the past. Nevertheless, his former colleagues reappear alleging there are still some matters yet to be settled.

Gangster boss Carlos orders the dodgy Viennese junkyard owner Harry to bring him a bag from Poland. Harry passes the order on to his "best man" Schorsch. Schorsch, not exactly the brightest, is currently without a driver's license and completely fixated on the 24-hour car race of Le Mans. So he gives the order to Mao and sends in their place the takeaway lessees Hans and Max to Poland. Their journey leads to a seemingly endless drug trip full of extraordinary phenomena.

아이거 북벽은 알프스의 3대 북벽 중 하나로 현재까지도 가장 등반하기 어려운, 등반 역사상 사망자가 가장 많은 곳이다. 1936년 독일은 올림픽 개회를 앞두고 국위 선양을 위한 죽음의 아이거 북벽 초등을 위해 전세계 등반가들을 부추긴다. 군에서 산악병으로 복무 중이던 토니 (벤노 퓨어만)와 앤디(플로리안 루카스)도 처음엔 너무 위험한 일이라 망설이지만, 아이거 북벽 초등에 성공하고 싶다는 일념으로 등반을 결심한다. 이 사실이 알려지자 기..

German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Rumpelstiltskin“.

[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.

Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their responsibilities, Stevie tries to make a good impression in town, spreading stories of grandeur and claiming to be the daughter of a diplomat. She makes progress. Yet the good weather doesn’t last and before long, she discovers that her parents have once more resorted to illegal means, as a way of supporting their leisurely lifestyle. As friends and hangers-on of her parents fill their new home, the chaos continually mounts. It is in this atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction, that Stevie must now start to define herself and perhaps even break free.

Achim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.

Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of Free Radicals.

From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.

세기말의 흥분과 긴장감이 감돌던 1900년. 화려하고 관능적인 아르누보 스타일을 상징하는 클림트의 그림은 고국인 오스트리아 빈에서는 퇴폐적이라는 이유로 혹독한 야유를 받지만 파리는 환호와 찬사를 보낸다. 파리에서 열린 만국박람회에서 철학 이라는 작품으로 금메달을 수상한 클림트는 축하파티에서 프랑스 무희이자 여배우인 레아를 소개 받고 이때부터 그에게 터질듯한 영감과 고통을 동시에 안겨준 레아에 대한 열정이 시작된다. 환상의 뮤즈이자 에로틱한 이상, 육체적 욕망의 현신으로서 그녀는 클림트의 작품 속에 거울처럼 투영되고, 그녀의 아름다움과 여성성은 클림트로 하여금 사랑에 대한 영원한 탐색을 가능케 한다. 하지만 레아와 똑같이 생긴 또다른 레아가 등장하고 의문의 사나이가 자신을 그림자처럼 쫓자 클림트는 점차 환영에 시달리고 그의 정신적, 예술적 방황은 최고조에 이르게 되는데...

Survival is not enough. Fariba Tabrizi has made it. Under peril of death she has fled from Iran. In Germany she has no alternative way of avoiding the threat of deportation other than to assume the identity of a deceased co-detainee. So what happens after a few month in which she has tried to come to terms with a situation which is actually an insufferable one for her? How does Fariba live not only in this external state of exile but also in an inner state of exile? The term "in orbit" is officially used by the UN to refer to asylum-seekers who find themselves orbiting around planet Earth because they can actually find legal domicile nowhere at all.

Ferdinand's father, the president of the residence, can not tolerate a serious relationship between his son and a commoner, and moreover intends to marry him to Lady Milford, the prince's mistress, to increase his own influence at court.

A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life

Sebastian and Paul are two bored boys about 16 years of age. They drink alcohol, steal - and attend a private school. They can't find a sense of meaning in their present adolescent existence. They abduct Sonja and lock her in an old, abandoned factory building. But what shall they do with her? Disorientation, fear, desire and also love are changing to cruel aggressivity.

A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.

Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in the usual way, through incarceration and deportation. But it's different this time: the story continues in Ghana, where everything is suddenly turned upside down.

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.

'Clemence M. Schönborn"s first feature film is a typical Austrian black comedy, dealing with an easy-going forty-something, who likes playing games with others, which has serious consequences... Phyllis, in her early 40s, still lives together with her mother, whom she loves and hates at the same time. When she gets to know Henry, supporting actor of a soap opera, she pretends to love him, but sleeps with the show's lead actor Walter, whom she finally runs over with her car, which makes Henry the show's new star - and the new lover of the lead actress Doris. However, Phyllis isn't done with him...

Three loser-type ex-students who earn too little money and don´t get laid as much as they want, try to change that by producing a home made porn movie starring themselves. They loan money from a pimp and begin casting the girls. When filming starts they find out that sex in front of the camera is hard work. Also you should know how to work a video camera. Frustration, relationship problems and cabin fever culminate in a dope induced garden orgy. But is it a film?

Nick, a jobless cook, falls in love with Anna, a film student. Some time after their adventurous first night she leaves him. Then time starts to run backwards - for everybody but Nick. He finds himself in a backwards world, everybody talks, runs, eats backwards. He accepts the situation, realizing that Anna is bound to return to him this way. He wants them to live together, him forwards, her backwards...

Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.

유명 음악학교의 피아노 교수 에리카는 잘 생긴 외모와 뛰어난 음악적 재능을 가진 공대생 '윌터'를 만난다. 첫눈에 반한 그의 적극적인 애정공세에 외롭고 쓸쓸했던 그녀의 일상에 조금씩 변화가 생기기 시작하고, 머뭇거림도 잠시, 에리카는 자신이 꿈꿔왔던 은밀하고도 치명적인 방식의 사랑을 요구하는데...

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.

1939년 독일의 침공을 받은 폴란드를 배경으로, 역사적 사실에 근거한 전쟁 드라마. 1939년 폴란드 바르샤바, 독일이 폴란드를 침공하고 폴란드는 한달도 못가서 항복을 선언한다. 독일군은 바르샤바에 있는 유태인들을 게토로 옮기고 그들을 철저히 격리되고 감시당한다. 배고픔으로 처참한 생활을 하던 유태인들의 분노는 더해가고 젊은이들을 중심으로 혁명의 싹이 트기 시작한다. 유태교 평의회의장 체르니라코브는 유태인들의 생명을 지키고 권익을 찾기 위해 노력하지만 역부족이다. 그의 운전기사를 하고 있는 카직과 팔레스타인으로 탈출하려다가 붙잡혀 다시 게토로 돌아온 다혈질의 모데카이, 그리고 그의 친구 이작은 무기를 모으고 독일에 대항하기로 결심한다.

Honest cop Rudi is a new member of a police unit commanded by his brother-in-law Otto which deals with foreigners. Rudi falls in love with Alena, a young Czech living illegally in Austria

Three stories by three directors, three journeys into the world of teenagers and countercultures. The stories are interlaced with each other. Characters with a small performance in one story will play a major part in one of the other two stories so we will learn more about them, on the other hand central characters appear again in the periphery of one of the other stories. It is done in a casual way, comparable with the situation in daily life when two friends are running into each other by chance. Petra and Nicole in their shrill world of brightness. Loafing around, bumming and teasing guys.

The Vienna State Opera on Thursday before the Carnival. As every year the large ball rather is attended by celebrities from politics and the media. Just the arrival of newcomers is finished and the Polonaise faded as it is in the best tradition: "Alles Walzer". transferred with 20 cameras live throughout the world. Television journalist Fraser (Heiner Lauterbach) views the event from the control room, outside in the hall leads his son has one of the cameras. Suddenly all hell breaks loose: poison gas flows from hidden containers, hundreds of guests die in agony, millions of horrified spectators experience it on the TV screen...

After the last concert of a long tour, Dr. Kurt Ostbahn retires to his favorite café to relax. He is suddenly dragged into a bizarre criminal case. His vacation then fills with vice, perversion and murder. Of course, this is not just a story; Dr. Kurt Ostbahn experienced everything himself! The characters are not inventions; they are personal acquaintances of Dr. Ostbahn. Only the names and details have been changed so as to make them barely recognizable. And the story is more exciting than real life.

1993년 크리스마스 전날 뚜렷한 이유도 없이 열아홉살 대학생이 은행에 들어가 총을 난사한다. 영화는 이 대학생과 조우하게 되는 평범한 사람들의 삶 속으로 들어가 그들을 오랜 시간 관찰한다. 이들이 비극을 맞이해야 할 이유는 어디에도 없다. 등장인물들의 일상 사이사이에 유고 내전, 소말리아 내전 등 비극의 현장을 전하는 뉴스 릴이 자꾸 끼어든다.

게오르그는 대기업에서 일하고, 그의 아내 안나는 가족이 운영하는 상점에서 안경사 일을 한다. 어린 딸 에바는 몹시 귀엽고 똘똘하게 생겼다. 그런데 이들 가족은 문득 삶의 무감각과 단절감에 빠져든다. 그리고는 현실에 존재하지 않는 미지의 대륙으로 떠날 준비에 들어간다. 게오르그의 부모조차 도저히 받아들이기 힘든 방식으로 이들은 그 결심을 실천한다.