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.

Um trapaceiro de uma cidade pequena e seu irmão manipulativo se associam à máfia local, e esse ato trará consequências comicamente brutais.

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.

Na Alemanha do pós-guerra, Hans é constantemente preso por ser homossexual. Devido ao parágrafo 175 do código penal alemão, que tornava atos homossexuais entre homens um crime, sua liberdade é destruída de forma sistemática. O único relacionamento estável em sua vida será com seu companheiro de cela de longa data, Viktor, um assassino condenado. O que começa como repulsa, logo se transformará em amor. Representante da Áustria no Oscar 2022 de Filme Internacional e um dos 15 semifinalistas. Vencedor do Prêmio do Júri da seção Um Certo Olhar do Festival de Cannes 2021. Seleção da Mostra de Cinema de São Paulo 2021.

Goldmund estuda no mosteiro Mariabronn. Seu pai o enviou para lá. Lá ele conhece um monge chamado Narciso, que se submeteu a uma vida voltada exclusivamente ao desenvolvimento espiritual. O encontro dos dois abalará suas crenças para sempre.

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.

Um investigador particular está conectado com uma mulher misteriosa quando ele vai para um jogo mental conhecido como "pé de telefone". Fascinado por sua voz, Aloys descobre um universo imaginário que lhe permite sair de seu isolamento.

"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.

Erik tem é própria oficina de moto em uma cidadezinha sonolenta. Ele pode ter a palavra dizendo "canalha" tatuado em seu braço inferior, mas ele ainda cria uma impressão de um bem-comportado médio Joe. Seu relacionamento com sua namorada Julia está indo bem e sua filha Linda gosta muito de seu novo pai. Mas de repente o misterioso Henry aparece e começa a segui-lo como uma sombra sinistra. Quanto mais Erik tenta se livrar de seu diabólico hóspede, mais Henry se intromete em sua vida. Mas então, quando um gangster violento chamado Keitel entra na briga e ameaça não só Erik, mas Julia e Linda, o mundo aparentemente ideal Erik começa a correr fora dos trilhos.

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…

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.

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

Séc. XIX. Heinrich Faust é um filósofo e alquimista que vive frustrado pelas limitações do conhecimento humano. Tudo o que mais anseia é conhecer a natureza do mundo e o verdadeiro sentido da vida. Até que conhece Moneylender, que lhe dá a conhecer um lado mais obscuro e sórdido da realidade. É então que o seu novo amigo lhe propõe algo irrecusável: a sua alma em troca do amor de Margarete, a mulher que Faust deseja. E, claro, o conhecimento supremo.

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.

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.

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

A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life..

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.

A história gira em torno da vida inquieta de Uschi Obermaier, ícone rebelde do movimento cultural alemão em 1968. Aos 16 anos de idade, Uschi entediou-se com seu trabalho num laboratório de fotografia e logo tornou-se figurinha fácil na cena de Munique - sendo chamada de "A Garota". Ao conhecer Rainer Langhans, decide se mudar com ele para Berlim e viver no "Kommune 1", a primeira organização política comunista da Alemanha. Mas ela era vista como uma garota pouco politizada. De fato, Uschi queria epenas se divertir, trabalhar com moda e acompanhar estrelas da música internacional, como Keith Richards, Mick Jagger e outros...

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.

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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.

Erika Kohut trabalha como professora de piano no Conservatório de Viena. Ela não bebe nem fuma, vivendo na casa de sua mãe aos 40 anos. Quando não está dando aulas Erika costuma frequentar cinemas pornôs e peep-shows, em busca de excitação. Logo ela inicia um relacionamento com Walter Klemmer, um de seus alunos, com quem realiza vários jogos perversos.

É o dia mais quente do verão. É o verão mais quente de todos os tempos. Na periferia de Viena, na terra-de-ninguém entre a auto-estrada e os hipermercados, sufoca-se. Para as famílias burguesas que habitam monótonas casas pré-fabricadas, idênticas umas às outras, o tédio solapa qualquer iniciativa. Em roupas de baixo, biquínis ou sem nada, as pessoas se arrastam pelo asfalto. A temperatura aumenta. Paira no ar uma atmosfera de violência latente. Vai começar uma jornada de música e jogos, sexo e violência. Dias repletos daquela estranha sensação de amortecimento do desejo de amar, da perda do amor e, o mais terrível, da esperança de um dia encontrá-lo. Dias de Cão, em registro documental, se passa nos "dias de cão", referente ao período mais quente do verão europeu, entre 24 de julho e 23 de agosto. O nome vem da constelação de Cão Maior, a mais presente nos céus durante o verão.

A Alemanha invade a Polônia em 1º de setembro de 1939 e isto marca o início da 2ª Guerra Mundial. Em menos de um mês a Polônia se rende e logo surge uma lista crescente de proibições e regras, que levaram ao virtual aprisionamento de meio milhão de judeus-poloneses em uma parte velha de Varsóvia, que ficou conhecido como o "Gueto de Varsóvia". O lugar logo se mostrou inadequado para alojar tantas pessoas. Além disto a comida era muito escassa, pois os nazistas reservaram para si 2617 calorias por dia, os poloneses tinham direito a 699 e os judeus apenas 184. A luta diária não era só contra a fome, mas também contra as doenças. Esta situação se agrava em 1942, com as "deportações diárias para o leste", que eram trens levando por dia seis mil judeus para os campos de concentração, onde eram executados em massa. Vendo que suas mortes eram apenas um questão de tempo, os judeus, liderados por Moredecai Anielewicz , fizeram a única coisa que os nazistas nunca esperaram: revidaram.

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.

Na véspera do natal de 1993, em Viena, um jovem de 19 anos assassinou três pessoas em um banco e matou-se em seguida com um tiro na cabeça. Em 71 fragmentos Michael Haneke reconta a história, com ênfase nos eventos aleatórios que levaram os quatro mortos daquele dia a estarem juntos naquela hora e lugar.

Geog, sua esposa Anna e pequena filha do casal, Evi, vivem uma pacata vida de classe média; acordam todos os dias na mesma hora, fazem as mesmas atividades, organizam jantares com conhecidos. Evi começa a ter problemas na escola, fingindo ter doenças e os pais percebem de súbito que sua vida não é feliz. Para tentar melhorar as coisas eles planejam mudar-se para a Austrália. O Sétimo Continente é baseado em uma história real, uma possibilidade de interpretar um caso para o qual até hoje a polícia austríaca não conseguiu encontrar resposta.