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Tag Archives: Austria
Homemad(e) (2001) Ruth Beckermann, Adolf Doft, Helene Doft, Erika Göschl
Acclaimed Austrian documentary director Ruth Beckermann portrays a dying culture of Viennese urban history in HOMEMAD(E). Read More »
American Passages (2011) Ruth Beckermann
Initially, there’s that moment of happiness: an African-American celebrating in Harlem cheers “We’re free!” Read More »
Mein Kampf (2009) Urs Odermatt, Götz George, Tom Schilling, Anna Unterberger
The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. Read More »
In Comparison (2009) Harun Farocki
In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director’s 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Read More »
Obszön – Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981) Hans-Christof Stenzel, Volker Spengler, Lydia Kreibohm, Karina Fallenstein
Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal, West Germany, is assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to his home country. Read More »
Lulu (1962) Rolf Thiele, Nadja Tiller, O.E. Hasse, Hildegard Knef
A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor’s pocket. Read More »
Masquerade in Vienna (1934) Willi Forst, Paula Wessely, Anton Walbrook, Peter Petersen
Vienna 1905: After a carnival party the famous painter Heidenick draws his otherwise engaged girlfriend Anita Helfer with very few clothes on, only blurs her face. Read More »
Toward Jerusalem (1991) Ruth Beckermann, Niki Kunz
In this documentary road movie, Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann records the diverse views and activities of Israelis Read More »
The Paper Bridge (1987) Ruth Beckermann
“I don’t know exactly why I traveled east this winter,” filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her documentary journey through Eastern Europe. Read More »
Schatten der Vergangenheit (1936) Werner Hochbaum, Luise Ullrich, Gustav Diessl, Lucie Höflich
The story was an obvious forerunner to A Stolen Life with Bette Davis with Luise Ullrich playing a double role of two twins Read More »
Syndromes and a Century (2006) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Nantarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram, Sophon Pukanok
Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors Read More »
Fragments of Kubelka (2012) Martina Kudlácek, Peter Kubelka
This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (born 1934, Vienna). Read More »
Suburban Cabaret (1935) Werner Hochbaum, Mathias Wieman, Luise Ullrich, Oskar Sima
Luise Ullrich and Mathias Wieman are the lovers and want to marry but he has to join the soldiers Read More »
The Millennial Bee (1983) Juraj Jakubisko, Jozef Kroner, Stefan Kvietik, Michal Docolomanský
A historic mega-film, one family saga, three generations (1887 -1917) assimilated to the bee community in the hive. Read More »