Vienna 1920
A rare and beautiful example of detailed real-world observation, without any of the structuring devices typical of newsreels: With indelible glimpses of the Jewish quarter, the Prater, the Naschmarkt (open-air food marke
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A rare and beautiful example of detailed real-world observation, without any of the structuring devices typical of newsreels: With indelible glimpses of the Jewish quarter, the Prater, the Naschmarkt (open-air food marke
For months, the corrupt Viennese policeman Albert Schuh unsuccessfully investigates the murder case of his former friend and colleague. Then he gets a young, overambitious partner. The German colleague Thorsten Richter i
Jonas Kaufmann's very personal tribute to the city's famous music. We see the star tenor on the move in Vienna, visiting his favorite places, from the Ferris wheel to the sausage stand. The centerpiece of the more than 1
A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, news was the subject of our conversations, but now it's possible to con
Gusti Aigner and Franz Lenhardt are in love, but composer Lenhardt is too shy and bashful to go out and sell his compositions to music publishers. Gusti takes the burden on herself; and while there are complications and
Taking place over 12 hours on New Years Eve, a concert pianist murders his wife's lover, then frames an innocent man.
Composer Alexander Marhold is to be officially honored on his 50th birthday. His two adult sons, Bobby and Alexander, from two previous marriages, are also arriving: one from Russia, the other from America. As these cont
An off-the-wall crime comedy about two oddballs whose unusual friendship is torn apart by a winning lottery ticket scratched off in a desolate petrol station on the border between Flanders and France. Also... are wrong-w
Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
Egon Wendrinzky's relaxed everyday life in his allotment garden is about to come to an abrupt end. Will he succeed in defending his personal paradise against the dark forces trying to rob him of his happiness?
A car drives through Schumann street from its beginning to its end. The drive was filmed in one take, end and beginning of the film being identical with the end and the beginning of the street. The length of the street a
Extraordinary people, rare craft and a city full of music. These are the ingredients of this unusual city portrait about passion, the art of survival, carps and shellac, the necessity of failure and about the warm-hearte
Featuring the opera star Leontyne Price, the concert baritone William Warfield, and the irrepressible jazz bandleader Cab Calloway, this virtually unknown short film documents the first stop on what would become a four-y
The filmmaker goes on an expedition using a book by Gerhard Roth as travel guide: it is a voyage through the texts. He tells of an inner and exterior voyage, an essayistic trip along the itineraries laid out by Roth. Th