Hilde Dalik

Christmas – usually not the favourite holiday of the atheist Wanda, a surgeon and feminist mother of teenage Nina. And most certainly not in times of a pandemic.

Karl conhece Nini e acha que ela é o amor da sua vida. Por um erro, ele perde o número de telefone da moça. Tudo que ele sabe é que a garota celebra seu aniversário no famoso Café Sacher às 15h. Obcecado, ele deixa Berlim e vai para Viena esperar todos os dias no Café Sacher. Em Viena, ele faz muitos novos amigos, incluindo a confeiteira Miriam. Será que ele descobrirá como encontrar o amor?

The long-lost bon vivant Mike Bittini learns that his brother has fallen into a coma. He returns to his family, sneaks in like a hawk in the chicken coop and mixes things up properly. The uncle comes to help, brings chaos and finds love.

The novel “Fitness” by anarchic poet Stefanie Sargnagel is to be made into a film. The only condition on the part of film funding: Sargnagel should play herself. Surfacing alongside the author are numerous actors from the Viennese cultural landscape in cameo appearances to satirically dissect the Austrian culture industry and its mechanisms.

Matthias is hopelessly overwhelmed when suddenly his mother Gisela is at the door. After a thigh fracture she sits in a wheelchair and needs help. When Matthias learns that Gisela has discharged herself from the rehab clinic, he realizes that she needs new life courage and is desperately looking for a solution. It comes quite unexpectedly from Tom, Gisela's ten-year-old grandson: Grandma needs a worshiper! The unusual plan works. The anonymous love letters, written by Matthias himself, enchant his mother. But when she wants to meet the unknown, all the dizziness threatens to fly up.

Young director Honza David films the Russian invasion in in Prague in August 1968. With Eva the love of his life he tries to get out of the country. He wants to bring the explosive material to Vienna, to the director of the Austrian Television Helmut Zilk. He knows Eva very well but the Czech Secret Service even better ...

Viena, 1945. A situação explosiva da guerra e a ocupação russa vista pelos olhos inocentes duma criança de 9 anos. Christine sabe tão pouco da paz como as crianças de hoje sabem da guerra. Com a casa destruída num bombardeamento e sem um tostão, a família de Christine instala-se numa mansão luxuosa nos arredores de Viena. Mas têm apenas um telhado sobre a cabeça, nada mais. Quando os soldados alemães se rendem, os russos ocupam a casa. Toda a gente tem medo dos russos, que têm a fama de ser uma turba caprichosa. Todos, menos Christine.

Most of the time, Patrick Angerer enjoys a pretty laid back view of life. So he's not especially impressed by the protest action his workmates are taking against the strict wage targets set by the new management of Falkendorf steel plant. But things suddenly begin to get interesting for Patrick when his ex, Barbara Brossman, still the great love of his life, is sent to Falkendorf as the union's lawyer: as she's brought along her new partner, Patrick has his work cut out trying to convince Babs that his life doesn't entirely consist of football and trips down the pub.

Sophie wants to marry Martin and change her traditional farm into a farm that produces biologically grown food (sheep cheese, ...) To be able to do that she needs a credit from the local bank. The bank manager sends his son to find out if the credit can be given, and it turns out that this son was a high school sweetheart of Sophie ...

A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl.

It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family.

Jackies' quiet life as a housewife and English teacher ends abruptly when her husband informs her that he is leaving her for a younger woman. In a quest for revenge, Jackie makes arrangements with a plastic surgeon for a general overhaul with the goal of landing a younger husband. A newspaper leads her to Peter who is as bored by his insurance job as he is by the young women he has been dating. Written by John W. Wrist

The emotional death of an oversexed society. No one helps anybody else. But then, shortly before Basti attempts to commit suicide, before he jumps from Vienna's Reichsbrücke into the notoriously gluttonous Danube, something happens between the two young protagonists. Basti and Claudia meet on the bridge. Two bungee jumpers without a cord. They both recognize themselves in the other's life, between reform school and the family's butcher shop, between child abuse and games that involve getting tied up.