Helmut Wimmer

Фильмы

Bread: An Everyday Miracle
Cinematography
The simple staple bread has become a branded product with an increasing number of varieties and providers. The film provides authentic impressions in today’s world of bread. We encounter small craft bakers as well as corporate CEOs whose professional work is our daily bread and ask the question: how do you see the future of our bread? And: what are we actually eating?
Egon Schiele: Between Love and Hate
Director of Photography
An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar point of view and the critic voices of the women who defined the paramount milestones of his existence: Gerti, his sister; Wally, his main model and lover; and Edith, his wife. A brief story of love, hate, betrayal and misfortune.
Maximilian of Mexico: The Dream of Ruling
Camera Operator
The life and struggles of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph Maria of Habsburg-Lorraine (1832-1867), emperor of the Second Mexican Empire as Maximilian I of Mexico from 1864 to 1867 (under the wing of Emperor Napoleon III and the French Empire), his tragic confrontation with Mexican leader Benito Juárez, the defeat of the will and the end of a dream.
Franz Fuchs – A Patriot
Cinematography
Erik(A) - Der Mann, der Weltmeisterin wurde
Director of Photography
After growing up as a girl and being celebrated as a women's downhill skiing champion, Erika Schinegger's career came to an abrupt end in 1967 after a sex test. Against the wishes of her family and the national skiing association, Erik started learning to be a man at the age of 20.
Nachtreise
Camera Technician
A small bar on the outskirts of Vienna. Its foreign-born regulars live on the edge of society. The majority are illegal immigrants, unemployed and without financial resources, living at the edge of mere survival. For a small group of native Turks, this existence represents a transitory phase which might eventually lead to a better life. Cemo, one of them, is unable to carry on between hope and reality. Nachtreise is a milieu study which will acquaint its viewers with a group of people whose lives have not been touched by what is termed integration.
Swimmers in the Desert
Cinematography
The true life story and adventures of László Almásy, the 'English patient', who crossed Africa in 1929 with the father of filmmaker Kurt Mayer: These events provide the motivation and outline for a critical journey through 'men's domains' in Cairo, London and Vienna. Navigation in the expanses of the memory - the dream of flying, documents from the war and of an unrequited love...
Michelle
Director of Photography
Karl lives as a taxi driver in Vienna. Every evening he slowly makes his way from bar to bar until one day his friend, the river, washes up the beautiful Michelle...
Run for the Roses
Director of Photography
There are favorites in every race - those who are not permitted to lose again - and outsiders - who are unable to lose again.
Erde
Director of Photography
A businessman visits his father after a long absence. His parent's house is supposed to make way for a highway. The son wants to send his father to a home. He is unexpectedly confronted with a young woman at the home.
Erde
Writer
A businessman visits his father after a long absence. His parent's house is supposed to make way for a highway. The son wants to send his father to a home. He is unexpectedly confronted with a young woman at the home.
Erde
Director
A businessman visits his father after a long absence. His parent's house is supposed to make way for a highway. The son wants to send his father to a home. He is unexpectedly confronted with a young woman at the home.
Sarath
Director
Stranger. Strange country. Strange city. Stranger in this city. Man from Sri Lanka. Distributor of brochures. Homestead in this foreign city?
Ir min gard
Director of Photography
The portrait of an 87 year old woman who has been writing poems for 3 years. The seven thousand poems she wrote in this short period show her strength and her will to live.