Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
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 »
Some Like It Cool (1977) Franz Antel, Tony Curtis, Marisa Berenson, Marisa Mell, Comedy, Erotic
While hiding from the royal authorities,Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Read More »
Invisible Adversaries (1977) Valie Export, Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec, Drama
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Read More »
Whom the Gods Love (1942) Karl Hartl, Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff, Winnie Markus, Biography, Drama, History
On a trip to Paris in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited Madame Weber and falls in love with her daughter, the singer Aloysia. Read More »
The Hostess Also Likes to Blow the Horn (1970) Franz Antel, Teri Tordai, Harald Leipnitz, Glenn Saxson, Comedy
Susanne is the hostess who gives comfort to the visitors to her hotel. All of the vices in the country are heavily taxed, including drinking and making love. Read More »
Kommissar X – In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen (1966) Gianfranco Parolini, Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Barbara Frey, Adventure
A scientist invents a filter that can increase the power of a laser beam, turning it into a death ray! Read More »
Kommissar X – Drei gelbe Katzen / Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick (1966) Rudolf Zehetgruber, Gianfranco Parolini, Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Ann Smyrner, Action, Adventure
Tony Kendall, Brad Harris. Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Read More »
Nordrand (1999) Barbara Albert, Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Drama
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. Read More »
Shameless / Schamlos (1968) Eddy Saller, Thomas Astor, Gino Baldini, Rolf Eden, Crime, Drama
A very dynamic Udo Kier stars as Pohlmann, a teenager setting up a gang to collect protection money, who falls in love with an exotic dancer, who gets murdered. Can Pohlmann revenge her?
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Hurensohn / The Whore’s Son (2004) Michael Sturminger, Chulpan Khamatova, Predrag ‘Miki’ Manojlovic, Stanislav Lisnic, Drama
Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. Read More »
The White Ribbon / Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) Michael Haneke, Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Drama, Mystery
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron’s son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron’s household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
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