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Die Ausgesperrten (1982)
Character: N/A
Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents who "needs a little dirt in her life". The story provides penetrating insights into the Austria of the 50s, in which some enjoyed the benefits of the "Economic Miracle", while others were shut out. It repeatedly references Austria's Nazi past and the numerous ways in which it influences the present despite the conspiracy of silence which surrounds it.
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Perahim - die zweite Chance (1974)
Character: N/A
After eleven years of solitary confinement, Perahim, convicted of murdering a police officer, is released early from prison after exceptionally good behavior. He has a son that he wants to take care of.
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Der Italiener (1971)
Character: Der Spanier
The lord of the castle is found shot. His sister takes care of the appropriate wake, a firearm-happy guest from Spain romps around in the walls. An Italian listens to records of Bartók. The police doesn't appear.
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Der letzte Werkelmann (1973)
Character: N/A
Vienna, a few days before the shots in Sarajevo which would trigger what was first called the Great, later simply the First World War: Job seekers from the crown lands flock to the capital of the empire in search of a better life, even if it's the factory hell . A new social class is growing faster and faster, the city overflows with the poor, lower-class workers and the unemployed. Labor fighters can be heard louder, better, clearer, every day. The nobility strongly suspects its end.
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Flucht ins Schilf (1953)
Character: Stephen Karoly
When the body of a postman is found on Lake Neusiedl, the investigation shows that it is probably a robbery, and several of the villagers fall into the circle of suspects: Five young men now need an alibi. Walter was with Elisabeth on the night of the murder, but cannot rely on her support. She is not only the sister of Stephan, who is also suspected, but also the fiancée of the gendarme who is leading the investigation into the case.
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Der Transport (1961)
Character: N/A
March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.
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Tarabas (1981)
Character: N/A
On the eve of WWI, Russian landowner’s son Nicholas Tarabas, a Catholic sympathizer turned assassin exiled to America, returns as a ruthless soldier dubbed “the Terrible.” Yet when anti-Jewish violence erupts, his conscience awakens for the first time.
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Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand (1979)
Character: Farmer Metzler
During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defends the Bishop of Bamberg. He is declared an enemy of the empire and ostracized as a robber. Insurgent peasants, of whom he becomes the leader, also betray him by attacking a town against the condition that no violence be used.
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Der letzte Akt (1955)
Character: SS-Untersturmführer
Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as fictional Nazi Hauptmann Wüst, a disillusioned middleman.
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Die Erben (1983)
Character: Lehrer
A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?
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Der Fall Harrer (1986)
Character: Dr. Katz
Walter Harrer, an engineer, is on the night shift and returns home in the morning to find his wife lying unsconscious in the garden. She is sent to hospital were a loss of memory is observed. Dr. Bogner, a young psychiatrist, is interested in the case and tries to help Mercedes. He talks to her husband, her former lover and her friends to see if he can get some clue as to why she can't remember who she is.
She confesses that she killed Lona Logan, her rival. But Dr. Bogner isn't sure that she's telling the truth. Did she really do it or is it pure fantasy?
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Kopfstand (1982)
Character: Gerichtspsychiater
A misunderstood youth is incorrectly placed in a mental hospital.
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Höchste Eisenbahn (1987)
Character: Oberinspektor Hirth
The storyline of this episodic film, made on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), is a PR team's train journey through Austria. The professionals are to use the inspiring surroundings to develop a new advertising concept for ÖBB. Various stories are embedded, in each of which the railroad naturally plays a leading role.
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The Salzburg Connection (1972)
Character: Kidnapper
An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the photographer seems to have vanished, leaving a near panic-stricken wife and a sinister, secretive brother. Before he knows it, the lawyer finds himself mixed up with spies, assassins, and the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis during World War II of people who collaborated with them.
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Ein Käfer gibt Vollgas (1972)
Character: Chico Capellas
Jimmy Bondi and his miracle beetle Dudu are on their way to Portugal by sea. In the Algarve, they are witness to a dispute in which ex-inmate Plato and the attractive Tamara have to do with Marchese de la Sotta and his henchmen.
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Spionage (1955)
Character: Sabrenin
Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Frequent letters from the Russian Empire, however, make him suspect of sharing his knowledge with unauthorized authorities.
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