Andreas Gruber

Zurück zu Stalin : Die Angst der Sieger vor der Heimkehr

Andreas Gruber

Based on the testimonies of 4 survivors, a powerful documentary on the treatment inflicted on Soviet war prisoners, suspected of betrayal by the Stalinist regime. An exceptional word that pays homage to hundred of thousands of forgotten victims.

Shalom General

Andreas Gruber

Heidi Baratta, Mitzi Bodendorfer

The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty, death. He has to take care of "General" Kulat, an old Wehrmacht officer, a fanatic militarist. Their confrontation becomes war.

Drinnen und draußen

Andreas Gruber

Heidi Baratta, Jan Kolar

Renate is finishing her trainee year as a social service worker when she is assigned her first patient: The young Alfred Hauser, who was submitted to the psychiatric ward four years ago because of a psychosis. Alfred's anxiety condition is worsening while the hospital staff is lying to him about the possibility of an early discharge. Renate is commited to help him.

Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen

Andreas Gruber

Oliver Broumis, Elfriede Irrall

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but only 150 of them actually succeed. Following the tally-ho of the SS, a barbaric manhunt begins. Only very few fugitives survive. With a lot of good luck, the two young officers Michail and Nikolai reach the Karner family's farm. Frau Karner persuades her husband to hide the two escapees.

Welcome Home

Andreas Gruber

Georg Friedrich, Rainer Egger

Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in the usual way, through incarceration and deportation. But it's different this time: the story continues in Ghana, where everything is suddenly turned upside down.

Wochenende

Wolfram Paulus

Albert Paulus, Manfred Gratz

Dreams collide with daily routine: Wochenend deals with the subject of adolescence and captures a generation's awareness of life.

T4 - Hartheim 1 - Sterben und Leben im Schloß

Andreas Gruber, Egon Humer

When the busses left, the nurse said to the children, 'Today you have to pray a lot, because today you go up the chimney and meet the good Lord.' The children of the area knew these vehicles and said, 'Look, there is another one of these killer busses.' And they said to one another, ' You are not very clever, you, too, are going to end up in the oven in Hartheim, you, too, will be hung up in the chimney.' Hartheim Castle near Linz was one of several places of destruction of 'unworthy life' within the framework of the euthanasia program of National Socialism. Over 30,000 mentally or physically handicapped, psychiatric patients and inmates of concentration camps were gassed in Hartheim between 1940 and 1945. Today Hartheim Castle is rented and inhabited. In a place where 40 years ago thousands if lives were destroyed by industrial methods, today life asserts itself in the trite daily function of living. The documentation is about Hartheim Castle, in the past and in the present.

Hannas schlafende Hunde

Andreas Gruber

Hannelore Elsner, Franziska Weisz

When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.

Der Kardinal

Andreas Gruber

August Zirner, Peter Fitz

Die Schuld der Liebe

Andreas Gruber

Ruth Rieser, Sandrine Bonnaire

Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life. Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a search of her own identity – though still she believes she can get closer to her father after his death.

Ab morgen wird sich alles ändern

Andreas Gruber

Ingrid Greifeneder, Robert Kühnel