
Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Read More »
Tag Archives: Austria
Paradise: Hope (2013) Ulrich Seidl, Melanie Lenz, Verena Lehbauer, Joseph Lorenz

The final installment in Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, ‘Paradise: Hope’ tells the story of overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Read More »
Paradise: Faith (2012) Ulrich Seidl, Maria Hofstätter, Nabil Saleh, René Rupnik

Anna Maria, a single woman in her 50s, devotes her summer vacation to doing missionary work Read More »
The Waldheim Waltz (2018) Ruth Beckermann, Kurt Waldheim

A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General Read More »
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 »