|
Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (1979)
Character: Alfred
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
|
|
|
Die Letzte Runde (1983)
Character: Rainer
The intellectual Willie flees from his bourgeois-academic environment, leaving behind his wife, child, and job to lead a vagabond life. In Vienna, he meets the retired laborer Josef, who becomes his closest friend. Together, they drink and roam the city. Willie makes one last attempt to visit his ex-wife in Salzburg, but she turns him away. Secretly, he takes his son Tommi with him, putting him in danger when they encounter a sinister motorcycle gang.
|
|
|
Kassbach - Ein Portrait (1979)
Character: Friend
Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists.
The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes.
|
|
|
Höhenangst (1994)
Character: Marios Vater
An unusual love story between a farmer from a small village and a 25-year-old recently released prisoner from Vienna. First he wins the acceptance and sympathy of the villagers before his past catches up with him.
|
|
|
Obszön - Der Fall Peter Herzl (1981)
Character: Joe Neuffer
A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her incestuous teen daughter. They become both a threesome and a happy surrogate family, but nothing lasts forever.
|
|
|
Nachtfalter (2001)
Character: Karli
Claudia makes Katrin to work for her provider for Claudia's material security and to leave the "shitty work outside". They are both prostitutes. Katrin learns that the price for being independent is high and goes with physical destruction.
|
|
|
Eldorado (1996)
Character: N/A
The transport of a red Cadillac from Hamburg to San Remo poses serious problems for a car mechanic when his two passengers, whom he picked up at a carpooling agency, turn out to be rather shady characters. The vacation trip to sunny Italy turns into a wild chase as the police are constantly on the heels of the three.
|
|
|
|
Autsch!!! (1996)
Character: Willie
Chris and Peter live and work in the apartment belonging to Birgit, Peter's former girlfriend and Chris' present girlfriend. In spite of this threesame life is quite smooth, until Chris meets the Polish model Clara.
|
|
|
|
Zockerexpreß (1991)
Character: Harry
The gambling-addicted and heavily indebted owner of a bar and three hostesses burns down his establishment to prevent it from falling into the hands of criminals. In doing so, he loses the women, his luck at gambling, and ultimately his life.
|
|
|
|
Fehlschuss (1977)
Character: N/A
The son of a family of immigrants dreams of becoming a great soccer star and does everything in his power to make it big. He joins the provincial team, but soon realizes that true success can only be found in the city. So he leaves his hometown and heads to Vienna, where he finally has the chance to join a professional club.
|
|
|
I Love Vienna (1991)
Character: Rudolf Swoboda
I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.
|
|
|
Fröhlich Geschieden (1997)
Character: Ondracek
Lawyer Fröhlich has specialized in divorce cases and has become a star in this field. Along the way, he also divorced his own marriage. But his daughter and former wife are an integral part of his life, as is his marriage-mad father.
|
|
|
Donauwalzer (1984)
Character: Raul Lichtenberg
The hungarian revolution 1956. Judith, an Austrian and her Hungarian friend, Taddek, want to escape to Austria. A friend of theirs, a Viennese photographer, helps organize their escape. Taddek doesn't appear at the arranged meeting place, so Judith and the photographer leave without him. Years pass without a word from Taddek..
|
|
|
Testament (1968)
Character: N/A
Out of a desire for adventure, a middle-class university student (Mike Sarn) joins a political revolution. Unexpectedly, the women are victorious; they dress in uniforms and proclaim a military dictatorship to be ruled by a senile puppet. All writers are persecuted and tortured. Of course, the public takes the side of the attractive meter maids. Retaliatory strikes are sometimes successful, but the country's top minds are gradually wiped out.
|
|
|
Der Einstand (1977)
Character: N/A
A young ex-convict returns to his home village. But he soon realizes that nothing is the same for him as before.
|
|
|
Coconuts (1985)
Character: Grein
Grein, a truck driver, works for Sienmann, an undesirable man, dedicated to fraud.
|
|
|
|
|
Fleischwolf (1990)
Character: Jörg
The film tells the story of three young men who land in an Austrian prison for various reasons. They have been sentenced for minor misdemeanors and are confronted by the prisons merciless subculture.
|
|
|
Den Tüchtigen gehört die Welt (1981)
Character: N/A
This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".
|
|
|
Der Rausschmeisser (1989)
Character: Ludwig
The story of the 18 year old prostitute Fanny who falls back into her old life after being released from a reform school run by nuns. The feeble-minded Frieder tries to liberate her, fails, and pays for it with his life.
|
|
|
Qualtingers Wien (1997)
Character: Wachkommandant
Using original texts from Qualtinger, the two authors develop a pandemonium of 'Viennese cordiality'. Set in a municipal building, in the Prater and the surrounding streets, sausage stands, etc., characters and unerring punchlines result in an enjoyable Viennese film, written for the squad of local cabaret artists.
|
|
|
Exit II - Verklärte Nacht (1995)
Character: Kirchhoff
Plachinger 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.
|
|
|
Hart im Nehmen (2000)
Character: Gerhard Berger
When a young couple in Vienna suddenly find themselves unemployed, they open a little restaurant near a local soccer place. Soon they have to find out about the odds and ends of self-employment as they have to learn that their newly won independence suffers from bureaucracy and greed.
|
|
|
Malina (1991)
Character: Briefträger
An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his spell. It will be her last great passion. Her feelings are so strong and all-encompassing that Ivan can neither understand nor return them.
|
|
|
Rallye Paris-Dakar (1984)
Character: Mike
1984 Dakar Rally also known as the 1984 Paris–Dakar Rally was the 6th running of the Dakar Rally event. The course was extended through Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Mauritania. 427 competitors started. René Metge and Dominique Lemoyne won the car class with a Porsche 953, which was often called the 911 SC/RS 4x4, and Gaston Rahier won the motorcycles class.
|
|
|
Querelle (1982)
Character: Robert / Gil
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
|
|
|
The Living Daylights (1987)
Character: Prater Ferris Wheel Operator
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
|
|
|
Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus (2010)
Character: Drballa
Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are completely in the dark. Next to each murder victim is a playing card with the inscription "Rien ne va plus". There are seven names on the back. Already three murders in 24 hours....
|
|
|
Muttertag (1994)
Character: Corvette Driver
48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.
|
|
|
Phönix an der Ecke (1982)
Character: H.
Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters in the films become his own. His dreams, wishes and reality become one in the fuzzy reflection on the projection window. A surreal play by Peter Patzak.
|
|
|
|
Die Jahre vergehen (1980)
Character: Ila
30 years old Gregor is traveling with his ten years old daughter to his childhood town where he meets old friends.
|
|
|
Schmutz (1986)
Character: N/A
Josef "Schmutz" (german for "dirt"), a security guard obsessed with duty and cleanliness, is given the task of guarding a decommissioned industrial plant. While maintaining his devotion to the authority of property right, the self-proclaimed "Representative of Ownership" is himself slowly losing his sense of reality.
|
|
|
Revanche (2008)
Character: Konecny
Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.
|
|
|
Before Sunrise (1995)
Character: Husband on Train
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
|
|
|
Ilona & Kurti (1991)
Character: Kurti
Kurt Schneider is a superficial and funloving character. Instigated by his mother he swindles his way into the legacy of a house and some money. Both Kurti and his mother are certain there are no legal heirs to the property. Great is their surprise when Ilona appears, who is the legal heiress coming from a remote part of Yugoslavia. Several attempts to get rid of that "Tschusch" prove unsuccessful. Once Mama Schneider gets to know that Ilona is also the beneficiary of a sizable life assurance contract, she destines her son to marry Ilona. While trying to double-cross Ilona, Kurti actually falls in love with her. Now it is Ilona's turn to take vengeance on mother Schneider and to prompt Kurti to take a clear-cut decision...
|
|
|
Bauernschach (1995)
Character: N/A
Franz Hofnagel has been a prisoner in a psychiatric institution for 22 years, where he was sent by his own lawyer. The fact that he has become fat during his time there and from the medication suits his plans... his lawyer will not recognize him when he uses his first vacation in so many years to take bloody revenge on the fraudulent lawyer for robbing him of his farm, his wife... ultimately his life. He thinks.
|
|
|
|
|
Frankfurt Kaiserstraße (1981)
Character: Johnny Klewer
Bored with her stuffy village life, teenager Susanne decides to run away to the bright lights Frankfurt, while her boyfriend does his military. Caught in the swamp of drugs, prostitution, violence and human trafficking, Susanne experiences the dark side of the big city.
|
|
|
Der stille Ozean (1983)
Character: Dr. Ascher
A doctor, who commits malpractice in a major urban hospital, retreats to a remote house in the countryside. Although he is acquitted, his conscience is not so easily appeased. When a murder occurs and the southern Styria village searches for the culprit, he has to take a stand.
|
|
|
Geliebte Gegner (1998)
Character: Wachmann
A crime comedy directed by Peter Weck. The movie was followed by "Die Ehre der Strizzis" (2000).
|
|
|
Die Bademeister – Weiber, saufen, Leben retten (1999)
Character: Gigi Griesmayr
Paul and Böller from Wanne-Eickel have a dream: they want to apply to be lifeguards on Sylt. Not because the two VoKuHiLa advocates love saving lives so much, but because they are hoping for a lot of beer and a pack of gorgeous women. Once they arrive on the tranquil island, the stylish high society quickly loses its cool thanks to the pair.
|
|
