Gerhard Ertl

Coming of Age

Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl

Christine Ostermayer, Karl Merkatz

Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno’s marriage, which has long been routine, and Rosa’s illness; she has cancer and not long left to live. Despite the difficult circumstances, the two decide to breakaway – Bruno from his relationship and Rosa from her retirement home. Against the advice of carers, doctors and relatives, the pair moves into a new apartment together. ANFANG 80 shows with a great deal of unequivocal humour how insensitively and sometimes desperately overburdened society reacts to love among the elderly.

Definitely Sanctus

Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl

Experimental short about hunting animals.

Chucks

Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl

Anna Posch, Markus Subramaniam

Mae quit school and ran away from home. After her brother’s death her family is broken. Only his red shoes (Chucks) remain. Mae has to start working in a social institution where she meets Paul. He is funny, sensitive, takes Mae as she is - and he is terminally ill. In a book named Chucks Mae writes down her own story about growing up between life and death: wild, tender and absolutely honest.

Nogo

Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl

Michael Ostrowski, Jürgen Vogel

Three stories about couples who all have a gas station in Austria

Sargnagel

Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl

Stefanie Sargnagel, Hilde Dalik

The novel “Fitness” by anarchic poet Stefanie Sargnagel is to be made into a film. The only condition on the part of film funding: Sargnagel should play herself. Surfacing alongside the author are numerous actors from the Viennese cultural landscape in cameo appearances to satirically dissect the Austrian culture industry and its mechanisms.