Michael Sturminger

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This documentary seeks to dispel some of the mystique surrounding this exceptional actor’s unique art and also provide an exciting insight into the world of theatre and filmmaking.

Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturminger’s cinematic staging of Puccini’s “Tosca”, the centrepiece of Salzburg Easter Festival. Aleksandrs Antoņenko compellingly portrays Cavaradossi, while Ludovic Tézier is a thrillingly malevolent Scarpia. Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden. “Tosca” is a political thriller with a heart-breaking love story that gives a vivid account of the harassment of artists, political persecution, torture and arbitrary executions. In Salzburg it is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Rome and is “the perfect thriller … reminiscent of Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’” (Kleine Zeitung), a “film noir”

A sophisticated hotel somewhere on the French coast. Silvia and Gustav meet here, they have recently split up after 19 years of marriage. But they know each other well, and a fight begins in which Silvia always seems one step ahead. So she quickly realizes that Gustav's new, younger girlfriend is already expecting a child from him. The secret meeting between Silvia and Gustav takes a new turn when Gustav suddenly finds out that the conference center in Toulouse, where he is allegedly staying, was blown up in a terrorist attack.

When confronted by soldiers and a reporter in a subterranean concert hall within his presidential palace, dictator Diman Cha delivers a series of powerful monologues to the world’s media revealing his deranged nature, accompanied by organist Martin Hasselböck‘s improvised classical pieces of music.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova nasceu em Veneza (Itália), em 1725. Célebre pela sua existência libertina, foi um sedutor e amante instigado por um desejo de aventura e conhecimento que nunca o abandonou, nem na velhice. De espírito temerário, passou grande parte da vida em viagens pela Europa, onde foi encontrando algumas das mais importantes personalidades do seu tempo, como Mozart, Voltaire ou Rousseau. Mais tarde, já de idade avançada, dedica-se à escrita de "História da Minha Vida", uma longuíssima obra biográfica onde confessa as suas aventuras e que, desde a sua publicação, constitui um importante testemunho do pensamento do século XVIII. Neste "Variações de Casanova", o protagonista, já idoso, recebe a visita de Elisa van der Recke, uma bela e misteriosa mulher que o fará recordar o passado, as suas paixões e, sobretudo, o seu constante medo da morte.

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova nasceu em Veneza (Itália), em 1725. Célebre pela sua existência libertina, foi um sedutor e amante instigado por um desejo de aventura e conhecimento que nunca o abandonou, nem na velhice. De espírito temerário, passou grande parte da vida em viagens pela Europa, onde foi encontrando algumas das mais importantes personalidades do seu tempo, como Mozart, Voltaire ou Rousseau. Mais tarde, já de idade avançada, dedica-se à escrita de "História da Minha Vida", uma longuíssima obra biográfica onde confessa as suas aventuras e que, desde a sua publicação, constitui um importante testemunho do pensamento do século XVIII. Neste "Variações de Casanova", o protagonista, já idoso, recebe a visita de Elisa van der Recke, uma bela e misteriosa mulher que o fará recordar o passado, as suas paixões e, sobretudo, o seu constante medo da morte.

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. In 1984, his autobiography "Fegefeuer" (Purgatory) became a bestseller.

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. In 1984, his autobiography "Fegefeuer" (Purgatory) became a bestseller.

Mythological hero Scipio must choose between Fortune and Constancy in this superb 2006 Salzburg Festival production of Mozart's "Il Songo di Scipione," directed by Michael Sturminger and starring Blagoj Nacoski, Louise Fribo, Bernarda Bobro, Iain Paton, Robert Sellier and Anna Kovalko. The Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt and the Kärntner Symphonieorchester, conducted by Robin Ticciati, provide accompaniment.

Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.

Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the early 1990ies and deals with Ozren's finding out that his mother is not a waitress (as he was initially told) and with the way he copes with it.

Four film-makers embark on a cinematic survey of Austria, documenting the political and social state of the nation and its people. An eye-opening experience. In the wake of the 1999 elections, four filmmakers decided to go out with cameras in hand and gauge the mood of their countrymen, who had made Jörg Haider's FPO party the second most powerful in Austria. What they found was a country apparently "like any other" , filled with nice ordinary people. Who feel perfectly comfortable dreaming of a possible future without foreigners, or speaking with equanimity about the old days of the Third Reich.

Nana Iaschwili, a teacher from East Europe, wants to emigrate to America to start a new life. After landing in Vienna, the authorities notice her falsified visa and arrest her. Nana, threatened with deportation, would prefer anything except being sent back and escapes. She must keep on the move constantly. The police are hot on her trail. Together with other illegal aliens, Nana, alias "Suzie Washington", flees to the so-called "green border", the no-man's-land between East and West. The police, cows and lonely men keep getting in her way.

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.

Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.

Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.

After a car accident, Sebastian contracts an uncanny sleeping sickness. Every day he sleeps a minute longer than the preceding day. Sebastian attempts to find out on his own what sleep is.

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, news was the subject of our conversations, but now it's possible to converse with someone at the other end of the globe. We do it all the time. It's simple. The world has become one big neighborhood. Now Headline News has replaced the back fence. That's the news service of the eigthies. It's a new idea and a new approach.