Otto Tausig

Bremen, 1891. Udo Jürgens' grandfather Heinrich strolls thoughtfully about the Christmas market. For days, the young man has suffered a momentous decision: should he emigrate to America or seek his fortune in Moscow? The touching performance of a street musician playing a Russian song on his bassoon gives him an unexpected decision-making aid. Henry sets off for Russia - and thus begins a fateful story that spans three generations and two world wars.

Agnes, the proud managing director of a renowned Viennese jewelery business, has been happily married to the jeweler Leo Wieland for 17 years. He designs for her the exclusive collections and proves her despite the obvious age difference - Leo is a lot younger than his wife - every day his great love. But everything changes when Agnes receives a devastating diagnosis from her doctor: lung cancer. By chance, the couple will one day get to know little Max and his attractive mother Vera. In the terminally ill Agnes matures a plan: Vera would be a perfect partner for Leo.

The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today's Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that one could never escape from its own past. Written by themoth-1

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on September 10, 2009. Reporters at Der Spiegel challenged the historical basis for many of the events in the film, pointing to arrest records and medical examinations indicating German authorities did not learn Dora Ratjen was male until 1938.

Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film about real and imagined longings, the never ending dream of love and the power of fiction.

Любовь... не столько счастье, сколько испытание и лишнее потрясение, неумолимо ведущие к трагедии...Наследник австро-венгерского престола Рудольф в любой момент может стать императором. Его жизнь принадлежит Империи. Рудольф несчастлив в браке. Многие дамы хотели бы оказаться рядом с ним, но только баронесса Вечера смогла зажечь в нем настоящее чувство. Их яркая, сумасшедшая любовь была заранее обречена...

Трагическая комедия. Действие происходит сегодня в маленьком южном городке на территории бывшего СССР. Главный герой - Эдик Летов - помогает людям разыскивать родственников. Он их находит в Канаде, Израиле, Швейцарии… Для Эдика это - бизнес, и бизнес безотказный. Если настоящие родственники не находятся, Эдик организует замену. И вроде все в его маленькой фирме идет хорошо. Но так как его клиенты люди одинокие, то на своих зарубежных гостей они изливают столько любви и тепла, что те и подумать не могут о своей мнимости - и проникаются ответным чувством. Все это создает повод для множества невероятно смешных, трогательных, а иногда и трагических ситуаций.

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his life's failures. Not following much of a plot, the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann (Klaus Maria Brandauer) imagining his last big gala event while rendered unconscious as a result of a car accident in his Ferrari. He is a success in Vienna but not in fashionable Paris, so he wishes to impress French elder stateswoman Yvonne Becker (Juliette Greco).

A movie from the italian director Fabio Carpi.

Уличенный в скупке краденого Венсан Маливер, хозяин ювелирной фирмы на Вандомской площади Парижа, совершает самоубийство. Марианна, его вдова, серьезно подавлена произошедшим, и только неожиданная находка — семь восхитительных алмазов, припрятанных ее супругом — дает ей шанс вновь обрести вкус к жизни...

An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an early widowers pension.

Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life. Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a search of her own identity – though still she believes she can get closer to her father after his death.

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

Август 1572 года. Францию раздирает религиозная война. Чтобы восстановить мир в стране, прекрасная и гордая принцесса Марго, сестра католического короля Карла IX, должна выйти замуж за протестанта Генриха Наваррского. А после свадьбы произошла кровавая резня Варфоломеевской ночи, организованная жестокой и коварной Екатериной Медичи. Погибли тысячи протестантов, а один из них, тяжело раненный дворянин по имени Ла Моль, в отчаянной попытке спасти свою жизнь постучался в дверь Марго.

The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have decided to return to Poland for a visit. They intend to have Moshe's best friend Isaac, an unlucky, depressive German, take care of their house while they are gone. Unfortunately, Isaac loses his job before they go and ends up accompanying them on a Polish freighter. When the ship dies in a German port, the threesome must go overland to Gdansk. They encounter many mishaps along the way.

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-truck driver, go on a jaunt to Poland to recover some gold fillings he had hidden years ago during the time when he worked in a concentration camp. The truck driver inadvertently leaves a filling lying around at home, and his mother immediately recognizes it for what it is. When she confronts him, he claims that "Jews don't mean anything to me" and she must then reveal his Jewish heritage to him: she was a housekeeper in a Jewish household and he was a child there whom she adopted during the Holocaust in order to save his life. The driver then confronts the wily old Nazi, who conceives a brutal scheme which will save his cozy life at the expense of the reputations of the driver and his granddaughter.

Молодой человек прилетает в Бомбей, чтобы найти своего исчезнувшего в Индии друга. Поиски приведут его в сомнительную гостиницу и больничную палату, в португальский монастырь и теософическое общество, он побывает в Мадрасе и на береге Гоа.

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".

Biographical TV movie about controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele.

The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.

Юная дочь лесничего Оленька Скворцова – часть живой природы, ее прямое продолжение в самом гармоничном виде. Встретив Оленьку в лесу, ни граф Корнеев, ни его спутник не могли вообразить, в какую историю вовлечет их всех эта очаровательная девушка. Сложные перипетии, вызванные чувствами любви и ревности, приводят к трагической развязке…