Rainer Egger
Рождение : 1960-01-01, Innsbruck, Austria
Zick Zack
Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help: Gabi and Eberhard. When Franz discovers Hank Haberer's "10 rules for a real man" for himself one day, turbulence is inevitable and the friendship of the three gets into trouble.
Oberst
Buchhalter
The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.
Antonia is stuck in her everyday life. She oversleeps, procrastinates and searches the internet for a happy life. Spontaneously, she decides to give structure to her existence and asks her fling for a steady relationship.
German Cemetery Caretaker
Анна и Франц жили в небольшом немецком городе, были молоды, влюблены друг в друга и собирались пожениться. Но в тихое счастье двоих вмешался большой сумасшедший мир — шла Первая мировая война, Франца отправили на фронт во Францию, где он, 23-летний скрипач, обожавший стихи Верлена, погиб. Война закончилась, а жизнь Анны теперь свелась к поддержке пожилых родителей любимого и посещениям кладбища. Однажды там она видит незнакомого человека, который принес цветы на могилу Франца. Он, Адриен, — француз, а, значит, враг. Но встреча с ним переворачивает ее жизнь.
Franz Berger
When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.
Emil Barkhausen
Берлин, 1940 год. Отто и Анна Квангель, пара из рабочего класса, узнают, что их единственный сын погиб на поле боя и решают самостоятельно противостоять нацистскому режиму. Вскоре гестапо начинает охоту на эту «угрозу».
Christian
Anwalt Knöppl
Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.
Dubious Man
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.
The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a stubborn, sexually frustrated and ugly midlife man.
Roger
A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact.
Brother Christophe (Vienna)
Накануне аукциона группа экспертов, возглавляемая Чарльзом Моррицем, исследует необычную по своему цвету и идеально звучащую старинную скрипку. Выясняется ее удивительное прошлое. Созданная в семнадцатом веке итальянским мастером Николо Буссоти, скрипка загадочным образом вершит судьбы своих владельцев, даруя и отнимая любовь, а порой и саму жизнь. Понимая истинную ценность скрипки, неизмеримую деньгами, словно завороженный, Морриц пытается стать ее обладателем.
Sekretär
Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.
Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs have. Michael Glawogger invited 12 people to talk about their ideas for a film and then shot short fragments for them. The result is a crime-story-erotic-lyrical-experimental-vampire-fantasy-horror-soap-opera-splatter-trash-road-movie-melodrama posing as a documentary!
Fredl Karner
Начало 1945 года. После отказа выйти на поле боя на стороне немецко-фашистских войск пятьсот русских военнопленных дожидаются казни в концлагере близ Маутхаузена. Однажды ночью они решаются на побег. Большинство тут же погибает, но несколько человек успевают укрыться в близлежащих деревнях. Тогда охрана концлагеря призывает местное население открыть собственную «охоту на зайцев», то есть на спрятавшихся беглых пленников.
Herzog
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.
The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child.
Roman
The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty, death. He has to take care of "General" Kulat, an old Wehrmacht officer, a fanatic militarist. Their confrontation becomes war.
Albin
For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood in the 1920s, he commemorates the death of his great love as well as he recalls the legal battle with his illegitimate daughter.
Steinyo Pichler
Felix
Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the living quarters. They all have definite ideas about life and living together and want to make them come true. But they don´t really know what they want. Everyday life causes problems and when a merry-go-round of changing relationships among the young people begins to run quicker and quicker, the constant moving from one room to the other ands before the eyes of the astonished house superintendent with the setting up again of the wall which separated the two walls.
Felix Bild
Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters in the films become his own. His dreams, wishes and reality become one in the fuzzy reflection on the projection window. A surreal play by Peter Patzak.