On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as “Sugar Mamas” — European women who seek out African boys Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
The Hold Up AKA Der Überfall (2000) Florian Flicker, Roland Düringer, Josef Hader, Joachim Bißmeier
Looking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor’s shop. Read More »
Corsage (2022) Marie Kreutzer, Vicky Krieps, Colin Morgan, Tamás Lengyel
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Read More »
The Final Solution: The Wannsee Conference AKA Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) Heinz Schirk, Dietrich Mattausch, Gerd Böckmann, Friedrich G. Beckhaus
A precise, real-time (exactly 85 minutes – the length of the actual event) reenactment Read More »
Tartarus (2010) Stefan Müller, Moritz Thate, Martin Kroissenbrunner, Ines Gruber
Austria-Hungary 1813: Jacob and Veith return home from the Napoleonic war. Read More »
The Standard AKA Die Standarte (1977) Ottokar Runze, Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Viktor Staal
The setting is Belgrade, Oct 1918, the closing days of World War 1 Read More »
The Border Post AKA Karaula (2006) Rajko Grlic, Toni Gojanovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic
A small border post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the spring of 1987. Read More »
A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990) John Hough, Sarah Miles, Oliver Reed, Christopher Plummer
Weary of her very public life in Paris, an aging courtesan takes her orphaned Read More »
The Rose Garden (1989) Fons Rademakers, Liv Ullmann, Maximilian Schell, Peter Fonda
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. Read More »
King of Thieves AKA König der Diebe (2004) Ivan Fíla, Lazar Ristovski, Iakov Kultiasov, Katharina Thalbach
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma Read More »
Saraband (2003) Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt
Marianne and Johan meet again after thirty years without contact, when Marianne suddenly Read More »
Menschenfrauen (1980) Valie Export, Renée Felden, Hannes Fitz, Ika Frolik
Menschenfrauen is a film about relationships and the psychological oppression of women in society. Read More »
From Saturday to Sunday AKA Ze soboty na nedeli (1931) Gustav Machatý, Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Mána is a young secretary. One evening she and her roommate Read More »
Ski Fever (1966) Curt Siodmak, Claudia Martin, Martin Milner, Toni Sailer
An American student at an Austrian resort disapproves of the games Read More »
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2006) Jasmila Zbanic, Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev
Set against the backdrop of a former Yugoslavia of the nineteen-nineties Read More »