A beautiful young girl parachutes onto a remote, isolated island Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
Moses and Aaron / Moses und Aron (1975) Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo
A feature length follow-up to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s short film Read More »
Episode (1935) Walter Reisch, Paula Wessely
When a young woman loses her mother’s money due to a bank failure Read More »
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance / 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994) Michael Haneke, Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl
71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man. Read More »
Where are you going, Aida? / Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. Read More »
Eye of the Spider / L’occhio del ragno (1971) Roberto Bianchi Montero, Klaus Kinski, Antonio Sabato, Van Johnson
Paul, a former boxer gets caught after a jewel robbery. Two of his accomplices escape with the loot. Read More »
Falling / Fallen (2006) Barbara Albert, Nina Proll, Birgit Minichmayr, Kathrin Resetarits
In Barbara Albert’s FALLING, five independent women are reunited for the funeral of a beloved teacher. Read More »
Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) Terence Young, Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner
In an attempt to stem the heroin trade from Iran, a group of narcotics agents working for the UN inject a radioactive compound into a seized shipment of opium Read More »
The Last Bridge / Die letzte Brücke (1954) Helmut Käutner, Maria Schell, Bernhard Wicki, Barbara Rütting
A German nurse gets sent to the front because she gives medical aid to a wounded Serbian partisan during World War II. Read More »
Schatten der Vergangenheit (1936) Werner Hochbaum, Luise Ullrich, Gustav Diessl, Lucie Höflich
The story was an obvious forerunner to A Stolen Life with Bette Davis with Luise Ullrich playing a double role of two twins Read More »