Josef Streitberger
The true story of Franz Streitberger, the director’s great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Second World War, this introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after and takes to occupied France with him – and through this unique friendship, his own past as an outcast farmers son slowly catches up with him.
On a beautiful spring day, a small village full of eccentric characters wake up to hear Selma has had a premonition: she dreamt of a rare animal again – an okapi. All the village knows this means someone is about to die. Selma’s granddaughter, 11-year-old Luise, and her best friend Martin look on as fears of being the victim of the prophecy throw the village into a frenzy of confusion. But when the premonition comes true, it is young Luise’s world that is suddenly turned upside down. Ten years on from the event that changed her life, Luise lives a quiet life working in a bookstore, until the arrival of an unexpected guest enables her to rediscover how powerful and life-giving love can be.
Eugene Breitling
The true story of Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher and feminist who converted to Christianity and became a nun, and died in Auschwitz to became Saint and Martyr, the Patron of Europe with the name Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
Charles Mangel
A história de um grupo de escoteiros judeus que trabalharam com a resistência francesa para salvar as vidas de dez mil órfãos durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Director
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole hotel knows about it. Among the guests is an inspector - or at least he convincingly claims to be - who, together with his assistant who has travelled with him, undertakes extensive investigations. Then a second murder takes place. Although the inspector seems to be close to solving the case, the evidence is missing. Then, on snowshoes, the village policeman joins in, and immediately gets into trouble with the arrogant city dweller.
Jonas Horak
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole hotel knows about it. Among the guests is an inspector - or at least he convincingly claims to be - who, together with his assistant who has travelled with him, undertakes extensive investigations. Then a second murder takes place. Although the inspector seems to be close to solving the case, the evidence is missing. Then, on snowshoes, the village policeman joins in, and immediately gets into trouble with the arrogant city dweller.
Bürgermeister
Franz Jägerstätter é um fazendeiro austríaco que se torna herói em circunstâncias um tanto quanto inusitadas. Quando ele é convocado a lutar junto ao exército alemão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, ele se recusa e acaba, com apenas 36 anos de idade, condenado à pena de morte por traição à pátria.
Writer
A grumpy old white man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog, and as the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, their day takes an unexpected turn.
Director
A grumpy old white man enlists the help of an Afghani migrant to bury his dead dog, and as the two dredge through prejudices to find common ground, their day takes an unexpected turn.
Roman Silberstein
Paul Silberstein, youngest son of an urbane but deeply strange old Austrian dynasty of confectionery millionaires, discovers the power of love and humor - and also his own extraordinary ability to shape his realities. Based on the motives of the short story with the same name by André Heller.
Michael Unterguggenberger
Tyrol, 1932: The world economic crisis is at its peak, radical political movements emerge. In a small Austrian community, the engine driver Michael Unterguggenberger accepts the mayor's office against better knowledge. But how is he supposed to save Wörgl? The power of despair and the support of his wife Rosa form the breeding ground for a daring experiment: Unterguggenberger wants to print his own money without further ado - so-called work confirmation notes. For this he not only has to convince the community of his city, but above all to rebel against the mighty banking.
Josef Hofer
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.
Wirt
Ivo is a former pro footballer and jailbird with nothing to lose. He is a betting natural and his talent and background attract the interest of Dejan, the leader of a dangerous underworld family.
Simon Wiesenthal
Baseado na história real do julgamento contra o respeitado político Franz Murer, na Áustria em 1963. Em seu passado, Murer fez parte de um organização militar nazista e foi o responsável pelo gueto de Vilnius de 1941 a 1943, onde seus residentes o chamavam de O Açougueiro de Vilnius. Apenas 600 dos 80 mil judeus que originalmente viviam lá sobreviveram ao domínio nazista. Durante o julgamento, sobreviventes vieram de todo o mundo para testemunhar, deixando poucas dúvidas sobre a culpa de Murer e resultando em um dos mais graves escândalos do governo austríaco
Dahlmann
Becker is a German ex-con trying to hold down a job as a night watchman, but a chance encounter with the man whose family Becker killed 18 years earlier sends his new life spiraling out of control.
Christian Lossa
Sul da Alemanha, início da década de 1940. Um órfão de 13 anos, Ernst Lossa tem sua natureza classificada como 'não educável' e acaba em um hospital psiquiátrico. Ele logo descobre que a gestão clínica do regime é matar sistematicamente os presos. Ernst tenta ajudar os presos com deficiência; a fuga planejada, finalmente, é uma questão de vida ou morte. O filme de Kai Wessel apresenta a verdadeira história de Ernst Lossa, um drama baseado no romance de Robert Domes sobre o angustiante programa de eutanásia da ditadura nazista.
Curt Bräuer
Na dia 9 de abril de 1940, os soldados alemães chegam à cidade de Oslo. O rei da Noruega enfrenta um dilema que vai mudar seu país para sempre. O filme narra os três dias extremamente dramáticos vividos na Noruega em Abril de 1940, quando o rei norueguês recebeu um ultimato impensável dos militares alemães: rendição ou morte. O rei deve tomar uma decisão que pode mudar a história de seu país para sempre. Selecionado entre os 9 semifinalistas (e representante da Noruega) para o Oscar 2017 de Melhor Filme Estrangeiro. Título provisório no Brasil: A Negativa do Rei.
Joseph Goebbels
Antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a atriz tenta realizar seus sonhos em Berlim, mas seus planos são arruinados quando ela se torna amante de Joseph Goebbels.
Twin
O jovem jornalista Sebastian Zöllner está escrevendo um artigo sobre o biografia do pintor Manuel Kaminski, um artista esquecido que vive sozinho nos Alpes. Para levantar sua carreira, Zöllner tem o plano de publicar o livro, mas apenas quando Kaminski falecer, a fim de lucrar com as vendas.
Andersen
A new interpretation of the most known and beloved fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen - "Snow Queen"
Screenplay
Gabi, a supermarket employee, leads an ordinary life between family and job, between single-family home and local food store. One day when Gabi comes home from work, something happens that changes her life in a single moment. It isn’t visible, it makes no sound, and yet it strikes her like a bolt from the sky – an encounter with God.
Director
Gabi, a supermarket employee, leads an ordinary life between family and job, between single-family home and local food store. One day when Gabi comes home from work, something happens that changes her life in a single moment. It isn’t visible, it makes no sound, and yet it strikes her like a bolt from the sky – an encounter with God.
Wolf
As aventuras de Gustave H, dono de um famoso hotel europeu, e Zero Moustafa, o criado que se torna no seu amigo de confiança. A história envolve o roubo e a recuperação de uma preciosa pintura renascentista e a luta por uma enorme fortuna de família - tudo sob o cenário de um continente que passa por inesperadas e dramáticas mudanças.
Dominik Hofer
Lehrer Büttner
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.
Vladan
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.
Ferdinand Aus der Fünten
Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, grupo de pessoas lideradas pelo judeu Walter Süskind (Jeroen Spitzenberger), membro do conselho Judeu de Amsterdam, descobrem uma forma de evitarem que crianças sejam mandadas para os campos de concentração nazistas, ajudando-as a escaparem do Holocausto. Passado em Amsterdam durante a ocupação alemão na Holanda, o filme é baseado na vida de Walter Süskind.
Jimmy
Screenplay
Roman Kogler tem 18 anos e está preso em um centro de detenção juvenil. Ele já cumpriu parte de sua pena e pode ser solto em liberdade condicional, mas tem poucas chances de se reabilitar: não tem família e parece incapaz de lidar com a sociedade. Depois de muitas tentativas fracassadas, Roman encontra um trabalho em liberdade condicional no necrotério de Viena. Um dia, ele se depara com o cadáver de uma mulher morta que leva o nome de sua família. A descoberta leva o rapaz a se interrogar sobre seu passado pela primeira vez e a iniciar uma busca por sua mãe.
Director
Roman Kogler tem 18 anos e está preso em um centro de detenção juvenil. Ele já cumpriu parte de sua pena e pode ser solto em liberdade condicional, mas tem poucas chances de se reabilitar: não tem família e parece incapaz de lidar com a sociedade. Depois de muitas tentativas fracassadas, Roman encontra um trabalho em liberdade condicional no necrotério de Viena. Um dia, ele se depara com o cadáver de uma mulher morta que leva o nome de sua família. A descoberta leva o rapaz a se interrogar sobre seu passado pela primeira vez e a iniciar uma busca por sua mãe.
Dr. Farge
Martin Harris acabou de sair de um coma de quatro dias, fruto de um acidente de carro em Berlim. Ao acordar, descobre que sua esposa não o reconhece e, para piorar, existe um outro homem usando sua identidade. Ignorado pelas autoridades e na mira de assassinos, sua única chance de desvendar este mistério é contar com Gina, uma motorista de táxi que poderá ajudá-lo a provar que ele não está louco.
Sigmund Freud
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
Mikael Rossberg
A young Swedish freelance investigative journalist dies under mysterious circumstances in South Africa, and his mother sets off in a relentless pursuit of the truth behind his death.
Coligny
Um pedaço de período abrangente e enérgico que traça a ascensão do Henrique Protestante de Navarra ao passar do guerreiro do campo de batalha para o amado rei Henri IV da França. O épico do diretor Jo Baier é uma aventura classicamente divertida, ainda que com mais do que um pequeno derramamento de sangue e freqüentes interlúdios sexuais obscenos. Na França do final do século XVI, católicos e protestantes huguenotes estavam em guerra. Aparentemente buscando a paz, a rainha viúva francesa, Catherine de Medici convoca Henry para sua corte para que ele se case com a filha, unindo as duas facções em guerra. No entanto, os católicos massacraram os convidados do casamento protestante no que ficou conhecido como o massacre do Dia de São Bartolomeu e Henrique - agora casado - deve usar toda a sua astúcia para se manter vivo e manobrar para o trono. [Escrito pelo Festival Internacional de Cinema de Palm Springs]
Karl Maria Herrligkoffer
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Fremdenpolizist
Bank Director
A família dos irmãos Robby e Luisa são forçados a sair de casa pois não pagaram a hipoteca. Os irmãos tentam ajudar os pais e se envolvem em um esquema de corrupção do banco da hipoteca para roubar dinheiro de lá.
Rolf (segment "Schieflage")
Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Alfred
Adaptação da famosa série de livros infantis, conta a história de uma garotinha aprendiz de bruxa chamada Lilly, que acaba sendo a sucessora da bruxa Surulunda. A bruxa Surulunda ja está velha e precisa encontrar uma sucessora para ocupar o seu cargo, para isso ela conta com a ajuda de Hector, um desajeitado dragão de estimação.
Hector, acaba voando para o quarto da menina Lilly, que topa em ser a nova bruxa, mas a jovem precisa passar em um teste experimental de 99 horas para provar que consegue manter um livro mágico seguro.
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Petri
Joseph Vilsmaier Two-part TV movie focuses on the tragic events surrounding the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German passenger ship, at the end of World War II. On 30 January 1945, Captain Hellmuth Kehding was in charge of the ship, evacuating wounded soldiers and civilians trapped by the Red Army. Soon after leaving the harbor of Danzig, it was hit by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine and sank in less than an hour.
Franz Fuchs
Sorowitsch
Após ser preso e levado a um campo de concentração, Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) concorda em ajudar os nazistas em uma operação de falsificação criada para financiar os esforços de guerra. Neste processo mais de 130 milhões de libras esterlinas foram impressas. Como o Reich sabia que o fim da guerra estava próximo, ordenou que fossem impressas notas na moeda dos inimigos da Alemanha. A intenção era que esta atitude minasse a economia dos países e, ao mesmo tempo, ajudasse os cofres alemães. Tratava-se da Operação Bernhard, que contou com a participação de prisioneiros de diversos campos de concentração.
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
Bombelles
A great Empire, once famous for its enlightened traditions, is taken over by a ruthless political establishment. Religious fundamentalists and national separatists are tearing at the fabric of its liberal society. Under the influence of his conservative advisors, the Emperor fails to initiate the reforms that could save the Empire from annihilation. One man alone can avert the cataclysm to come. The year is 1888 and the 600-year-old Empire of Austria-Hungary is at a cross-road of history. Crown-Prince Rudolf, son of fabled Empress Sisi, the most beautiful woman of her time, is the man with the vision and the ability to lead his Empire into the 20th century. Yet his enemies, the all-powerful Prime Minister first and foremost, scheme to isolate Rudolf from his father and from access to power. Against the backdrop of one of the most dangerous, exciting and colorful periods in history, at the dawn of the modern age...
Huber Schlömmer
Jussuf
Hubert Schlömmer
Dr. Mannhart
Jürgen Platzer
Georges Haider
Anton Seeberg
The Seebergs are a happy family - until Melanie's mother moves in. The old lady's malice plunges the once sweet home into chaos and discord. When the "sugar granny" even puts her tolerant son-in-law to flight, Melanie resorts to extreme measures to get her perfect world back.
Gregor Brunner
In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the Nazis. One day, the family is discovered and only by chance can Anna save the family's only daughter, Franziska. Together they escape to Anna's native village where Anna tells everybody that Franziska is her daughter...
Chwostik
Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable help and a friend in the board of directors and authorized signatory Josef Chwostik. But gradually the authorized signatory is drawn into the private life of father and son. An orderly world - or so it seems. You make a career, maintain business relationships, win or lose a lover - and don't want to see the cracks and voids in the foundation of society.
Erzherzog Karl
Karl Kunert
Postal worker Jenny finds and reads the letters that the little girl Lilly sent to her dead mother. Jenny decided to help Lilly and gets involved with her father Matthias.
Hauptsturmführer
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.
Rudi Riebl
Jäger
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.
Zwirn
Willi
Stefan Strohmayer
It all begins with a mistake, an error with serious consequences: in a hospital the new-born babies of an Austrian couple and a Turkish family of immigrant workers are mixed up and go home with the wrong parents. By the time the mistake comes to light, it emerges that the Turkish family, including the baby, has been deported. The despairing Austrian couple begins a confusing odyssey through Turkey in order to track down the unsuspecting family to their native village. But they are not at all convinced that the babies have been mixed up. It is decided that the only way to know for sure is to have a blood test done. It is decided that the blood work is done in Vienna due to the better medical resources, but that will be far from simple. It will involve an illegal smuggling of the Turks across the Austrian border.
Herr Mack
Bob, a sympathetic young man, keeps telling women what they want to hear to have a good time. Just as he is about to marry the daughter of a very wealthy banker, her father does a little research on his future son-in-law and finds out the truth about Bob. He forces Bob to marry his daughter and behave like the perfect husband, or else... Unfortunately, Bob meets "The One" just a few days before the wedding and had also told her what she wanted to hear, all of this unbeknownst to his future wife. Then right as he's trying to extricate himself from those dilemmas, two very protective Turkish brothers of one of his past affairs are after him to take revenge for taking her virginity!
Carlo Carnetti
A crime comedy directed by Otto W. Retzer.
Rudnik
Prof. Nadler
Herr Ivo
Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a heart attack. The three men quite naturally assume that they have reached their destination and find somewhere to stay in the nearest village.
Jäger
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.
Nachtkellner
Young Piano teacher Lukas accidentally meets DJ Nathalie, the love of his life. After losing her telephone number, he starts looking for her. Finally, he finds her place and stays with friends of hers while she is abroad. Now Lukas falls in love with Alice, but does not want to admit it. And while his relationship with Alice is in doubt, Nathalie comes back home. Trouble had been breeding all along.
Konrad
Dr.Zim
When six year old Olivia is diagnosed with the Wilms tumor in her kidney, the doctors suggest an immediate operation and chemotherapy. Healing chances would be 95%, but when her parents learn how other children suffer from the procedure, they're terrified and refuse to expose their daughter to such a torture. Instead they consult faith healer Hamer, who claims to be able to heal cancer without drugs. When the youth welfare office attempts to force them to have Olivia medicated properly, the family flees from Germany. So Olivia's condition worsens, and a great press campaign is started to change the parent's mind...
Schurl
Herbert lives a rather simple life, left to his own devices. He works as a projectionist in a shabby Viennese movie theater and lives alone with his red nameless cat in the free caretaker's apartment of a somewhat run-down apartment building. Now and then he visits his mother in a nursing home, meets with an old friend of his father, or comes to meetings of a savings club. Saving money is pretty much the center of his life because he has a dream. He wants to emigrate to the U.S. to buy his own movie theater and to reunite with his long-lost father. But when Rita, a young student, moves into the apartment building things in his life are changed completely.
Weghofer
Leo Strobl, called "Turbo-Leo", is the fastest photographer around. When a tragedy takes place, he is the first one on his way to cover it. Then a young photographer shows up and a deadly race between the two commences.
Schaffner
48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.
Taxifahrer
The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
Kirchingerwirt
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.
"The title says everything."
Concierge
Two men and a young woman who recently met spend a night together at a secluded mountain inn. It soon turns out that one of the two men could be a dangerous psychopath who is wanted by the police. The woman is torn between her emotions and what she should actually believe. A long night takes its course, at the end of which there will be no winner.
Zeno
A documentary look behind the scenes at dubbing voices and sound effects. A scene is filmed and then copied three times with different sound effects and dialogues, thereby telling thre different stories.
Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.
Viktor Knigge
Stage Director
Thomas Larcher has adapted Yasushi Inoue’s best-seller The Hunting Gun for his first opera, with a libretto by Austrian Book Prize winner Friederike Gösweiner. Austrian actor and film director Karl Markovics made his debut as stage director for an opera. The story tells of three women, who speak in three letters addressed to the same man, a hunter – his wife, his lover and his lover’s daughter. As the women react to the revelation of illicit love, the hunter’s life is laid bare.
