Movies: Alexander Pschill

A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image....

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Georg Stefan Troller, born in Vienna in 1921, crossed half of Europe as a refugee only to return with the US army in 1945 . As a filmmaker he became a chronicler of his time and with this film he engages in some bold and self-ironic navel gazing....

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve....

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Opening a pub in a dusty dump with virtually no choice. Only one drink, only one dish and only one song. Does that sound like a good idea? In Munich, the city with gastronomic abundance? Probably not. Nevertheless, two casual acquaintances have exact...

1987, Vienna's Favoriten district, the new home of 12-year-old Vlado. Having grown up with Czech television, he immersed himself in the world of Western films, devouring one VHS tape after another. After being diagnosed with cancer, Vlado made his fi...

Just when bestselling author Leo Leitner was awarded an Austrian literary prize, a mysterious death overshadowed the pompous event. His host Hofrat Lassnig-Schiele may have a hand in it. Charming and funny 'Vienna' episode of the successful crime ser...

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Otto is the proud father of his three children, David, Julia, and Pius. This requires considerable logistical skill, as the three mothers must not know anything about each other. The game of hide-and-seek is about to be exposed when the nanny, Maria,...

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Emmi and Leo are back! Almost a year after his "escape" to Boston, Leo is back - and answers. And even though neither of them really wants it (or does he?), even though each has tried to set up his life without the other in the meantime, they become ...

Bele is 16 and has big hands and feet. Nothing's right: neither her coat, her first love, nor the first video she shoots with friends. And Agnes, her wonderful mom, isn't right either. Agnes is the opposite of Bele: She is pretty, successful, perfec...

Again and again the lonely Mikki wanders through the night to recognize himself for a few moments. He finds light and courage again through the encounter with the toilet attendant Veronika....

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