This epic documentary subtly introduces the complex worldview of iconic filmmaker and theoretician Peter Kubelka (born 1934, Vienna). Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
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 »
Adventures in Vienna (1952) Emil E. Reinert, Gustav Fröhlich, Cornell Borchers, Adrienne Gessner
In postwar Vienna, fate brings together a petty crook working under the table as a taxi driver and a famous concert pianist. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti
Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »
A Little Night Music (1977) Harold Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou
Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Read More »
Operette (1940) Willi Forst, Maria Holst, Dora Komar
The first film of Willi Forst’s legendary Viennese trilogy is essentially a condensed history of the golden age of Viennese operetta mirrored in the fictive love story Read More »
Ecstasy (1933) Gustav Machatý, Hedy Lamarr, Aribert Mog, Zvonimir Rogoz
Eva has just gotten married to an older gentleman, but discovers that he is obsessed with order in his life and doesn’t have much room for passion. Read More »
Stolen Identity (1953) Gunther von Fritsch, Donald Buka, Joan Camden, Francis Lederer
A jealous concert pianist murders his wife’s lover, then frames an innocent taxi driver for the crime. Read More »
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) Martina Kudlácek, Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Documentary, Biography
Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »