The Austrian Film - Edition Der Standard
Austrian films selected by the editors of the newspaper Der Standard in cooperation with the film distributor Hoanzl and the Austrian Film Archive. Shorts and TV (mini)series are excluded.
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- DirectorBarbara AlbertStarsNina ProllEdita MalovcicAstrit AlihajdarajJasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The quintet meets and gets close to one another, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsRoland DüringerNina ProllRudolf RohaczekHerbert Krcal lives with his wife and son in a small apartment in Vienna. He dreams of owning his own house but houses are expensive. During a walk in the woods, he finds an old run-down house and decides to buy it. When he begins the renovation he realizes that his new home requires more than some wallpaper and paint. Soon the do-it-yourself handyman is caught up in a home building nightmare.
- DirectorFranz NovotnyStarsHanno PöschlPaulus MankerIsolde BarthA guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop - just to get her coffee-machine.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsMaria HofstätterChristine JirkuViktor HennemannIn the tomb-like quiet of their ranch-style purgatory, a divorced husband and wife fight a wordless war while mourning an unspeakable mutual loss. A sadistic lover's ritual humiliation spawns both tenderness and revenge.
- DirectorPaul HaratherStarsJosef HaderAlfred DorferMaria HofstätterHeinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsAdi MurnbergerFabian WeidingerJohannes HabelerWe are watching a boy of ten being confronted with two of the most prevalent taboos: death and sexuality, especially when the recourse offered by religion and society differs from a child's point of view.
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsChristoph DostalAndreas LustAndreas SimmaIn a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...
- DirectorMichael KreihslStarsUlrich TukurJulia KravitzNikolaus ParylaA still life painter despairs of the real world.
- DirectorMichael KehlmannStarsHelmut QualtingerGudrun ThielemannFritz EckhardtAn inconspicuous policeman is send to solve a murder case.
- DirectorKurt PalmStarsAndreas SobikRenato UzAndreas KarnerAustrian avant-garde theatre director Kurt Palm adaption of Flann O'Brien's beer-soaked, brilliantly funny, modernist masterpiece for the screen.
- DirectorValie ExportStarsAdelheid ArndtRüdiger VoglerHagnot ElischkaJudith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.
- DirectorJessica HausnerStarsFranziska WeiszBirgit MinichmayrMarlene StreeruwitzWhen Irene gets a job as a hotel maid she soon finds out that the previous girl disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
- DirectorFlorian FlickerStarsRoland DüringerJosef HaderJoachim BißmeierLooking around for a suitable place to hold up, Andreas stumbles into a tailor's shop. What was supposed to last only a few minutes ends up being a bizarre afternoon for three men: the tragicomic of the less-than-expert robber, the cranky tailor and a customer - a know-it-all who drives the other two crazy. The mood constantly shifts, and the tables keep turning among the threesome. A black comedy with a twist.
- DirectorRobert DornhelmStarsSusan DeyTom HulceMichael BowenIn the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables, raises a son, Henry, and is an aspiring actress. She needs a roommate and takes in a pizza deliverer named Jonathan, an aspiring songwriter. In the adjoining flat is August, an Austrian body sculptor who appears in a deodorant commercial and dreams big dreams. May takes a job delivering singing telegrams as a stripper, Jonathan invites Henry to tag along with him on deliveries, August gets into trouble with the police who call his father in Austria, and the friendships, frustrations, and love affairs of everyday life come to a head.
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsSimon SchwarzSophie RoisLars RudolphAustria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first time in history: The farm workers inherit the whole farm together, as the farmer himself was childless. Now, conflicts come up, as nobody is the boss and nobody has to obey.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsRaimund WallischMichael OstrowskiPia HierzeggerThree young pals plan to earn money by shooting an hardcore-porno movie. But is it really so easy to shoot some gang-banging with home-video equipment?
- DirectorNikolaus GeyrhalterStarsJosef FuchsVickerl AlbrechtKastner Herbert'Washed up' presents a portrait of people who spend their lives on the banks of the river Danube or on the river itself. (Robert Buchschwenter)
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsRudolf WesselyDana VávrováWolfgang BöckAn elderly man, obsessed with his neighbour, begins to follow her.
- DirectorAndré HellerOthmar SchmidererStarsTraudl JungeDocumentary featuring interview footage with Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's personal secretaries during WWII.
- DirectorWolfgang LiebeneinerStarsHilde KrahlJosef MeinradWaltraut HaasIt is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, makes his inauguration speech, he declares Austrian independence and issues an edict ending Austria's financial support for the Global Union. The Global Union President arrives in a flying-saucer with her retinue of world-soldiers, equipped with death-ray guns, to put an end to the rebellion. The president and the country are put on trial. The Austrian president recounts the country's' long battle for peace, and shows how Austria stopped the invasion of the Turks, and gave the world the operetta and the waltz. He organizes a mass parade with flora floats and a brass band playing the Austrian Freedom Song in order to appeal to the court's impartiality. A 1943 document signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin and assuring Austria of independence is presented.
- DirectorFritz LehnerStarsOthmar Jantscher
- DirectorPeter Patzak
- DirectorSteven ShainbergStarsAndras JonesJennifer Jason LeighMichael MalottaMarty is not comfortable showing his body at college or private. He is suffering from a skin disease called nevus flammeus. In town he stumbles on The Dunes. A porn-shop-theme-park with one booth named "The Prom". This is where Lana works. Marty likes Lana.
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderSimon SchwarzBarbara RudnikEx-detective Brenner wants to keep himself out of trouble but several murder cases and his ex-girlfriend Klara finally get him involved. But making decisions is not one his strengths.
- DirectorWolfgang MurnbergerStarsJosef HaderSimon SchwarzJoachim KrólA man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
- DirectorFranz NovotnyStarsPaulus MankerUrsula KnoblochKarl KröpflTwo young characters in this story of rebellious youth are named after two Germans, brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl who were imprisoned and executed for their anti-Nazi stance during World War II. In this film, the rebels do not have such a clear-cut enemy but nevertheless, they cannot accept the way life is heading in Austria of the 1950s and they revolt by stealing, mugging, and trying out terrorist methods (bombs). Their future seems to be inexorably heading on a collision course with the forces that have "locked them out.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsSalah AbdelMustafa MuhammedKumar Saha ProbilThis documentary, Ulrich Seidl's full-length film debut, examines the lives of the street newspaper sellers in Vienna, a mixture of men from Turkey, India, Pakistan, Egypt, and Eastern Europe--standing out in all weathers, peddling the trivial Viennese tabloids. Their lives on the street are explored: their cramped living quarters, their minders, the 'training' days, and the inhuman process that keeps them working endless hour for little reward.
- DirectorNiki ListHans SelikovskyStarsAndreas VitásekBarbara RudnikChristian SchmidtPrivate detective Max Müller and his assistent Larry try to solve a crime but find themselves in strange bars and women.
- DirectorWolfgang GlückStarsTobias EngelSunnyi MellesHeinz TrixnerIn 1938, Austria is about to become a part of the Third Reich. A theater actress and a Jewish journalist fall in love and spend time together, completely ignoring the political turmoil of the time despite friendly warnings.
- DirectorPaul PoetStarsChristoph SchlingensiefMatthias LilienthalRainer LauxFOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by passer-by's and two were thrown out of the country through web-voting. The way fascism looks in the 21st century: Bright. Sensational. Interactive. Funny - and frightening. Austria freaked out. Thousands of screaming people gathered. Attacks with knifes, beatings, acid occurred. Political intrigues. Headlines all over Europe. 800,000 worldwide joined via internet. An incredibly heated week, capturing the European right-wing drift in real time. Democracy the hard way.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerA look at the people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York City, Moscow and Mexico City.
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsKlaus RottSylvia HaiderBruno Dallansky
- DirectorPeter PatzakStarsPeter VogelGila von WeitershausenChristiane RückerAn advertising expert and writer is pushed by his publisher to deliver a script for a new book. This one is supposed to be on the topic sexuality.
- DirectorEddy SallerStarsThomas AstorGino BaldiniRolf EdenA debt collecting teenage gangster falls in love with an exotic dancer and seeks revenge after she's murdered.
- DirectorKlaus Maria BrandauerStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerRebecca MillerBrian DennehyA true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
- DirectorHubert SauperStarsElizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga NseseRaphael Tukiko WagaraDimond RemtuliaA documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
- DirectorErnst Schmidt Jr.StarsFriedrich AchleitnerMarc AdrianH.C. ArtmannAn anthology about Vienna, from the invention of film to the present day. The aim is to break down the usual cliched "image of Vienna" such as that found in the traditional "Vienna Film" by juxtaposing documentary footage.
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsAlfred DorferReinhard NowakAndrea HändlerA satirical take on the life of a family in a public-housing complex in Vienna as they prepare for Mother's Day.
- DirectorLeo TichatStarsKim DimonChristine ProberFrank Debray
- DirectorKurt SteinwendnerStarsMaria EisElfe GerhartHeinz MoogAfter the model of the Italian neorealist films, follows the lives of four women and their fates. Using professional actors and laymen, director Kurt Steinwendner presents the four "jealousy dramas" as allegorical episodes.
- DirectorWolfram PaulusStarsChristoph SchnellDaniel RosenkranzGerald BachlerThe main characters of the story are Pauli, a teacher's son, and Sepp, the son of a sawmill owner. They get to know each other while serving as altar boys, become friends and decide to form their own gang with themselves as leaders.
- DirectorEgon HumerStarsEva Hosemann
- DirectorRuth BeckermannA controversial photography exhibit about atrocities committed by the German army on the Eastern Front during World War II inspired Ruth Beckermann to interview soldiers about their experiences beyond the bounds of "normal" warfare.
- DirectorHelmut KöppingStarsChristoph TheußlAndreas KiendlMichael OstrowskiIn Fohnsdorf, Austria's largest village--which has a high unemployment rate because of the closing of a coal mine--under the Viktor Klima administration in the early 2000s, four friends prepare for a class reunion. They aren't satisfied with what they've achieved in their lives, and they keep on struggling in very individually unconventional ways. With odd scenes that don't seem to make much sense and very cheap special effects, this is a masterpiece that gives funny insights into the everyday lives of Australian twentysomethings in the early 21st century.
- DirectorPeter PatzakStarsBibiane ZellerErnst KonarekFred SchafferThis film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun, and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsBirgit DollDieter BernerLeni TanzerA European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsGabriel BarylliNicolas BriegerClaudia MessnerIn the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.
- DirectorMichael GlawoggerStarsPaulus MankerAugust DiehlMichael OstrowskiTwo yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences.
- DirectorSabine DerflingerStarsHenriette HeinzePhilomena WolflingsederCarmen GratlEvi, a young mother, works as a seasonal waitress in a winter sports village. She wants to live on the edge and get all the enjoyment she can out of life.
- DirectorUlrich SeidlStarsPaula HutterováVladimir KundrátRusena MachaloyáLooks at two communities on either side of the Czech - Austrian border. There's an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone single woman on the Czech side of the border.
- DirectorPeter HajekStarsMarie ColbinHeinz HoenigRainer Hunold
- DirectorAndrea Maria DuslStarsJosef HaderVictoria MalektorovychDetlev BuckAfter screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
- DirectorHans WeingartnerTobias AmannStarsDaniel BrühlAnabelle LachattePatrick JoswigKati, Jochen and Lukas take a trip on magic mushrooms. Lukas is not coming back.
- DirectorPaulus MankerStarsPaulus MankerHilde SochorJosefin PlattSelf-imprisoned in an apartment which is reminiscent of a theater stage, Otto Weininger recalls certain events of his life before shooting himself on October 4, 1903.
- DirectorMichael KreihslStarsJohannes SilberschneiderWolfgang HübschEla PiplitsHumourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures.
- DirectorChristian BergerStarsLois WeinbergerDietmar SchönherrBarbara WeberPortrait of an alpine countryside during the Napoleonic wars. The hero, a poor countryman, is faced with expulsion from society after having informed the French occupants of the hiding place of the guerrilla leader.
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer Frimmel
- DirectorTizza CoviRainer FrimmelStarsBabooska GerardiMichele PellegriniAzzurra GerardiA year in the life of members of a troupe of circus performers. The circus is named Il Floriciccio.
- DirectorBarbara AlbertStarsKathrin ResetaritsUrsula StraussGeorg FriedrichA young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes through various medical blood tests, her husband is having an affair with her best friend, her sister trades sex for shelter, her brother is tiptoeing around a friendship with an emotionally-locked clerk whose mother is lonely, and an unpopular high-school student has bad skin. The daughter has her eye on a certain boy--the very one who was driving the car in the fatal crash. In happenstance are there patterns? In life is there meaning?
- DirectorAndreas GruberStarsHeidi BarattaJan KolarMargarete Maurer
- DirectorRuth BeckermannStarsBetty BeckermannSalo BeckermannHerbert GropperBeckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust. Tracing the migratory paths of her family before World War II, Beckerman returns to the European Jewish communities which inspired her childhood stories.
- DirectorWolfram PaulusStarsAlbert PaulusGünther Maria HalmerMercedes EchererLenz is a masseur at a once-popular mountain resort that has fallen on hard times. With his debts mounting far beyond his income, he resorts to stealing furniture and uses what he is not able to sell.
- DirectorHarald SicheritzStarsAlfred DorferJohn Phillip LawThomas KoziolTrauma surgeon Thomas Reiter voluntarily withdraws to a closed institution because he no longer wants to face everyday life. He solves problems in his imagination - a western fantasy. A priest is commissioned by his worried parents to bring their son back to reality. When Thomas asks him to follow him into his western world, the pastor realizes that this escape from reality is not without its fascination... A humorous look at reality and imagination, a film about the dissolution of borders. "So someone has difficulties with their life and flees into a simple world. Of course, as a screenwriter, I could also say in such a case that they flee into video games - but that was all too banal for me, it was too obvious "The Western also stands for something, it stands for simplification. There is good and there is bad, so pretty clear guidelines. For me, that was the clearest leap for someone for whom reality is too complex. In addition, it was of course a huge one Incentive to seriously try to make one, especially in a country where there is no infrastructure for a western. Nevertheless: WANTED is definitely not a western. That's very important. The western is only a small part of the film, a Neighborhood maybe, where a certain wishful thinking is served. Everything else is very real. To me it's a comedy, but I can also laugh at things that other people don't find funny at all. Let's put it this way: If INDIA was a comedy, then n WANTED is also one."
- DirectorFlorian FlickerGeorg MischStarsAnita BraunFritz CsarBrigitte DanningerIn a Western theme park near Vienna, a handful of 'residents' (the people who work there) are living on the small line between reality and fiction.
- DirectorErwin WagenhoferStarsJean ZieglerPeter BrabeckKarl OtrokA look at how the world's food is produced and how mass production changes the environment and the lives of people.
- DirectorWolfgang GlückStarsGabriel BarylliWerner KreindlRomuald PeknyKurt Gerber is attending his final class and gets into trouble with the math professor, a frustrated self-assured petty bourgeois sadist. The duel ends in catastrophe.
- DirectorMichael KehlmannStarsPeter WeckSonja SutterHertha Martin
- DirectorGeorg LhotzkyStarsFritz MuliarErika PluharLouis RiesHostile literary friends Petrik (young, idealistic, unsuccessful) and Mehlmann (enterprising, successful) spend a weekend at a crumbling baroque castle in the Marchfeld, illustrating very different ideas of a post-war Austria.
- DirectorPeter PatzakStarsWalter KohutImmy SchellMaria EngelstorferThe Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of the right-wing extremist organization "Initiative", which plans numerous attacks and assassinations in the Vienna.
- DirectorAxel CortiStarsKurt WeinzierlJulia GschnitzerRose DybalThe story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-1943), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system.
- DirectorAngelika SchusterTristan SindelgruberStarsLennart BinderPhillip BischofUte BockThe film takes a critical look at the "Operation Spring" raids conducted in 1999 by the Austrian police against the "Nigerian drug mafia."
- DirectorMichael HanekeStarsGabriel Cosmin UrdesLukas MikoOtto Grünmandl71 scenes revolving around a recent immigrant, a couple that has just adopted a daughter, a college student and a lonely old man.
- DirectorPeter KernStarsAugust DiehlTraute HoessHeinrich HerkiLow-budget political satire in which August Diehl, as a reporter, goes in search of the missing Jörg Haider after the American occupation of Austria.
- DirectorFranz NovotnyStarsHanno PöschlHelmut BergerHilde BergerPlachinger and Kirchhoff, the heroes of Franz Novotny's 1980 comedy Exit - Do Not Panic - meet by chance after ten years and spend a night together in which they attempt to be as they were in the old days: anarchistic and orgiastic.
- DirectorPeter PayerStarsAlfred DorferGertraud JessererBranko SamarovskiRavioli is the story of Heinz Hoschek, a man who has lost his wife and his parents, as well as many other good people in his life and now gives a review of his current situation.
- DirectorNiki ListStarsWolfgang KopperLeopold SchreinerPeter GruberOne night at the Viennese New Wave Cafe Malaria
- DirectorWilhelm PellertStarsRudolf PrackHilde SochorPeter Hey
- DirectorGötz SpielmannStarsPetra MorzéAndreas PattonHary PrinzThree stories revolve around the love lives of an adulterous woman, a checkout girl and a single mother.
- DirectorKurt PalmStarsHans BanklKonstantin GaalFranz Hafner
- DirectorKurt PalmStarsMarwan AbadoHans BanklFlorian BoeschThis documentary explores the many facets of Mozart outside of his music
- DirectorFlorian FlickerStarsRainer EggerDani LevyMercedes EchererThe sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
- DirectorGerhard Benedikt FriedlGermany's predominant economic figures and their place in the socioeconomic systems of Europe are examined.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsBirgit DollHanno PöschlHelmut QualtingerIn Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.
- DirectorLeopold Lummerstorfer
- DirectorStefan RuzowitzkyStarsKarl MarkovicsAugust DiehlDevid StriesowThe story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
- DirectorFranz AntelStarsPaul HörbigerHans MoserMaria AndergastMusical comedy about confused identities.