André Heller

D.U.D.A! Werner Pirchner

Malte Ludin

Christian Berger, Josef Hader

He's known as "Tyrol's Zappa" and a "real anarchist." Whether folk music, jazz or what's known as serious music, Werner "Preisegott" Pirchner has in a creative way greatly expanded upon the limited acoustic range of his homeland, enriching it with some unfamiliar sounds from around the globe. Whoever comes into contact with him, such as Josef Hader and Tobias Moretti, can sense the power of his music, lets it carry them away, and embraces it wholeheartedly.

Erika Pluhar: Trotzdem. Mein Leben.

Sigrid Faltin

Erika Pluhar, André Heller

Hitler: A Film from Germany

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Harry Baer, Heinz Schubert

This inventive, exhaustive seven-hour film looks at the rise, reign and demise of Adolf Hitler. German director Hans Jürgen Syberberg, who was a child during World War II, doesn't try to recreate history to the letter. Instead, he places his actors -- many of whom play several roles -- on a stage and has them reenact events based on and inspired by Hitler's life. The action combines traditional narration and historical characters, but also idiosyncratic tweaks, like the use of puppets.

Im toten Winkel - Hitlers Sekretärin

Othmar Schmiderer, André Heller

Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler

Documentarians Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer turn their camera on 81-year-old Traudl Junge, who served as Adolf Hitler's secretary from 1942 to 1945, and allow her to speak about her experiences. Junge sheds light on life in the Third Reich and the days leading up to Hitler's death in the famed bunker, where Junge recorded Hitler's last will and testament. Her gripping account is nothing short of mesmerizing.

Das weite Land

Peter Beauvais

O.W. Fischer, Ruth Leuwerik

Karl May

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s “German Trilogy” on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular German author, who set many of his adventure novels in an idealized version of the American Wild West. His tales of the cowboy and the Ubermensch alike were beloved by many, including (Our) Hitler, who supposedly ordered his generals to read May works after defeats in the Russian campaign.

Qualtinger

André Heller

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald

Maximilian Schell

Helmut Qualtinger, Birgit Doll

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.

Doktor Faustus

Franz Seitz Junior

Jon Finch, André Heller

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan

Driving Me Crazy

Nick Broomfield

André Heller, Graciela Daniele

Broomfield's behind-the-scenes document of the making of a musical becomes a ceremonious unmaking-of as egos, budgets and general calamity conspire to ruin the best efforts of all involved in the New York rehearsals for an extravagant, glitzy production.

Jag Mandir: Das exzentrische Privattheater des Maharadscha von Udaipur

Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog, André Heller

Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently, 20 hours of footage was shot that covered the whole fest and the film hardly presents us a twentieth of that. A native walking into the film in between may well fail to immediately realize that it is his country that is being shown and these are figures from the mythology of various sections of his nation.

Das Gold der Liebe

Eckhart Schmidt

Alexandra Curtis, Allegra Curtis

Young Patricia wanders through a Viennese night full of lust for love, visions of drugs and violence, gleaming frenzy and dark alleys.

Frühlingssinfonie

Peter Schamoni

Herbert Grönemeyer, Nastassja Kinski

"Spring Symphony" is the story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Both were music entities. Robert Schumann turns out to have been a second tier composer, if that, never rising to the heights of a Beethoven or Mozart. In contrast, Clara Wieck was a master technician in the playing of the piano, a composer (probably not at Schumann's level), and was a child prodigy.

Zerschossene Träume

Peter Patzak

Yves Beneyton, Raymond Pellegrin

A young Viennese policeman can not free himself from his mistress and is also extorted over his illegal arms business.

Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!

Radu Gabrea

André Heller, Aviva Gaire

Действие фильма происходит в европейской деревне начала века. Накануне Пасхи еврей Лейба с беременной женой снимают таверну и поселяются в ней. Несмотря на то, что от российских погромов их отделяют многие километры, Лейбу не покидает тревога. Служивший у него раньше наёмный работник грозится его убить. От этих угроз в Лейбе подымается долго сдерживаемая ярость. Он поджидает убийцу и, когда тот является, совершает нечто невероятное...

In memoriam Ludwig Hirsch

Maria Bill, Christian Kolonovits