
A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
The Poll Diaries (2010) Poll – Chris Kraus

In the summer of 1914, thirteen-year-old Oda von Siering (Paula Beer) leaves Berlin to join her family and an assortment of German and Russian aristocrats on an estate in Estonia. Read More »
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) Werner Herzog

An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people’s visits to Earth and Earth’s man-made demise Read More »
Die Ausgesperrten / The Excluded (1982) Franz Novotny, Rudolf Wessely, Emmy Werner, Paulus Manker

Two young characters in this story of rebellious youth are named after two Germans, brother Read More »
Whom the Gods Love (1942) Karl Hartl, Hans Holt, Irene von Meyendorff, Winnie Markus

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 House on the Coast (1954) Bosko Kosanovic, René Deltgen, Bert Sotlar, Nadja Regin

The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor Read More »
Flucht ins Schilf / Brutality (1953) Kurt Steinwendner, Heinz Altringen, Kurt Jaggberg, Ilka Windish

Am Neusiedlersee wird die Leiche eines Postboten gefunden, die Ermittlungen ergeben 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 »
The Devil’s Bed / Tod im November (1978) Helmut Pfandler, John Phillip Law, Florinda Bolkan, Siegfried Wischnewski

A young engineer is hired to do surveys near a small village in Austria to determine the suitability of building a factory there. Read More »
Destination Unknown (2017) Claire Ferguson, Frank Blaichman, Roman Ferber, Stanley Glogover

Destination Unknown blends intimate testimony with immersive archive to bring the stories of twelve Holocaust survivors to the screen. Read More »