Danny Krausz

O remake da obra homônima de Stefan Zweig, Schachnovelle (1960). Advogado Dr. Josef Bartok é sequestrado pelos nacional-socialistas para que possam se apossar da grande fortuna que administra. Quando Bartok permanece em silêncio, os nazistas o prendem e o deixam vegetar sem contato ou distração. Quando Bartok está à beira de ser mentalmente quebrado, se depara com um livro em que os movimentos das partidas de xadrez foram registrados em um ardil. Por falta de alternativas, ele internaliza esses jogos. Anos depois, quando ele conhece o atual campeão mundial de xadrez em um navio, a insanidade da prisão toma conta.

At the center of the family story is 13-year-old titular protagonist Madison, for whom cycle racing means just everything! She gives her all to emulate her cool and successful cycle-pro father. But when the talented and ambitious young racer has to unwillingly swap saddles for a mountain bike, things go haywire.

Ali, once a promising young boxer from the Romani community and the only daughter of a Romani leader, falls in disgrace when she gives birth to her second child out of wedlock.

Mina seria uma adolescente como qualquer outra se não tivesse sido amaldiçoada e transformada em uma vampira morta-viva. Ela é obrigada a assombrar a casa onde cresceu: ninguém entra ou sai vivo de lá. Mas a chegada de Alex, um menino cego da mesma idade de Mina, pode fazê-la reviver sentimentos adormecidos, como empatia e amor.

1981, Quiberon, uma pequena cidade na costa de Bretanha, na França. Hilde Fritsch chega para visitar a uma velha amiga, que foi morar em um hotel com spa para fugir das pressões diárias da sua vida.

Germany, 1931. The youth novel "Emil and the Detectives" is being filmed, which will make its author, Erich Kästner, world famous. An unusual friendship begins between the childless author and fatherless Hans, the 9-year-old playing the character Little Tuesday. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test in the Third Reich when Kästner's books are banned and little Hans becomes a Hitler Youth. Based on a true story.

The U.S. scholarships Austrian student Inge and young mining student from Burma Sao Kya Seng fall in love. But it's only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of the Shan state of Burma. After a coup staged by the Burmese military, Sao is imprisoned. Inge does everything she can to free him. Base on the true story of Inge Sargent.

Mae quit school and ran away from home. After her brother’s death her family is broken. Only his red shoes (Chucks) remain. Mae has to start working in a social institution where she meets Paul. He is funny, sensitive, takes Mae as she is - and he is terminally ill. In a book named Chucks Mae writes down her own story about growing up between life and death: wild, tender and absolutely honest.

Brenner returns to Graz, the city where he grew up. When confronted with his old friends, his former girlfriend and the major sin he committed when he was young, murders and a fateful gunshot to the head result. After Brenner comes out of a coma, he begins to search for the person who tried to kill him - however, everybody claims that he himself is responsible. In the beginning Brenner was at the end of his rope, but he could face a new beginning in the end.

Um lugar: Theresienstadt. Um lugar único de propaganda que Adolf Eichmann chamou de 'Gueto Modelo', projetado para enganar o mundo e o povo judeu em relação à sua natureza real, para ser o último passo antes da câmara de gás. Um homem: Benjamin Murmelstein, último presidente do Conselho Judeu de Theresienstadt, um herói caído condenado ao exílio, que foi forçado a negociar dia após dia de 1938 até o final da guerra com Eichmann, a cujo julgamento Murmelstein nem sequer foi chamado para testemunhar. Mesmo que ele fosse, sem dúvida, aquele que conhecia melhor o carrasco nazista. Mais de vinte e cinco anos depois de Shoah, o novo filme de Claude Lanzmann revela um aspecto pouco conhecido, mas fundamental, do Holocausto, e esclarece as origens da 'Solução Final' como nunca antes. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

360 é uma reunião de histórias dinâmicas e modernas, passadas em diversas partes do mundo. Laura (Maria Flor) é uma mulher que deixou a vida na terra natal para tentar a sorte em Londres ao lado do namorado Rui (Juliano Cazarré). Ao descobrir que o parceiro está tendo um caso com Rose (Rachel Weisz), ela decide voltar para o Brasil. Na volta pra casa, ela conhece um simpático senhor (Anthony Hopkins) e Tyler (Ben Foster), duas pessoas em momentos difíceis em suas vidas. Num outro lado da história, Mirka (Lucia Siposová) é uma jovem tcheca que começa a trabalhar como prostituta para juntar dinheiro. Ao mesmo tempo, lida com a desaprovação da irmã Anna (Gabriela Marcinkova). O primeiro cliente de Mirka é Michael (Jude Law), que por sua vez é casado com Rose.

Pia, de 11 anos, sofre com a perda de seu pai, até que, um dia, uma criança yeti misteriosa chamada Yoko aparece em sua casa na árvore.

Anna, an attractive woman of 40 years, lives with her husband Johann and his small daughter. Both have managed to succeed economically and lead a helpless life. Suddenly appears a dark character, associated with the underworld, who begins to blackmail Anna, threatening to reveal his past.

A coming-of-age movie about how hard life is and how great it can be...It's the story about Karl "Charlie" Kolostrum, a young guy who tries to get along with his life but hasn't learned to live as an adult yet.

Rest in Peace is all about corpses. About decay and degeneration. About death as an ecological problem, about the dead as human spare parts. About the radical, ultimate end - and the question of whether any part of us remains.

Mais uma vez, algo aconteceu. Um homem pelo nome de Horvath desapareceu, e a única pista que leva ao restaurante Löschenkohl, uma hospedaria conhecida especializada em frango assado. O investigator Brenner vai tentar resolver o caso...

Baseado em fatos históricos, conta a aventura da dupla de alpinistas alemães, Toni Kurz e Andreas Hinterstoisser, em sua tentativa de escalar pela primeira vez a “Parede da Morte” do pico Eiger nos Alpes Suiços. Os dois alpinistas concorrem com um grupo de alpinistas austríacos para alcançar o pico da montanha, mas a repentina mudança do tempo e um ferimento levam o grupo atado na corda a lutar contra a morte.

When the beautiful, efficient and successful Christine, 42, arrives at their summer beach home with her husband and teenage daughter, a young hitchhiker catches her eye. What follows is the story of a woman who frees herself, tears her life into pieces and puts it back together in a different order.

For more than ten years, the Viennese children's book dealer Felice Frank has not heard from Alexander Helsing, the father of her little daughter Lilli. All the more surprised is the young woman, when she suddenly learns of the death of Alexander. But not only that: at the opening of the will in Hamburg, it turns out that the deceased bequeathed all his company shares in the family large shipping company to his daughter Lilli - and to the age of majority of the child Felice should manage these shares. However, the dead man's conservative family does everything in his power to disgust the unpleasant business partner.

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.

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.

Joe Müller, a single father, is electrified: in front of him stands an outraged woman who insults him badly. Still, he falls in love. As it turns out: not exactly the right one. Tessa, who is in the hospital with her son, is upset because her counterpart does not apologize for the accident caused by his daughter. But then she also finds Joe more than just nice. When Joe finds out that the magical Tessa is the new, ambitious CEO of the architectural firm "Planfactory", who has given him notice without even knowing him, he plans a revenge campaign.

A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring back the decoding device that will end the war.

Ex-detetive Brenner quer manter-se longe de problemas, mas vários casos de assassinato e sua ex-namorada Klara finalmente acabam por envolvê-lo. Mas a tomada de decisões não é um de seus pontos fortes.

Tells the story of a group of gangsters hiding out in a vacation-bungalow who get more than they bargained for.

This documentary road movie features the international jazz big band Vienna Art Orchestra on its tour trough Europe and Canada. A search for the truth of surviving and working in today's cultural world. The musical program of Vienna Art Orchestra's 20th Anniversary Tour under the direction of Mathias Rüegg is entitled "An Echo from Europe - From Django Reinhardt to Django Bates" and is intended as an homage to European jazz composers.

Two young women are hitchhiking when they get picked up by a man who proceeds to sexually assault them. He disappears after that. The suspicion that the „girls" - having a reputation of being "loose" when it comes to sex - killed him, begins to grow.

Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated house park in the south of Vienna, where they regularly go on pilgrimage with their son Philipp. Just as regularly, they have to recognize the bitter truth that they cannot actually afford the dream house they have visited.

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. Now conflicts begin, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.

Bele is 16 and has big hands and feet. Nothing's right: neither her coat, her first love, nor the first video she shoots with friends. And Agnes, her wonderful mom, isn't right either. Agnes is the opposite of Bele: She is pretty, successful, perfect. She gets the good things that life has to offer, such as a fulfilling job and a new lover. If only it weren't for her daughter Bele, who mercilessly expresses her needs as only a 16-year-old "bad girl" can.

Berlim, 1927. Seis jovens ambiciosos unem suas forças para buscar uma visão criativa única. Com disciplina e trabalho duro, eles logo dominam um repertório que foca a música "A Cappella" com letras que vão desde o sentimental até o absolutamente tolo. Seu sucesso na Alemanha é ecoado por triunfos no exterior e gravações vendidas em todo o mundo. E suas vidas se transformam em uma grande festa, com todas as mulheres, carros e luxo que eles querem. Mas enquanto eles ignoram a política, a política não os ignora. Três dos seis Harmonists são judeus, e, portanto, inaceitáveis para os nazistas, que os forçam a dissolver o grupo. O que começou como uma das histórias de sucesso mais encantadoras dos "loucos anos vinte" é destruído por uma ideologia intolerante. Os nazistas põem fim aos cômicos Harmonists, mas não consegue silenciar suas vozes.

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.

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!

Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the route becomes a regular assignment, Jojo finds romance and deadly enemies along the way.

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

The story of some young people who grew up in a working-class area in Zurich in the late 1950s. The plain living style of their educators is not on their wavelength. They find the occurences in the newly opened Jazz club much more tempting. Down there is what must not be up there: spontaneous lust for life. Jazz electrifies them all. And then there are the girls ...

Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.

Set within a Viennese apartment block, this affectionate Austrian comedy makes fun of the strange habits of the famed city's residents. The building is located in a middle-class area and has residents from many age groups and walks of life. Many of the tenants are much older, but there are also a few children about. In one apartment lives a large group of Polish construction workers, while a Yugoslavian woman and her huge family attempt to survive in their tiny flat. The episodic story of the lives of these and other tenants is framed by a visit from a civil servant from the Office of Statistics.

In a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...

What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form the sinister grave? Why does Melissa, daughter of the dead sorcerer, receive threats? Has it all to do with the mysterious legacy of the magician?

Life in a residential community, founded 14 years ago by Annemarie and Fritz Pronegg for neglected, mistreated and abused children. The consequences of violence suffered are constantly present. Those affected tell of the effects and difficulties of living with the past.

This film illuminates the way in which the cultural climate of "Red Vienna" affected the subsequent years leading up to the present and examines the mark left on the lives of Jura Soyfer's contemporaries.

Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.

Two crooks escape from jail and take refuge in a remote hotel. However, their plans soon start to go wrong, leading them to wonder whether they really are free or whether in fact they are already being roasted alive in the flames of hell.

In this highly symbolic political allegory, Averill is traveling through a troubled countryside amid rumors of war to visit his father. He reaches a train station in a city which is paralyzed by a transportation strike and is forced to take lodgings in a bizarre, unattractive town populated by seemingly malformed individuals. After a while, he begins to try to woo a much older woman, and symbolic images of entrapment, imprisonment and erotic enticement mark his adventures in this regard.

A telephone conversation between father and son.

Orhan, who is ten years old, comes to Vienna from a small Village in Anatolia. Armed with his grandfather's revolver, he intends to avenge his father, who was a "guest worker" and was killed in a car accident. On his quest for "vengeance", Orhan meets friends and enemies and finds himself in a totally strange world. Finally he realizes the absurdity of his plan and returns to his village.

Despite its South-of-the-Border title, Caracas is an Austrian love triangle. Gas-station owner Gerhard Zehmann is saddled with cheating wife Regina Bill. The man would like to escape to Venezuela, but he can't unload his wife. Then he meets a woman who is the exact double of his wife (also played by Regina Bill, of course). Falling in love with this clone, the husband hatches a plan. He'll murder his wife, then leave for Venezuela with her look-alike so as not to arouse suspicion. Are foolproof plans like these ever really foolproof?

Hanna and Leo are expecting a child. They live near Innsbruck where the mountains touch the sky and where absolute bliss seems to reign. But things turn out quite differently.

Viktor and Angelika are a straight couple. He is a professor of veterinary science and she has studied art history. Both are more interested in their hobbies and professions than in each other; also, Viktor isn't terribly interested in satisfying his wife anymore. Their upright relationship changes dramatically when Viktor gets to know Lotte, a former school friend of Angelika's. Back in school, Lotte would have done anything for Angelika.

Based on the many observations made during his extremely interesting and far from dull life, Dr. Döblinger relates four episodes in which he wants to give us a picture of the loneliness and incomprehensibility of mankind.