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Tag Archives: Austria
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 »
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 »
Invisible Adversaries (1977) Valie Export, Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Read More »
In Frankfurt sind die Nächte heiß (1966) Rolf Olsen, Vera Tschechowa, Erik Schumann, Richard Münch
After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Read More »
Der letzte Ritt nach Santa Cruz / The Last Ride to Santa Cruz (1964) Rolf Olsen, Edmund Purdom, Mario Adorf, Marianne Koch
Pedro Ortiz (Mario Adorf) is released from prison and returns soon to free a young man called Carlos (Thomas Fritsch). Read More »