Wollmer, the owner of a sawmill in Tyrol, has been assassinated. But since he was hated by almost everyone, there is a plethora of possible assassins. Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986)
What constitutes a deadly sin today? Seven of the world’s best-known women directors produce their own version of celluloid sin in this omnibus film. Read More »
Mother’s Day (1993) Muttertag – Harald Sicheritz
A satirical take on the life of a family in a public-housing complex in Vienna as they prepare for Mother’s Day. Read More »
My Sister Maria (2002) Meine Schwester Maria
A gentle portrait by the famous German-Swiss-Austrian Hollywood actor Maximilian Schell about his no less famous sister Maria. Read More »
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 »