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Tag Archives: Austria
Mephisto (1981) István Szabó, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági

A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance Read More »
Mein Kampf (2009) Urs Odermatt, Götz George, Tom Schilling, Anna Unterberger

The young, despotic and untalented artist Adolf Hitler comes to Vienna to study art. Read More »
In Comparison (2009) Harun Farocki

In Comparison revisits issues explored in the director’s 2007 two channel installation Comparison Via a Third. Read More »
Obszön – Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981) Hans-Christof Stenzel, Volker Spengler, Lydia Kreibohm, Karina Fallenstein

Peter Herzl, social worker and Left sympathizer from Wuppertal, West Germany, is assaulted and robbed on the way back from Yugoslavia to his home country. Read More »
Lulu (1962) Rolf Thiele, Nadja Tiller, O.E. Hasse, Hildegard Knef

A 14-year-old girl is caught while trying to pick a doctor’s pocket. Read More »
The Paper Bridge (1987) Ruth Beckermann

“I don’t know exactly why I traveled east this winter,” filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her documentary journey through Eastern Europe. Read More »
Suburban Cabaret (1935) Vorstadtvariete

Luise Ullrich and Mathias Wieman are the lovers and want to marry but he has to join the soldiers Read More »
The Millennial Bee (1983) Juraj Jakubisko, Jozef Kroner, Stefan Kvietik, Michal Docolomanský

A historic mega-film, one family saga, three generations (1887 -1917) assimilated to the bee community in the hive. Read More »
Cafe Electric (1927) Gustav Ucicky, Willi Forst, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Alberti

Erni (Marlene Dietrich), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist Göttlinger (Fritz Alberti) falls for a pickpocket Fredl (Willi Forst) Read More »
A Little Night Music (1977) Harold Prince, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou

Fredrik Egerman is very happy in his marriage to a seventeen-year-old virgin, Anne. 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 »
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 »
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 »