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CRIME
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The
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Franz
In Memory of My Father
Small Fish
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A Real Lady
Bear on the Run! Carve the Joint Fake Holidays His Mother & Me Leaves and Flowers Mama’s Boy The Perp Stubborn Men Sugar Granny 17
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Absolute Discretion Bad Blood The Dare Deadly Souvenirs Death at the Congress Death by Organ Death from Africa The Devil on the Mountain Elvis Lives Exitus Faith, Love, Death Family Business Fatal Trust Granite The Guardian of the Spring Although
Losing Control 21
The Millenium Murderer 20
Never Again Opera 20
Operation Job 23
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Passion
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The People’s Money 28
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Polt Has to Cry 19
Polt II – Flowers for Polt 19
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Polt IIIEV
– Heaven, Polt and Hell 19
Polt IV – Death at the Wine Harvest 19
Retribution 24
The Rewards of Work 25
Sleeping Beauty 22
Trautmann 30
The Tree of Salvation 29
Wishing for a Baby 23
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A Heaven for Horses
A Heaven for Pets Andreas Hofer –
The Liberty of the Eagle The Black Lion Brothers Brothers II Dinner for Two Felice – Heiress With a Heart The First Day The Healer I + II Home for Sale Into the Future, Bravely Joined in Love My Beautiful Daughter No Mercy On the Road to Santiago –
Brothers III The Prince of Her Dreams Welcome in Vienna Duration: 50 min.
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Breaking Ice Brotherly Love The Cat Gate to Hell, The Heaven Mother’s Heart Red Snow Till You Die 51
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ROMANTIC COMEDY
2 Christmas Dogs The Christmas Dog Erika & Otto Love is a Dream Molly & Mops – Café Mops Molly & Mops – Life is not a Piece
of Cake Although
Molly & Mops Oh Baby, a Baby Polly TV SERIES
CRIME
Fast Forward Four Women and a Funeral K-Files 54
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White Beauty Wine Tycoon, The Julia – An Exceptional Woman Orth Castle Hotel Love, Lies & Passion 58
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Ex – A Romantic Comedy Steintaler, The Vitásek – A Comedian’s Life 45
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The Camera Murderer
Der Kameramörder
Easter at Lake Neusiedl: Thomas has a designer house hidden in the reeds on the Hungarian
side of the lake. He and his new girlfriend Sonja
invite another couple to visit: Heinrich, an old
friend and notorious cynic and his wife Eva, who
seems to have a more complicated past with
Thomas than a simple long-lasting friendship.
Small irritations even before the guests arrive
suggest that the idyll is not to be trusted: The
neighboring farmer visits briefly and informs
them that his sisters’ three children went missing without a trace. At the same time a snuff
video surfaces and it seems it was recorded in
immediate vicinity to the house. It shows three
boys being tortured by an unidentified man. Paranoia creeps in. Is the perpetrator in the house?
A relationship battle unfolds where neither trust
nor honest emotions seem safe, where eventually only suspicions and a cruel game write the
script.
Duration: 95 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Robert Adrian Pejo
Written by Agnes Pluch, Robert Adrian Pejo, Günter Pschei
der, based on a novel by Thomas Glavinic
Cast: Andreas Lust, Ursini Lardi, Merab Ninizde,
Dorka Gryllus.
Produced by LOTUS Film, AV Medienbüro, COBRA Film and
MYTHBERG Films in association with ORF, SF Schweizer
Fernsehen and TV2 supported by Austrian Film Institute,
Film Fonds Vienna, Swiss Federal Office of Culture,
Filmfoundation Zurich, Motion Picture Public Foundation of
Hungary and Media i2i
Available worldwide except for German Speaking Territories
and Hungary
„Directors Price“ at Hungarian Filmweek
HD ES
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In Memory of my Father
In Memory of my Father
Hollywood, Modern Day - A self-proclaimed (somewhat justifiably) film legend bribes his son
to document his death under the unquestioning
assumption that it will be historically important.
The Result … In Memory of My Father, a twisted
celebration of a Hollywood family dealing with
an inconvenient and frustrating day, regardless
of the subtly distracting centerpiece which they
can’t seem to completely ignore … Dad’s corpse.
With the inappropriate wit of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Christopher Jaymes steers us through
Dad’s wake, alongside his two brothers and
Duration: 96 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Christopher Jaymes
Written by Christopher Jaymes
Produced by Persona Film and Interspot Film
Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Judy Greer, Matt Keeslar, Monet Mazur,
Pat Healy, Christine Lakin, Nicholle Tom
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2006 Best Picture at Santa Barbara Film Fest; 2006 Best
Debut Feature at Sonoma Valley Film Fest;2006 Director’s
Award at Santa Cruz Film Fest; 2006 Grand Jury Award at
CineVegas; 2006 Best Director at San Diego Film Fest; 2006
Best Picture at AOF FEST; 2006 Spirit Award at Ft. Lauderdale
Int.; 2006 Grand Jury Award at Lake Forest Film Fest;
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Dad’s fickle twenty-something girlfriend. A festival favorite and winner of multiple awards including Best Picture at CineVegas & Santa Barbara FF, it boasts a top-notch ensemble cast
and a superb soundtrack by indie veterans Belle
& Sebastian.
feature films drama
Small Fish
Kleine Fische
In times of globalisation and ecological crises a
small fish store holds a surprisingly big potential
of self-fulfillment for the 25 year old Martin. Now,
after his father passed away, he will be able to do
everything different and better – even if the small
shop has to compete with the discount store over
the road and his brother Kurt, out of the blue, returns from oblivion and aggrandizes himself –
first in the store and then with Karin, a student. It
was Martin though who wanted to impress Karin
by his transformation into a modern, anti-globalisation entrepreneur. Martin and Kurt above all
have the non-changeable fact in common, that
they are brothers. But it is Kurt’s presence that
provokes conflicts. Though Martin and Kurt
would actually be not that different, they both
live in illusory worlds and shut themselves off to
the unpleasant reality. With décor and big talks
Martin tries to save the family business and the
whole area, Kurt acts the successful careerist,
his life goal, though in reality he is a million miles
away from that.
Duration: 86 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Marco Antoniazzi
Written by Marco Antoniazzi and Gregor Stadlober
Cast: Michael Steinocher, Volker Schmidt, Brigitte Kern,
Sabrina Reiter, Peter Strauss, Agnes Riegl, Karl Fischer,
Elfriede Irrall, Michael Schuser
Produced by Novotny & Novotny Film
Available worldwide
Winner of Public’s Choice Award at Diagonale
2009 in Graz
ES
The director wraps the story of his film into an
enjoyable mixture of wit and realistic construction of a world that still tastes and smells like the
70s.
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Franz Fuchs – The Mail-Bomber
Franz Fuchs – Ein Patriot
From 1993 to 1997, Franz Fuchs, who described
himself as an “Austrian terrorist”, rocked Austria
by committing a series of letter bomb attacks
which killed four people and left 15 seriously injured. Ten years after his arrest on October 1st,
1997, the film looks back on the affair, raising
questions which no one wanted to answer after
Fuchs’s suicide in prison in 2000. Divided into
three parts and interweaving fictional reconstitutions and documentary techniques, the film begins with Fuch’s preventive detention and the
preparations for the trial, then moves on to the
trial itself, before examining the consequences
of the affair.
Duration: 85 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Written and directed by Elisabeth Scharang
Cast: Karl Markovics, Stefan Puntigam, Hubert Kramar,
Klaus Händl, Manfred Weissensteiner,
Helge Stradner, Sebastian Pass
A co-production by Epo Film and ORF
Available worldwide
International Emmy Award 2008 Nomination for Karl
Markovics in the category “Best Performance by an Actor”;
FIPA d’Argent and the Jury Special Prize at 21st TV-Festival
FIPA in Biarritz 2008; Romy 2008 for Elisabeth Scharang in
the category “Best director”; Oscar 2008 for “The Counter
feiters” with leading actor Karl Markovics
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“The MailBomber”
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His Mother & Me
Seine Mutter und ich
If only Marie had known what her dream wedding
with the airline pilot Hubert would bring, she
would have reconsidered her decision to get hitched. Maries’s mother-in-law Leopoldine, who
has kept a jealous watch over her son since the
death of her husband, refuses to be happy for
the newlyweds. She takes every opportunity to
put the relationship to the test. Nothing changes
when Marie gets pregnant and moves back into
Hubert’s parents’ house. Leopoldine wants to
make Marie sick of life – by any means. And Hubert? He travels the world, happily jumping into
bed with stewardesses. As the conflict with Leopoldine begins to escalate, Marie receives unexpected help from the mistress of her father-inlaw, Rosa, and her son Georg. Marie discovers
that, according to Hubert’s father’s will, Rosa
and Georg should have inherited Leopoldine’s
house. And as if that wasn’t enough – Georg is
Hubert’s brother! When Marie gives birth to her
baby she decides to make a fresh start. She separates from Hubert and confronts Leopoldine
with the truth about her dead husband.
Duration: 89 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Wolfgang Murnberger
Written by Ulli Schwarzenberger
Cast: Max von Thun, Muriel Baumeister, Andreas Kiendl,
Marianne Mendt, Ulli Maier
A co-production by ORF and BR, produced by MR Film
Available worldwide except for Germany
HD ES
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The Perp
Der Täter
Jakob is living a double life – during the day, a
decent family man and tour bus driver; at night, a
gentleman crook with Robin Hood tendencies.
Ably supported by his accomplice Fanny, no art
theft is too difficult for this smart and charming
quick change artist. However he barely escapes
from his last escapade – a heart attack puts an
end to the robbery and very nearly lands him in
jail. After being persuaded to spend some time in
hospital, Jakob accidently stumbles upon a corruption racket involving the Chief of Police and
resting in bed is suddenly off the agenda. After
being hunted by the police for years, Jakob sees
his chance to get his own back on the Police
Chief and do something good at the same time.
But will his weak heart be up to it? And can he
continue to hide his secret double life from his
daughter for much longer? But Jakob wouldn’t be
Jakob if he didn’t have a few aces up his sleeve.
Duration: 90 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Michael Kreihsl
Written by Uli Brée and Rupert Henning
Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Mercedes Echerer, Jürgen Tarrach,
Emily Cox, Justus Neumann, Christian Tramitz
A co-production by ORF and ARTE, produced by Dor Film
Available worldwide except for Germany and France
HD ES
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Carve the Joint
Aufschneider
Even pathologists have their problems. Dr Fuhrmann discovers this fact every time he leaves the
catacombs of the hospital to take up his social
life. Clever diagnoses won’t help him at all out
there; life, particularly his own, is pretty tough
going. Of all people, his archrival Dr Böck, that
perfectly dressed God in white, is flirting with his
ex wife. And, as if that wasn’t enough, Fuhrmann
also has to deal with his (dead) patients and his
annoying, know-it-all assistant Dr. Winkler, who,
to top things off, is falling for his daughter. Failed
relationships, daring diagnoses and black humour – Dr. House move over!
Duration: 2 x 90 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by David Schalko
Written by Josef Hader and David Schalko
Cast: Josef Hader, Ursula Strauss, Oliver Baier, Manuel
Rubey, Pia Hierzegger, Simon Schwarz, Adele Neuhauser
A co-production by ORF and ARTE, produced by Superfilm
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Bear on the Run!
Der Bär ist los! – Die Geschichte von Bruno
A wild young bear places the west of Austria in
fear and trepidation. It attacks sheep and goats,
plunders beehives and comes dangerously close
to hikers. The authorities give the order to shoot
to kill but this is disobeyed by the local hunters
who admire “Bruno’s” slyness bringing various
protagonists into play who could not be more different: the director of a zoo who is looking for a
companion for his female bear, the animal rights
campaigner who needs a new challenge and
wants to save Bruno, a bear expert who wants to
employ his US experience as a bear catcher, two
Finnish bear hunters – complete with elk hounds
– who cannot find their way in the mountainous
terrain and a self-proclaimed Bavarian-Indian
bear whisperer. Will Bruno escape the chaos of
blow-pipes, traps, bear costumes, love stories
and “Leningrad Cowboys”? An ironic comedy inspired by actual events.
Duration: 89 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Xaver Schwarzenberger
Written by Felix Mitterer
Cast: Fritz Karl, Harald Krassnitzer, Nadeshda Brennicke,
Erwin Steinhauer, Sissi Wolf, Herbert Knaup
A co-production by ORF and BR, produced by Satel
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Sugar Granny
Zuckeroma
A Real Lady
Feine Dame
Mama’s Boy
Muttis Liebling
Melanie and Anton Seeberg are happily married.
He is a successful software developer on the verge of making it big, she is a happy housewife.
Their 16-year-old daughter Stella is still in
school, and their 19-year-old son Sebastian is
studying law. The only blemish sullying the Seeberg family’s peaceful life is “Grandma”,
Melanie’s egomaniacal mother. When she suffers a stroke, the Seebergs decide, much to the
relief of the beleaguered nursing staff, to care for
her at home. Little do they know what daily trials
and tribulations await when sharing a roof with
this malicious old woman.
Regina Steinberg, the obnoxious wife of a dentist, lives a pleasant life – thanks to her husband
Julius, who works day and night to that end.
Nora, Regina’s friend, is nice, single and jobless.
So Regina gets her a job as assistant to Julius,
but not only out of kindness: she also wants her
to keep a close eye on her husband as she suspects him of having an affair. But things turn out
differently as poor Julius, permanently neglected
by his wife, falls in love with Nora who is so different from Regina. With this unexpected pleasure
of a new love he decides to reinvent himself. The
conscientious and emotional Nora, striving for a
loyal attitude, tries hard to fight her feelings for
clumsy Julius but in the end succumbs to his attraction. When Regina finds out that Nora is Julius’ mistress, Nora personally experiences that
Regina is no “real lady” at heart.
Sometimes, Wolfi just leads the life of an ordinary 38year-old man. That of course is limited to his
job as a bank clerk. After leaving the office
though, Wolfi again and again turns into “Mama’s
Boy”. Not only does Maria cook and care for him,
she also patronizes him to a certain extent. When
Wolfi meets Eva and decides to marry her, Maria
plays every trick in the book to boycott the wedding. The reception turns into a disaster. Eva and
Wolfi get into an argument, and Wolfi’s father
even has his secret lover pick him up. When Maria breaks down completely drunk, the ever-loyal
son Wolfi stays with her. Eva is disappointed, especially since she had wanted to break the good
news of her pregnancy to Wolfi that day. Through
his father, Wolfi later finds out about Eva’s condition. Now is the time for him to start deciding on
how to organize his new life.
Duration: 91 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Cast: Bibiana Zeller, Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Karl Markovics,
Nora Heschl, Matthias Stein
Produced by Teamfilm for ORF
Available worldwide
International TV Festival Bar/ Montenegro (YU) 2004:
Director’s Award for Best Director to Xaver Schwarzenberger
“Bronze Olive” to TV-movie “Sugar Granny”
Best Actress Award to Bibiana Zeller
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Duration: 91 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Cast: Aglaia Szyszkowitz, Julia Stemberger, Harald Krassnitzer, Nora Heschl, Bibiana Zeller
Produced by MR Film for ORF
Available worldwide
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Duration: 88 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TEE
Cast: Gregor Bloéb, Monica Bleibtreu, Friedrich von Thun,
Ulrike Beimpold, Marie Bäumer
A co-production by ORF and BR, produced by Teamfilm
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Leaves and Flowers
Blatt und Blüte
Stubborn Men
Die Dickköpfe
Fake Holidays
Die Slupetzkis
The family’s well-off octogenarian Aunt Agathe
has finally passed away, and everyone is eager
to get their hands on her wealthy estate. But nobody knew that dear old auntie had a malicious
streak. It seems that Aunt Agathe put the last of
her energy into hatching a meticulous plan aimed
at sowing the seeds of discord among her heirs.
After 49 losses to Neuburg, a neighbouring town
in Bavaria, Mayor Wurzer of Austrian Schärding
gets carried away with himself: Schärding’s football team will win their next match – its 50th –
and he’s willing to bet any money on it. Otto
Mühldorfer, the president of Neuburg’s football
club and owner of the local beer brewery, does
not hesitate to take up the challenge.
Part 1 – “Home Holidays”
Everyone can see that the Slupetzkis are living it
up. What is not seen even by their neighbours,
the Taubers, is that they are in fact – broke. The
Slupetzkis pretend to go on the luxurious holiday-trip they had announced months ago. Actually they hide out in their villa. Unexpectedly
their daughter Diana appears to enjoy holidays.
The Slupetzkis now have to face a big challenge:
Neither can they admit that they actually are at
home, nor can they leave the villa.
Part 2 – “Forced Holidays”
One year later the Slupetzkis are still poor. To
make some money for a new start, the Slupetzkis work in a hotel & spa as service staff. One
day the Taubers check in at the hotel they work
in – and a giant charade gets going: The Slupetzkis pretend to be wealthy hotel guests …
Duration: 89 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Michael Kreindl
Written by Susanne Freund
Cast: Christiane Hörbiger, Götz George, Alexander Strobele,
Marie-Christine Friedrich, Rafael Schuchter
A co-production by ORF and NDR, produced by Dor Film
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Walter Bannert
Written by Mike Majzen and Johann Skocek
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Ottfried Fischer, Anna Brüggemann, April Hailer, Hanno Koffler
A co-production by ORF and Sat1, produced by Dor Film
Duration: 88 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Directed by Claudia Jüptner-Jonstorff
Written by Uli Brée
Cast: Wolfgang Böck, Gabriela Benesch, Markus Hering,
Victoria Schubert
Produced by Dor Film for ORF
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tv-movies comedies crime Polt I –
Polt Has to Cry
Polt muss weinen
Polt II –
Flowers for Polt
Blumen für Polt
Polt III –
Heaven, Polt and Hell
Himmel, Polt und Hölle
Polt IV –
Death at the Wine Harvest
Polterabend
Polt is filled with a deep sense of
unease when suddenly one day, the
body of a villager is found in a wine
cellar. He ponders over the mysterious death from fermentation gas as
he knows how much the deceased
was hated by the community. What
looked like an accident could well
have been a case of murder.
It’s springtime and work in the vineyards is in full swing, when two
tragic accidents suddenly disrupt
Polt’s happy indulgence. Rudi
Riebl’s death in an accident comes
as no surprise to anybody. But why
did the handicapped Willi get so
close to the dangerous terrain that
he actually fell to death?
The parish priest has invited a
group of illustrious persons to dine
with him. One look at the guests,
and the priest’s cook goes pale
from shock. Without a word she
dumps her soup over the head of
the prominent guest and runs to
hide in her room. Later she is found
dead, poisoned by a 1979 Cabernet
Sauvignon.
One night, Polt is helping harvest
the ice wine grapes at Karl
Fürnkranz’s vineyard, as he makes
a shocking discovery in the isolated
press house: the grape juice running out of the old wine press has a
strange red color to it. Upon closer
examination, Polt finds a dead body
and decides to investigate on his
own …
Duration: 89 min.
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Directed by Julian R. Pölsler
Written by Julian R. Pölsler and Susanne
Freund, based on the novel by Alfred
Komarek
Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Hans-Michael
Rehberg, Hans Clarin, Fritz Egger, Peter
Faerber
A co-production by ORF and ARTE,
produced by Teamfilm
and France
FV
ES
Duration: 94 min.
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Written by Julian R. Pölsler, based on the
novel by Alfred Komarek
Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Karin Kienzer, Peter
Simonischek
and France
Baden-Baden TV-days 2002: Best Actor
Award to Erwin Steinhauer
FV
ES
Duration: 95 min.
TV | VOD | DVD | TE
Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Günther-Maria
Halmer, Ludwig Hirsch, Karin Kienzer,
Sibylle Canonica
and France
FV
Duration: 99 min.
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Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Josef Bierbichler,
Hans-Michael Rehberg, Otto Anton Eder,
Monica Bleibtreu
and France
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Never Again Opera
Nie wieder Oper
Absolute Discretion
Absolute Diskretion
The Millennium Murderer
Der Millenniumsmörder
In the home for aging artists, deaths are multiplying. The investigation of the mysterious death
of the star tenor, Oskar Weisshaupt, leads the
“Scene of the Crime” team to a network of dark
doings. Not only are the shady manager of the
home and his aides suspect, but also the star’s
various ex-girlfriends. ORF succeeded in winning
a large number of high ranking Austrian and international opera stars to play the inhabitants of
the artists’ home.
The happy-go-lucky Roman Kraus has paid a girl
companion for the evening. While they change
partners with the prominent couple Peter and
Helene Pollak, Kraus’ wife, the well known pharmaceuticals researcher Eva Kraus-Lauterfeld, is
murdered and a valuable scientific discovery is
stolen.The only thing to free Kraus of suspicion
would be an alibi for the night in question. But
the couple involved denies everything.
A car burns up on an open field at the edge of the
Vienna Woods. The police discover the remains
of a corpse in the vehicle that is surrounded by a
symbol that looks very much like a coat of arms
dug into the earth. Was this a ritual carried out
by a psychopath, or did a murderer from the Vienna sex and porno scene stage this scenario to
distract attention from his real motives?
Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Robert A. Pejo
Written by Robert A. Pejo and Peter Conolly-Smith
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Gundula Rapsch, Loretta Pflaum,
Alois Frank, Gerhard Balluch
Produced by ORF
Available worldwide
Duration: 86 min.
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Directed by Peter Payer
Written by Robert Gugganig, Rudolf John
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Alois Frank, Loretta Pflaum,
Gundula Rapsch, Friedrich von Thun
Produced by ORF
Available worldwide
Duration: 88 min.
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Directed by Thomas Roth
Written by Peter Moser
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Loretta Pflaum, Gundula Rapsch,
Alois Frank, Michael Schottenberg
Produced by ORF
Available worldwide
tv-movies crime
Losing Control
Nichts mehr im Griff
Death at the Congress
Tödliche Tagung
Death by Organ
Tod unter der Orgel
An Austrian bank creates a big sensation with an
exhibition of water colors by the famous Austrian
painter Egon Schiele. Even before the opening,
the pictures attract the interest of an American,
Ester von Steinhof, who arrives in Vienna for the
purpose of clarifying her claim as heir of two of
the pictures. The scandal over the pictures grows
when the valuable paintings are stolen, one
night watchman is killed and a second seriously
injured.
Following the sudden death of a friend from her
college days, forensic specialist Renata Lang
questions its natural cause – especially in view of
vague remarks made by the late scientist shortly
before her death. Attending a highly explosive
medical conference on male reproductive capacity,
she had announced that many things were soon
to change in her life. Disguised as a journalist,
police detective Moritz Eisner conducts undercover investigations.
Moritz Eisner has been sent to an international
organ competition in Carinthia to provide police
protection for the famous Bishop Hawranek, a
jury member who has championed human rights
in Brazil for years. The young organist Nikolaus
Kutil starts the competition. But his brilliant performance ends in tragedy: an organ pipe falls
from its anchorage, killing the young man. Was it
murder or an act of sabotage?
Duration: 89 min.
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Written by Peter Zingler
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Alois Frank, Loretta Pflaum,
Gundula Rapsch, Georges Kern
Produced by ORF
Available worldwide
Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Robert Adrian Pejo
Written by Lukas Alexander
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Gundula Rapsch, August
Schmölzer, Mirjam Ploteny, Dietrich Siegl
Produced by ORF
Available worldwide
Duration: 90 min.
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Written by Alrun Fichtenbauer and Walter Bannert
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, August Schmölzer, Michou
Friesz, Johannes Silberschneider, Helmut Berger
Produced by Epo Film for ORF
Available worldwide
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Sleeping Beauty
Die schlafende Schöne
Fatal Trust
Tödliches Vertrauen
Family Business
Familiensache
After a party celebrating the winner of a violin
competition, music teacher Karin Landauer finds
herself involved in a quick adventure with the
victor’s brother. When she comes out of the
bathroom she finds the young man’s dead body.
There’s no hiding the affair from her husband, an
internationally renowned violinist. But rather
than deploring her adultery, he is far more disturbed by the fact that “Sleeping Beauty”, the
three-hundred-year-old Stradivari, has disappeared from the apartment.
The prominent victim in Moritz Eisner’s next murder case is Raimund Jakobi, the internationally
successful physicist. In great demand as a brilliant
scientist who conducts research for the automotive industry, the ruthless egocentric had made
many enemies, both on a personal level and professionally.
On his way to work, Inspector Moritz Eisner comes across a police investigation that grabs his
attention. Eisner questions the presumable double-suicide of a married couple. He is convinced
that the couples’ neighbour is hiding something,
but starts to feel an irresistible affection towards
the woman. Step by step he finds out that the
actual crime has yet to be committed. Privately,
he faces trouble as well: his daughter Claudia
has been admitted to intensive care following a
drug overdose.
In the course of his investigations, Eisner ends
up walking into a minefield of personal hurts and
brutal economic competition.
Duration: 89 min.
Duration: 88 min.
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Written and directed by Dieter Berner
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Suzanne von Borsody, Fritz Karl,
Arno Frisch, Aleksandar Ivanovic
Available worldwide
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Directed by Holger Barthel
Written by Thomas Baum
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Jan-Gregor Kremp, Pia Baresch,
Julia Stemberger, Maria Köstlinger
Produced by Cult Film for ORF
Available worldwide
Duration: 88 min.
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Written and directed by Thomas Roth
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Sarah Tkotsch, Ulli Maier, Heribert
Sasse, Hubsi Kramar
Available worldwide
tv-movies crime
Exitus
Exitus
Wishing for a Baby
Kinderwunsch
Operation Job
Operation Hiob
A delivery van is involved in an accident which
leads to the death of two students. When the authorities begin to investigate the wreckage, they
find the naked bodies of three more people, who
have obviously been dead for some time. A postmortem reveals that they died of natural causes.
But where were the bodies being transported to?
In the course of his investigation, Eisner uncovers some rather dubious business dealings and
a not altogether ethical research project …
When an investigative journalist is murdered, the
Interior Ministry’s Special Investigator Moritz
Eisner is called in. He is quickly convinced that
the murder is part of something larger. Eisner’s
local colleagues are initially sceptical but quickly
change their mind after a genetic engineer and
DNA specialist is shot. A number of connections
between the two murders begin to appear and
the clues lead to a renowned fertility clinic. The
investigators’ enquiries uncover a quagmire of
corrupt business deals involving couples who
desperately want to have children. But what role
does the owner of a fitness club, where patients
from the clinic are sent, play in the whole business?
When the chief financial manager of the syndicate that controls the Austrian heroin trade is
found murdered, Moritz Eisner is sent on an undercover operation: “Operation Job”. With
Eisner’s help, the undercover agent who has
worked in the drug-syndicate for years is to be
led to the head of the organization to bring him
to justice. Initially, the plan seems to work.
Eisner’s investigations expose a competing criminal organization that pushes heavily into drug
trafficking and challenges the market-controlling
syndicate. But while Eisner tries to prevent a war
between the rival groups and protect the identity
of the undercover agent, he gets himself ever
deeper into a web of organized crime …
Duration: 90 min.
Duration: 90 min.
Duration: 88 min.
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Written and directed by Thomas Roth
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Heribert Sasse, Sunnyi Melles,
Maria Urban, Hubert Kramar
Produced by Cult Film for ORF
Available worldwide
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Directed by Walter Bannert Written by Thomas Baum and Walter Bannert Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Franziska Stavjanik, Michael
Menzel, Dorka Gryllus, Daniel Keberle, Tamara Metelka,
Calvin Claus, Martina Theresia Stilp
Produced by Allegro Film for ORF
Available worldwide
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Directed by Nikolaus Leytner
Written by Max Gruber
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Sarah Tkotsch, Heribert Sasse,
Hubert Kramar, Juergen Maurer, Christian Dolezal, Nicholas
Ofczarek, Arben Murseli
Produced by Satel Film for ORF
Available worldwide
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Retribution
Vergeltung
When Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner is called to a
crime scene in the Vienna underground, he is
horrified: once again the victim is a teenager who
has been brutally executed. Everything points to
the perpetrator being a serial killer. The victims
themselves are all convicted violent criminals.
However, none of them had been imprisoned as
they were all too young when they committed
their crimes. The only condition was that they
seek professional help and attend therapy. Gruesomely, they have each now been killed in the
same way as their own victims.
And if the case were not unsettling enough, to
make matters worse Eisner has also been assigned a new assistant, who, however, is not unknown to him: Bibi Fellner, who is burnt out and
teetering on the brink of alcoholism, yet somehow intensely human. All leads point to the
“Youth Health” therapy centre, which specialises
in resocialising young violent criminals. Together
with his assistant, who sees Eisner as her last
chance, he sets out to search for the culprit …
Duration: 90 min.
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Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Adele Neuhauser, Harald Schrott,
Rasa Weber, Tanja Raunig, Josephine Bloéb, Aglaia
Szyszkowitz
Available worldwide
HD ES
tv-movies crime
Payback Time
Lohn der Arbeit
This time Moritz Eisner has been sent from Vienna to the beautiful region of Tyrol to speed up
progress in tracking down the killer of a major
construction company owner, Kogl, who had
employed illegal workers through several subcontractors. This misdeed was flagged up by
the finance authorities and resulted in one subcontractor going bust, whilst the illegal workers,
Macedonians, were deported back to their
homeland without being paid. One of the former
workers has come back with his father to collect
the wages that are owing to him. However these
two are not the only ones upon whom suspicion
falls. The fugitive subcontractor, who himself
was duped by Kogl, had every reason to kill him.
A suspended finance official and an enterprising
investigative journalist are also embroiled in
the case and seem suspicious. And finally the
murder victim’s private life offers yet another
motive …
Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Erich Hörtnagl
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Alexander Mitterer, George Lenz,
Mustafa Nadarevic, Branko Tomovic, Martin Zauner, Hilde
Dalik und Max von Thun
Produced by Epo-Film for ORF
Available worldwide
HD ES
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Passion
Passion
Bad Blood
Böses Blut
Elvis Lives
Elvis lebt
Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner takes a vacation in
a small town in Tyrol. A passion play performed
every eight years is taking place there. Already
on the first day he discovers a body: the mayor’s
son has been nailed to the cross. Commissioner
Roxane Aschenwald, who grew up in this town,
starts the investigation, with Moritz assisting her.
Roxane’s past soon catches up with her.
Chief Inspector Moritz Eisner ends up in Tyrol
again, but his visit to Commissioner Roxane
Aschenwald is interrupted. Roxane is called away
on a murder case. In the little mountain village of
Oberleis the parish house keeper has been murdered. Was robbery the motive? It does not take
long for police investigations to come up with a
number of motives and possible culprits – even
the village priest is under suspicion.
Stefanie Gschnitzer takes up her first case at the
Innsbruck homicide squad: Richard Stecher,
member of a notorious family of poachers, was
found shot dead. Even at the scene of the crime,
the policewoman has her doubts. A clean shot in
the back of Stecher’s head does not make the
self-defence version convincing, and Richard
Stecher would never have gone poaching on the
anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death.
Duration: 89 min.
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Directed by Ilse Hoffmann
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Sophie Rois, Dietmar Schönherr,
Gregor Seberg, Simon Schwarz
A co-production by ORF and Satel Film
Available for Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary,
Slovenia and Croatia
Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Peter Sämann
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Sophie Rois, Bernhard Schir,
Christian Spatzek, Wolfram Berger
Duration: 90 min.
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Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Roswitha Szyskowitz, Gundula
Rapsch, Gregor Bloéb, Guntram Brattia
tv-movies crime
Deadly Souvenirs
Tödliche Souvenirs
The Guardian of the Spring
Der Wächter der Quelle
The Devil on the Mountain
Der Teufel vom Berg
A series of murders in the middle of the tourist
season frightens the cheerfully bustling town of
Lahnenberg. The investigation becomes a race
against time, with the killer committing a perfectly planned and executed murder of a tourist on a
daily basis and leaving behind each time a
“deadly souvenir” – a snow dome.
The environmental activist Hermann Wegscheider, a thorn in the side of many in the village due
to his bitter opposition to the commercialization
of the mineral spring above St. Johann, is found
dead by the 13-year-old Maria. The young girl
does not believe his death was an accident and
alerts the police. Barbara Trenkwalder, a police
detective from Tyrol, and Moritz Eisner soon
have to believe it was murder.
Factory owner Klose has placed a bounty on the
head of his wife’s
murderer and threatened to withdraw all his
businesses from Austria unless the Interior Ministry shed light on the murder. At first, the task
looks simple: Hochreiter, a German living in the
Tyrolian village, has repeatedly confided to the
villagers to be the murderer.
Duration: 88 min.
Duration: 89 min.
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Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Roswitha Szyskowitz, Alexander
Strobele, Martin Walch, Theo Rufinatscha
Available for Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary,
Slovenia and Croatia
Duration: 88 min.
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Written by Felix Mitterer and Holger Barthel
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Birgit Doll, Johannes Krisch,
Franziska Weisz, Hussi Kutlucan
Available worldwide
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Directed by Thomas Roth
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Ulrich Tukur, Susanne Lothar,
Robert Stadlober, Alexander Mitterer
Available worldwide
German TV Award 2004 for Best Actor to Ulrich Tukur
German TV Award 2004 for Best Editing to Dagmar Lichius
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Death from Africa
Tod aus Afrika
The People’s Money
Tödliche Habgier
Granite
Granit
Moritz Eisner’s new case deals with the assassination of a black asylum seeker from Africa
found struck dead near Frieda Jordan’s inn,
which had been converted into an asylum home.
Accompanied by an African interpreter, Eisner
takes up quarters in the asylum home in order to
investigate on the very site of the crime. Quite
unexpectedly, his daughter Claudia also appears
on the scene, intending to spend vacations with
him. Troubles and excitement ensue.
Two skin-divers find a decayed corpse, attached
to the ground of Achensee with a concrete block.
These developments get Inspector Moritz Eisner
going. First findings indicate that the man, who
had been killed at least 15 years ago, was once a
scientist from Germany. He had fled his country
taking with him a large sum of embezzled money
that had actually belonged to STASI, the dreaded
secret police. Eisners inquiries let resurface
dreadful ghosts of the past.
Chief inspector Moritz Eisner receives unexpected help in solving a difficult case from the popular television presenter Agnes. While researching
a story about two brothers involved in a fight
over their inheritance, she stumbles upon the
murder of a quarry owner. But it soon becomes
obvious that she is not giving away everything
she knows. Moreover, she harbours a dark secret
which puts her life at risk …
Duration: 89 min.
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Directed by Andreas Prochaska
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Sarah Tkotsch, Ruth Drexel,
Carmen Gratl, Andreas Patton
Available worldwide
Duration: 89 min.
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Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Laura Tonke, Branko Samarovski,
Wolfram Berger, Gottfried Breitfuss
Available worldwide
Duration: 89 min.
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Directed by Fabian Eder
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Muriel Baumeister, Sarah Tkotsch,
Alexander Mitterer, Simon Schwarz
A co-production by ORF and Satel
Available worldwide
tv-movies crime
The Tree of salvation
Der Baum der Erlösung
Faith, Love, Death
Glaube, Liebe, Tod
When a young Turkish woman is found hanged in
a wooded area, the police at first assume suicide
because four other young Turks have already
hanged themselves from the same tree. However,
the autopsy finds signs of violence and the girl’s
boyfriend has also disappeared. Investigations
begin in the overheated atmosphere of a political
conflict: The recent completion of a minaret sets
the population groups against each other.
A young woman is found dead in a townhouse
still under construction, apparently strangled by
someone she knew and invited into her half-furnished home. A traffic officer investigating a nearby hit-and-run accident discovers the victim
and immediately contacts his friend, detective
Moritz Eisner. Eisner’s investigations not only
confront him with a family tragedy but lead him
ever deeper into the network of a powerful global organization that hides its worldly claims to
power behind a religious façade.
Duration: 50 min.
Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Harald Sicheritz
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Alexander Mitterer, Tim Seyfi,
Pegah Ferydoni, Sinan Al Kuri, Martin Leutgeb, Michael
Steinocher
A co-production by ORF and Cult Film
Available worldwide
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Directed by Michi Riebl
Written by Lukas Sturm
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Johannes Silberschneider,
Christopher Schaerf, Victoria Trautmannsdorff, Franzsika
Hackl, Sarah Tkotsch, Hubert Kramar
Available worldwide
HD ES
Soon, Eisner realizes that he is the one under
scrutiny. The organization’s eyes and ears seem
to be everywhere, even in the public prosecutor’s
office. In the long run he discovers that the cult is
trying to recruit his daughter Claudia. Then a second murder in the same pattern casts the case
in a new and disturbing light. The victim is a psychologist who worked at deprogramming former
sect members and who had a very personal reason for her activities.
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Trautmann
Trautmann
As detective Trautmann is transferred into the
second district of Vienna he soon finds himself
confronted with the seedy Viennese underworld
cruised by pimps, odd-looking figures and morally ambiguous godfathers. Abandoned by his
wife after the death of their daughter from an
overdose Trautmann now has devoted himself to
hunting down criminals at all costs. With his particular Viennese sarcasm and wits sharp as a
tack his ultimate goal is to unmask the shiny
facades of the upper class and to solve every
crime he has to deal with. It maybe take some
time, but in the end Trautmann and his team will
succeed.
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Directed by Harald Sicheritz and Thomas Roth
Written by Ernst Hinterberger and Thomas Roth
Cast: Wolfgang Böck, Monica Weinzettl, Simon Schwarz,
Wolfram Berger, Jasmin Zehetner, Erwin Steinhauer, Heinz
Petters, Ernst Konarek, Karl Markovics
A co-production by MR-Film
Available worldwide
tv-movies drama
The Dare
Die Mutprobe
Family law judge Sabine has kept away from her
hometown and its dark memories since her
mother’s death – until her former love Leonard
asks her to return for their high school reunion.
The gathering is already in full swing when Sabine arrives and her friend Mia greets her with a
heartfelt welcome. The former schoolmates update each other on the latest news, exchange
memories, laugh, drink. Sabine quite unexpectedly finds herself enjoying the party, except for
one drop of bitterness: Leonard isn’t there. Suddenly, the mayor, Ferdinand, receives a phone
call. Leonard’s daughter has disappeared without a trace. Sabine, accompanied by Mia and
Ferdinand, drives to Leonard’s house where she
faces him for the first time after all these years:
Leonard and his wife, both wracked by immeasurable despair. Sabine feels helpless and wants to
return home, but Leonard persuades her to stay,
if not for him, then at least to offer moral support
for his wife. Sabine finally consents but has a terrible suspicion about Leonard’s daughter; and a
quick trip for a class reunion turns into an unexpectedly long stay in her old hometown, a journey into Sabine’s past where she has to confront
her worst nightmare.
Duration: 90 min.
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Written by Ivo Schneider, based on a novel by Lisa
Lercher
Cast: Elisabeth Lanz, Heio von Stetten, Peter Weck,
Cornelius Obonya, Simon Schwarz
A co-production by ORF and MDR, produced by Epo Film
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Home for Sale
Heimat zu verkaufen
No Mercy
Ausgeliefert
Max Höllerer, the owner of the Alpine hotel Edelweiss, finds himself in hot
water. An international tourism company has taken over the insolvent hotel
and plans to turn the idyllic family establishment into a modern health spa.
Everything appears to be going perfectly, the pre-contracts have been signed and staff member Sarah Sand has been asked by her boss to convince
Max to stay on as manager of the new hotel. He continually refuses and
tries everything possible to keep the family establishment in its original
condition, much to the displeasure of the local mayor, farmers and business people, who think the project will be a money spinner. As Max and
Sarah get to know each other better and Max learns that his best friend is
caught up in the whole business, the mood in the village begins to change
– one or more snags have obviously been overlooked. Sarah also begins to
have her concerns. The investors, meanwhile, have brought forward their
plans to have the property surveyed in order to seal the deal. Can Max and
Sarah turn the tables?
After three years of intensive therapy, prison psychotherapist Michael
Trenk is convinced that his patient Cornelia is ready for the outside world. In
spite of objections from his colleagues, he engineers her early release from
prison. But as Cornelia begins to stalk Michael and his family he soon realizes that he made a terrible mistake.
Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Karl Kases
Written by Susanne Zanke
Cast: Fritz Hammel, Henriette Richter Röhl, Ingrid Burkhard, Ulrike Beimpold, Udo Schenk
A co-production by ORF and MDR, produced by Epo Film
HD
Duration: 90 min.
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Written by Thomas Baum
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Maria Köstlinger, Ina Weisse, Sana Lu, Una Seiz, Michou Friesz
A co-production by ORF and SF DRS, produced by Allegro Film
Available worldwide except for Switzerland
FV
FS
tv-movies drama
Into the Future, Bravely
Mutig in die neuen Zeiten
Joined in Love
In Liebe vereint
Andreas Hofer –
The Liberty of the Eagle
Andreas Hofer –
Die Freiheit des Adlers
All their private and commercial aspirations, hopes and plans in mind, three families – working
class, estate holding aristocrats and Jewish factory owners – make a new start into the „modern
times“ of the fledgling Second Austrian Republic
in the early fifties. What does this second republic have in store? As people start to rearrange
their lives, a new generation is born.
Vreni and Sali were made for each other. However, a dispute between their fathers over a patch
of farm land has far-reaching consequences and
threatens their love.
In 1805 Napoleon emerges victorious from the
Battle of Austerlitz, defeating the Russian and
Austrian troops. Tyrol had to be handed over to
Napoleon. Andreas Hofer and Joachim Haspinger
travel to Vienna to Archduke Johann to ask him to
bring his influence to bear for Tyrol’s sake where
all privileges and long-standing rights its people
enjoy have been snatched away. The Archduke
promises to lend his support.
Full of courage and hope and driven by Haspinger, a fundamentalist Capuchin priest who favours using any means necessary to combat the
enemy, the peace loving freedom fighter Andreas Hofer finds himself swept up in a daring adventure: a war against Napoleon.
Part 1: The Vinelouse Empire 103 min.
Part 2: Keep Your Cool 98 min.
Part 3: Nothing Remains the Same 99 min.
Duration: 89 min.
Duration: see above
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Written and directed by Harald Sicheritz
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Helmut Berger, Roland Düringer,
Nina Proll, Maria Köstlinger, Johannes Silberschneider, Fritz
Karl, Michou Friesz, Julie Engelbrecht, Julia Stemberger
A co-production by ORF and ARTE, produced by MR Film
HD FV
1x
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Written by Gabriele Kister and Holger Barthel, based on t
he novel “A Village Romeo and Juliet” by Gottfried Keller
Cast: Franziska Weisz, Achim Schelhas, Armin Rohde,
Isabel Karajan, Wolfram Berger
A co-production by ORF and MDR, produced by Cult Film
Undine Award 2004 for Best Actress To Franziska Weisz
ES
Duration: 112 min.
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Cast: Tobias Moretti, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Martina Gedeck,
Julia Stemberger, Günther M. Halmer
A co-production by ORF, Satel, Almaro and BR
in association with RAI Bozen
Available worldwide except for Italian and French speaking
Territories, Spain, Andorra, Germany and Switzerland
ES
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The First Day
Der Erste Tag
A warm summer night. At 4am a monitoring station registers an absurdly high level of radioactivity – probably an error. But before long, the report
of an accident comes from an atomic power station close to the border: minor amounts of radioactivity have leaked out. However, the indications that it concerns an accident of previously
unseen proportions soon intensify: high contamination of vehicles coming from the neighbouring country is reported and contamination monitoring stations reveal increased levels after a
storm – radioactive fallout! The population is
alerted to stay indoors. People have to face their
worst fears, crops and livestock are forever lost.
But then at 4.20pm the situation gets even worse: the reactor is out of control! At least 40,000
people have to be evacuated and a race against
time and the approaching storm front begins.
Duration: 90 min.
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Written by Susanne Freund
Cast: Andreas Kiendl, Franziska Weisz, Marlene del Bello,
Ferry Öllinger, Beatrix Brunschko, Martina Zinner, Johannes
Zeiler, Karl Fischer, Florian Teichtmeister, Hary Prinz,
Jaschka Lämmert
A co-production by ORF and ARTE, produced by MR-Film
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Welcome in Vienna
Wohin und zurück
A touching and thrilling adventure based on true events, this three-part-tv-series chronicles the escapes of several Jewish refugees from Nazi-turned Austria and their perilous journeys across the globe to America. As they struggle to come to terms with their new situations some challenge their luck abroad,
while others find their destiny by returning to a very different Austria they left behind years ago.
God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore
109 min.
Santa Fé
118 min.
Welcome in Vienna
121 min.
As Ferry’s father is murdered by ruthless members of the German “Schutzstaffel” during the
Night of the Broken Glass on November 9, 1938,
the 16-year-old boy decides to leave Austria for
good. By crossing the border to Czechoslovakia
illegally he manages to reach Prague. On his way
he befriends other immigrants whom he will run
across again now and then. But he must flee
from Prague again …
After a very unreliable shelter in France Ferry finally succeeds in escaping to America. Arriving
in New York he together with other immigrants,
bound by their common fate, struggle to begin a
new life, find lodgings and work. Ferry manages
to get a job at a delicatessen shop run by a former Viennese man of letters whose oldest
daughter falls in love with him. But the adventure isn’t over yet. Ferry enlists in the U.S. Army …
With the U.S. Army Ferry and his friends cross all
of Europe only to come back to Vienna again as
American soldiers after seven years. They expect
to be received enthusiastically and as liberators.
But they are to be disappointed. The new law
and order lead to strange ways in the behaviour
of the people who are still deeply infested with
Nazism often seeing themselves as innocent
victims. A bittersweet homecoming for Ferry as
he realizes that the Vienna of 1945 is not the
Vienna he left.
Duration: see above
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Directed by Axel Corti
Written by Georg Stefan Troller and Axel Corti
Cast: Gabriel Barylli, Nicolas Brieger, Armin Müller-Stahl,
Johannes Silberschneider, Fritz Muliar, Monica Bleibtreu,
Claudia Messner, Hubert Mann, Liliana Nelska, Kurt
Sowinetz, Karlheinz Hackl
A co-production by ORF, ZDF and SRG, Part 1 produced by
Teamfilm, Parts 2+3 produced by Thalia Film
Available worldwide except for Germany and Switzerland
Awards (selection): Tokyo World Festival 1986: Special
Prize of the Jury; Banff Television Festival Canada 1986: Best
Production; Chicago Film Festival 1986: Best Direction; San
Sebastian Film Festival1986: Best Direction; Locarno Film
Festival 1987: Bronze Leopard
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Brothers
Die Brüder
Brothers II
Die Brüder II
On the Road to Santiago –
Brothers III
Auf dem Jakobsweg –
Die Brüder III
Adrian, Ernst and Ludwig are brothers – and as
different as night and day. Adrian, is a nurse, living together with his male lover. Ernst is a highly decorated chef, struggling to save his marriage.
And Ludwig has gone off the rails serving yet
another prison sentence. As their mother dies
they discover that they each have a different father. Together they set out on a quarrelsome
journey across Europe to find them.
Four years have passed since Ernst, Ludwig and
Adrian ended their futile search for their fathers
with the conclusion: “We’re all brothers anyway”.
In the meantime, Ernst separated from Iris and
has become a famous TV chef. Ludwig runs a
successful up-market pub in which Adrian is helping out. As Ludwig and Iris fall in love and Adrian begins to write a novel about the search for
their father emotional turmoil ensues.
Adrian is getting into a veritable existential crisis.
He decides to set out for Santiago de Compostela on foot to come to terms with himself and sort
things out. Against Adrian’s will, not least for
fears about his brother, Ludwig joins the pilgrimage. Ernst, who first wouldn’t even dream of
joining, feels impelled to leave Vienna for some
time in the wake of a scandal he has caused. Far
from being a pious undertaking at first, the voyage repeatedly breaks up old conflicts between
the brothers, who cannot let go of each other in
spite of everything that has happened.
Duration: 93 min.
Duration: 89 min.
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Cast: Andreas Vitasek, Erwin Steinhauer, Wolfgang Böck,
Michou Friesz, Wolfgang Michael
A co-production by ORF and Dor Film
Available worldwide
Duration: 89 min.
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Cast: Andreas Vitasek, Erwin Steinhauer, Wolfgang Böck,
Gerda Rogers, Chajim Koenigshofen
A co-production by ORF and Dor Film
Available worldwide
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Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Wolfgang Böck, Andreas Vitasek,
Susa Meyer, Dolf de Vries
Baden-Baden TV-Days 2006: Special award for best
actors to Erwin Steinhauer, Wolfgang Böck, Andreas Vitasek
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tv-movies drama
The Healer I + II
Die Heilerin I +II
My Beautiful Daughter
Meine schöne Tochter
Halfried still practices alternative medicine. Her work is widely appreciated.
In case a patient does not want to admit in public that a “miracle healer“
has treated him or her, Halfried’s husband Rudi, a retired community
doctor, makes sure that everything “remains in order“.
The 17-year old Gilda has the mind of a child in a mature and very feminine
body. She suffers from “frozen development”, a condition due to a trauma
following the death of her mother in an accident which Gilda has caused.
Since then her father has strictly isolated the girl from the outside world.
But things turn complicated, when Gilda falls in Love.
Halfried’s daughter Marion, a doctor like her father, tries to strike roots
again in her homeland. She still suffers after the breakup from her husband
Thomas, but now finds some relief in the arms of Christopher, a doctor from
the area. Marion is insecure about a possible future for their affair. Only
Laura knows for sure: Christoph is the wrong man for her mother! Laura
does not hide her opinion on that matter, thereby causing the relationship
to her mother to suffer. Laura has always had a rather weird personality,
but lately she has been increasingly slipping into her own world, far away
from the people around her. When Marion suddenly becomes seriously ill,
grandmother, mother and granddaughter are being put to the test.
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Cast: Ruth Drexel, Branko Samarovsky, Geno Lechner, Markus Boysen, Lea Kurka
A co-production by ORF and BR, produced by Satel Film
Duration: 95 min.
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Cast: Erwin Steinhauer, Philippa Galli, Lotte Tobisch, Julia Stemberger, Marianne Mendt
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The Black Lion
Der schwarze Löwe
See also:
“Africa 11”
Page 186
The down and out football club of a small village
rockets into the big leagues thanks to the help of
a group of talented African refugees. After overcoming athletic differences and human prejudices, the Nigerian footballers become pillars of
the village team. When notices of deportation
suddenly arrive, the coach, team and villagers
unite to fight for the rights of their three “Black
Lions”.
Duration: 90 min.
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Written by Rupert Henning and Uli Brée
Cast: Wolfgang Böck, Isabel Karajan, Michael Steinocher,
Lukas Dietrich, Lukas Resetarits, Hosh Kane, Sule Rimi,
Robert Bertrand
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The Prince of Her Dreams
Der Märchenprinz
Dinner for Two
Dinner for Two
Felice – Heiress With a Heart
Erbin mit Herz
Theo Bretterer has everything that a man could
wish for: money, success, standing and a family.
There’s only one thing that the 50 year old lacks
– youth. In no time Theo begins to makes some
changes in his life, buying a Harley Davidson and
beginning an affair with a young bartender. He
realizes too late that his actions have cost him
the most important thing in his life – family.
When your children grow up and begin to embark
upon their adult lives, when your husband suddenly hits his midlife crisis head-on and your
bank account is in a state of emergency, it’s “Dinner for Two” to the rescue. For Steffi and Sophie,
two housewives, starting their own exclusive catering business is a life-long dream come true.
But to enjoy their new job they first have to settle
their very own problems.
Felice Frank, a bookseller from Vienna, engages
in a brief affair with Alexander Helsing. When Alexander suddenly disappears, Felice is left alone
pregnant with her daughter Lilli, whom she raises on her own. To her utmost surprise ten years
later, she hears that Alexander has died in a car
accident. The story takes a surprising turn when
Helsing’s last will is read …
Duration: 89 min.
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Cast: Andreas Vitasek, Susanne Lothar, Sigrid Spörk,
Ludwig Hirsch, Nadja Tiller, Walter Giller, Christine
Ostermeyer
A co-production by ORF and BR, produced by MR Film
HD ES
Duration: 89 min.
Duration: 89 min.
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Cast: Marianne Mendt, Erwin Steinhauer, Gisela
Schneeberger, Karl Markovics, Jeanette Hain
A co-production by ORF and BR, produced by Thalia-Film
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Cast: Nina Proll, Pierre Besson, Gaby Dohm, Simon Licht,
Katja Weitzenböck
A co-production by ORF and ARD/ Degeto, produced by
Dor Film
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A Heaven for Pets
Ein Paradies für Tiere
A Heaven for Horses
Ein Paradies für Pferde
Thomas Donnhofer is about to realize his dream of his own wellness spa.
However, at second glance, he seems less lucky: His marriage has fallen to
pieces, and his 14-year-old daughter is more willful than ever on the summer vacation they spend together. But suddenly their lives change completely within a few days. Thomas meets Bettina, a veterinarian, and his
daughter breaks into the building of a pharmaceutical testing institution in
order to free the stricken animals. The stylish hotel becomes a pet asylum
and Donnerhofer is transformed into an advocate for animals’ right to live
the way intended by nature.
Thomas Donnhofer’s heaven for pets has turned into a therapeutic center
for horses. Veterinarian Bettina Kern, who Thomas is madly in love with,
energetically supports him with the project of his dreams. Life gets even
better when Bettina finds out about her pregnancy. But fate takes a brutal
turn when she suffers a miscarriage and subsequently falls into a deep psychological crisis. She starts doubting the sincerity of Thomas’ affection towards her and leaves the farm in a heated argument. To make matters even
worse, Donnhofer’s future is endangered when a large hotel chain shows
interest in buying the farm – under any circumstance.
Duration: 89 min.
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Directed by Peter Weissflog
Written by Peter Mazzuchelli
Cast: Francis Fulton-Smith, Susanne Michel, Herbert Fux, Kimberly Rydel, Daniel Lausner
A co-production by ORF and MDR, produced by Degn Film
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Duration: 88 min.
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Directed by Peter Weissflog
Cast: Francis Fulton-Smith, Susanne Michel, Stefan Fleming, Herbert Fux, Irina Wanka
A co-production by ORF and MDR, produced by Degn Film
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Oh Baby, a Baby
Ach Baby, ein Baby
Erika & Otto
Liebe für Fortgeschrittene – Erika & Otto
This merry romance is about a lesbian couple, whose relations-hip is currently showing the signs of fatigue. So they decide that a baby could liven
things up again. Complications ensue when the “semen donator” they have
their eye on turns out to be an attractive young man who stirs up all sorts of
trouble in the relationship.
The clockmaker Erika Backström runs the family business with an iron fist.
She can’t imagine ever stepping aside to let her children take the reins. And
then her life jumps the track when she meets the gardener Otto during a
short vacation. Erika’s brash behavior reanimates the widowed Otto, who
had given up on women after the death of his wife. Erika on the other hand
is captivated by Otto’s clarity and straightforwardness. It is a mutual attraction that gives both a second lease on love …
He is Antonio Lopez, a good looking half-Spaniard, a picture of a man. Iris
talks him into agreeing to the artificial insemination. What Iris does not
know, however, is that Antonio is an architect and also Sandra’s new colleague at work. He has long since fallen in love with Iris’s attractive partner
and is courting her intensively. It ends the only way it can: Sandra has herself inseminated artificially, the flirt with Antonio results in unexpected passion and a hard test for the relationship between the two women.
Duration: 90 min.
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Written by Sabine Reichel, adapted by Uli Brée and Rupert Henning
Cast: Nicole Ansari, Eva Herzig, Ralf Bauer, Dieter Moor
A co-production by ORF and RTL, produced by Dor Film
Available worldwide except for Germany, Luxemburg, German speaking Switzerland and
Liechtenstein
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Duration: 84 min.
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Written by Konstanze Breitebner
Cast: Heidelinde Weis, Günther Maria Halmer, Katharina Stemberger, Florian Teichtmeister,
Tino Sekay
A co-production by ORF and MDR, produced by epo-film
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Molly & Mops – 100 Kilos of Love
Molly & Mops – 100 Kilo Liebe
Molly & Mops –
Life is not a Piece of Cake
Molly & Mops –
Das Leben ist kein Gugelhupf
Molly & Mops – Café Mops
Molly & Mops – Café Mops
Molly is somewhat rounder than the fashionistas,
nutrition junkies and self-appointed judges of all
that is beautiful, good and right will ever accept.
Nevertheless, she has three main points in her
favour – she knows who she wants to be, she
knows what she wants to be and she has the
energy to succeed. And on top of this, don’t forget, she has Mops the dog, who speaks to her.
When Molly faces a number of travails – such as
being left by her boyfriend for another woman,
moving from her small home town to the big city,
and winding up stranded and alone in Salzburg
after getting conned out of her money – her skill
as a pastry chef, her willpower and, of course,
Mops ultimately help save the day.
Molly’s café in Salzburg went bankrupt. Then she
reads about a high-calibre confectioner’s competition to be held in Vienna. If she could win, all of
Molly’s financial problems would be solved!But
from the first day everything in Vienna goes
wrong. First Molly’s competition entry is ruined.
However she succeeds, without ingredients or a
kitchen – and not least thanks to Mops – in producing a new creation overnight in a laundrette.
Despite the stiff competition, Molly gets through
the first round and finally reaches the final with
two other contestants. A game of intrigue behind
the scenes of the show and Lukas, her attractive
fellow competitor, threaten to upset Molly’s
emotional balance still further … Molly’s grandmother, Klara, and friend, Azra, battle through
the exciting events with her.
Molly has opened a small café with a personal
touch in Vienna, which, thanks to her imaginative
creations, has soon gained an excellent reputation. Once again Mops the dog is her helpful assistant. Molly receives a visit from Valerie, the dietmad manageress of the “Neon & Blau” café
opposite, which attracts far fewer customers
than “Café Mops”. Valerie is under huge pressure
from her boss, Mrs. Rot, to do something to stop
their flourishing competitor. A variety of different
struggles develop between the “Neon & Blue”
and “Café Mops”: mice hightail it through Molly’s
kitchen, and a fire threatens the eatery. On top of
this, Molly actually experiences her first great
love, which leads to a surprising and unexpected
end. Azra thinks that she is pregnant, whilst
Mops actually is, and gives birth to three pups.
Duration: 87 min.
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Directed by Titus Selge (final version by mungo-film)
Written by Peter Hajek and Susanne Freund
Cast: Monika Reithofer, Monika Baumgartner, Atischeh H.
Braun, Matthias Schloo, Sissi Perlinger, Ferry Öllinger,
Sonja Kirchberger
A co-production by ORF and ZDF, produced by mungo-film
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Duration: 87 min.
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Directed by Michael Karen
Written by Anna Morgenrot and Peter Hajek
Cast: Monika Reithofer, Monika Baumgartner, Atischeh H.
Braun, Heinz Marecek, Herbert Knaup, Adele Neuhauser
A co-production by mungo-film, ORF and ZDF, in association
with Television Fund Austria and Vienna Film Fund
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Duration: 87 min.
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Directed by Michael Karen
Written by Kathrin Pilz and Peter Hajek
Cast: Monika Reithofer, Monika Baumgartner, Atischeh
H. Braun, Andrea Eckert, Laurence Rupp, Susanne Wuest
A co-production by mungo-film, ORF and ZDF, in association
with Television Fund Austria and Vienna Film Fund
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Love Is a Dream
Die Liebe ein Traum
Anna and Max are a dream couple on lay-away. It
was love at first sight when they first met as students, but the relationship was doomed by incompatible expectations. Anna wants to be free,
while Max is looking for his one true love. Anna
loves chaos, but Max needs order. While their
best friends Tillmann and Clarissa fall in love, get
married, have kids and get divorced, Max and
Anna, who never stopped loving each other,
cross paths every couple of years. But the timing
is never quite right. And then Max gets an invitation to Anna’s wedding with Charles in Venice.
An invitation he decides to accept. Anna, however, has no idea that Max is planning to come …
Duration: 88 min.
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Written by Stefan Rogall
Cast: Stefanie Dvorak, Florian Fitz, Aglaia Szyszkowitz,
Johann von Bülow, Maresa Hörbiger
A co-production by ORF and Degeto,
produced by Sanset Austria Film
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Polly
Polly Adler
Polly Adler is working as a gossip columnist for
“Confact”-magazine. Professional matters are definitely not the only turbulent area of her days,
her private life also would most certainly provide
for spicy articles: Polly’s husband Max falls in
love with another woman, while Max’ divorce
lawyer in turn loses his heart to Polly. Daughter
Resi also discovers a passion: her new hair color.
Sheer lunacy – Polly’s everyday life. Besides all
that, a seemingly everyday story that starts out
as a simple press conference turns into a scandal
of national proportions.
But Polly wouldn’t be Polly if she wasn’t to thrive
while facing these challenges: Point One – The
nation is saved. Point Two – Hair does grow
again. Point Three – Men, oh well …
Duration: 97 min.
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Directed by Ily Huemer
Written by Angelika Hager
Cast: Petra Morzé, Roland Koch, Wolfgang Böck, Florentine
Lahme, Coco Huemer
A co-production by ORF, Cult Film and Teamworx
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The Christmas Dog
Der Weihnachtshund
2 Christmas Dogs
2 Weihnachtshunde
Max hates the Advent season, Christmas in Vienna in particular, and generally speaking, the season horrifies him. He would fly to the South Seas, if
it weren’t for a minor problem called Kurt, Max’ dog, who of course has to
stay behind. Therefore Max looks for somebody willing to look after his dog.
Katrin sniffs a chance here: She hates Christmas too, the Christmas party at
her parents’ in particular, including the advances made by her fiancé Aurelius – who is absolutely perfect, or so it seems. Year after year, she looks
out for loopholes to stay away from the Christmas disaster, but alas! As
Katrin’s father is extremely allergic to dogs, a dog would be a great opportunity. Things no doubt take a different turn than originally planned.
When their best friends get married, Max and Katrin wonder whether they
themselves would be ready for such a step. At first, the prospects are bleak:
Max not only fails to live up to Katrin’s parents’ standards but is also constantly on the go to save money for his own restaurant – a surprise he has in
store for Katrin on Christmas Eve. Offering nothing but paper-thin excuses,
Max brings home, as a new partner to his dog Kurt, the sweet little dog
Trixie, who Kurt completely falls for. But then Katrin finds out that Max
meets Trixie’s attractive owner on secret dates. When Katrin is offered a
new job in London, she is about to put her career before her relationship.
For a happy ending to occur under the Christmas tree, help from a second
Christmas dog is badly needed.
Duration: 88 min.
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Directed by Michael Keusch
Written by Eduard Habsburg, based on the novel by Daniel Glattauer
Cast: Florian Fitz, Nadeshda Brennicke, Gunther Gillian, Katharina Stemberger, Nicole Beutler
A co-production by ORF, ZDF and Cult Film
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Duration: 90 min.
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Directed by Lenard Fritz Krawinkel
Written by Eduard Habsburg and Lenard Fritz Krawinkel
Cast: Nadeshda Brennicke, Florian Fitz, Ursula Strauss, Gunther Gillian, Adele Neuhauser
A co-production by ORF, ZDF and Cult Film
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tv-movies classics
Wien Film
Wien Film
The following films are all times classics produced in Austria between 1947 and 1981 featuring even
Hollywood stars. ORF has granted Sascha Film worldwide distribution rights except for Austria.
Abenteuer im Schloss 1952
Girardi 1954
Atemnot 1984
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti 1955
Auf der grünen Wiese 1953
Herz einer Frau, Das 1951
Ausgesperrten, Die = Locked Out (Novel &
Script by Elfriede Jelinek) 1987
Johann Strauss –
A Dream Comes True 1987
Bel Ami 1955
Kind der Donau, Das 1951
Bockerer, Der 1981
Little Night Music, A
(Das Lächeln einer Sommernacht) 1976
Don Juan 1955
Duett zu Dritt 1976
Fidelio 1955
Franz Schubert – Ein Leben in zwei Sätzen 1952
Frühling auf dem Eis 1952
Gasparone 1955
Geheimnis der eisernen Maske, Das (The Fifth
Musketier) 1978
Nacht in Venedig, Eine 1953
Rätsel der Grünen Spinne,
Das 1960
Regimentstochter, Die 1953
Schicksal am Lenkrad 1954
Schlagerparade 1961 1960
Seesterne 1952
Singende Haus, Das 1947
Vanetti – Tod Im November 1978
In case of interest contact:
Sascha Film
Dr. Maria Teuchmann: maria.teuchmann@sesslerverlag.at
Phone: +43 (1) 512 66 56
Fax: +43 (1) 513 39 07
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Breaking Ice
Das Eis bricht
Brotherly Love
Bruderliebe
The Cat
Die Katze
A cold winter afternoon at a frozen lake. Two kids
break into the ice and for almost half an hour lie
at the bottom of the lake. As if by a miracle, they
are rescued and reanimated. Their state of health
even can be stabilized in the intensive care unit.
However, the doctors only have little hope that
they will ever awake from the coma. The relationship of Alexandra and Stefan – the children’s parents – seems not to withstand the strong emotional conflict that evolved after the accident.
Alexandra starts a very lonely fight for the life of
Jo and Sophie. Through the incredibly strong
mental connection to her kids, she manages to
emerge into their world – a world of water and
light. As the struggle between life and death
grows Alexandra realizes that she can’t win this
fight on her own.
A lonesome farm, high up in the Austrian mountains. Kaspar, the 19 year old son of the family,
kills his younger brother Michael in a fight and
doesn’t dare to tell his parents about it. When
Kaspar returns to the site of crime, the brother’s
body has disappeared. Next morning Michael comes back to the farm – bloody, but uninjured. He
assents that Virgin Mary has appeared to him
and has let him revive from the death. Kaspar
does not believe him and Michael starts to blackmail Kaspar. The nightmare for Kaspar begins …
On his daily way home Ronny suddenly runs into
a stray cat. He decides that it would be the ideal
gift for his wife’s birthday. Usually depressive
because of her unfulfilled wish for a child, she
soon turns into a fanatic cat-mother. The demoniac influence on the family life and increasing
weird signs and incidents turn Ronny more and
more into madness.
Duration: 45 min.
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Directed by Falk Schweikhardt
Written by Johannes Herberstein and Falk Schweikhardt,
adapted by Susanne Freund
Cast: Andreas Patton, Tatjana Alexander, Alexander Schauer,
Melanie Reibnegger, Susi Stach
Produced by Frames Filmproduktion
Available worldwide
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Duration: 45 min.
Duration: 45 min.
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Written and directed by Oliver Kartak
Cast: Peter Strauss, Beatrix Brunschko, Elisabeth
Friesenbichler, Björn Zimmermann, Johannes Windisch
Produced by Filmhaus Films
Available worldwide
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Directed by Lukas Sturm
Written by Franzobel and Lukas Sturm
Cast: Helmut Bohatsch, Martina Zinner, C-S. Jelinek, Alois
Frank, Christoph Grissemann
Produced by mungo-film
Available worldwide
New York International Independent Film and Video
Festival 2006: International Film Award for best
Cinematography in a short film to TV-Movie “the cat”
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The Gate to Hell
Das Tor zur Hölle
Heaven
Heaven
Mother’s Heart
Die Testamentmaschine
When detective Susanne Czerny is put in charge
to solve the murder of the Director of the Viennese Department of Internal Affairs she tries to
both solve the case and hide the fact that she
had a passionate affair with the victim. But the
affair is not her only secret. The mother of two
with a jobless husband has a drug habit and cuts
some deals to finance it. It shocks her when she
finds out that her dead lover kept a file on her.
The file lists all crimes she has committed. And
crimes she will commit. The file is a dark prophecy, a message from the dead which turns Czerny’s
investigation into a nightmare without escape …
Hermann’s not particularly happy. Even his ultimate fantasies are bleak, like his career and, of
course, his marriage. Evenings, in his private
little shooting gallery, he shoots at photos of
his boss, his wife and her assumed and virtual
lovers. With his last money put aside, a little
fortune, he orders a view on his personal future
at YourFuture.com. He receives a video showing him shooting up his wife. A self-fulfilling
prophecy he tries, and in a certain way, manages to pass …
Both the death of their mother and the lack of a
written last will cause almost insurmountable
problems for the three descendants. Old conflicts between the two brothers and their sister
are revived. The inventive medical doctor of the
small village is capable of resuscitating the mother for one short period of interrogation. However, the “resurrection” lasts longer than requested by those involved …
Duration: 45 min.
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Written and directed by Max Gruber
Cast: Marion Mitterhammer, Alexander Strobele, Wolfgang
Lorenz, Karl Fischer
Produced by Lotus Film
Available worldwide
Golden Chest Festival Plovdiv/Bulgaria 2006: Director’s
award for best director to Max Gruber
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Also available in 82 min. special-length
HD-version
Duration: 45 / 82 min.
Duration: 45 min.
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Written and directed by David Schalko
Produced by Neue Sentimental Film
Available worldwide
Thomas Pluch Award 2006 for best script to David
Schalko
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Directed by Barbara Gräftner
Written by Martin Betz
Cast: Andrea Nürnberger, Serge Falck, Julia Höfler, Raimund
Wallisch, Klaus Rott
Produced by Bonus Film
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shorts mystery
Red Snow
Raunacht
Till You Die
Bis in den Tod
Having received an ominous phone call from his
niece, Martin and his girlfriend visit his home village in the mountains for the first time in many
years, on St. Nicholas’ Day of all days – the 6th of
December – the day his grandfather died. He desperately wants to leave the village as quickly as
possible, but the ghosts of his childhood are there, waiting for him in the depths of the snowy
countryside: the legendary “Group of Seven”,
the masked demons in the gruesome stories the
locals tell. Martin heads off to confront them
again, with fatal consequences.
The young glaciologist Leonie is working on a research project in the Austrian Alps. When she
rents a room in an abandoned hotel, she meets
two weird guys, Jakob and Vincent, engineers supervising a gigantic dam in the mountains
throughout the winter. The trip turns out to be a
nightmare, when Leonie’s obtrusive ex-lover, having paid her an unexpected visit, dies in a car
accident. Cut off from the outside world in the
snowy mountains, Leonie, Jakob and Vincent are
confronted with frightening incidents and find
themselves fighting for survival.
Duration: 45 min.
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Directed by Stephanus Domanig
Written by Daniela Ellmauer
Cast: Rafael Schuchter, Brigitte Hobmeier, Ronja Forcher,
Harald Windisch, Julia Gschnitzer
Produced by Satel
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Duration: 45 min.
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Directed by Bernhard Semmelrock
Written by Ute Liepold and Bernd Liepold-Mosser
Cast: Viviane Bartsch, Andreas Lust, Lars Rudolph, Arno
Frisch, Gregor Seberg
Produced by Klaus Graf Filmproduktion
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Fast Forward
Schnell ermittelt
Angelica Fast is in her mid-thirties, a divorced
single mother – and a successful Investigator at
Vienna’s criminal investigation department. The
good-looking young woman handles the balancing act between her job and parental duties
with humour. Even if her teenage twins keep her
on her toes, she goes all out for the pursuit of
criminals. That professional and private life isn’t
always separable, is not least due to her ex-husband, the chief of forensics: Some teasing is part
of the daily routine, and it may well happen, that
childrearing is discussed on the crime scene.
Sentimentality has no room in all this – Angelica
Fast knows what she wants and always keeps
the facts in sight.
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Directed by Michi Riebl and Andreas Kopriva
Written by Eva Spreitzhofer, Verena Kurth, Rainer
Hackstock, Gutmar Lasnig, Katharina Hajos, FritzLudl
Cast: Ursula Strauss, Andreas Lust, Wolf Bachofner,
Katharina Strasser, Max Mayer, Sabrina Reiter
Produced by MR Film for ORF
Available worldwide
Oscar 2009 nomination for “Revanche” with leading
actress Ursula Strauss and leading actor Andreas Lust
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K-Files
Soko Kitzbühel
“K-Files”/“Kitzbühel Homicide” features a dynamic young team of investigators, a gourmet chef
full of bright ideas, a countess well acquainted
with jet set life and a large portion of humour:
the result is a witty and exciting detective series
of a very special kind!
The series is built around a young team of CID
officers, Karin Kofler and Andreas Blitz, who constantly encounter extremely baffling murder cases. As Andreas Blitz gets promoted and is sent
to Vienna, his successor Klaus Lechner starts his
work in Kitzbühel.
Episodes:
1-33 distributed by ZDF Enterprises/34-125 distributed by ORF
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Directed by Andreas Prochaska, Carl Lang, Mike Zens,
Georg Schiemann, Gerald Liegel, Marcus O. Rosenmüller,
Regina Huber
Written by Martin Ambrosch, Wolfgang Schmid, Alfred Paul
Schmidt, Ralph Werner, Hannes Wirlinger, Eva Rossmann,
Gabriele Sindler, Bernhard Schärfl, Hermann Schmid, Karl
Benedikter, Thomas Teubner
Cast: Kristina Sprenger, Hans Sigl, Andreas Kiendl, Heinz
Marecek, Andrea L’Arronge, Ferry Öllinger, Christine Klein
A co-production by ORF and ZDF Enterprises in association
with ZDF, produced by beo-Film
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Four Women and a Funeral
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
Julie, Maria, Sabine and Henriette – four remarkable women sharing an exceptional pastime –
join forces in order to bring some excitement to
the boring village life by suspecting murder in all
those cases which initially seem to point to the
opposite. Never failing to be present at any village funeral, they investigate the deaths by unnatural cause in a highly unconventional way. In
the second season of the series, Henriette helps
out Julie with a friendly turn, indispensable to
Julie’s life and as a consequence has to go to jail
for quite some time. Mona, a young community
doctor with investigative skills and medical expertise, joins the team. Due to her work abroad
her sister Lola quickly takes her place in the third
season and it doesn’t take long until the next
case gets them going.
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Directed by Harald Sicheritz, Wolfgang Murnberger, Andre
as Prochaska, Claudia Jüptner-Jonstorff and Walter Bannert
Written by Uli Brée and Rupert Henning, based on an idea
by Wolf Haas and Annemarie Mitterhofer
Cast: Adele Neuhauser, Gaby Dohm, Brigitte Kren,
Stephanie Japp, Martina Poel, Julia Stinshoff
Produced by Dor Film for ORF
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White Beauty
Das Glück dieser Erde
Katharina Lenz has got a quick tongue. It looks
like she’s got everything under control. She
looks great, she’s a successful business consultant, and in two days she will marry a dreamboat.
What more could you want? Isn’t it awesome?
Right. But then fate strikes, and Katharina’s got
to act when there’s a fatal accident in her family.
She calls off her wedding, not at the last minute,
but at the last second. She ends up caught between two men — and between all fronts. Almost
overnight, Katharina Lenz becomes the new stud
manager at Piber, the mistress of hundreds of
Lipizzans. For the very first time in all the centuries of the glorious history of the stud, the million-dollar enterprise with dozens of employees is
in the hands of a woman. But Katharina couldn’t
care less — she’s busy around the clock. She really doesn’t have everything under control anymore. But, hey, you can’t plan happiness.
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Directed by Walter Bannert (1-5) and Holger Barthel (6 – 9)
Written by Martin Ambrosch and Agnes Pluch
Produced by Satel Film for ORF in association with ARD,
with assistance of Cinestyria
Cast: Eva Herzig, Thomas Unger, Christoph von Friedl,
Jürgen Maurer, Julia Cencig, Franz Buchrieser
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The Wine Tycoon
Der Winzerkönig
Fed up with having to act against his principles,
top-manager Thomas Stickler quits his job all of
a sudden one day, abandons his cheating wife
and his career life in Frankfurt and returns with
his daughter Anna to his beautiful home town of
Rust at the shores of Lake Neusiedl. Arriving at
his parents’ inn, their joy about their son’s return
is but short: His father dies from a heart attack.
Unexpectedly Thomas inherits the family’s vineyards, which foils the plans of his sister Andrea and her husband Georg who wanted to expand their wine-growing business. Moreover,
Thomas projects to strike new paths in winemaking turn them into powerful and grim opponents. Now he has not only to face serious economic problems and furious competition from
his brother in law, but also very private ones as
he develops feelings for cellarmaster Claudia,
Georg’s ex-wife.
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Directed by Holger Barthel and Claudia Jüptner-Jonstorff
Written by Peter Mazzuchelli and
Thomas Baum
Cast: Harald Krassnitzer, Carin Tietze, Bettina Hammelstein,
Christine Ostermayer, Katharina Stemberger
A co-production by ORF and ARD, produced by Dor Film
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Julia – An Exceptional Woman
Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau
“Julia” is the story of Julia Laubach who, after fate
deals her several hard blows, makes a new start
as a district judge in a small Lower Austrian town,
where she is confronted with legal conflicts that
sometimes touch her personal life. She tries to
practice law and justice with a human face.
It is an entertainment series that intentionally
takes up subjects involving conflicts. It deals
with realistic characters, people who have problems to solve, and with law and justice.
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Directed by Holger Barthel, Walter Bannert et al.
Cast: Christiane Hörbiger, Peter Bongartz, Philipp
Fleischmann, Paula Polak, Konstanze Breitebner
A co-production by ORF and ARD/Degeto,
produced by Dor Film
German TV-Award 2003 for Best Actress to Christiane
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Orth Castle Hotel
Schlosshotel Orth
Situated on a picturesque little island on the
banks of an Austrian lake, “Orth Castle Hotel”
guarantees its hotel guests enjoyable and carefree vacation pleasure. The family undertaking is
headed by Wenzel Hofer who had to take over
the business after the death of his father-in-law.
His wife, Christine, is a doctor and has her own
practice. To Wenzel’s deep regret, none of their
four children have inherited any love for the hotel. He is assisted by receptionist Haller and
doorman Schimek. Together they must face the
challenges of this profession as well as their very
own personal problems. This is not always easy,
for every day is full of surprises: From meeting up
curious expectations of hotel-guests to dealing
with accidents and seemingly unsolvable business-problems.
Duration: 142 x 46, 2 x 90 min.,
Making of 25 min.
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Directed by Jürgen Kaizik, Ines Anna Krämer et al.
Written by Walter Kärger, Kerstin Luise Neumann, Agnes
Pluch, Amaryllis Sommerer et al.
Cast: Albert Fortell, Jenny Jürgens, Heinz Trixner, Irina
Wanka, Marianne Nentwich
A co-production by ORF and ZDF, produced by Satel
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Love, Lies & Passion
Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften
On the eve of festivities commemorating the
50th anniversary of his lingerie company called
“Aphrodite”, Franz Steininger learns of his incurable disease. A bitter struggle for dominance of
the family business ensues between Alpha, Franz
Steininger’s daughter-in-law, and her brother-inlaw Albert. When Alpha is faced with competition
from a promising young designer who – to make
things worse – turns out to be Franz Steininger’s
illegitimate daughter, she in turn receives an interesting offer from a competitor, Robert Fox,
who intends to take over “Aphrodite”. But meanwhile amidst unfolding intrigues love strikes repeatedly and unforeseen.
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Directed by Marco Serafini
Written by Christiane Sadlo, Susanna Hertel and Marco
Serafini
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Barbara Wussow, Marion
Mitterhammer, Stefanie Meier-Stauffen, Christian Kohlund
A co-production by ORF, Lisa Film and ARD/Degeto
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Homo Sapiens? (Working Title)
Die Steintaler – Homo Sapiens (Arbeitstitel)
The story takes place at a time in history when
people still ran around scantily clad in hides and
animal skins, carried bows and arrows and stone
axes with them, wore loin cloths and generally
did not have a fixed place of abode. At least that
was true for half of mankind.
The other half already wore clothes made of
plant materials, built houses, reared livestock,
cultivated the land and made decorative and
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Directed by Rupert Henning and Michi Riebl
Cast: Gregor Bloeb, Franziska Schlattner, Uli Maier,
Cornelius Obonya, Michael Niavarani
A co-production by ORF and DOR Film in association with
Austrian Television Fund and Land Niederösterreich
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practical clay pots. However both groups had
one thing in common: they paid no taxes and had
no aggro from bureaucrats or the worldwide financial crisis. Instead, every now and again they
were eaten by bears, forced to creep around for
days in the forest with empty bellies, and constantly feared bad harvests or the next ice age.
But all in all the hunters and gatherers on the
one hand and the farmers on the other that lived
in the valleys of the Alps had everything pretty
well under control in those days. Just as long as
they didn’t get in each other’s way. Because then
the sparks would fly. Or, indeed, the loin cloths
and hemp skirts.
Rather a long time ago, more precisely during
the Neolithic period, there was a revolution - the
first in human history, if you will. A couple of hunter gatherers had obviously had enough of hunting and gathering and decided to put down
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roots. Nomads became farmers. Except for those
that weren’t in the mood for revolution. They had
spent almost 200,000 years living as nomads,
and didn’t see why things should suddenly
change. All in all they weren’t especially interested in new-fangled trends. But in the end there
was no stopping the revolution. And so the unavoidable happened: trouble!
The Stone Valley was claimed by two different
clans. The problem was that neither clan could
stand the other. And unfortunately the leaders of
each were the two most stubborn members of
their respective groups imaginable … Meso, the
leader of the hunters and gatherers and Nea,
head of the farmers. Both were, of course, firmly
convinced that their way of doing things was the
right way. Furthermore, Meso had a ravishingly
beautiful daughter and Nea a good looking son.
And since the Stone Valley was spacious but not
that enormous, it was inevitable that one day the
two young Stone Valley kids would run into one
another. And so the whole mess came to a head.
For now it was, so to speak, an affair of the heart.
And when it came to affairs of the heart, regrettably even in those days, people weren’t prepared
to stand for much nonsense.
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Ex – A Romantic Comedy
Ex – Eine romantische Komödie
Having absolutely no clue of women Philipp finds
himself once more in the middle of a break up.
What does she really want? Why all the fuss?
Isn’t it all about sex for her as well? Together with
his best friend Mark he tries to figure out the
mystery of women and relationships, in ongoing
conversations as well as in first hand experiences. But then Mark falls into his own marriage
crisis and Philipp desperately wants to get back
to his ex … “Ex” is a comedy series dealing with
the impossibility of being happy with a person of
the opposite sex, a series about patchwork families and cheating, about sexual fantasies and
their banal reality, about hysterical ex-wives and
new girlfriends, about the madness of relationships and the fear of commitment.
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Directed by Michael Niavarani and Helmut Pirnat
Written by Michael Niavarani
Cast: Michael Niavarani, Sabine Mayer, Ina Alice Kopp, Nina
Hartmann, Bernhard Murg, Tobias Margiol
Produced by Gebhardt Productions for ORF
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Vitásek – A Comedian’s Life
Vitásek?
minority:rulez
tschuschen:power
The life of a cabaret artist isn’t easy. One has to sometimes take unappealing and not so lucrative jobs – office parties, for example. Andreas Vitásek doesn’t enjoy them at all – they earn him more money but less respect.
But what won’t he do to help his family get by and, in particular, to please
his teenage daughter. He’d rather enjoy some peace out in the countryside
than put up with annoying and terminally stressed managers. Then one day
the country’s largest TV network makes him an offer, to film an amusing
series about his life. So what now? It’s hard to know what to do. Is this a
chance to go down in television history or the beginning of a never-ending
disaster? An entertaining pseudo reality-soap that moves between reality
and fantasy, comedy and contemplation.
Location Vienna: 6 boys and 5 girls, aged from 14 to 17, are searching for
their place in the world. The fact that they are from foreign backgrounds, or
that their families have chosen to live in Austria, doesn’t make the matter
any easier. Vienna is their home, and when they have problems at school,
with their parents, or in their first relationships, it’s the group, or the various friendships within it, that give them support. Self confident and cool,
they strut around the city like they own it but still occasionally fall flat on
their faces. Most of all, they dream of getting a big break by competing in a
breakdance competition and winning. Before they can enter a competition
however they need a name – and one is quickly found: “minority:rulez”. It’s
bound to get loud and tumultuous when the film’s multilingual, amateur
actors cut loose. The only question that remains is: who’ll be king of the
dancefloor?
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Directed by Rupert Henning
Written by Uli Brée and Andreas Vitásek
Cast: Andreas Vitásek, Julia Cencig, Günter Franzmeier, Sona McDonald, Viktor Gernot,
Michael Niavarani, Wolfram Berger
Available worldwide
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Directed by Jakob M. Erwa
Written by Thomas Reider and Jakob M. Erwa
Cast: Ermeas Shema Kaza, Ulas Aksit, Yunus Evren, Kamyar Ketabian, Sascha Cerimovic,
Nikolas Gemel, Rebecca Chelbea, Sahar Rassolikhah, Milena Todorovic, Duygu Arslan, Yu Goa
Produced by Novotny & Novotny Film for ORF
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Magic Mushrooms 72
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The Race
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Rock Diaries 74
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The Line Taxi Orange 75
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Vive Le Roi!
Wir sind Kaiser
A comedy series for all countries who used to
be reigned (or wish to be!) by an emperor. The
Austrian Emperor and his adjutant are the main
characters of this scripted comedy show that
took the hearts of the Austrians by storm. Sitting
on his lavish throne, the Emperor grants audiences to popular personalities from politics, society
and show business which are completely at his
whim.
The appearance of the odd couple on TV or in
public is always a treat – The two characters
(master and servant) have become so popular
that they are booked to perform their skits for
advertisments, public appearances at TV shows
and gala events.
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Directed by Wilfried Reichel, Leo Bauer
Written by Rudi Roubinek, Rudi Schöllerbacher, Robert
Palfrader, Gerald Fleischhacker, Ully Aris
Produced by Gebhardt Productions
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The Wild Gardener – The world’s grittiest gardening show!
Der Wilde Gärtner – Das härteste Gartenmagazin der Welt!
Since getting his very first moped, Orlando Fu- cacti in the pond, cook weeds and much more.
rioso has lived the dream of freedom on two They procure their rare plants from a dealer and
wheels. He lives in an old container which is technical questions are answered by the gardeboth his home and his workshop, and until now, ner. And if the gardener’s supply of wisdom runs
Orlando’s only contact with botany was the odd out, then Orlando places his trust in God. And
occasion when the road slid from underneath here – you won’t be surprised to learn – he has
him in a fast corner and he would release his a typically unconventional idea of the Spirit of
bike into the field for a few modifications. One Creation.
day, however, he suddenly saw the bigger picture, and now views green fields not only as What is “The Wild Gardener”?
somewhere to land but also as somewhere to
live. Following the call of his heart he created Put simply, it’s a gardening programme.
his paradise on Earth – a garden. He lives in this “The Wild Gardener” presents easy-to-implement
notional paradise inside the container with his gardening tips that demonstrate alternatives
sister, a self-confessed anarchist; his brother in to the established knowledge in countless garlaw, who is tattooed to just below his chin; and dening books. It aims to move away from the
a friend of the family, an asylum seeker from the popular cliché of a gardener in a straw hat and
Congo. From time to time they are joined by his green apron and to make gardens interesting to
grouchy unemployed neighbour whose “expert” a younger public as living spaces. After all, every
knowledge has been gleaned from the garden garden offers drugs, sex and rock ‘n’ roll. Procentre and catalogues. These heroes of our story vided that you don’t try to control it and abuse
show us a different kind of year in the garden, st- it, that is. Ultimately it isn’t important what you
arting with the question “what exactly is a plant?” make of your garden, but what your garden maand ending with a ritual tree planting. In between kes of you.
times, they eat flowers, build canopy beds, plant
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Directed by Florian Kehrer
Written by Roland Düringer
Cast: Roland Düringer, Karl Künstler, Patrick Bongola, Birgit
Denk, Max Meyr, Katja Giebner, Gebhard Kofler-Hofer,
Xandl Schmidhammer
A co-production by e&a and ORF, in association with
Austrian Television Fund
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The main emphasis is placed on the timeframe,
which spans the gardening year. Every episode
has a general theme. For example the tomato
takes centre stage in one episode, with tips on
sowing, the right growing conditions and harvesting. The leaps in time that result are integrated in an amusing way and are a hallmark of
the series. The programme’s style is brisk, with
an interplay of visual and verbal gags. Each episode ends around the bonfire with a final song
interpreted by one of a number of different performers.
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Novotny & Maroudi
Novotny & Maroudi
Magic Mushrooms
Magic Mushrooms
“Novotny & Maroudi” are two dentists who have been friends since their
college days. Two grown-up men who realize they’re no longer twenty-five,
that time inexplicably goes by faster than before, for whatever reason.
When after his divorce, the family-type Novotny temporarily moves into the
apartment of his friend and notorious bon vivant Maroudi, the two men ignore how long they will be living together. Forever, one might think, as
Maroudi’s apartment has the size of a football field and the two men successfully solve many of their problems together. Very, very briefly, one
might likewise think. For most of the problems the two are facing are
caused by their own fault, by no extraneous cause. Moreover, they have
definitely long outgrown “apartment-sharing age”. On top of that, sharing
their consultancy rooms, the two are also glued to each other at work …
Copperfield is old hat – these days four young illusionists bedazzle and
astound people on the streets, at swimming pools or in cafés. In their cheeky and lively magic show the four employ a relaxed style, in deliberate contrast to the bombastic tricks of Copperfield and co. The “Magic Mushrooms”,
as they’re called, represent a new generation of magicians, who perform
standard conjuring tricks but also psychological illusions without the aid of
false bottoms: shoe-laces appear to tie themselves, parking tickets turn
into banknotes and salt shakers come out of eggs. With their “back to the
roots” style, the artists take the audience through the whole repertoire of
magic entertainment. Practically all tastes are amply catered for, from video clips, interaction with the audience at home, top class magic tricks and
thought experiments, to the more bizarre.
Duration: 17 X 25 min.
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Directed by Leo Bauer
Written by Fritz Schindlecker and Leo Bauer
Cast: Andreas Vitasek, Michael Niavarani, Stefanie Paschke, Katharina Winkler, Herbert
Steinböck
Available worldwide
Produced by ORF and Gebhardt Productions
Available worldwide
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The Race
Das Rennen
Skiing from an unusual point of view: 16 celebrities (8 women and 8 men) prepare themselves in a professional–guided ski-camp for “THE RACE”. In a
fierce competition they have to run a giant slalom against former ski-legends proving the things they have learned in the camp. We also look behind the
scenes and watch the celebrities as they prepare for the big event with fi tness workouts, co-ordination training, material knowledge, racing technique
and meet former ski stars.
The Camp Event Docu
The Qualifying Race
The Race
The celebrities absolve a training camp for one
week that is run by the team manager who will
be assisted by a trainer team. The goal is to end
up in the top squad (6 women and 6 men) in order to participate in the live-race after the camp.
During days 1-5 the trainer team decides which
candidate (always one woman and one man) will
be on the top squad. On day 6, the remaining
contestants compete for a starting place within
the squad. The last two positions, however, will
not be assigned by the trainer team but by audience votes. In order to boost the tension of the
participants who have qualifi ed themselves for
the squad, the trainers have the possibility to
kick one of them out if they misbehave or do not
deliver the requested performance.
The 12 candidates have to compete in a qualifying race in a broadcast for the fi rst prime time
program. This race will be a giant slalom in two
runs. Only the eight best candidates will qualify
for the main competition. Each of them will be
assigned a ski legend as support. Which candidate is going to be teamed up with which legend
for the fi nal of “THE RACE” will be decided at the
end of the qualifying race.
In this race eight celebrity – ski-legend pairings
compete against each other in order to win the
big cup. Nobody would doubt that the legends
will always obtain better times as the celebrities.
That is why time is only going to be considered
indirectly in this competition. The decisive factor
for the result will be the scores assigned for the
achieved rank. The legends and the celebrities
are going to be rated separately. After the time
ranking the scores for the ranking of the legends
and the celebrities will be assigned with the
scores of the team partners being added together. At the end of the second run the team
with the least points will win “THE RACE”!
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Rock Diaries
Anna & Du
See also:
ORF Music
Catalog
“Rock Diaries” is a tailor-made mobile TV format
where interaction is a core-piece of the plot. A
smart crossover between fiction and real life. The
featured band is real, acting in their own TV-series. Furthermore, the series is starring national
celebrities. It also refers to real events or happenings.
“Rock Diaries” combines an appealing comedy
with interactive music and star formats. Both
have proven high potential to stimulate the
customer’s interest and come up with excellent
viewing rates. Registered users influence the
plot by bringing Anna to take the right action.
The solution that receives the majority of text
messages will be broadcasted in the following
episode.
The format meets the target group’s TV and Internet consumer habits combining their interests
in music and comedy contents with the rapidly
growing usage of new mobile technologies and
interactivity as blogs and chats.
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A co-production by UNIVERSAL MUSIC and ORF
Available worldwide for TV and mobile broadcast,
streaming and download
3rd prize at producer’s “Made For Mobile Awards” in
Cologne 2007
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Licensing “Rock Diaries” provides you with the
following services:
Music Package
1 coordination between local
UNIVERSAL MUSIC branch and licensor
1 music production counseling
1 music rights clearance knowhow
1 live band set up
1 co-ordination broadcast and live music events
Production Manual
1 production counseling
1 character bible
1 technical assistance
1 40 scripts
Marketing MIX
1 marketing strategy (viral marketing, etc.) counseling
1 co-ordination between local partners
(UNIVERSAL MUSIC; content providers)
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The Line – Crossing the Country as the Crow Flies
The Line – Entlang der Luftlinie durch dein Land
The participants of “The Line” are sent on the
road through impassable terrain, crossing rivers
and lakes, surmounting hills and mountain passes. Eleven candidates are faced with what is
likely to be the biggest challenge of their lives:
crossing their home country as the crow flies,
with a maximum deviance of 250 m permitted. In
plain language, rather than bypassing round
obstacles barring the way like mountains, lakes,
rivers and buildings, this means surmounting
them. The expedition teams, consisting of eleven
members each, at the outset are accompanied by
cameras throughout their tour across these
countries. In a live television vote, the audience
chooses a winner each week, while one team
member gets eliminated. The final winner of the
expedition receives considerable prize money.
Target audience: 12–49
Duration: dailies appr. 25 min.,
weeklies appr. 100 min.
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Taxi Orange
Taxi Orange
A bunch of people and one job: running a small
taxi company for a fixed period of time. In the
end, only one of them will win a huge amount of
prize money. But till then the candidates have to
live and work together to earn their money for a
living. All monitored by fly on the wall camera
equipment running 24 hours a day. Prepare yourself for a hell of a ride! “Taxi Orange”, the very
different reality-format, brings a cast of strong
personalities and an ultimate challenge for survival in an urban jungle. No hanging around, no
waiting for time to elapse! The candidates have
to work hard driving the cabs across town according to a schedule they agree upon. But first
each one of them has to get their taxi license. Without it – they are screwed. No license means no
possibility to make a living for the group.
Duration: dailies appr. 25 min.,
weeklies appr. 45 min.
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Even in the cars hidden cameras keep track of
every move – a unique possibility for customers
to be on TV the same evening. The highlights are
shown in a daily summary, the vote-off in a thrillpacked weekly show in which the audience’s votes of the last seven days are tallied to pick a
winner. It’s up to him then, which of his housemates must leave the show immediately.
formats & entertainment show candid camera
B-Team
B-Team – Das Magazin
Real Dope
Echt Fett
*LOL*– Laughing out Loud
*LOL*– Laughing out Loud
The “quite good looking woman in a well lit studio” presents the “exciting, serious and tightly
researched” contributions of the B-Team.The BTeam is the crazy group of reporters behind a
magazine show the like of which the world has
never before seen. The B-Team reporters head
out with their cameras to, for example, report on
various supposedly “serious” events, getting up
to all kinds of mischief in the process.Be it a football game, VIP or cultural event, anyone spending time with crowds of people can expect to
meet a B-Team reporter who will proceed to well
and truly poke fun at them. The magazine show
includes the B-Team conducting misleading interviews that throw celebrities off track, hidden
cameras, affectionate heckling at serious events
and much more.B-Team is a reportage show with
a difference - the difference being that nothing is
quite right, and everything is made up. The BTeam confronts passers-by and tourists with a
range of bizarre and offbeat stories and characters.
“Real Dope” is a comedy program showing hilarious situations in public places with a hidden camera. It features three protagonists who take on
different roles in varying disguise: the insensitive doctor, the provocative policeman, the intellectual bum, the blubbering TV reporter … They
all act so convincingly that not a single passer-by
realizes the put-on. The program not only focuses on the people who are led up the garden
path but on the many funny ideas and images.
Edited versions of our most hilarious bloopers
and home video funnies. The 2 episodes are
most apt for travel entertainment (airlines, etc.),
online and mobile use, but also for TV transmission. The clips are also available individually.
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Kiddy Contest
Kiddy Contest
It’s a great idea and a simple one: 8 to 13 year
old kids sing their favourite pop songs but with
original, funny lyrics in their mother tongue.
KIDDY CONTEST is about getting kids on television. It was created byAustrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and the music production company, Operator-Kiennast and Weichselbaum. In
recent years KIDDY CONTEST was co-produced
by ZDF and Super RTL or Nickelodeon.
The CONTEST’s final competition showcases 10
songs, in a 90 minute live broadcast of the performances. The show is later released on CD under the Sony BMG label. The live show reaches
an impressive 40 to 50% of the target audience
of 3 to 13 year olds, making it the most successful kids music format in the German speaking
area. Audiences are built over months of high
quality entertainment, in the run-up to the final.
Programming covers the competitions to select
finalists, portraits of competitors, working in the
studio, dancers’ auditions, and the thrills and
challenges facing young performers. The show
stages the youngsters using all the means of a
professional production – as if they were “real
stars”: Fantastic stage setting, perfect lighting,
even pyrotechnical effects. Glamour at its best!
But all the while the kids remain kids throughout
the entire show. Just kids. Likeable and natural
all the way.
The homepage www.kiddycontest.com lets kids
take a closer look at the show and how it works,
and offers downloads and goodies.
The KIDDY CONTEST CD has scored impressively
on the market, achieving platinum status eight
times. The album achieved double platinum status in 2005, 2006 and 2008 as well as triple platinum status in 2007! It has topped album charts
for weeks, pushing aside even international
mega sellers like Pink, Norah Jones and Robbie
Williams. In 2006, a DVD has been published for
the first time with the highlights of KIDDY CONTEST.
A KIDDY CONTEST license provides you with:
• the KIDDY CONTEST trademark
• signations, trailers, video material
• full music design
• knowhow transfer (the show concept,
semifinal telecasting, voting system … )
• broadcast rights of the songs
• adaptation of lyrics to the local language
• music production of songs
• content for local websites
• revenue shares
Naturally, also this DVD soon became a big success. This show is a success story which reflects
well on participating TV broadcasters.
Duration: 30/60/120 min.
Available worldwide
Partners of the Kiddy Contest:
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7 Wonders
7 Wunder
“7 Wonders“ presents wonders that are big and
small, obviously spectacular, and hidden yet
sensational. In this popular science magazine for
children, Thomas Brezina and his assistant, „Nelson”, go looking in their animated Wonder Express, “Crazy Lola”, for things that appear to be
wonders – be it the Dead Sea, in which Thomas
reads a newspaper whilst swimming, the language of dolphins, with whom he also goes swimming, historical sensations that still astound us
today and “do it yourself wonders” that show
children how they too can create something amazing. There are things to wonder at everywhere,
not only far away, but right around the corner.
Some are tiny, others gigantic, but they all have
one thing in common: they astonish us!
The international nature of this format is underlined by the fact that the films were shot not only
in Austria, but in England, Iceland and Jordan
among other places, enabling wonders from all
over the world to be presented close at hand.
Duration: 13 x 23–25 min.
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Written by Thomas Brezina
Produced by KidsTV for ORF in association with Story&Co.
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Explorer Express
Forscherexpress
Why does the koala bear have a speckled posterior? Can plants sweat or air be liquid? And how
can you transfer news from one continent to another without any electricity? These and many
more questions are answered in this extraordinary and successful series for young researchers
from 8 to 12 years.
Traveling through time, space, air and water,
Thomas Brezina and Kati Bellowitsch take you on
the special Explorer Express en route to “discover, experience, investigate and do it yourself ”.
During these exciting trips the two presenters reveal facts worth knowing about nature, animals,
technology, physics, chemistry and history. They
also conduct experiments for viewers to do
themselves at home. Each episode of the series
features interesting stories, stunning experiments and vivid explanations.
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with Story&Co.
Available worldwide
Romy 2004: Special Prize of the Jury; Platinum Remi
Award at Houston International Filmfestival 2005
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Trick Factory
Trickfabrik
How does a magician get a rabbit into his top
hat? What is a magic cup and how is it made? And
how are the different sound effects produced in
films? “Enchant and astound” – that is the tagline of this children’s show! The makers of Explorer Express whisk young viewers away to the astonishing world of artifice and magic. Children
are given an insight into the world of artists and
illusionists through exciting magic tricks and unusual handicraft, which they are encouraged to
admire and imitate. Some of the best kept
magician’s secrets are also revealed: Cuddly
toys miraculously disappear, heads are made to
turn around, amazing effects are produced in the
sound studio and old dice show their mysterious
side. New to the Trick Factory team are the British magicians, James Freedman and Martyn
Rowland. Freedman, who has also “enchanted”
the Queen and British Prime Minister and received numerous awards, is known in Britain as
“The Man of Steal”. “Time Out” magazine described him as “possibly the world’s best pickpocket”. Martyn Rowland, winner of the Magic
Circle‘s „Originality Award“ is one of the
country’s best known conjurers and, among
other things, worked on Roman Polanski’s “Oliver Twist” as an adviser. Family entertainment
for children from six to ten!
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children & youth
Tom Turbo Detective Club
Tom Turbo Detektivclub
This detective/mystery TV-series is based on the
successful book series by Thomas Brezina. Tom
Turbo is the hottest bike on earth chasing dangerous criminals. It can sing, talk, jump and even
swim and features a long radio antenna, 2 TV aerials, a computer, a video camera and an ice cube
machine. Thomas Brezina who is the chief investigator does not rely on Tom Turbo alone. The
children who watch are asked to help to solve
the cases. If their answers are correct they are
eligible to win a prize. The successful mix of suspense, fun and quiz elements seems to be exactly what 5 to 12 year olds want to see.
new
episodes!
Duration: Numerous episodes,
appr. 25 min. each
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Festival 1996 & 1999 ; Intermedia Finalist Award at the
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Totally Fit!
Voll Stark
Miniversum
Miniversum
Pig-Perfect
Saugut
Healthy food? – Not tasty!
School stuff? – Boring!
Family-fun? – Annoying!
Sports? – How exhausting!
How many corners does a honeycomb have?
Which animal can use its nose to take a shower?
And how many eyes does a fly have? Interesting
and amazing information from the animal world
presented in an entertaining and exciting way –
that is Miniversum: the animal magazine for kids!
Thrilling and unique stories reveal more than a
few well kept secrets of the animal world and encourage the viewers to make their own investigations. And that’s not all: Every episode interested
kids are posed a quiz question by Balduin, the
cute and inquisitive wet-nosed monkey. Fun and
excitement for young explorers!
Franz Ferdinand, the world’s first purple boar,
takes the audience on a journey into his crazy
world. Home is Vivi’s girl apartment, although
Franz Ferdinand is far from the roommate she’d
ideally imagined. With his unusual view of the
human world and his refreshing naivety, Franz
Ferdinand drives Vivi to the point of madness –
very much to the audience’s enjoyment. The only
question is … how long can Vivi put up with the
boar and what action will she take to cope with
him!
Really? No way! – Together with the eccentric
Hopper family, the young viewers discover everything to do with fitness and nutrition, learn
about unusual types of sports and find out how
to train their brains. “Totally Fit!” is the first wellness-program for kids that not only boosts their
self-confidence, but also shows them how to get
the best out of their lives – all in a funny and entertaining manner.
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Duration: 120 x appr. 1–3 min.
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finalist, german children’s Media festival golden
sparrow 2010
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children & youth edutainment comedy series karaoke
Freddy and the Beetle Bunch
Freddy und die wilden Käfer
Freddy’s Friends – Sing Along!
Freddys Freunde
Join in on the fun with Freddy and the Beetle Bunch – a unique sing-along
programme for young children. In each music video, Freddy and his friends
present high-energy feel-good songs with an educational twist. The young
viewers learn about numbers, colours and much more in an entertaining
way. In addition, the lyrics are displayed on screen, along with changing
colours and moving images, allowing children not only to sing along but
also to acquire initial reading skills and to learn the German language in a
fun and entertaining way.
Sing along! Dance along! Learn English as a foreign language.
But composer Freddy Gigele and his wild beetles have not only won the
hearts of kids on TV: Their first CD hit the Austrian CD charts right after it
went on sale.
There are all kinds of things going on in Freddy’s world: Following the big
success with `Freddy and the Beetle Bunch´, Freddy Gigele and his friends
Annabell, Frida, Marco and Pops are now extending an invitation to sing
and dance along. The fun party, which is a treat for all the senses and guaranteed to put you in a good mood.
The series can also be adapted into different languages and provide numerous opportunities to learn a foreign language in a funny and musically
way.
And because of the smashing success of their first CD, a new CD by Freddy
Gigele and the wild beetles will be out at the end of November. And by popular demand, KidsTV also produced the first DVD in 2010.
Written by Freddy Gigele and Elfriede Pokorny
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DOCUMENTARIES
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
90–94
CULTURE & ART 95–102
ENVIRONMENT &
GLOBALIZATION 103–104
HISTORY 105 - 119
BIOGRAPHIES 120 - 133
SPECIAL 134 - 135
EAT & DRINK 136 - 150
LEISURE & LIFESTYLE 151 - 163
SOCIAL ISSUES &
RELIGION 164 - 175
PEOPLE & PLACES 176 - 196
SCIENCE 197 - 207
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Genius and Geometry – Traces of Our Inventing the Shopping Mall –
Enigmatic Ancestors
The Gruen Effect
Genie und Geometrie – Spuren
Der Erfinder der Shopping Mall – Der
unserer rätselhaften Vorfahren
Gruen Effekt
Architects of Illusion
Architekten der Illusion
This documentary road movie through the heart
of central Europe covers a period of almost seven thousand years, from circular earthworks
dating from around 5,000 BC to the Baroque urban planning of the German city of Karlsruhe. A
particular objective of this documentary is to
encourage the viewer to check things out in person on their own computers. A good example of
this is the prehistoric monument at Avebury in
southern England, whose degree of latitude of
51.42857º comes to exactly 360 when multiplied by seven. The distance around the globe
over the poles is exactly seven times the distance from the equator to Avebury. Is this merely chance or a sign of some deep knowledge?
The film does not try to construct speculative
answers, but promises yet more mysteries from
the past and reveals further traces of our brilliant, geometrically oriented forefathers.
They created the fundaments of the architecture
that define the world today. Quickly erected,
functional, but representative and affordable –
that was the motto with which Fellner & Helmer
earned their trademark. Their architectural creations at the beginning of the 20th century correspond to a time of cultural uproar and strong request for theatre buildings in Europe. Noticing
this cultural trend Fellner & Helmer became the
trendsetters and global players of the “Gründerzeit”. Their influences soon spread beyond the
borders of the K & K Monarchy. All Theatre directors on the continent were dreaming of a theatrical stage that wore Fellner & Helmer’s trademark.
A myth was created.
Duration: 45/52 min.
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Victor Gruen couldn’t possibly have known how
much he would change the world. The world famous Viennese architect is chiefly remembered
as the inventor of the shopping mall. His “green”
ideas spawned cities, which ultimately became
shrines to the Gods of consumption and the free
market. This documentary follows Gruen’s dramatic escape from Nazi controlled Vienna in
1938, his subsequent adventures in booming
post-war America and finally his return to Vienna
in the 1960s as a committed socialist. The life,
work and critical humour of this exceptional architect serve as a starting point for an examination of the cities in which we live today. A portrait
of a man who, in keeping with the motto “cars
buy nothing”, has had a lasting influence on economics, politics and, above all, consumers.
Duration: 54 min.
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Directed by Ronald P. Vaughan
A co-production by ORF/3sat and Vaughan Video
Available worldwide
Directed by Katharina Weingartner and Anette Baldauf
A co-production by Wailand Filmproduktion and ORF
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This documentary offers the viewer an insight of
the life of this ex-ceptional architect-duo, whose
buildings still form an important frame for the
visual arts in Europe.
Duration: 52 min.
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Directed by Ute Gebhardt
A co-production by Wega Film, ORF, ARTE and bm:bwk
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Art City New York
Artcity New York
Art City London
Artcity London
How much does the city he lives in influence the
artist himself? How much does the artist himself
influence the city? Taking New York City as an example, Peter Vogel’s documentary shows the
mechanisms of creativity and urbanity, the procedures that drive the artistic community. To
pick the right spot within the city is very important, as are the locations of the galleries that
open the doors to the international art market.
But there is more to making it in New York: You
have to get to know the right people.
Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Piccadilly, Tower They design the utterly impossible: buildings
Bridge … Visitors to London almost always limit that appear to come from another world; simulthemselves to the highlights found in travel gui- taneously clouds and crystals, with hovering
des. At the same time, the London art scene is double cones, oblique ramps and buckled funricher and more colourful than in almost any nels. The work of Coop Himmelb(l)au belongs to
other city in the world. The documentary explo- the “deconstructionist” school of architecture,
res this scene, taking the viewers to exciting which, in the truest sense of the word, seeks to
places that can’t be found in most travel guides. demolish traditions, while setting up fields of
There are interviews with famous artists like Ant- tension and pushing gravity to the limit. The
ony Gormley, Jason Martin and Michael Craig- “Coops” have their own design process, in which
Martin; we see them at work and get to know a they develop basic concepts from feelings and
little bit about their lives. As well as visiting well the unconscious. Like the Baroque masters they
known exhibition spaces, art schools, private celebrate space and want to create points of recollections and locations like the Tate Modern ference in faceless cities. Founded in 1968, Coop
and Tate Britain, the documentary shows specta- Himmelb(l)au now employs around 100 staff.
cular aerial shots of major London sites from un- The documentary portrays their fascinating work.
usual perspectives.
Duration: 52 min.
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Directed by Peter Vogel
A co-production by Vogel AV, ORF and 3sat
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A co-production by Vogel AV and ORF
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Coop Himmelb(l)au –
Clouds and Crystals
Coop Himmelb(l)au –
Wolken und Kristalle
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Duration: 45 min.
Directed by Doris Fercher
A co-production by ORF/3sat
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Space Architecture
Space Architecture
Lighting Design
Licht-Gestalten
Barbara Imhof has a pretty unusual job: She is a
space architect. On behalf of European Space
Agency ESA, Imhof designs space ships and even
habitats for distant planets. What sounds like
utopia does have a realistic background: In 2030,
man is to set foot on Mars, while in 2018 American astronauts are to land on the moon again to
accomplish first steps in creating a lunar interstation for manned long-term missions into
space. Astronautics are increasingly focussing
on manned missions again, visionary concepts
mapping architectures for colonisation of extraterrestrial planets are becoming ever more important.
From discos to art galleries, from nightclubs to
home cinemas – projectors have broken free of
the cinema and are now to be found everywhere.
They have even inspired a new art form: “projectionism”. This documentary presents the life and
work of three so called visualists, video jockeys
or VJs – artists who create moving picture compositions on their computers and project them in
synch with musical rhythms at live events. It’s no
coincidence that Vienna has established itself as
a trendsetter in the VJ world. In the baroque age,
Vienna has already been the birthplace of a type
of “projectionism” using frescoes – a mass media art form with emotionally charged content.
The documentary not only shows how construction can be accomplished under conditions of
minimal gravity, but also offers an insight into
the means of how astronauts could travel comfortably to planets far away, often having to
spend months within their spacecraft. Previously
unreleased material from space agencies of Japan, USA and Europe is shown for the first time!
Duration: 30 min.
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Directed by Frederick Baker
A co-production by Filmbäckerei and ORF
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Directed by Ulrike Schmitzer and Matthias Widter
A co-production by ORF and Raum.Film
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Giorgio Armani –
A Man for All Seasons
Giorgio Armani
Living Art –
Artists and their Gardens
Lebende Kunst
Bricks – Building Blocks of Life
Ziegel – Bausteine des Lebens
This documentary feature is a uniquely intimate
and sensitive portrait of a year in the life of Giorgio Armani, internationally celebrated fashion
designer. The usually rather publicity-shy Italian
offers very private insights into his life, his relationships with celebrities, takes us behind the
scenes of his glamorous shows and the business
world. Witness one of the greatest cultural icons
of our time and the impact of his art and thinking
on our culture and every day life.
The garden is the epitome of creation. As such, it
fascinates many contemporary artists. The film
reflects their access to the process of artistic
creation in their art as well as in their gardens
and portrays four artists and their gardens: The
Egyptian artist Ghada Amer, who lives in Harlem,
New York, and is held to be one of the most provocative and innovative female artists of our
times, the famous Japanese fashion designer
Kenzo, who has created his own little piece of Japan, centered around a garden in Paris, the architect and theorist Charles Jencks in Scotland,
who is regarded as the “inventor” of the postmodern and the Austrian expressionist painter
Xenia Hausner, who designed the sets for more
than a hundred theatre and opera productions in
Vienna, Salzburg, Berlin, London and Brussels.
The history of bricks reveals significant, indeed
fascinating milestones of our cultural and everyday history. Our voyage through time and space
starts approximately 5,000 years ago, in Mesopotamia and on the banks of the river Nile near
the necropolis of Sakkara. Passing by the Roman
aqueducts, the journey heads on to military, cultural and civilian structures built during the
Habsburg Empire. In addition, this documentary
also describes the technical history of bricks and
the important role bricks continue to play in contemporary house building.
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Directed by Julian Ozanne
A co-production by Greenlight Media, LWT and Maximum
Films
Available for Europe (except Benelux, Italy, UK, Russia,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine) and Asia (Japan, Korea)
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Directed by Peter Beringer
A co-production by Pre TV, ORF, YLE and AVRO in association
with RTR and Cine Styria
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Directed by Gustav W. Trampitsch
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Rediscovering Clay –
The Renaissance of a
Forgotten Material
Lust auf Lehm – Der Stoff aus dem
die Bauten sind
Behind the Facades –
The Secrets of Vienna’s Ringstraße
Hinter den Fassaden –
Die Geheimnisse der Wiener
Ringstraße
Energy for Life –
Putting Feng Shui to the Test
Energie zum Leben –
Feng Shui im Alltagstest
The Chinese Wall, Japanese palaces, Arabic highrisers, Persian residential courtyards, African
mosques and European timbered houses – they
all are built with clay. However the material itself
had fallen out of fashion for quite a while. But
now, the movement towards more sustainability
in almost all areas of life has boosted interest in
clay immensely. Architects, designers and even
big businesses are rediscovering clay as a building material and its striking advances.
A film about a very special construction material.
The Vienna Ringstraße is Vienna’s most striking
boulevard as far as its architecture is concerned.
Maximilian Schell presents this Viennese landmark in an impressive documentary, exposing
secrets, telling anecdotes and providing facts
from the days the Ring first began to take on its
present look. The second half of the 19th century
is brought to new life in a fascinating mix of reallife stills and animated film.
Where Eastern philosophy meets Western rationality, Feng Shui is booming. Aside from the esoteric and commercialised aspects, there are in
fact real advantages to be gained from applying
these ancient Chinese teachings to daily life. This
documentary illustrates some examples and
their measurable effects: from the design of a
bank branch office that helped the bank generate increased revenues, to office and apartment
design according to the principles of “wind and
water”, the true meaning of the words Feng Shui.
Duration: 45 min.
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Duration: 50 min.
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Directed by Alfred Vendl
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Directed by Bert Ehgartner
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Majestic White Horses – The Spanish Riding School of Vienna
Die Welt der weißen Pferde – Die spanische Hofreitschule zu Wien
Majestic White Horses uses as its centerpiece
both the world’s most famous horses, the Lipizzans of Austria and their home, the internationally famous Spanish Riding School of Vienna,
but also captures the heart and mystique of this
great animal from the time of its youth to the
crowning achievement of its entrance into the
School.
The Spanish Riding School is a Viennese legend
and in today’s ever-changing world a rare and irreplaceable part of world culture. For over four
hundred years this Baroque masterwork of architecture has been the home and center of a
unique and timeless classical style of riding.
Of course, horses themselves are the main attraction of the film and part of the story retraces
the fascinating quest for the true bloodline of
this renowned animal. This quest takes the audience on a visual odyssey through Arabia, Morocco, Spain, and Slovenia.
For the first time you will enjoy a look behind the
scenes of this piece of extraordinary and unique
cultural heritage. The beauty of the Majestic
White Horses is also captured in an IMAX film experience that will be an adventure for the entire
family.
IMAX
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Directed by Kurt J. Mrkwicka
Produced by MR-Film
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Also available:
Piber – The Nursery of the WorldFamous Lipizza Stallions of Vienna’s
Spanish Riding School
Piber is a small town nestled in the rolling hills of
western Styria, not far from the province’s capitol Graz. The climate and the soil make it an ideal
location for horse breeding. It is in Piber where
the stallions of Vienna’s Spanish Riding School
have their home and where they are all bred and
raised.
Duration: 43 min.
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Great Masters
Große Meister
Bernardo Strozzi
The most important Genoese painter, Bernardo
Strozzi grew up and lived his life in the stimulating surroundings of the busy port of Genoa. Occasionally, he enriched his style under the influence of great artists who were passing through,
two such maestros being Caravaggio and Rubens, Bernardo Strozzi died as a priest in 1644.
Caravaggio
The fact that he was a genius is clearly demonstrated in his paintings, but he was also a violent
and trouble man. He spent his life passing
through the wealth of palaces and the depths of
poverty. Nevertheless, his paintings opened up a
whole new aspect in art and contained characters never seen before. He was also the true
founder of the “still life” genre. Caravaggio died
tragically in 1610, but his paintings remain a turning point in the world of art.
Tintoretto
A young and intransigent artist, Tintoretto never
left Venice and although he died at the age of 29,
his works adorn many of Venice’ palaces and
churches. According to one of his biographers,
he wrote this description of his works on the wall
of his study: “Michelangelo’s drawing and Titian’s
colouring”.
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Giotto
With the start of the fourteenth century, Giotto’s
painting give us the feeling of a changing word
toward new horizons: his confidence on man, the
satisfaction to feel a leader of his own age. In the
same years when Dante lived, Giotto gives space
to feelings again: tears and smile come back in
his paintings after one thousand year; emotions,
stories, actions, people burst in and spread. In
his paint Giotto describes his own time, starting
one of the most sensational revolution in the history of painting.
Van Dyck
Born in 1599 the son of an upper class family,
Van Dyck began his career as an apprentice to
Hendrik Van Balen, whose “Romanist” influence
on the young painter almost killed the artist’s
own creativity. However, after spending years
painting mythological and religious scenes, Van
Dyck finally realised that he wanted to paint the
psychological aspect of man, and in fact he is today known as one of Europe’s greatest portrait
painters.
Piero Della Francesca
A devoted pupil of Domenico the Venetian, Piero
Della Francesca worked for him in 1439 in Florence, where he was also able to study the works
of great artists such as Beato Angelico, Masaccio,
Donatello and the artistic and architectural theories of Brunelleschi and Alberti. During his stay in
Florence he was fascinated by all the pomp and
circumstance of the courts and even many years
later his work still reflected his impressive memories of that splendid year.
Beato Angelico
Born around 1400, this great artist was underestimated probably because of his simple and devout soul. Many of his works can be seen in the
museums around the world, however the majority of them are in St. Mark’s monastery in Florence where he lived for many years and where,
in the corridors and cells only recently declared
public property, he left a series of frescoes which
are the permanent sign of his genius.
documentaries culture & art
Raffaello
Raffaello’s painting is a precious mixture of the
Renaissance figurative research and the touching feeling of a deeply human poetry. His art
reflects the artistic culture between the fifteenth
and sixteenth century in Italy. First Piero della
Francesca, then Perugino. Later he becomes part
of the Florence debate between Leonardo and
Michelangelo and reaches the apex in Rome during the pontificate of Giulio II.
Michelangelo
Michelangelo is one of the world most powerful
and versatile artists of the sixteenth century. He
spent ninety years of “torments and ecstasy”,
carving from marble the deep soul of troubled figures. He was a sculptor, but also painter, architect, poet: an invaluable interpreter of the
Renaissance period.
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Goya – Fervour and Failure
Goya – Last und Leidenschaft
Kyselak –
The First Graffiti Tagger
Joseph Kyselak –
Der erste Graffiti Tagger
The World of Peter Paul Rubens
Die Welt des Peter Paul Rubens
Both in his political and creative pursuits, Goya
was a dissident and an opportunist in alternation.
But Goya never failed to pursue a reckless career.
Rather successful initially, also economically, it
took him a long time to be appointed to court,
following numerous humiliating experiences.
Though despising the position, he had strived to
become a court painter for his whole life. The film
links major events occurring in his lifetime with
political landmarks which both influenced him
and shaped the world of the time.
For a long time graffiti was considered to be
nothing more than street art until it was finally
appreciated by the art establishment. Strangely,
one of the icons of graffiti artists is a former Viennese court official, Joseph Kyselak. At the beginning of the 19th century Kyselak went travelling and immortalised himself worldwide on all
possible surfaces, using a stencil and black oil
paint. A film about an eccentric with a penchant
for self-reputation.
Marking a climax to the Year of Culture 2004, the
Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille, France, pays homage to Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens. The
honorary title of “City of Rubens” has been bestowed on Antwerp, where Rubens spent most of
his life. The documentary’s third locale is Vienna,
featuring the newly inaugurated Museum Liechtenstein and the Vienna Museum of Fine Arts
(KHM), which boasts collections of Rubens’ paintings. These settings and exhibitions serve as a
backdrop to portray the life of the artist and diplomat.
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Kiki’s Cosmos –
The Art of Kiki Kogelnik
Kikis Kosmos –
Die Kunst der Kiki Kogelnik
Alone, Everywhere – The Painter Soshana
Überall Alleine – Die Malerin Soshana
During her lifetime, as a painter and graphic and
object artist, Kiki Kogelnik, one of the most advanced Austrian artists of the 20th century, was
a traveller between worlds. Her ideas, which
were born in the 60s and 70s, were children of
their time and yet were far ahead of it. Not so
much the widely popular Venetian glass heads, a
“hit” from her later artistic output, but more her
surprisingly modern concept of sculpture, which
she developed with her famous “hangings” - human figures cut from paper or plastic film and
hung on clothes hangers or racks. Or her closeness to Pop Art and her paintings with their advertising aesthetic: representational, colourful
and glamorous.
Soshana was born in 1927 in Vienna and was
forced to leave her homeland in 1938, when
Austria was annexed to Germany by Hitler. She
spent her teenage years in London, Paris and
New York and after she had decided to devote
her life to art, she went to Paris, where she lived
for almost two decades. There, she became a
well known artist and continued to travel all
around the globe. Mexico, Israel, India, China,
Nepal, Africa and the Middle East are only some
of the places visited by her. Wherever she went,
Soshana immersed herself in the cultures she
encountered and they served as an inspiration.
Particularly Mexico and China left their footmarks on Soshana’s work. Asian Calligraphy
techniques had an influence on her artistic expression as well as many of her paintings are surrounded by a Mexican flair. Her pictorial language expresses her inner experiences and her deep
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humanity. Soshana is a thoughtful painter, a seeker in many respects. Her enormous oeuvre attests to a life filled with upheavals and new beginnings. Since the 1950s, Soshana’s works
have been presented in exhibitions at museums
and galleries all over the world and have been
purchased for many public and private collections.
Only in the late 1980s, Soshana returned to Vienna to live. Recently, she was honored by the Republic of Austria and received the “Austrian
Cross of Honour for Science and Art”.
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Line by Line – Paul Flora in Film
Auf dem Strich – Paul Flora im Film
Metamorphoses –
Alfred Kubin’s World of Images
Verwandlungen –
Alfred Kubins Bilderwelten
Hip Hop –
Caught Between Commerce
and Street Culture
Bitches, Crack und Würschtelwasser
Paul Flora, the master pen and ink artist and
master etcher, died at the age of 87. His life story
could fill more than one book. In her documentary, director Eva Testor focuses on Flora’s drawing,
his art, his exhibitions, his travels, his surroundings and his exuberance, through short, specific
excursions into the past. This film tells the story
of an unusual artistic life, with no creative crises
or financial emergencies, and makes a mature
artist and his work tangible.
As if randomly strewn throughout the unspoiled
nature of the mystical border region between Bavaria and Austria, images appear without warning. Out of nowhere grotesque faces at the
edge of perception flit by and disappear as
quickly as they came and pairs of eyes glitter
from the darkness of caves. They are images
from the world and works of the internationally
renowned illustrator and graphic artist Alfred Kubin, which are brought back to life by video installations as they bathe the sites of Kubin’s inspiration in a blurred perception between reality
and fantasy. A surreal experience!
Hip hop: for some it’s a lifestyle choice and a
form of social criticism, while for others it’s an
expression of sexism and the glorification of violence. Originally a form of street culture in the
African-American ghettos of New York City, hip
hop has since grown into a world-wide subculture for urban youth. This documentary offers a
fascinating insight into the world of international
hip hop and portrays a culture caught between
mainstream consumption and individual expression.
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Mickey, Marlene & Me –
A Portrait of Gottfried Helnwein
Mickey, Marlene & Me –
Gottfried Helnwein
The Ultimate Nude –
The Artist and his Model
Der letzte Akt –
Der Maler und sein Model
Inside the Outsiders – Of Artists and
Another Reality
Kunst von Innen – Von Künstlern und
einer anderen Wirklichkeit
Marlene Dietrich, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mick
Jagger and even Muhammad Ali have asked him
to portray them. Magazines like “Time”, “Rolling
Stone” or “Spiegel” have featured his paintings
on the front page: For over 30 years now, Austrian painter, designer and photo artist Gottfried
Helnwein through his shock-aesthetics has been
a provocative force in the world of art. This portrait features a man that borders to genius when
it comes to getting attention.
The inspirational value of models reaches from
Gustav Klimt to Ernst Fuchs: many women, and
men too, have, through their charisma, made a
greater contribution to the visual arts than most
contemporary viewers realise. Muses need not
always be beautiful – Lucien Freud, for example,
produced a painting of a heavily overweight woman, a work which sold for a record price.
This film presents a history of Outsider Art
through the examples of exceptionally gifted artists. It looks at workshops for handicapped people run by different welfare organizations, examines the lives and work of prominent Art Brut
figures and enters their private studios. These
workshops encourage psychologically disabled
artists to focus on their talent and concentrate
on the essential: the art itself. The psychologically handicapped artists are totally immersed in
their personal work. Their art is pure, untouched
by the styles and fashions that sweep the broader art world. Today, the works of disabled artists are creating a worldwide sensation. Their
works fit seamlessly into the history of art and
add to a deeper appreciation of Modernity.
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Singing for Life – Voices from the Townships
Singing for Life – Stimmen aus den Townships
Utopia with Milk and Sugar –
Café Tamar
Utopie mit Milch und Zucker –
Café Tamar
In the whole of Africa there are only two opera
houses with year-round programmes - one in Cairo, and the other in Cape Town. Opera in Africa
has no tradition whatsoever. Furthermore, the
role of classical music in everyday life is minimal.
Nevertheless, people sing constantly and at every imaginable opportunity. South African television is full of programmes in which choirs
perform for one another and with choir championships and choir documentaries. You could almost believe that every South African is involved
in a choir in some way.
Although a suicide or rocket attack could change
their lives at any moment, many Israelis have adopted a relaxed way of dealing with these existential threats. They discuss them over a coffee
in the famous Café Tamar in Tel Aviv. Among the
regulars we find Rafi Kishon, the son of Ephraim
Kishon and graphic artist David Tartakover. A
portrait of everyday life in a part of the world
deeply marked by fate and steeped in history.
surrounded by poverty, criminality and hopelessness, but thanks to their voices have carved
out a new future for themselves and thus found a
means of escaping their situation. The film observes the singers not only at rehearsals, auditions and performances but also provides an intimate glimpse of their everyday lives.
This documentary shows three South African singers with impressive voices who originate from
the townships around Cape Town. They grew up
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Fair Trade or Greed – The Route to a
Fair Global Economy
Fairer Handel oder Gier – Der Weg
zur gerechten Weltwirtschaft
Humus – Forgotten Climate Aid
Humus – Die vergessene Klimachance
The worldwide economic crisis in the financial
markets has not only created losers. Michael
Zellner, for example, has reason to be satisfied.
His company, Merit, has grown tremendously in
the last two years by speculating at the right time
on falling share prices. This documentary looks
into the question of what conclusions players in
the international financial markets have drawn
from the crisis. For the representatives of sustainability funds, the crisis has clearly demonstrated that financial investments must take ethical
criteria into account too if they wish to prevail in
the future. Indeed there are ways, when manufacturing and trading consumer goods, of ensuring that responsibility for mankind and nature
can be combined with economic interests. For
example, the international “fairtrade” organisation now offers a means of doing this, not only in
the foods sector, but also in textiles.
Soils respire huge quantities of CO2. Have we
previously overlooked what is perhaps the most
important influence on the climate – the life in
the soil? Until now there has been very little awareness of the dramatic relationships between
soil use and climate change – or else they have
been hushed up. Through the intensive, indiscriminate working of the land, worldwide agriculture is responsible for around 30 percent of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions. But it is right
here in agriculture where the forgotten chance to
save the climate lies. The latest research shows
that systematic build-up of humus ensures that
CO2 can be locked away for sustained periods.
This documentary film sets off on a voyage of
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discovery around the world. It shows what we
can learn from our ancestors and how we can
shape the future right on our own doorsteps. It
relentlessly uncovers the sins of intensive agriculture and shows how committed people are
developing modern solutions.
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Fronteira Brasil – The Struggle for
Land in Mato Grosso
Fronteira Brasil – Der Kampf um
Land in Mato Grosso
Coffee, Milk and Sugar
Kaffee mit Milch und Zucker
One Kilogram of Wheat
Ein Kilo Weizen
Globalisation has also been long under way in
Brazil: powerful concerns buy up entire rain forests and deforest them in order to plant fields of
Soya. This documentary focuses on this vast and
invasive reclamation process and its social and
ecological ramifications. The starting point is the
newly paved tarmac road, the BR163, which runs
right through the rain forests of the Amazon.
Once upon a time it was natural rubber and gold
that drove people into the Amazon looking for
wealth or a better life: Today it is the Soya boom.
As a result land prices along the BR163 constantly rise and it is often only through illegal land
grabbing, that people can secure a spot.
For breakfast or with a slice of cake in the afternoon; at work but also in private – for many people their daily life would be unimaginable without coffee. Many drink it black, others in turn
with milk and sugar. However, when making a
cup of coffee, hardly anybody thinks about the
complex commodity-cycle. But globalization
could not be made more transparent than with
the aid of these three ingredients. This documentary sets out on a journey along the entire chain
of distribution and value creation culminating
with the consumer, portrays the people behind
abstract market mechanisms and, using these
three products, attempts to highlight (world)
economic structures as well as the alternatives
to a seemingly impenetrable globalization.
Three farmers – three countries – one product.
How much work goes into the harvesting and selling of one kilogram of wheat for a farmer in Austria, a farmer in Russia and a farmer in the US?
What kind of compensation do they get in return?
Although they are located in completely different
cultural areas, the farms are comparable in size,
income and social structure. Making investmentdecisions, coping with new agricultural regulations and dealing with everyday life on the farm –
they all act alike but ever so different at the same
time.
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Days of Catastrophe – Death in the Dark
Katastrophentage – Inferno im Gletschertunnel
November 2010 marks the ten-year anniversary
of the Kaprun disaster. On November 11, 2000,
fire in the tunnel trapped a railway car ascending
to the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier. 150 of 162 passengers died of smoke inhalation. It was, at the time,
the worst accident that had occurred in Austria
since World War II. The complete death toll was
155, including the conductor, a tourist on the
railway’s descending train, and three people at
the mountain station. The cause of the catastrophe remains controversial to this day. While Austrian courts consistently ruled that a German
company’s defective fan heater was responsible
for the tunnel fire, German courts and experts
assert the cause was improper handling of that
fan heater. The bitter dispute continues. This documentary reconstructs the tragic events, talks
to survivors and rescuers, and analyzes the consequences of this traumatic experience for the
victims, their families, and the people of Kaprun.
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Days of Catastrophe – Terror at the Airport
Katastrophentage – Terror am Flughafen
Abu Nidal’s bloody footprints stain Vienna and “Fatah – The Revolutionary Council” had close
Rome. It is a day that shocks Europe. On Decem- ties to the Stasi. The newly accessible reports
ber 27, 1985, three days after Christmas, the air- show that the terror group’s leader visited East
ports of Vienna and Rome become the sudden Berlin several times in 1985, the year of the attarget of Middle East terror. The then-notorious tacks – for education, arms, and ideological traiAbu Nidal Organization makes coordinated at- ning. Also for the first time, the traumatizing
tacks on the check-in counters of the Israeli air- events in Vienna are presented from an Israeli
line El-Al in both cities. The merciless result: point of view, since the terrorists’ actual targets
three dead in Vienna, sixteen in Rome, and a to- were El-Al passengers to Tel Aviv. One of them,
tal of more than one hundred injured. Several of severely wounded in the attack, died in a Viennethe terrorists are shot by the responding security se hospital. And Israeli security officials played
forces, and the survivors are arrested. The terro- an essential role, too: El-Al’s security took an acrists – Palestinians, but opponents of the PLO – tive part in hitting back at the terrorists. Twentyare stopped for the moment. But the shock goes five years later, the unanswered questions of the
deep, and lingers. It is the first time an Austrian time are examined with the knowledge of today.
airport has been the victim of a terrorist attack. How did the attacks actually unfold? Were there
Twenty-five years later, the film “Terror at the Air- precautions for terror of that scope or any secret
port” follows the bloody trail of Abu Nidal and service warnings? What did the East German Stareconstructs the attacks – presenting new facts, si know about Abu Nidal’s plans? Were there crepreviously unknown documents, and surprising dible threats against Austria, known for its
statements from eyewitnesses and others involved. One of the sensational new sources is documentation from the former East Germany’s state
security service, the “Stasi”. Research for “Terror
at the Airport” delved deep into the former German Democratic Republic’s archives, the first
time this source has been examined for information about that horrible crime. Abu Nidal and his
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strong pro-PLO position? The answers expose
new facts and surprising results. A quarter of a
century after the bloody events, a fuller picture
of the Abu Nidal Organization emerges – a Palestinian group that chose to make Austria a target
because of its Palestinian-friendly politics.
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Days of Catastrophe – White Death
Katastrophentage – Tod im Schnee
It was the Alps’ greatest avalanche catastrophe.
In January 1954, thirteen avalanches laid waste
to entire villages in the state of Vorarlberg’s Walsertal region. In the hardest-hit village of Blons
alone, 118 people are buried in their houses. A
second avalanche, nine hours later, buries most
of the rescue teams. Eventually, 55 victims are
recovered dead, and another two remain missing. The terrible result of this infamous winter
of avalanches: more than 260 buried alive, 45
seriously injured, and 125 dead – mostly killed
in their crushed homes. It was the biggest natural disaster in the Eastern Alps after World War
II. Helicopters of the French occupying forces
and American soldiers on the ground assisted
in the rescue effort. The catastrophe of Blons
prompted the construction of avalanche protection throughout the Alps. The inhabitants of the
alpine valleys had lived with the “White Death”
for centuries, accepting avalanches as an act
of fate. The higher-situated villages of the Walsertal still offer a glimpse into the traditional,
almost archaic life of today’s mountain population. Survivors of the catastrophe of Blons talk
about living and dying in that terrifying time, of
shrugged-off warnings, neglected dangers, and
how the sorrow was overcome. Rescuers speak
of their helplessness in the face of utter destruc-
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tion and its human cost. This documentary ties
into the bestselling book “Der Atem des Himmels” (“The Breath of Heaven”) by Austrian former rock singer Reinhold Bilgeri. Bilgeri, whose
mother survived the catastrophe in Blons, takes
us on a journey through his village and his past.
The film adaptation of his book is scheduled for
release in autumn 2010.
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Lighter Than Air
Leichter als Luft
Out of Paradise, Back into Hell
Aus dem Paradies zurück
in die Hölle
Europe’s Largest Crucible –
The Hunt for Jackl the Sorcerer
Hast du den Zauberer Jackl gekannt?
Forty years ago a group of young men and women moved in with friends in Switzerland and
subsequently to France in order to build an airship. With this plan the hippie commune wanted
not only to escape the boredom of student life,
but also to make a contribution towards the development of alternative technologies. After a
very promising start and developing their own
materials, the time came for the first attempt at
flight, which ended in disaster with the airship
exploding. After this setback the commune drifted apart; part of the group emigrated to the USA,
where even NASA employees were persuaded to
join their project. But with this the time for dreaming came to an end. The group scattered to the
four winds. But the story of the airship is not
over. Thirty years later this documentary film
looks at the search for a utopian world from the
present day point of view.
In the years 1941 to 1943 approximately 10,000
Austrian Jews were deported from Vienna to the
Belarus capital of Minsk and then on to the National Socialist concentration camp, Maly Trostinez. Only 20 people survived this horror.
Amongst them is now 82-year-old Alfred Seiler
who has lived in Florida for many years. Tormented his entire life by the dreadful memories from
the past, he embarks on a journey to the former
sites of horror in an attempt to finally process the
terrible experiences in the NS camp. Can he banish them once and for all?
In the harsh times of the 17th century, loss of
faith and bad living conditions are an ideal breeding ground for myths and stories of witchcraft.
Jackl Koller and his mother Barbara band together with groups of beggar’s children to survive poverty, famine and illness. Under torture,
Barbara confesses that she and her son cast curses on farmers who refused to give them money.
An arrest warrant is issued for her son Jackl, marking the beginning of the largest witch-hunt in
Europe’s history. This documentary explores
what life must have been like in those times
using dramatic re-enactments.
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When the Sun Stands Still –
Kepler, Galileo and the Heavens
Wenn die Sonne still steht –
Kepler, Galilei und der Himmel
Princely Treasures –
The Liechtenstein Saga
Fürstliche Schätze –
Die Liechtenstein Saga
Vampire Princess
Die Vampirprinzessin
It was 400 years ago that Galileo Galilei opened
the window to the skies with a telescope. In 1609
Johannes Kepler published his “Astronomia
Nova” and in the process provided us with a new
understanding of our solar system. This documentary tells the little-known story of the curious
relationship between the two worldfamous scientists: a parallel tale of admiration and rivalry
from a time when the disciplines of religion, art
and science had yet to be separated.
The saga of the Lichtenstein family, one of
Europe’s last great royal dynasties, is brought to
life with the aid of the House’s world renown private art collection. The famous paintings of Rubens and Belotto are turned into a three-dimensional experience, so that the viewer feels almost
a part of the interplay between farmers and bankers, between reasons of state and a Baroque
lust for life. In addition to depicting personal stories and important moments in European history,
Prince Hans Adam II gives exclusive insights into
the life of his family.
An aristocratic demon hunting for fresh blood,
who strikes unsuspecting mortals at night – everyone knows the grim story of Count Dracula. A
legend from medieval Romania or interpreted by
a writer of horror stories? Now scientists can reveal the truth: The vampire story as we know
isn’t modelled on a medieval count from Transyl
vania but on the fate of a Bohemian princess
from the early 18th century.
The correspondence exchanged between the
protestant Kepler and catholic Galileo began in
the 1590s and came to an end in 1610. Based on
this correspondence the film shows the world famous scholars in all their humanity: were their
actions governed solely by common sense, or did
obstinacy, vanity, fear, indecision and a hunger
for fame and prestige play a part?
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The Voynich Code – The World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript
Das Voynich-Rätsel – Die geheimste Handschrift der Welt
It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A
book, written by an unknown author, illustrated
with pictures that are as bizarre as they are
puzzling – and written in a language that even
the best cryptographers have been unable to decode. No wonder then, that this script even has a
part in Dan Brown’s latest bestseller, “The Lost
Symbol”. The Voynich Manuscript has captivated
academics and occultists in equal measure since
its discovery 100 years ago. The decoders of the
Japanese Purple Code, physicists with high-performance modern computers and polymath historians have all tried their luck. But to date nobody has been able to decipher the book’s contents.
“The Voynich Mystery” follows a completely new
lead in the hunt for the author’s identity and uncovers the secret of the mysterious manuscript
using the methods of materials science.
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To the present day many historians believe the
manuscript to be a fake, allegedly circulated by
the New York antique book dealer, Wilfrid Voynich, in 1912 so that he could offer it to wealthy
manuscript collectors. Voynich did not, however,
succeed in selling the mysterious manuscript to
a collector during his lifetime. After his death, it
eventually found its way into the collection of the
University of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The manuscript’s age, origin and contents remained unknown. For almost a century, the numerous illustrations in particular have given rise
to the most adventurous speculation and astounding theories. The secret lettering itself is also
still a source of great mystery.
But now a new investigative approach has shed
new light into the maze of conflicting theories
and ideas. At the home of the Voynich Manuscript, the University of Yale, the mysterious
text has been looked at again using the methods
of material science.
Emperor Franz Joseph and
World War I
Kaiser Franz und der erste Weltkrieg
1918 – A New Beginning
1918 – Ende und Anfang
Death at Dawn –
The Emperor’s Last Battleship
Tod im Morgengrauen –
Das letzte Schlachtschiff des Kaisers
After the assassination of the heir to the throne, After Franz Ferdinand’s death the multiethnic
Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on June 28th 1914, state of the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell into miemperor Franz Joseph signed the declaration of litary and political turmoil and engaged in a dewar against Serbia. Misled by the military and vastating confrontation. The Russian revolution
political forces, the 84 year old monarch pro- ended the war in October 1917, setting free parts
voked an apocalypse. Initially the offensive was of the army for the Italian front. However, it was
intended to be limited by territory and time. the American entry into the conflict which finally
However, it ended in one of the vastest mass sealed the defeat. 1.2 million soldiers of the
mortality in human history.
“K&K Army” lost their lives for “Emperor, God and
Fatherland”. By the end of the war a different EuThe film shows the first 3 years of war, from 1914 rope had emerged, a Europe that was drawn
until the death of Emperor Franz Joseph, hus- along new ideological and political lines as the
band of the popular Empress Sissy, in November peace treaties weighed heavily on the already
1916 analyzing the background, motives and me- fragile fundament of the states. Two 100 yearchanisms of a war that was fought not only for old veterans who then were part of the Austropolitical and military dominance but also for the Hungarian and the Italian army share their first“salvation of the occident”. A battle between East hand insights and vivid thoughts about the
and West, between Germanic and Slavs.
background, causes, impact and consequences
of the First World War.
Premuda, June 10th, 1918 6:05 am: The Szent
Istvan is sinking. The most modern battleship of
the K.u.K. fleet has been hit by two torpedoes on
its maiden voyage. A camera team aboard the
Tegetthoff was sent out to film the first deployment of the new battleship. The planned scenes
of celebration would instead become a one of a
kind documentation of a horrific event. Their original footage forms the basis of this documentary, which recreates and analyses the tragedy.
Historical reenactments, filmed on historic ships
in Rostock and Athens, help define the atmosphere of the film.
Using 3D animation and a diving expedition to
the wreck of the Szent Istvan off the coast of Croatia, the filmmakers attempt to resolve the last
mysteries of the ship’s destruction.
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Hitler’s Useful Idols – A Star for all Seasons
Hitlers nützliche Idole – Ein Star für alle Jahreszeiten
Adolf Hitler was full of admiration. He sent a
splendid flower bouquet and congratulated her
on her artistic mastery. In return, he received a
telegram of thanks: “If I somewhat diverted you,
mein Führer, for a few brief moments from the
burden of your important responsibilities, I shall
be forever proud and happy. With a German salute, your Marika Rökk.”
war. At her concerts, whether on the front or in
the German cities suffering more and more bombings, Marika Rökk presented herself as a merry
whirlwind even in the face of imminent defeat,
offering an artistic sedative against the grim toll
of the bombings and the shattered economy.
Particularly her revue fi lms with their stereotypical and idealized world-view counteracted the
grueling reality of the German “total war”. These
It was November 1940, and the Führer’s “impor- “hang in there” movies offered people their last
tant responsibilities” had already lacerated the escape into illusion.
continent. Large parts of Europe were subjugated to German rule, Nazi racial laws were in full After 1945, she suffered a brief fall from grace.
force, and many Jews had either fl ed or been ex- Rökk hadn’t appeared in any propaganda films.
pelled, among them elites in music, theater, and “So what did I have to pay for?” she asked rather
film. Through her skill in dance and song, Marika rhetorically and bitter after she was banned from
Rökk sought to entertain not only the Führer, but public appearances until 1948. Her inclusion on
an entire people. Positioning herself as entirely the “black list”, however, was quickly counterbanonpolitical, she claimed allegiance only to art, lanced by her performances for the American oclaughter, and entertainment. By the time Hitler cupying forces. Allegations that she had been a
rose to power, she was already a star, internatio- Nazi spy were soon dismissed, and a court of honally acclaimed for her revue appearances in nor of the actors’ union provided her rehabilitatiNew York, London, Paris, and Monte Carlo. Her fi on. Her talent was independent of any political
lm career, launched in 1934, made her an idol for system or ideology. It wasn’t just a Nazi dictator
an entire generation – even after the war. The who loved her but the Americans and Russians
Nazi regime was “celebrity-crazy”. It paid court too, especially in the newly established demoto its “Aryan artists” and exploited their vanities. cratic Austrian republic. She was, indeed, a star
After the expulsion of the Jewish artists, it took for all seasons and would soon divert her audienstars like Marika Rökk, popular names, public ces again, this time from the daily routine under
endorsements and other such reassurances to Allied occupation and life between the ruins left
prove that the German nation’s entertainment by the relentless bombings of war.
industry and cultural achievements would continue under the Nazi swastika. Excepting Zarah
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Hitler’s Useful Idols – Hitler’s Wings
Hitlers nützliche Idole – Hitlers eiserner Engel
The incredible story of a young woman who
crossed the Andes in a glider, piloted a helicopter through a sports arena, and advanced to chief
test pilot of the German air force.
Hanna Reitsch was born on March 29, 1912 in
Hirschberg, Silesia. She was one of the bestknown and most successful German female pilots of the 20th century, and set over forty records
in all classes and all types of airplanes. At first
glance, Hanna Reitsch doesn’t fit the Nazi ideal
of a German woman and mother at all, yet the
young pilot soon turns into one of the most popular heroines of Hitler’s regime. She embodies
modernity, daring, and unconditional belief in
Nazi ideology, and the Nazis in turn offer the ardent aviation pioneer every opportunity to live
her dream. Hanna Reitsch succumbs to their seductions. She is received into the Nazi leaders’
innermost circle and always a welcome guest at
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both the Führer’s beloved Bavarian mountain
residence and his Berlin headquarters. A liaison
connects her with the “aviation hero” Colonel
General Ernst Udet, and she once asked Heinrich
Himmler, “Reichsführer SS, are you gassing
Jews?” As late as in April 1945, Reitsch tried to fly
Adolf Hitler from his Berlin “Führerbunker”, but
was unable to persuade him. Under heavy fire,
she landed a “Fieseler Stork” at the Brandenburg
Gate and was one of the last to leave besieged
Berlin, together with the commander of the German Air Force, Robert Ritter von Greim.
Following World War II, the female “aviation legend” lived in Salzburg, among other places. After 18 months in prison, she resumed work as a
test pilot, set yet more records, and was received
in the White House by U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She died in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1979
and was buried in Salzburg. Even long after the
war was over, she never completely distanced
herself from National Socialism. The German
news magazine “Der Spiegel” wrote in its obituary: “Hanna Reitsch … embodied to an extreme
the German National schizophrenia between outward modernity and inward medievalism, between technical and scientific intelligence and
blind ‘faith’, between personal decency and collective barbarity.”
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Hitler’s Useful Idols – Otto Skorzeny: Hitler’s “James Bond”
Hitlers nützliche Idole – Otto Skorzeny: Hitlers „James Bond“
Otto Skorzeny was one of Hitler’s most elusive
“craftsmen of war”. He was appointed commander of the newly established SS special units in
1943 and tasked with a new kind of warfare: fast
special operation strikes with air support that
could hit even far behind enemy lines. That same
year, Skorzeny became both famous and feared
around the world due to the spectacular liberation of dictator Benito Mussolini. Broad dueling
scars from his student days gave him his nom de
guerre: Scarface. To the secret services of the
Allied forces, he was “the most dangerous man
in Europe.” Until the end of the war, Skorzeny
was Hitler’s “most favorite command soldier”.
He received the orders for his most daring missions from no one but the Führer himself: after
Mussolini’s liberation, the capture of Hungarian
dictator Miklós Horthy, for example. Even aiding
in the development of special arms, Skorzeny
fought doggedly to the end to avert the Third
Reich’s defeat.
Skorzeny’s special operations had a decisive impact on the course of World War II. Even more
effective than any of his missions, however, was
the Skorzeny myth. German propaganda turned
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him into an archetypal “Aryan war hero”: far superior to his opponents, never shrinking from
any task, Hitler’s “one-man secret weapon”, a
kind of Nazi “James Bond”. Many still expected
him to score a crucial surprise coup during the
final stage of the war, a last-minute twist that
would turn everything around, such as assassinating the Supreme Commander of the Allied
forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, amidst
his general staff in Paris. The mission never took
place and was never seriously planned. However,
the rumors about it made the name Skorzeny a
myth on both sides of the front. Across the world,
Skorzeny above all others represents the idealization of the “upright German warrior” – respected equally by friend and foe – and is held in high
esteem in radical right-wing and military circles
to this day. Apart from his myth, Skorzeny
himself survived the war, though his voluntary
surrender to the Americans and his subsequent
acquittal from all charges at a war crimes trial in
Dachau, Germany, only fueled his myth all the
more. What could he be accused of in postwar
Austria if even his enemies didn’t consider him a
war criminal, but merely someone “who had only
done what they would have done themselves”?
To avoid the possibility of further trials in Germany, Skorzeny fled to Generalissimo Franco’s
Spain. where he was officially active as a businessman but also as a real estate agent. Simultaneously, he was credited with the most ludicrous
worldwide military operations – “Hitler’s magic
bullet”, so to speak, serving as a mercenary on
all continents. Otto “Scarface” Skorzeny, comicsuperhero of National Socialism, a strange conglomerate of German wartime propaganda, the
Allies’ ongoing fascination with the Nazis, and
neo-narcissistic hero worship. A superhuman
shadow figure who served as a projection screen
for even the wildest and most contradictory visions, for good as well as evil. Following his death
in Madrid in 1975, a group of former National Socialists and neo-Nazis brought Skorzeny’s ashes
to Vienna. The man Otto Skorzeny is dead but his
myth endures to this day. Men around the world
still dream of his adventures, read his books,
compete with their role model in state-of-the-art
3D computer games, and will even buy a Skorzeny puppet as an object of admiration.
Hitler’s Counterfeiters
Hitlers Fälscher
Dying for Hitler
Sterben für den Führer
Resistance to Hitler
Widerstand gegen Hitler
This is the true story of the largest organised
counterfeiting operation of all time. Former concentration camp inmates, who were involved in
counterfeiting operations at Ebensee in Austria,
look back on their experiences of this time in a
series of moving personal interviews. Adolf
Hitler’s plan was to substantially weaken the British economy by circulating large numbers of
counterfeit British banknotes. To this end, the
most talented Jewish printers, typographers, engravers and painters were selected from among
the inmates of the concentration camps, to produce the counterfeit money. Sensitively produced, with historically accurate and impressively
illustrated scenes, the documentary takes the
viewer through everyday life at the concentration
camp, the development of the plan and its implementation.
They were the most brutal dictators of the 20th
Century and fought the bloodiest war in history
seeking the complete destruction of the enemy:
Hitler and Stalin. Therefore the stereotypes of
the enemy served as manipulative propaganda
and Hitler succeeded to cast a spell over several
millions of people who then went to war only to
die or to return badly injured. Those who survived have been marked psychologically for their
lives with the gruesome images of war.
This documentary deals with the resistance efforts of Austrian Wehrmacht soldiers during
World War II, focussing on those soldiers that deserted from the army in an effort to escape from
Hitler’s war. Most of them were forced to pay
with their lives for their acts of courage. Those
that survived remained silent about their experiences for decades, fearing ostracism or being
called a traitor and a coward after the war had
ended.
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In this film, contemporary wittnesses tell of the
total ideological indoctrination under Hitler and
of the charging memories of the frontlines they
cannot forget, depicting the juvenile enthusiasm
for war and the fear of dying as well as their blind
trust in the “Führer” and their return home as
complete strangers. Private films and photo collections complement these defining life experiences giving an all to clear statement: Never again
War!
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Hitler’s Mountaineers
Hitlers Gipfelstürmer
Subhumans –
Pursued, Deported, Exterminated
Untermenschen –
Verfolgt, verschleppt, vernichtet
Mountain climbers, jungle explorers and desert
foxes – many of them ended up in the claws of
the Nazi Party, the SS or the Wehrmacht because
of their careers, scientific curiosity or their love
of travel. Were these adventurers aware of the
consequences of this association or were they
simply interested in pursuing their own interests
regardless of the price? That’s the question that
this documentary seeks to answer for the search
for pre-historic sites in the Sahara led to the development of maps for the Wehrmacht, while an
airborne expedition in the Amazon helped to develop aerial photographic analysis. The stories of
explorers like Heinrich Harrer and Laszlo Almasy,
better known as the “English Patient”, are retold
using spectacular pictures and footage from
places like India, Egypt and Peru.
It was the Third Reich’s first declaration of war.
Those who didn’t correspond to the Nazi ideal of
Aryan supremacy were categorised as subhuman
and pursued, tortured and murdered. This documentary focuses on the dual racial ideology of
National Socialism and shows the method and
perfidious perfection of its extermination machine, while also telling the stories of the suffering
of its victims.
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Forced Labour! –
Fighting for Survival
Zwangsarbeit!
Shanghai – The Port of Last Resort
Zuflucht in Shanghai
Freud’s Lost Neighbours
Berggasse 19 – Freuds
verschwundene Nachbarn
On March 7, 1943 young painter Philibert Charrin
was deported to the Austrian labour camp St.
Marein. Charrin, who is now 86 years old, continues to suffer from these traumatic memories
and remembers with horror those years of longing, homesickness and indignity. This touching
film examines the fate of Philibert Charrin as well
as other survivors and their families who were
left to deal with their traumata on their own once
they returned home.
In the years 1938–41 nearly 20,000 European Jewish refugees fled to Shanghai, a free port that
did not require papers for entry. Shanghai became the “last resort” to find a safe haven from the
Nazis. This lost world and the story of survival is
revealed through uncommon views of Chinese
life and the memories of four survivors as well as
through a collage of rare and remarkable film
footage.
While Freud and his closest relatives managed to
leave Vienna in time, more than 80 of his immediate Jewish neighbours were deported to extermination camps between 1939 and 1942. This film
traces the history of Sigmund Freud’s neighbours from 1938 to today starting off at his former home at Berggasse 19 and depicting the
routes which were used in the course of “Aryani
zation” right under the eyes of the Viennese people. Berggasse 19 became a point of remembrance to overcome the “repression” of war, a
concept first described by Freud himself.
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Sanctuary – Escape to Uncertainty
Flucht ins Ungewisse
Leaving for Bread and Butter
Butterkinder –
Überleben nach dem Krieg
New World –
A Journey through Central Europe
Neue Welt – Eine Reise durch
die Mitte Europas
Suddenly as free as a bird, yet still in mortal danger and stripped of their possessions; that was
the fate of over 130,000 Jewish citizens and political opponents of the Nazis who only managed
to survive the Holocaust by fleeing abroad. Those who succeeded in saving themselves experienced a dangerous odyssey which took them
from country to country, often only one step
ahead of the German Wehrmacht. By investigating the lives of four displaced Austrians on four
different continents, this documentary shows
their adventurous journeys.
In the difficult years following the Second World
War, around half of all Austrian children were
undernourished. In response to this, a number
of different organisations set up programs, in
which so called “Butterkinder” (butter children)
were sent abroad for a few months to put on
weight. Many of the little Austrians were taken
in by host families in countries that had been
under occupation by Nazi Germany. From these
short stays abroad, long standing friendships
were formed, some of which continue up until
today or have even been passed on to the next
generation. Alois Hawlik accompanied some
Butterkinder on a journey to Spain and Belgium
and spoke with their host families.
The film is a richly photographed journey through
old and new worlds across much of Central Europe, with lands known as Bohemia, Transylvania,
Dalmatia, Galicia and many more. Through music,
stories, anecdotes and legends, turn-of-the-century guidebooks and newspaper clippings,
scenes from today, and films and photographs
from the early 1900s a collage emerges of real
people struggling, surviving, and living their lives
between the worlds of tradition, change and
upheaval.
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The Invention of Europe –
(Un)expected Consequences of
the Marshall Plan
Die Erfindung Europas –
(Un)erwartete Folgen des
Marshallplans
Prague Spring 1968
Prager Frühling –
Der letzte Coup des
Sowjet-Imperiums
Architecture of Remembrance – The
Monuments of Bogdan Bogdanović
Architektur der Erinnerung – Die
Denkmäler des Bogdan Bogdanović
Many contemporary historians and academics
see the Marshall Plan as the first significant step
towards European integration. However the plan
devised by the former US foreign minister and
Nobel Peace Prize winner, George C. Marshall,
which initially cost 12.5 billion dollars, was controversial even at the time. Many American taxpayers were critical of the newly established policy
of using money from the US to help support
failed foreign economies.
On 21st August 1968, the escalating conflict between the Czechoslovakian reforms and the
Kreml led to the largest military operation since
the Second World War. Troops of the Warsaw
Pact invaded Czechoslovakia with 460 000 soldiers and 7000 tanks and brought a brief period
of social and political freedom to a grinding halt.
Between the 1950s and the 1980s Bogdan Bogdanović, the architect, urbanist and man of letters, university professor and former mayor of
Belgrade, created large-scale surrealist monuments against war and destruction, which were
dispersed throughout the whole of Yugoslavia.
His conciliatory memorials – some show the dimensions of ancient cities, others are genuine
land art projects – rejected not only the socialistrealist doctrine of the era, but also any political
or clerical appropriation. Already the subject of
hostility from nationalist zealots even during the
communist regime, as a humanist Bogdanović
was threatened with death in 1991 when civil war
broke out in Yugoslavia and his work became the
target of wanton destruction. This portrays a selection of his - in art history terms – unique and
until now inadequately documented monuments
for the first time.
This documentary traces the development and
effects of the Marshall Plan with the aid of interviews with eyewitnesses from that time. It attempts to bring the viewer closer to an authentic
understanding of developments following the
Second World War by portraying the fate of individuals in a range of different situations and professions, using the unique historical source of
the “Wochenschau”.
This documentary chronicles the political events
before and during the invasion that went down in
history as the “Prague Spring”. Emphasis is
placed on the special role of East Germany as an
agitator against the reformists in Czechoslovakia
as well as on the fragile balance of power between the USA, the Soviet Union and China. Archive material, interviews with eyewitnesses and
re-enactments form the backbone of the film depicting the desperate defiance with which the
Czechs resisted the occupiers.
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The Porsche Saga
Die Porsche-Saga
This is the story of an Austrian family that rose to
control a global corporation with more than
350,000 employees – thanks to the creativity and
technical genius of grandfather Ferdinand Porsche, whose name has since become both a
brand and a myth. The first chapter of this gifted
engineer’s life, however, is not a glorious one. In
1934, he receives a government contract to develop the Volkswagen Beetle. Porsche, a member of the German Nazi party from this time on,
and his inventions are heavily promoted by the
Third Reich.
In 1938, he is appointed chief executive officer of
the newly established Volkswagen company as
well as a member of its board of directors. Volkswagen never realizes the envisioned “people’s
car”. Instead, its technological developments
are incorporated into military vehicles: the “Kübelwagen” and the “Schwimmwagen” – an amphibious four-wheel drive offroader – both extensively used by the German armed forces. By
placing his son-in-law, Viennese lawyer Anton
Piech, in the Volkswagen company, Porsche secures lucrative orders for his own construction
firm. Under Porsche’s management, Volkswagen
increasingly transforms into an arms factory during World War II. The terrifying V1 cruise missile
is built there. Porsche’s Nazism, however, is not
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limited to producing weapons for the Third Reich.
On his personal initiative, Volkswagen accelerates the use of forced laborers from concentration
and POW camps. In 1942, a concentration camp
labor village with some 20,000 inmates is even
erected near the Volkswagen factory. Porsche
becomes Hitler’s favorite engineer, rises to chairman of the tank commission, and is eventually
appointed as a member of Nazi Germany’s arms
council. After the collapse of the Third Reich, Ferdinand Porsche retreats to Austria. He is arrested there by the French occupying forces, along
with his son Ferry and son-in-law Anton Piech,
and spends 22 months in prison. The genius of a
brilliant technician, his entanglements with Nazi
Germany’s politics, the myth of speed and mobility during the postwar German economic miracle, and the takeover of a global corporation after
the turn of the millennium – that is the Porsche
Saga.
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Mother Teresa – Saint of Darkness
Mutter Teresa – Heilige der Dunkelheit
“What am I working for? If there is no God, then Her life story is unsettling and provocative in
there can be no soul either. If there is no soul, equal measure; after all it touches upon the funthen you can‘t be true, Jesus!” wrote Mother Te- damental questions of human existence: why
resa in her notebook. Recently published perso- must we suffer? And why does God let it happen?
nal letters and notes reveal Mother Teresa’s – questions that troubled Mother Teresa througprofound spiritual crisis and shake the image of hout her life and which almost broke her. In spite
the “pious nun” to its foundations. How do such of this she did not dare to express them openly.
sentences fit with the image of the committed This film asks those questions.
missionary, who felt that her work was ordered
by God? How do they fit with the woman in a This portrait was produced to mark Mother
white sari and worn woollen cardigan who pre- Teresa’s 100th birthday on 26th August 2010.
sented herself to the world as the “servant of
her Lord”? Are they the cries for help of a physically and spiritually burned out woman, who hoped to hide her condition from the world in this
way, or are they the kind of experiences that
only “mystically gifted Christians” have? Mother
Teresa – who was she really?
These intimate confessions show the moral icon
of the 20th century in a different light. The woman who achieved worldwide recognition for her
life among the beggars and dying in the slums of
Calcutta often felt lonely and empty inside. She
described these experiences as a state of “darkness”, which she herself referred to as a remoteness from God.
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Homebound Through the World –
The Lifetime Journey of
Frederic Morton
Durch die Welt nach Hause –
Die Lebensreise des Frederic Morton
Archduke Johann –
Visionary and Philanthropist
Erzherzog Johann –
Visionär und Menschenfreund
Big Alma
Big Alma
Morton, who in February 1940 – back then still
under the name Fritz Mandelbaum – emigrated
to the United States, like so many other émigrés
carries these two strangers inside him. And down
to the present day he has not forgotten where his
long journey began. Andrea Eckert accompanied
Morton, a Viennese by birth, to Vienna’s 17th
district. Morton, of course, proves to be a great
storyteller, for example, when he recalls his
childhood memories of his grandfather. This is a
film about homecoming and thus Morton’s success as a writer remains in the background. The
main concern is the private person, who, in
Morton’s own words, lives in two exiles: an exile
with regards to geography and an exile with regards to time.
He was a monarch whose thinking was futureoriented and ahead of its time and which had an
inspirational influence on the whole of Europe.
However, two centuries lie between his actions
and the world of today; centuries in which the
world has changed more and faster than in the
preceding ones. What then of Archduke Johann’s
innovations can still endure today? This documentary shows a portrait of a man whose deeds
had a decisive effect on the lives of many people
and served as a basis for many subsequent generations.
For one, she was a muse. For others, she was a
sex-obsessed monster, and for some she was
both. The painter Gustav Klimt secretly kissed
her when she was just seventeen. She had a love
affair with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky only to end up marrying the considerably older Gustav Mahler. During her marriage to Mahler she had an affair with the Walter Gropius, who
she married after the death of Mahler, and a passionate fling with the painter Oskar Kokoschka.
After her divorce married the writer Franz Werfel.
The film shows the turbulent life of Alma incorporating interviews with contemporaries, experts
and archive material. In the center of it all stands
the myth and profane reality of a legendary
“femme fatale”.
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The Kampusch Case
Der Fall Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch –
One Year after Her Escape
Kampusch – Ein Jahr danach
In 1998 on her way to school, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch is abducted by Wolfgang Priklopil, imprisoned and isolated for more than eight
years. After years of presumed dead she finally
manages to escape from the hands of her tormentor in 2006. Piece by piece, this documentary reconstructs this hideous crime and provides
answers to questions left open. How did this
event affect Natascha Kampusch psychologically? What kind of pressures did Priklopil apply
to prevent his victim from escaping? How does
the young woman manage her way back into normal life today?
The whole world was glued to the television as
Natascha Kampusch presented herself to the public after 8 years of imprisonment in a dungeon
of an insane. On the occasion of the first anniversary of her escape, ORF presents the new life
of Natascha Kampusch. In an all-new interview
on her very first holiday in Barcelona Natascha
talks about her lately found freedom, her everyday life as well as how she deals with the past
and which dreams she has for her future. A fascinating young woman, who tries to accept her destiny struggling to find her very own place in this
world.
Duration: 50 min.
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Robert Altenburger
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Days of Terror
Tage des Terrors
The Mail-Bomber –
Unsolved Questions
Der Fall Briefbomben –
Die offenen Fragen
On December 21st 1975 the world witnessed the
most spectacular terror attack of the decade. A
six-member terror squad under the command of
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as “Carlos”,
stormed the OPEC building in Vienna taking seventy hostages, including the Oil Ministers of the
OPEC countries. This documentary retraces the
dramatic hours claiming three victims and its aftermath by reports of eyewitnesses and
reenactments.
Four dead and fifteen injured – that was the final
toll of the worst political crime in Austria’s history. For four years mail bomber Franz Fuchs kept
the police at bay, before he was finally arrested
by accident at a routine roadside police check in
which he detonated a bomb and lost both of his
hands. Despite Franz Fuchs’ conviction on all
charges, theories have persisted for years that
others were involved behind the scenes in the
1993–1997 mail bombing campaign as accomplices or assistants. Many questions relating to the
mail bombings remain unexplained. Right up until his suicide in jail, Franz Fuchs never divulged
important details of the crime.
See also:
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biographies
Hermann Gmeiner – Founder of
SOS Children’s Village
SOS Kinderdorf – Hermann Gmeiner
Hildegard of Bingen – The Legacy
Hildegards Enkel
Albert Schweitzer once described the children’s
villages as “the most pleasant miracle of the post
war era.” As Hermann Gmeiner’s idea was first
put into practice in 1949 no one could have imagined its groundbreaking success. Today there
are almost 2000 establishments and assistance
programs in 138 countries and territories, which
help thousands of children and young people
find accommodation and protection.
She was a woman who 900 years ago was alrea- “The charity of today must become the justice of
dy way ahead of her time: Hildegard of Bingen. tomorrow”. With these guiding words, Hildegard
With her teachings and works on religion, medi- Burjan became one of the icons of the inter-war
cine, music, ethics and cosmology the Benedicti- period of the previous century. In a time of politine nun was considered to be the first female ex- cal dislocation and the beginning of National Soponent of Middle Age mysticism. Her deeds did cialism, of crisis and misery, she founded the renot only have a great influence on the general ligious congregation “Caritas Socialis” and
population but also on the spiritual and royal au- dedicated herself to advocating the rights of wothorities. What did she bequeath to following men, fighting poverty and child labour. Born in
generations that still appears valid today? And Germany, she studied philosophy in Zurich befowho was Hildegard of Bingen really? A search for re moving to Vienna with her Hungarian husband,
answers.
where she became the leading female political
figure of the post war period demolishing the traditions of that time. Using elaborately filmed
scenes and numerous interviews, this documentary tells the moving life story of this fascinating
woman, who has become a symbol of emancipation and altruism and is now on the verge of
being beatified.
To mark the 90th birthday of Hermann Gmeiner
and the 60th anniversary of the founding of the
first children’s village, this documentary sheds
light on the founder and his ideas. Every-day-examples and exclusive insights show the development of SOS Children’s Villages into an international organisation that encourages homeless
children to face life again and helps those families who live in difficult conditions.
Duration: 52 min.
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Hildegard Burjan – Charity Pioneer
Caritas Socialis – Hildegard Burjan
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Duration: 45 min.
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The Man from the Ötztal Valley and his World
Der Ötztal-Mann und seine Welt
Clouds hang over the Hauslabjoch mountain. An
emaciated figure appears from the fog. It staggers and falls – with an arrow in its shoulder.
5,300 years later the Similaun Glacier gives the
mummified corpse up again …
In summer 2001 reports that the man from the
Ötztal Valley had been slain flew around the
world. The cinematic success story of 1999 now
had a new twist added to it: a murderous showdown in the Alps. To bring the big-screen production up to date with the latest scientific developments, Kurt Mündl turned back the hands of time
once more and looked back over the final year in
the life of the man who had achieved worldwide
renown as Ötzi the Iceman, and who was now the
most famous murder victim of the stone age. But
who was the killer?
When the Similaun Glacier revealed a completely
intact male mummy in 1991, the scientific world
held its breath: an almost perfectly preserved
human being including clothing and everyday
objects had been found for the first time - a Neolithic man who had lived 5,300 years ago. Today
“Ötzi” is one of the best examined patients of all
time, having been investigated by over 60 independent scientific teams. However the lost world
of the iceman will remain lost forever. How did he
live and hunt, what did he eat? What did the
Duration: 50 min.
Directed by Kurt Mündl
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landscape that surrounded his village look like,
and which animals and plants accompanied him
on his way?
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The Best Selling Monks – A Miracle with Side Effects
Die Bestsellermönche – Wunder mit Nebenwirkungen
Over a million copies of the “Chant Music for Paradise” CD have been sold over the past two years. The monks from Heiligenkreuz Abbey have
topped the charts across the world with their
Gregorian chants and left stars such as Madonna
and Amy Winehouse trailing in their wake. But
how did this unusual joint venture between commerce and prayer come about? And what effect
has their unexpected worldwide popularity had
on the monks’ lives? The documentary pursues
these questions and looks behind the scenes of
their success. It scrutinises the view of the world
held by Heiligenkreuz Abbey, an institution that
is considered to be ecclesiastically conservative,
reveals PR and marketing mechanisms and discusses the question of the extent to which the
success a CD of this kind can be sustained.
“The Best Selling Monks – A Miracle with Side
Effects” is the extraordinary story of the clash
between money and prayer.
Duration: 52 min.
Directed by Fritz Kalteis
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Nelson Mandela –
Man of Peace
Nelson Mandela
new
version!
What a life! Born into the royal family of the South African Xhosa people, but without any chance
of claiming the throne, the young Nelson Mandela sought his fortune in Johannesburg. With racial segregation becoming more and more inflexible, he got involved with the resistance and in
1964 was sentenced to life imprisonment. Stripped of his identity and reduced to a number,
Mandela spent the next 27 years in jail before he
was finally released in February 1990: The beginning of a triumphant return culminating in the
1993 Nobel Peace Prize and, a year later, the
South African presidency. This documentary gives us a portrait of a man, who, more than any
other, has become a shining light in the Dark
Continent and, ultimately, a modern PR phenomenon. It moves between the new South Africa
and historical episodes from the country’s long
road to ending apartheid, showing, along the
way, the milestones and controversial moments
of Nelson Mandela’s life.
Duration: 45 min.
Directed by Regina Strassegger
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Carl Djerassi –
The Father of the Pill
Carl Djerassi –
Wiens verlorener Sohn
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard
Carl Djerassi was born in Vienna in 1923 but, like
many other Jews, was forced to leave Austria in
1938. The “father of the contraceptive pill” made
a career in America as a chemist and eventually
became a multi-millionaire. His apparent good
fortune and success did not extend to his family
life however – his daughter committed suicide
aged 28. This tragedy continued to influence the
life of the scientist, patron of the arts and writer
throughout the following decades. In this intimate biography Carl Djerassi talks about his life and
gives us a self portrait of a fascinating, difficult
and, at the same time, brilliant man.
Christiaan Barnard transplanted the first heart in
1967. Pictures of Barnard were circulated in the
world’s press, and so did his numerous love affairs. In an exclusive portrait, Rose Kern shows
the late surgeon’s world: his parents’ house at
Beaufort West, where his father did missionary
work for the coloured population, his animal
husbandry farm right in the heart of South Africa,
and Cape Town, the city where he staged his medical triumphs.
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Sigmund Freud
Freud euch! – Sigmunds Wege
und Erkenntnisse
Erik(a) – The Man Who Became
Women’s World Downhill Champion
Erik(a) – Der Mann, der
Weltmeisterin wurde
A Life of Travel – Retracing the
Journeys of Max Reisch
Ein Leben im Reisefieber –
Auf den Spuren von Max Reisch
Sigmund Freud is one of the most important personalities of the 20th century and has not only
left his imprint on psychology, his very own field
of knowledge, but also on of science and cultural
and intellectual history; indeed, he has shaped
the twentieth century altogether.
Raised as a girl in a small town in the Austrian
Alps and celebrated as the Women’s Downhill
Champion in Portillo, Chile in 1966, Erika
Schinegger’s career comes to an abrupt halt just
before the Winter Olympics of 1967. The results
of a newly instituted gender check cause an international sensation by pronouncing her a biological man. Disregarding the vehement disapproval of her family and the National Ski
Federation, Erika elects to undergo gender completion surgery and assume what she feels to be
her true identity. After the operation at 20 years
of age, Erik begins learning to be a man. Seven
years later, he is happily married and the father
of a daughter, Claire. The film tells of the narrowness that plays out behind the scenes of peak
performance sports like the women’s downhill –
and the uphill battle of one person, who found
the way to himself, in spite of it.
21 year old Max Reisch became a household
name in 1933 after making an epic journey from
Vienna to India; 15,000 kilometres on a motorbike, without supplies or back-up, through dangerous regions like Iraq, Persia and Pakistan. In
fact, for over half a century the Austrian was
away travelling in Africa, Asia and America. His
accounts of his travels fuelled a fascination for
foreign places at a time when travel was impossible for most people. The filmed records of his
journeys have also become valuable documents
of lost cultures. This documentary draws an intimate picture of an early globetrotter, adventurer,
film pioneer and cultural commentator.
Otto Brusatti’s film takes us to Vienna, New York,
Rome, Paris and London and shows not only previously unknown material about Freud’s life and
environment but also takes a cautious look on
Freud’s doctrine.
Duration: 82 min.
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Estranged Passengers – Following
the Foot-steps of Viktor Ullmann
Fremde Passagiere – Auf den Spuren
von Viktor Ullmann
King Without a Crown –
Basso Star René Pape
Starportrait René Pape
Seiji Ozawa –
Maestro, Teacher, Student
Seiji Ozawa –
Meister, Lehrer, Schüler
Composer Viktor Ullmann, a pupil of Schönberg
and promising musician prior to Hitler’s rise to
power, was 46 when he was killed in Auschwitz
on October 18, 1944. Even while at the Theresienstadt camp he composed “Der Kaiser von Atlantis” (The Emperor of Atlantis), an opera symbolically dealing with the national socialist terror
that was to mark his own and his ensemble’s
doom.
René Pape is one of the most outstanding singers of a new generation of opera-singers. His
genre not only encompasses the great Wagner
roles but also includes young roles with sex-appeal, from Don Giovanni to Escamillo. The documentary shows the balancing act between the
star and the private person René Pape in portraying the singer in the thrilling world of opera with
all its joys and tensions and in his everyday life
and shows the opera-singer as jet-setter traveling from one country to another, meeting artists
like Daniel Barenboim and Placido Domingo.
Seiji Ozawa guides the artistic fate of one of the
most renowned opera houses in the world as
musical director of the Vienna State Opera for
five years. To do this, Ozawa ended his more
than 30 year involvement with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Tanglewood festival.
This film gives exclusive insights in his work as
well as in his private life.
Duration: 60 min.
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Directed by Haide Tenner and Thomas Bogensberger
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt –
25 Years Styriarte
Heimspiel für Harnoncourt –
25 Jahre Styriarte
Johann Strauss the Elder –
Life is a Dance
Johann Strauss Vater –
Das Leben, ein Tanz
Wolfgang Who?
Wolfgang Wer?
The styriarte music festival was first held 25 years ago. At the time the idea was to bring Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the pioneering conductor,
closer to his home town. This worldwide star has
remained at the heart of the festival to the present day and plays a key role in shaping the programme with productions that have caused an
international sensation. „styriarte” has become
the star conductor’s “home game”. Over the
course of the years he has recorded cycles by
Schumann, Beethoven, Haydn, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schubert here, and brought musical projects to fruition that would not have been
possible elsewhere.
Johann Strauss the Elder, one of the original fathers of the Vienna Waltz, celebrated his 200th
anniversary in March 2004. He was the genius of
music to revolutionize 19th century light music in
collaboration with Josef Lanner, leaving thus an
imprint on the spirit of the Biedermeier period.
Nobody would have guessed at that time that
Strauss the Elder was later to stand in the shadow of his son: After all, also Strauss the Elder
and his own orchestra swept a massive audience
away in standing ovations.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a trade mark, a
name with worldwide recognition. Yet: the man
behind the name and the music remains a mystery. “Wolfgang Who?” tells the story of this most
remarkable musician in two parts.
Part 1 shows his years traveling Europe as a
wunderkind under the vigilant eyes of Leopold,
his father, teacher, and nemesis.
Part 2 tells the story of his rebellion, initial triumph and final defeat in Vienna in the 1780s.
The documentary shows the chronology and
highlights of the past 25 years and, among other
things, provides a glimpse of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe’s
enthralling and enjoyable rehearsals for Bedrich
Smetana’s symphonic cycle, “My Fatherland”.
Duration: 30 min.
Directed by Günter Schilhan
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biographies
The Sound of Hollywood
Der Klang Hollywoods – Max Steiner und seine Erben
This documentary uses previously unpublished
materials and contemporary witnesses to tell the
story of the astonishing career of composer Max
Steiner. Shaped by the musical world of Vienna,
Max Steiner brought the music of Richard Strauss
and Gustav Mahler to Hollywood, where he established a new musical genre for the nascent “talkies”: symphonic film music. He produced musical scores for over 300 films, including classics
such as “Gone with the Wind” and “Casablanca”,
was recognised with three Oscars and still has an
influence on film music composers – such as the
Austrian composer Gerrit Wunder – today.
Directed by Jacob Groll
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The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a Serial Killer
The Infernal Comedy – Geständnisse eines
Serienmörders
Inside the Infernal Comedy
Inside the Infernal Comedy
“The Infernal Comedy“ is a stage-play for a Baroque-Orchestra, two Sopranos and one actor. It is based on the real-life story of Jack Unterweger, a
convicted murderer, acclaimed imprisoned poet, pardoned and celebrated
author and journalist, notorious womanizer, and prime example of reintegration, who gradually was suspected of killing a growing number of prostitutes in Vienna, Graz, Prague and Los Angeles, later vanished from Vienna,
fled into the U.S., got arrested in Miami, transferred to Austria, accused and
finally committed suicide after being convicted of homicide in eleven cases.
The deceitful criminal history of Jack Unterweger, the prisoner convicted of
killing a woman who subsequently became a literary sensation and was
considered to be a model of rehabilitation, is the true source and subject of
the musical theatre piece for Baroque orchestra, two sopranos and an actor.
With music by Vivaldi, Boccherini, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber
Recorded live at the Ronacher Theater, Vienna, July 2009
This role is perfect for John Malkovich. Together with the two sopranos, Laura Aikin and Aleksandra Zamojska, he is rehearsing at Vienna’s Ronacher
Theatre for the European Premiere of the “infernal comedy” – the press
hoopla around John Malkovich is somewhat reminiscent of the press throng
that surrounded the serial killer, Jack Unterweger, during his second trial.
Observations at the rehearsals for this unusual and genre-leaping theatre
evening are interwoven with background information.
John Leake, who spent 3 years researching the Unterweger case in minute
detail (“entering Hades”) is in conversation with Michael Sturminger, the
author and director of the Infernal Comedy. Martin Haselböck, the conductor of the Vienna Academy Orchestra, illuminates the beginnings and musical conception of this utterly new form with classical 18th century arias and
the fate of a 20th century serial killer to create a profound evening of musical theatre. The truth and nothing but the truth.
Duration: 102 min.
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Tango – A Strange Turn
Faszination Tango
Abrazos – Tango en Buenos Aires
Abrazos – Tango in Buenos Aires
A feature musical, “Tango, A Strange Turn” tells the story of contemporary “Abrazos, Tango en Buenos Aires”, encompasses nine days of concerts and
young tango artists who narrate their own histories and their relationship dances. The participation of thousands of tourists and residents, the preto tango. Eight groups of new-generation musicians and dancers appear— sentations of the typical orchestras, follows the history, and Buenos Aires,
each filmed in locations tied to their history. They perform twenty-two com- at the hands of great maestros, and we return to the moments when more
positions of both new and traditional songs. The music is accompanied by than 300 couples from all over the world competed in the hopes of obtaiinformal conversations that allow us to get acquainted with the lives and ning the first world crown in tango dancing.
thoughts of the musicians and dancers. Dance holds an important place in
the film, from the movements of non-professional young couples dancing
with great skill, to the experienced steps of older couples who help us to
see the differences and similarities between tangos of different eras. The
dance scenes, filmed in great detail, capture the elegance and originality of
their moves. Buenos Aires is also integral to the film. Tango lives in its
streets, in the way its residents walk, in people’s gestures and gazes—even
in the waiter carrying a cup of coffee to a customer.
Duration: approx. 55 min.
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Musically-Culinary
Musikalisch-Kulinarisch
Apples and Pears –
On the Trail of Ancient Fruit
Apfel und Birne – Alten Obstsorten
auf der Spur
Love Potions and Magic Meals
Liebestränke und Zauberspeisen
This 6-part documentary series follows the trails
of Vivaldi, Verdi, Strauss, Mozart, Puccini and
Berlioz and features not only their musical gems,
their homelands with its people and picturesque
sceneries but also their respective culinary passions. From simple pleasures to lush and exquisite specialties – their tastes were at least as different as their compositions turned out to be!
A look into the past, which might, at the same
time, also be a glimpse of our future. This documentary focuses on fruit species that have largely been forgotten in recent decades, but whose
diversity is now being rediscovered and is increasing in importance. These include Austrian pear
varieties such as the Hirschbirne, Speckbirne
and Muehlwiesenbirne and numerous ancient
species of apple. However the programme does
not just show impressive apple and pear trees in
idyllic orchards and the giants of the fruit tree
world. Rather the hunt leads back too to traditional habitats and the rural population, which has
lived in harmony with nature’s annual cycle for
centuries.
Some hobby gourmets will have certainly discovered it on their trips: The Austrian cuisine which
has much more to offer than “Schnitzel” and “Sacher Torte”. Whether it is black nuts, violet vinegar, cinnamon noodles or special “apple” tomatoes: only the best natural ingredients are
used in traditional cooking. Numerous innovative recipes provide a foretaste of the typical character of the region and its people. This four part
series takes the viewer on a culinary journey
through the heart of Europe.
For detailed
information
see ORF Mu
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Catalog.
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Vienna Woods –
A Region of Delights
Auf den Spuren der Wienerwald
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Round and Tasty – A Cultural
History of the Dumpling
Rund ist der Genuss –
Eine Kulturgeschichte des Knödels
Sustainable development has become more fashionable today than ever before, with agriculture also pioneering new methods. Understanding, participation and enjoyment serve as
background information about the management
of cultural landscapes by cattle and dairy farms,
vineyards, horse stables, timber yards and restaurants. This documentary shows, the necessity
and means of extensive and sustainable quality
development by which resources can be managed and conserved while helping nature to thrive.
Round is not always round. Starting from the The rolling hills and lush green landscape of the
dawn of history, the dumpling has conquered al- Austrian province of Styria offer two culinary tremost all of Europe and the wider world beyond. asures of international significance. The high
Every region and every epoch in which this nutri- quality rosé wine “Schilcher”, pressed from a vatious and tasty round delicacy has been eaten, riety of blue grapes, which is only grown in this
has contributed to the variety of dumplings region, is a delight even for the most spoilt palaavailable today. The many dozens of dumpling te. And those lured by the aroma of freshly
creations give an insight into the history of this pressed Styrian pumpkin seed oil to taste this
high calorie food, full of secrets, stories and an- “green gold”, will become immediately aware of
ecdotes, and its development up to the present the power within. A culinary tidbit of the special
day.
kind introducing stunning landscapes, local people, their culture and traditions.
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Rosé and Green Gold –
Culinary Delights from Styria
Von Rosé und grünem Gold
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Culinary Journey of the Senses
Kulinarische Reise der Sinne
The “Culinary Journey of the Senses” is a half-hour long culinary travel magazine show that presents a colourful range of global destinations, peoples and
their eating habits, including both traditional and sophisticated cuisine. This five-part glossy magazine show for connoisseurs also explores the culture
and lifestyle of each destination in a diverse range of countries.
Majorca:
Here the kitchen is directly on the beach once in
a while, enabling one to enjoy the sensory feast
that is Mediterranean cuisine as the waves crash
on the shoreline. This is rounded off with a glass
of Castell Miquel wine which is produced high up
against the picturesque backdrop of the Tramuntana mountain range in the northwest of the island. Combining indulgence with good health is
the motto of the 50 year-old vineyard owner, Professor Michael Popp, who has developed a special method of adding the substance resveratrol,
which has been scientifically proven to have a
preventative effect against cardiovascular disease and dementia, to his glass.
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California:
San Francisco and L.A. are the two key destinations on this journey. Excellent organic farmers,
a water company and healthy walnut oil are its
main focus. At the Spago restaurant in the film
industry and show business hotspot of Beverly
Hills, we are given the opportunity to look over
the shoulder of Wolfgang Puck, the star chef.
South Tyrol/Italy:
Bolzano is the starting point of this culinary journey. Its proximity to Austria is evident from that
country’s influence on South Tyrol’s cuisine, although it can also be very distinctive. In addition
we also tread in historic footsteps.
Canada:
The unspoilt natural landscapes of the Okanagan
Valley in British Colombia are home not only to
the best and most diverse varieties of fruit, but
also to Okanagan lake trout and rambling herds
of bison which have all left their mark on Canadian cuisine. The Sparkling Hill resort near Vernon
is a particular “hotspot”. This resort accommodates the largest example of publicly accessible
Swarovski-inspired crystal architecture in the
world. As the managing director of this innovative crystal world comes from Austria, it is even
possible to enjoy Viennese apple strudel.
A Cruise:
This sea journey begins in Italy and travels to
Monte Carlo via Africa, Ibiza and Valencia, meaning that culinary variety is guaranteed. At sea
the travellers are treated to Italian delicacies,
whilst during land excursions they are able to enjoy the typical regional cuisine. In Monte Carlo,
the Mecca of Formula 1, we visit a typically
French fragrance factory.
Summits of Pleasure
Gipfel der Genüsse
Exclusive meat dishes from chamois and ibex,
homemade dumplings, mountain spinach and
pasta prepared with fresh spring water. These
are just a few of the culinary specialities waiting
to be discovered in the mountains. On a journey
through the impressive mountain ranges of Europe, and on a search for culinary highlights, the
audience discovers top class mountain restaurants and villages well off the beaten track. The
arduous conditions and the often meagre agriculture require a massive effort from the local
residents if they are to master life at these altitudes. The idiosyncratic culture and way of life produces recipes that are part of a centuries-old
mountain civilisation and which are to be found
nowhere else. An intimate insight into the history
of these traditional and modern regional dishes
and the life of the people behind them. A journey
in search of tasty treasures from Spain’s Sierra
Nevada, over the massif central of the Alps to far
into Asia and the Caucasus Mountains.
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Heroes, Cult and Kitchen
Helden, Kult und Küche
History is not just history and a cuisine is not just
cuisine. Since time immemorial food, and methods of its preparation, has been closely bound
to historical facts, myths and adventures.
This six part series takes the viewer on a culinary
journey from antiquity to the present day and artfully fashions the deeds and misdeeds of warriors and heroes, as well as everyday miracles,
into a mosaic of dishes, rumours and history.
From the pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the
Phoenicians and Romans, crusaders and Venetians. From the Spanish to the Turks and from the
individual adventurers of antiquity to today’s internationally networked bands of art thieves.
Countless and varied landscapes, as well as the
authentic portrayal of their inhabitants, their cuisine and way of thinking, brings to life the mysterious history of the Mediterranean region in
breathtaking pictures.
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The Breath of Pan –
The Sensuality of Simple Cuisine
Robbers, Murderers, Corruptors of Children –
A New Look at the Ancient Pantheon
Aphrodite’s Plundered Island: Cyprus –
A Quarry of History
Hunger, Rage and Empty Dishes –
Delusions and Prospects of How to Feed the World
Sol y Sombra –
The Two Faces of Spain
Pepper Sacks, Thieves and Corsairs –
A Long Journey to Big Money
Dished Up – A Culinary Journey
Aufgetischt – Unterwegs zum kulinarischen Lebensgefühl
“Dished Up” is a glossy introduction to various
Austrian regions through their local cuisines. Cities and valleys, lakeshores and mountain villages, all have one thing in common: food and
drink define identity. “Dished Up” perceptively
and authentically portrays the relationships between culture, tradition, innovation, agriculture
and culinary customs – in short, a region’s way of
life.
Austria boasts a colorful variety of regions offering diverse living conditions. Our journey takes
us to countrysides, villages and cities, and into
kitchens that mean the world to their owners.
This series accompanies locals in their region or
city, tells their stories, gets to know their unique
foods, and outlines their philosophy of life.
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Silent Cooking
Silent Cooking
Patrick Mueller isn’t your traditional television
chef who keeps up a charming patter as he cooks.
He is unconventional. And that’s what’s best
about him: Patrick Mueller keeps quiet. It’s sheer
pleasure to watch him preparing his meals – without a word. One can just lean back, relax, and
watch a culinary work of art unfold – the transformation of healthy raw ingredients into artistic
meals, accompanied by background music
instead of chat. Important details and information are inserted in subtitles so the viewers can
concentrate on what’s essential: the cooking. In
each episode, Patrick Mueller prepares a threecourse menu. All recipes spring from his creative
mind and are usually only finalized while he is
cooking before our eyes. Every ingredient and
procedure is clearly labeled for the audience in
easily readable subtitles that quietly focus on
the essential, yet provide all information hobby
chefs require.
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Cooking for Kids
Klein und fein – Kochen für Kinder
Children like to create their own world. Hence,
the topic of cooking has to be introduced to them
in a creative, playful yet reflected way. The kitchen, thus, must be a location as exciting, mysterious, adventureous as a small jungle in the primeval forest.
Characters: Agathe, the pig cook is the chef: she
cooks in a weird manner, looks a bit sloppy, and
constantly forgets important ingredients. E.g.,
instead of salt she would take powder sugar - so,
at the end all her meals are an unforgettable experience!
The framework of the show: In a very playful way,
the children are demonstrated that cooking gives pleasure, that there are loads of very easy
recipes, and that cooking stimulates the imagination (raising awareness for a healthy food). In
each episode a specific kind of vegetable or fruit
is introduced. Why is it so healthy, where does it
come from, what effects does it have on us? The
kids are also offered fitness tips by an intriguing
“personal fitness coach”. Furthermore, the children will learn how to decorate the table for
friends and parents. And last but not least,
children’s songs, featuring recipes trigger the
entertaining character of the show.
Further protagonists are “The very hungry caterpillar”, Honey, the husky (a hand puppet), Geraldinè Gelatine, the Sommelier for kid’s cocktails,
a fitness-coach and some more.
The educational yet relaxed character of the
show represents the unique selling proposition
of Fun Cooking for Kids. “Healthy, self-prepared
food is fun!”
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Chefs Around the World
Kulinarische Weltreise
A thrilling tour de cuisine – 14 countries, 14 chefs, 14 philosophies, 14 celebrities! Cooking Excellency
meets extraordinary chefs meets culinary capitals. Eckart Witzigmann, chef of the century, will be on
site visiting outstanding colleagues at their respective restaurants to present extraordinary recipes,
exotic products and the philosophy of each chef, garnished with a glimpse of the chef’s private life.
New York or Sydney, Hong Kong or Sao Paolo, London or Cape Town, Vancouver or Madrid, Frankfurt
or Beijing, Strasbourg or Salzburg – gain insights into the culinary capitals of the world.
Each pit-stop of the “Chefs Around the World” is a mouth-watering portrait, a feast for the taste buds
that makes one thing clear: cooking is an art unto itself and chefs are true artists.
A new series – a tribute to the tastes of the world!
Episode 1: Juan Amador, Germany
Episode 2: Gabriel Kreuther, USA
Episode 3: Vivek Singh, United Kingdom
Episode 4: Gianluigi Bonelli, Hong Kong
Episode 5: Robert Feenie, Canada
Episode 6: Ryuichi Yoshii, Australia
Episode 7: Roland Trettl, Austria
Episode 8: Andrés Madrigal Garcia, Spain
Episode 9: JinR, China
Episode 10: Jean-Georges Klein, France
Episode 11: Alex Atala, Brazil
Episode 12: Mario Lohninger, Germany
Episode 13: Dieter Müller, Germany
Episode 14: Martha Ortiz Chapa, Mexico
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Con Amore, Pomodori –
Tomatoes Conquer the World
Die Weltherrschaft der Tomaten
Holy Oil – A Cultural History
of Olive Oil
Heiliges Öl – Eine Kulturgeschichte
des Olivenöls
Tomato, synonym apple of love, Italian pomodoro – some of the names given to a very special
fruit: Originally reaching Europe from the mountainous regions of Bolivia and Peru via Mexico,
tomatoes began to conquer the world in
sweeping triumph. For many centuries, tomatoes
had remained undiscovered, a gift of nature
hitherto unknown. Nowadays, the globally
linked, chubby red darling of all is a staple in our
daily diet. The film features the rise of the tomato
from once despised “devil’s stuff” to our ubiquitous “apple of love”.
For thousands of years humans have been culti- Peppercorns are hot stuff – not only inside. The
vating the olive tree. Tree, fruit and product form history of pepper is inextricably woven into wars
a homogenous entity in the cultural and every- and cruel personal histories, breath-taking careday history of the countries of the Mediterranean. ers and speculations. Columbus had set out to
From prehistoric times, to the beginning of the discover India, the land where the pepper grows
Common Era and up until the modern day, olive – and found America. Vasco da Gama eventually
oil was and is still used for holy rituals. This film came to India’s Malabar Coast at Cochin, the city
also shows the economic side of this valuable of pepper. The history of pepper also reflects costaple food: from depictions of primitive pres- lonialism at its most cruel. Is pepper thus a subssing methods, to early oil mills to today’s mo- tance of nightmares? Not at all. Or, at least, not
dern olive oil processing operations.
only.
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Pepper – Grain of Fire
Feuerkörner – Geschichten
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The Power of the Grain –
History of a Survival Food
Kornkraftwerk – Geschichte eines
Über-lebensmittels
The First Bite –
A Cultural History of the Apple
Vom Biss der Erkenntnis –
Die Kulturgeschichte des Apfels
The Potato-Story
Die Kartoffel – Missverständnisse
und Glücksfälle
The cultural history of bread as a formidable
source of energy looks at the origins of the grain
and reviews its economic and spiritual significance in various cultures. The film takes us on a
45-minute journey through times and across different cultures, stopping at all important sites.
Myths, legends and customs as well as literary
quotations round off a universal topography of
bread in its cultural dimension.
Like wine, bread and oil, the apple is one of the
essential foods embedded in myths and legends.
It also stands as the classic fruit of immortality,
seduction, love and eroticism. The documentary
follows the path of the apple throughout the different cultures up to today – all the way from biblical paradise to becoming the symbol of the
world’s most fascinating city, New York.
Beautiful but poisonous above ground and unsightly but nutritious beneath – throughout history no other vegetable has been the subject of
so much misunderstanding and misinterpretation as the potato. This film takes up the search for
its origins and seeks to discover how it became
one of the world’s most important staple foods.
Starting from a small Pacific island off the coast
of southern Chile, the journey leads over the
heights of the Peruvian Andes to Prussia, Ireland
and finally to Austria, accompanied by amazing
and tragic stories about the potato.
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Corn – A Handful of Life
Mais – Eine Hand voll Leben
Meat – Between Tabu and Delicacy
Fleisch Zwischen Tabu und
Delikatesse
Coffee – En Route from
Orient to Occident
Kaffee – Der Weg vom Orient
in den Okzident
In many countries maize is familiar first and fore- Killed, butchered, sacrificed and eaten – whether This documentary takes us on a cultural expeditimost as animal fodder, popcorn and cornflakes. we like it or not: Our cultural history is insepara- on through history and describes the marriage of
Yet maize – like rice – is a staple diet for a large bly tied to the meat of dead animals. From Abel’s culture and pleasure from the 15th century to our
segment of the world’s population. Indeed, for meaty sacrifice to antic priests performing orac- days. First only in use in the Islamic world, coffee
many people a handful of maize is – quite lite- les involving bowels to ritual killings of Aztec was predominantly consumed on ceremonial ocrally – their only “daily bread”. This documentary youngsters – it is all about meat. Hunting tech- casions – until the advent of coffee houses, origiexplores not only the history and the geographi- niques are featured in the documentary as well nally reserved for men only. A previously illegal
cal propagation of maize, but also its enormous as livestock husbandry now and then. The culina- “drug” became the centre of everyday cultural
economic and (more recently) political impor- ry travels lead us from the early methods of food development.
tance dealing with the topics of genetic manipu- – preservation to the delicacy of a Viennese souplations or its use as eco-fuel.
stew all the way to the tender seduction coming
from Kobe-Beef.
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Coffee Express – A Journey Through
the World of Coffee
Kaffee-Express – Eine Reise durch
die Welt des Kaffees
Noble Sweets – A History of
Temptation
Der Mehlspeis-Adel
Sweet Temptation
Die süße Versuchung
Coffee, the drink for which there are one hundred
different recipes. However even the main recipe
remains something of a secret. Nature stubbornly continues to guard the mystery that lies behind the aroma of coffee. Scientists have so far
been unable to unlock this secret, while the formula that produces the taste of coffee also remains largely unexamined. So what exactly is
coffee? And what determines its quality? After
arousing our curiosity, this documentary takes
us on a journey from coffee plantations in Brazil
and Ethiopia to European roasting plants and
coffee producers. On the way we discover a variety of methods for making coffee and hear
unique anecdotes about this very special stimulant.
Currently, cooking is the IN to do, especially
since Jamie Oliver & company have taken over
our TV screens. But those who entice us with
aromafilled cakes and mouth-watering chocolates still do their good works in the dark. So what
would be more natural than highlighting them in
a portrait of Austria’s pastry lords (and ladies) – a
documentary that serves up not just a delicious
sweet course but also a choice of cultural bonbons with a filling of love stories.
Chocolate, truffles or even pralines – temptation
takes many forms and its specialities often turn
our heads. This film is dedicated to the production of chocolate, from the harvesting of cocoa
beans to the making by hand, while also looking
into its fascinating history. Prize winning master
chocolatiers tell of their efforts to give the sweet
temptation a personal touch through their own
creations and constant experiments. Whether
it’s chocolate refined with essential oils from
France or produced with incense (which is a great
hit in the Vatican) – every taste is well catered for.
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Vino Santo
Wein-Kultur Vino Santo
The Genesis of Wine
Edler Tropfen – Vom Werden des
Weins
In countless cultures, wine has been established
as the beverage of choice when it comes to ritual
acts. The cultural connection between wine and
cult is rooted deep within us. Nowadays, oenologists, sommeliers and “winepopes” have taken
the place of high priests. Wine-critics like James
Parker are considered the new prophets and wine-literature such as Gambero Rosso is treasured as the new Holy Scriptures.
Austrian winegrowers rank top among wine-gro- The pumpkin as a cultivated plant comes in
wers and wine-lovers over the world. The film a very special quality. From a botanical point
team crossed fascinating stretches of Austrian of view, it is the world’s largest berry. Aficiovineyards in a hot-air balloon, and climbed down nados call the pumpkin “King of the Garden”.
deep into centuries-old vaults to track the sec- Through hundreds of years of cultivation, many
rets of wine-growing. From sprouting vines and different forms and varieties have evolved.
ripening grapes to the patient labour of winegro- Today, the pumpkin has turned into an object
wers with the maturing wine, and the variegated of cult. Many myths, rites and religions, who
animal and plant communities in the vineyards have survived through the millenniums, refer
and cellars – the documentary provides splendid to it. In everyday life, pumpkins are found in
and sublime images of the art of Austrian viticul- various forms: as a versatile food with many
ture through the passage of the seasons.
“talents”, as the centre of countless artistic
displays and as object of worship.
The documentary embarks on a journey to look
for the various manifestations of this phenomenon.
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Pumpkins – Old Myths
and Liquid Gold
Kürbiskult – Alte Mythen und
flüssiges Gold
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Fasting – A Journey to Freedom
Fasten – Eine Reise ins Freie
Gefilte Fish and Baba Ganush –
A Jewish Cooking Show
Gefillte Fisch und Baba Ganusch –
Eine jüdische Kochshow
Along with the trend for all things wellness related, fasting has also come back into fashion.
However, where in the beginning it was mainly a
means of losing weight, today it is increasingly
regarded as a spiritual experience. Fasting can
mean many things – but above all concentrating
on the essential, getting back to oneself. The film
“Fasting – A Journey to Freedom” travels with the
public from place to place. In the process it uncovers the fundamental principles of the Christian
practice of fasting in the world of today.
In the Jewish culture, cooking and consumption What’s the common ground between an ancient
are intimately related to religion: Dietary laws hunting ritual inNamibia, the Passover sacrifice
provide what kind of nourishments may be con- the Samaritans traditionally perform in Israel, a
sumed, when and in which manner. And the tra- rural funeral at the Danube and a barbecue in
dition holds that Sabbath, the weekly day of rest, New York? The Franco-American scholar in cultuas well as most other holidays are celebrated ral studies René Girard puts it spoton: “What we
with a feast at home. Join a Jewish family as they eat, how we eat and how we don’t eat – it all has
cook selected traditional dishes ranging from Ge- to do with religion.” This documentary explores
filte fish, Chrane, Matzo Ball Soup or Cholent to “ritual acts” throughout history, from ancient sacLevantine food as it is prepared in Israel. A culi- rificial rituals to the eating habits in the Fast
nary approach to a fascinating culture.
Food Age.
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Devouring God – From Sacrificial
Meals to Lord’s Last Supper
Gott Essen – Vom Opferkult zum
Abendmahl
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Systemic Yoga with Ateeka
Systemic Yoga mit Ateeka
Yoga Antistress with Ateeka
Yoga Antistress mit Ateeka
Yoga
Yoga
Sytemic Yoga is an instructional program in
which the viewer learns and follows Systemic
Yoga practices designed to add more quality to
life and slow the effects of aging. Each episode is
a combination of both dynamic and gentle yoga
asanas (positions), breathing exercises, concluded with a guided relaxation that helps to restore vital energy and youthful appearance. All
practices encourage cellular regeneration. All sequences in this program are highly effective antiaging techniques to help reduce the effects of
growing older while looking and feeling younger
and more energetic!
Yoga Antistress is a new concept in video production that blends wellness, nature and art. Nature
is a symbol of purity and peace; Art is a symbol of
everlasting beauty. The combination of nature
and art makes this video more appealing for the
viewers. Anti-Stress Yoga is a workout video in
which participants learn and practice various
gentle and restorative yoga asanas (positions),
breathing exercises and guided relaxation. All
sequences in the video have been created by internationally acclaimed yoga master, Ateeka, as
a highly effective stress release technique to
help reduce and better manage the effects of
stress in our lives.
In the western hemisphere Yoga is enjoying a
boom. But while most people think of Yoga as
gymnastical exercises to keep the body in shape
and healthy, the real experts know that it is much
more than that.Yoga is the journey to the innerself, the fusion with the universe, the becoming
one with the Divine. Dr. Jamuna Mishra – brahmin, priest, philosopher, teacher of yoga and
Ayurveda-physician – shows what yoga really
means and how the people of India for thousands
of years have integrated it into their lives.
Episodes: Yoga for Rejuvination, Yoga Fluid
Strengh, Yoga Ultimate Flexibility, Yoga Integral
Health, Yoga for Women, Yoga Deep Sleep, Yoga
Morning Wake-Up, Yoga for Mental Calm and
Clarity, Yoga Pranayama
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Carribbean Moments
Karibische Momente
Caribbean Moments shows a different side to the
Caribbean. Everyone visualises sand, sunshine
and palm trees – but hardly anyone really discovers what lies behind them. In fact an unbelievable variety of cultures, music and religions has
developed as a result of the different influences
– African, Indian, English, French and authentically Caribbean.
This documentary attempts to portray the people
- be they the Rastas, who have a lot to say about
their mission, the Amerindians in Trinidad, who
still have their own Queen, or the Black Caribs –
a mixture of escaped slaves and Caribs. In additi-
Episodes: Tobago, Trinidad, St. Vincent & the
Grenadines Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe,
Carnival
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on, of course, there’s a huge variety of music:
steelpan, parang, calypso, soca and chutney
soca shape Trinidad, whilst other islands are especially scenically beautiful, such as Dominica,
which is actually a single rain forest and which
seduces with its abundant vegetation. Here too
are the true Caribs, who occupy themselves with
traditional boat building in the same way as their
ancestors did centuries ago.
Grenada is the nature and spice island – the
world‘s largest nutmeg producer and also a large
cocoa bean grower.
Guadeloupe, on the other hand, is a French colony and has an incredible culinary tradition. This
is where the term “Creole cuisine” comes from,
which is characterised by French, Indian and African influences. Here we had the opportunity to
enjoy the world champion chef’s menu with him
in person. St. Vincent & the Grenadines is a natural paradise with black beaches, on which the
film “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the
Black Pearl” was filmed.
The films were produced in 6 parts to create a
documentary series that shows what lies beneath the surface.
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Spirit of Ski
Spirit of Ski
Spirit of Ski is a film series about freeriding that aims to combine spectacular off-piste skiing action with atmospheric grooves and breathtaking shots.
Spirit of Ski conveys the protagonists’ sheer delight at the free and unrestricted movement possible in their Alpine surroundings, their great love of snow
sports and respect for the beautiful yet rugged landscape through which they move all over the world.
Spirit of Ski
Spirit of Ski:
Elements
Spirit of Ski:
Chapter 3
Shot in Austria’s Arlberg region, the protagonists
transport the viewer in to their world of snow,
speed and fun. This film has a documentary flavour, as it also takes a look behind the scenes,
with interviews with the riders about aspects
such as risk and avalanche safety. The Arlberg
region is shown from a never before seen perspective that will cause the hearts of all freeriders to beat that little bit faster and makes the
viewer want to join in with the powder snow fun.
The world’s first ever night-time freeskiing shots
are a particular highlight.
The second film in the Spirit of Ski series is entirely dedicated to the search for the perfect run.
Our protagonists travel through Argentina, where they spend three weeks in a lonely mountain
hut in the Andes searching their surroundings for
the perfect line. Norway, Sweden and Austria are
other destinations in this film, which radiates
plenty of local colour and travel flair. The sporting action is complemented by spectacular landscapes and a powerful soundtrack. A film for all
those who want to see a little more of the world
and still experience some spectacular freeriding
action.
The third film focuses entirely on unrelenting action. Our protagonist, Stefan Haeusl, and a
group of fearless freeriders travel through Canada, Switzerland, Austria, Chile, Norway and Germany to ride on spectacular lines and push
themselves ever further. Ski base jumping has as
much of a place in this film as a freestyle kicker
session with the best park riders in Europe. With
this film the viewer has no more time to chill out
than the freeriders themselves, as they jump
from one spectacular situation to the next. A dynamic soundtrack gives it all extra spice.
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Legacy: Austria’s Influence on
American Skiing
Das Vermächtnis: Wie Österreich
den Schilauf nach Amerika brachte
Pioneers of Heliskiing,
Snowboarding & Freestyle Skiing
Heliskiing, Snow-boarding & Freestyle: Wie alles begann
A Women’s Race to
the Top of the World
Gipfelsturm der Frauen
Did you know Austrians brought Austrian alpine
culture to America, developed some of America’s
premier destination ski resorts and taught
thousands of Americans how to ski? This amazing 4-part series documents three generations
of ski racers and ski instructors, who due to poverty, war, and a chance to make it in “The Land
of Opportunity” emigrated from Austria to teach
America how to ski. These Austro- American Alpine Ambassadors became a brotherhood that promoted and cherished not only discipline and
hard work, but also entrepreneurship and gemutlichkeit. Together they won numerous prestigious ski races, coached many successful American ski racers and played a key leadership role in
the creation and development of some of
America’s premier ski schools and ski resorts.
Although the numbers of Austro-American alpine
pioneers have dwindled this film series shows
their legacy is still very much alive.
New developments in skiing equipment and various new trends breathe new life into this fascinating sport. Heliskiing is more popular than ever,
but hardly anyone knows who started it. Back in
the 1960s Austrian immigrants Hans Gmoser and
Mike Wiegele were busy inventing helicopter skiing in the Canadian Rockies. This lucrative business has added an interesting new dimension
and image to the ski industry. Together Gmoser
and Wiegele have brought alpine skiing back to
its Austrian roots. Skiers can enjoy untamed nature and the spirit of freedom. A spectacular documentary on a very special way of skiing.
The heroes and legends of international mountain climbing are all men – at least so far. However a new alpine race has grabbed the world’s
attention: three women are competing to become the first to conquer all fourteen 8,000 metre peaks. This documentary follows the efforts of
Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, on her attempt
to be the first woman to succeed in this endeavour. K2 is one of only two peaks that she hasn’t
yet conquered. Spectacular and dramatic images
captured the ascent and ongoing struggle
against overwhelming forces of nature, snow
and icy storms in the “death zone”.
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Shoe Stories
Schuhe
Mad About Machines
Liebe zur Maschine
Tobacco – The Weed
that Changed the World
Tabak – Ein Kraut verändert die Welt
Shoes: everyone needs them, everyone wears
them. But there is much more in shoes than their
practical purpose. In fact, it’s quite the contrary:
Shoes determine our daily outfit, with shoes we
express our individuality and our attitudes towards life, they are adornment and objects of fashion; and very often objects of desire. For centuries, shoes have been part of everyday life.
Shoes do not only reflect the history of fashion,
but also the social and cultural changes which
have taken place. Starring among others are Manolo Blahnik, who is said to have established the
connection between feet and sex, Carine Roitfeld,
the chief editor of the French edition of the Vogue
magazine or Valerie Steele, the shoe historian
and curator of the New York Fashion Museum.
„Shoe Stories“ is an informative, entertaining,
amazing and sometimes shrill exploration of an
indispensable object of everyday life.
Man and machine. From time to time this connection throws up some strange stories – love stories. In “Love of Machines” we follow people
whose passion is to give life to machines and
who are enlivened by them in turn. These supposedly inanimate objects acquire a soul in their
eyes, define their lives, and are a source of happiness that sometimes leads to a fervent devotion that can quickly become self-destruction. It is
about people who not only use machines, but
who also truly love them. With all of the consequences and “side effects” that love can bring puppy love, absent-mindedness, melancholy
and sadness. In these relationships happiness
and disappointment go hand in hand, just as in
human relationships, although for those who are
in love with a machine these feelings are doomed to remain unrequited. The protagonists’ reflections on their passion convey an idea of how
far love for a machine can go and of the light that
this sheds on their relationships with other human beings.
Since the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus tobacco has become known and
is widespread throughout the world. In the beginning, though, it was not used for smoking. In
the late middle ages and early modern era, tobacco was considered to be a medicinal “miracle
cure”. For example its dried leaves were pulverised and taken as a remedy for headache.
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This film’s lavish images show tobacco’s triumphal march across the globe and look in detail at
its harmful effects and uses in the production of
certain medicines.
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How The Computer Became Personal Pictures in the Sky –
Als die Schreibmaschine rechnen
The Art of Pyrotechnics
lernte
Bilder am Himmel – Die Kunst der
Pyrotechnik
Scent of Heaven and Hell –
A Cultural History of
Ritual Fragrances
Der Duft von Himmel und Hölle
Video surveillance everywhere, the possibility to
tap telephones and mobiles as well as to monitor
internet traffic: what George Orwell foretold in
his grim futuristic novel of 1949 has today, at
least in part, become reality. Fate decreed that
Orwell’s book title, “1984”, would anticipate the
year that saw the beginnings of the development
of the computer technology. The documentary
travels back to the Orwellian year 1984 and traces the most important stages of the computer
from its then natural environment to the present
day in our homes.
Essences have played a significant role ever
since we began to shape our culture based on
the first primitive cults. No matter which deities
men worship across the globe, the fragrance of
given substances has always played a key part in
expressing desire or gratitude, in uttering execrations or lamentations. Gustav W. Trampitsch
has traveled the world in pursuit of this phenomenon. The film features a visual and acoustic
documentation of the elusive, magical world of
ritual scent.
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Fiery explosions flash across the night sky, while
a thunderous rumbling accompanied by symphonic music leaves those watching struck with
amazement. The work of master pyrotechnicians
is an art. The planning, construction and choreography with music, as well as the organisation
and design must all function precisely, if the audience is to be carried away. Pyrotechnician
Christian Czech has reached the top of the profession: all over the world he creates fireworks
displays with increasingly complex scenarios
and scripts. A look behind the scenes at the day
to day work of these directors of fire.
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Rediscovering Freedom –
The Puch 500
Puch 500 – Die Wiederentdeckung
der Freiheit
Yugo 45 – The Worst Car in the World
Yugo 45 – Das schlechteste Auto
der Welt
No other car conjures up the spirit of Europe in
the 1950’s as strongly as the Puch 500, lovingly
known as the “elephant’s roller skate” or the
“snog-ball”. What 50 years ago was a symbol of
economic advancement is today an expression of
personality, or a kind of substitute metal dog.
With the aid of archival footage and the reminiscences of former drivers and Puch collectors the
film evokes a compelling sense of nostalgia.
One rarely finds an object with as much signifi- Their aesthetic and design bedazzle millions of
cance as the Yugo 45. This small car embodies, people – but while for most of us cars are just
in its way, the whole history of a country now basic commodities, for others they are more than
confined to the history books – the country that simply a means of transportation. This special
was once known as Yugoslavia.Introduced in kind of people are not enraptured by the views of
1980 it was the first locally produced car in Josip their cars only. They are eager to listen to their
Broz Tito’s great empire. A quarter of a century “language”, smell their “bodies” and feel their
later, the Yugo is still rolling along and even power. Luckily for the many avid collectors, an
made it into famous Hollywood action films. Alt- art form of its own has developed in no time and
hough parts may occasionally be missing and the today’s car makers sell an image and a lifestyle
motor is prone to overheating, the car remains a along with their latest model. This documentary
symbol of Yugoslavian national pride.
portrays some remarkable car lovers and depicts
their very personal relationship to their fourwheeled companions.
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I Love My Car!
Die Kunst der Autoerotik
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Maximum Male Beauty
Schöner als ein Aff
Good Sex – The Sense of Joy
Guter Sex – Vom Sinn der Erotik
Heavenly Lust and Kosher Sex
Himmlische Lust und koscherer Sex
Some men are even vainer than women. They “There are moments when you become one, “Heavenly lust and kosher sex” – in Judaism a fulspend hours in the bathroom and run to the gym, when you melt away and you begin to sense the filling sex life is expected, although only within
where they work on developing a “sixpack”. divine in both yourself and your partner. That’s the confines of marriage. Sex for Jews is not only
They dress like young people and some even try good sex with a spiritual dimension.” But what is about procreation but also lust and enjoyment.
to disguise their true age. But why? From the bi- the secret behind joy and a fun and healthy sex Women, as well as men, have a chartered right to
blical David to our modern David Beckham – has life? How does society or culture deals with this it, which naturally has had an effect on Jewish
the ideal of male beauty really changed? This do- topic? This film records how a variety of men and culture, both religious and secular. Jewish wocumentary attempts to discover what the new women discovered sex and how they perceive men are the centre of their families and have a
role model for men might be by asking cultural and continue to rediscover it all over again. They pronounced sense of self esteem. This film conhistorians, ethnologists, plastic surgeons and talk not only about the values they place on sex cerns itself with these and other fundamental Jecelebrities about their attitudes to beauty and as a part of their well-being but also give away wish attitudes to love and sex. The role of sex in
about the delusions of masculinity.
the conditions under which they experience the Torah is investigated, together with Jewish
“good” sex, remembering sexual experiences obligations and prohibitions regarding sexuality,
that have been formative in their lives. A very including the function of sexual abstinence dupersonal view about the significance of sex and ring menstruation and the customs surrounding
its evolvement over the course of life.
marriage and weddings.
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Hunting & Fishing
Patrone & Schnur
Cows in Jackets –
Advertising Unlimited
Wenn Kühe Jacken tragen –
Werbung ohne Grenzen
Life for the Queen
Leben für die Königin
Whilst the oceans all over the globe are being fished to the point of collapse, anglers in particular
are seeking to ensure healthy fish stocks in our
waters, and not just through large-scale financial
investment. Without fishing enthusiasts, carp,
pike, zander and trout would be threatened with
extinction due to a lack of natural spawning
grounds. Without the hunting fraternity, agriculture and forestry would be unimaginable too today, with the “green warriors” now seeing themselves more as gamekeepers than huntsmen,
there to guarantee healthy wildlife populations.
The documentary, “Hunting & Fishing”, reflects
the fascination, tradition, customs and ecological interrelationships of hunting and fishing, pastimes that in Austria alone are enjoyed by an
estimated million people, and examines this ancient way of obtaining food in a fair light. After
all, man was a hunter well before he began to
farm.
The world of classic marketing is changing rapidly. “Ambient Media” is the magic word that describes the fast growing sector of new non-classic forms of advertising which are deployed
directly into the social environment of their target group and takes the advertising industry “out
onto the streets”. In doing so the industry employs increasingly radical tricks to awaken desire
and attract attention. This film calls on the most
creative people in the advertising world in 25
world metropolises and gets their opinion on this
new branch of advertising.
Any beekeeper can produce honey, candles,
mead and ointments. That’s why master beekeeper Peter Unterberger decided to specialise
in breeding queen bees. It’s a difficult undertaking that requires lots of patience and intuition.
This documentary follows the internationally renowned beekeeper over several months as he
produces his niche product. Additionally the
busy expert beekeeper, whose family has kept
bees for generations, holds numerous courses at
his idyllic “bee farm”, in which he passes on his
unparalleled knowledge. Without any ifs and
buts, it’s a bee-autiful life!
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The Edelweiss Enigma
Edelweiss – Star der Alpen
High up in the European Alps grows a little flower
with cult-like status known to millions around
the globe. Once picked, it will keep its shape and
colour for hundreds of years and thus boosted
many myths and secrets – the Edelweiss. Besides prominently featured in a song from the film
“Sound of Music” it stands in as a trademarksymbol for all kinds of products and things, even
for beer or a French astronomy project. Called
“The Everlasting Flower” by Asian people the
Edelweiss is used as a medicine by Buddhist doctors, for lighting fires as well as firing guns. Now
scientists have revealed an astounding prospect.
Edelweiss, the flower of memory, may be a key to
human memory.
From the European Alps to the Steppes of Mongolia, through nature, culture, myth and medicine, the Edelweiss Enigma goes in search of the
truth behind a flower that has captured peoples’
imaginations for centuries. Combining blue chip
images, rare archive, playful animation, and characters that will have you singing along – the
Edelweiss Enigma shows what can happen when
myths become reality.
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The Future of Ageing
Die Zukunft des Alterns
Paracelsus –
Man is his own Medicine
Paracelsus – Der Mensch ist des
Menschen Medizin
Those That Can Cure
are Always Right
Wer heilt hat Recht
Humanity has been confronted with a new problem. The world’s population is ageing at an increasing speed while the birth rate is falling – and
not just in developed countries. Naturally these
new projections have a significant political dimension too: the declining birth rate is having a
negative impact on economic growth, education
is becoming more expensive etc. This documentary takes a look at the question of ageing and
the changes that it is bringing to the community
– including the biological processes of ageing
cells and tissue and how best to safeguard
health and quality of life as one gets older. Moreover it tries to offer solutions how to make our
environment more “elderly friendly” through
changes to infrastructure, city planning and technological advances.
Paracelsus – a philosopher, physician, alchemist
and field researcher of traditional European folk
medicine. He rejected theoretical learning; for
him only his experience and the observations he
had made on his travels throughout Europe
counted. His aim was to understand the true nature of man and his relationship to the cosmos,
and he sought ways to produce genuinely curative medicines with whose help he hoped to be
able to create in man a harmony of body, mind
and spirit. Even in his day Paracelsus had discovered man’s ability to heal himself. What remains
of Paracelsus’ holistic view of the world in
today’s system of medicine? We found people
who look to Paracelsus and apply his knowledge
of holistic healing in a practical way: anthroposophical physicians, naturopaths, pharmacists and
spagyricists, exponents of astromedicine and
herbalism as well as representatives of the EU
platform for complementary medicine.
Many people, including doctors, are sceptical
about the effects of alternative medicine and
such therapies are often not recognized or subsidised by state health systems. This film explores
the complexity of sickness and health and shows
doctors who employ both standard and alternative therapies or use the middle ground between
the two. Can complementary therapies add something to conventional medicine? Is holistic
medicine the way of the future – even without
the support of lobby groups and pharmaceutical
companies?
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The Art of …
Die Kunst der …
“The ‘The Art of …’ series shows the very special
relationship between people and their passions.”
Award-winning director Werner Boote (“Plastic
Planet”) originated the documentary series for
ORF. Each episode focuses on one of many highly
different, sometimes bizarre aspects of art, including musings on Christmas decorations, car fetishism or sun tan.
Episodes:
The Art of Grieving
The Art of Suntan
The Art of House-Building
The Art of Pulp Ficiton
The Art of House Music
The Art of Sound
The Art of Christmas Decoration
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Pilgrimage, Bathing & Praying –
The Hindu Festival of Kumbh Mela
Pilgern, Baden, Beten
The Unfaithful
Die Fremdgängerin
Kumbh Mela, the festival of the pitcher, is the largest of the Hindu religion’s festivals. It takes
place every twelve years – according to the cycle
of Jupiter around the sun – in four different locations in India. Sadhus, holy Indian monks, come
together from every corner of India to take part in
the ritual ablutions. For many Hindu orders, the
Kumbh Mela is also where they inaugurate and
accept students into their communities. This documentary accompanies two practising Hindus,
Swami Maheshwarananda, who has lived in Austria for many years, and Lisa Wolf, a native of Vienna, to the festival of the pitcher. Maheshwarananda is the founder of the worldwide order
“Yoga in Daily Life” and Lisa Wolf is a painter who
was accepted into the Hundertwasser class of
the time on the strength of pictures that she produced at a Kumbh Mela 24 years ago.
A woman trading art against religion - who mar- The pig – good luck charm, tasty treat, insult and
ries for the first time and for whom feminism and taboo food. Be it at Easter or around the turn of
Islam are no contradiction. A woman who loves a the year, the Christian cultural sphere has no
man from Yemen 22 years younger then herself problem with pigs – on the contrary. Apart from
and whom she met when he was a jeep driver. the occasional exception such as “dumb” or “dirShe shares him with his first wife Fosia and ty”, the pig, which is the major dietary source of
Fosia’s six children. The breaking of taboos and animal protein and not just in Europe, enjoys exthe struggle with contradictions, crossing bound- tremely positive connotations: as a good luck
aries and being unfaithful – these issues affected charm at New Year or as a sweet piglet in advereven the camera team in their efforts to make tising. In Judaism and above all Islam pigs and
this documentary. What may and may not be fil- their flesh are considered to be abhorrent and
med? One Muslim woman talks to the camera impure, damaging to a person’s body and soul.
comfortably, while the other refuses. Who is The pig is not “kosher” to the Jews and even less
pulling the strings in the background, and who is “halal” for Muslims. What lies behind this striking
trying to get attention? Are tradition and reli- discrepancy? The documentary on the subject of
gious rules only pretexts for a skillful masquera- the “Poor Pig” covers a lot of ground, from the
de?
massacre of those pigs that serve as a means of
subsistence for Coptic Christians on the streets
of Cairo, and European slaughterhouses, beer
tents and churches, to high-end kosher restaurants …
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Poor Pig –
Much Loved, Wildly Controversial
Armes Schwein
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documentaries social issues & religion
The Power of Prayer
Die Macht des Gebets
A Glimpse of the Other Side –
There Is Probably No God
Near Death Experiences
Es gibt keinen Gott –
Blick ins Jenseits – Nahtoderlebnisse Atheisten machen mobil
Does God act when we talk to him? Every religious person will have asked themselves this
question at one time or another and opinions on
the subject could not be more varied. For some
prayers are a magical means of communication
with higher powers while for others they are simply another means of meditation. However, since
time immemorial human beings have attempted
to gain the favour of their god or gods respectively. This film explores the socio-religious and
spiritual significance of prayer in Christianity, the
Voodoo cult and in Buddhism.
Since the 1970s, near death experiences have For several years now, the “New Atheism” has
become the subject of public curiosity. And since been making headlines. Books, billboards and
that time, more and more people have put aside city buses announce: “There’s probably no God.
their fear of speaking out about their experien- Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” World
ces. In the documentary “A Glimpse of the Other famous scientists, such as Richard Dawkins, the
Side”, three women talk about what happened evolutionary biologist, as well as the people
to them on the threshold of death. All three recall from next door who until now have kept quiet,
their experiences having progressed in a similar are forming a front against religion and the Churmanner: they all report seeing themselves lying ch. Is atheism becoming a movement of its own?
dead and observing what was happening in the Does it still make sense to be discussing a life
room from outside their bodies. They describe without God in what appears to be a largely godapproaching a light in a tunnel and having been less society? And do atheists live differently, and
welcomed by their dead relatives. This phenome- if so, how are they different? The film visits the
non is now also being examined from a scientific “New Atheism’s” leading lights, such as Richard
perspective. What happens after death? And Dawkins, Andrew Copson, the founder of the
what part of a person continues after death? London bus campaign, and the French philosoAbove all, these questions relate to faith and re- pher and atheologist Michel Onfray.
ligion. So the fact that there might actually be
points of contact with quantum physics may at
first glance seem absurd.
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Miracles
Wunder
Marathon Instead of Pilgrimages
Marathon statt Prozession
The Church Under the Rainbow –
Gay Christians
Kirche unterm Regenbogen –
Homosexuell und dennoch Christ
Since the appearance of the Blessed Virgin, Placanica has become a place of pilgrimage, in
which numerous “miracle cures”, heavenly
scents, prophetic speeches, levitation and visions are said to have occurred. The Vatican has
now decided to appoint a scientific commission
to investigate the “miracles”, as more and more
people are visiting the place to experience a
wonder. The film accompanies pilgrims, many of
whom have travelled thousands of kilometres in
hope of receiving a sign from God.
Despite growing secularisation and the decline
of institutionalised religion, religious phenomena appear to be increasingly present in everyday
life. The attractions of today’s leisure and funloving society seem to provide fertile ground for
religious experiences. Above all, sport has come
to be regarded by many people as offering an increasingly important alternative to traditional
religious meaning. Top sportsmen and women,
trainers and theologians tell of their transcendental experiences and of the points of intersection and divergence between religion and sport.
Have marathons replaced pilgrimages?
For centuries it was the theological and political
custom to view homosexuality as a violation of
the natural order and as illicitexcess. However,
increasing findings in human sciences have
shown that homosexuality is a developmental
variation and therefore not to be interpreted as
either an illness nor as abnormal or perverse. Nevertheless, the Roman Catholic Church among
others continues to ignore these findings. This is
a report on the life of homosexual Christians who
constantly come into conflict with ecclesiastical
positions, rules and regulations.
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Directed by Monica Ladurner
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Jesus was a Surfer
Jesus war ein Surfer
Moscow Power –Between Throne
and Altar
Moskauer Mächte
God Is With Us – Georgia’s Church
and State in Times of Crisis
Gott mit uns – Kirche und Politik in
Georgien
The Brazilian Roman Catholic Church has been
unable to avoid a recent trend sweeping across
Latin America, which has seen a rise in the popularity of evangelical groups at the expense of the
established churches. The so-called “Snowball
Church” recruits believers from among former
drug addicts who have turned to surfing, using
slogans such as “Jesus was a surfer”. This report
from Klaus Ther seeks to explain why Brazilians
are turning away from the Catholic Church and
embracing evangelical groups.
The Russian Orthodox Church is back. After decades of persecution, oppression and paternalism
by the Soviet state, the church is experiencing a
period of unprecedented growth. Old churches
are being renovated and new ones built, while
life has returned to monasteries and theological
colleges are enjoying a surge in enrolments. In
one of his last television interviews before his
recent death, the head of the Russian Orthodox
Church, Patriarch Alexi II spoke of a “miracle”.
This film looks at the reasons behind this returning to the church.
Georgia, the land of countless churches and monasteries, has cultivated its religious image. The
national flag used since the November 2003
Rose Revolution, with its white background and
five red crosses, symbolises the passion of Christ.
Recent events however have signalled a change
in the relationship between church and state.
The Russian Orthodox Church wants to adhere to
the old church borders, while unrest spreads in
the breakaway of the Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This film takes a look at
the current turbulent direction of the Georgian
Orthodox Church, following the sudden death of
Patriarch Alexi II and the actions of the country’s
politically weakened President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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Buddhist Monks – Setting Out to
Change Their World View
Kugel Oder Scheibe? –
Wie Buddhisten ihr Weltbild ändern
Active Buddha –
Another Face of Thailand
Buddha aktiv –
Thailand einmal anders
For centuries, Buddhist monks lived strictly according to their beliefs, isolated in remote areas,
far from civilisation and hardly heard of any advances in the world. All that is about to change
dramatically however: Tibetan monks are increasingly coming to grips with the modern world
and taking classes in physics, mathematics and
medicine. This documentary reveals how, in remote areas of India, religion and science are
being reconciled and shows the monks’ efforts to
integrate medical, historical and scientific facts
into their Buddhist beliefs.
Apart from being meditative, Thai Buddhism is More than a third of the Thai population lives in
also active and socially oriented. Some 95% of sprouting cities like Chiang Mai, the capital of
the people are Buddhists; the country has more the old Thai kingdom of Lan-na, known as the
than 30,000 convents and 200,000 monks, “tem- “land of millions of rice paddies”. Harvest is folloporary” monks most of them. The film shows wed by a time of feasting. The Songkran Water
unknown faces of Thailand: not only Buddhist Festival, a consecration ceremony, is coming up
sanctuaries, but also the Luang-Ta-Boua forest soon, when the Thai New Year is celebrated betmonastery, which is dedicated to the protection ween April 13th and 15th. Its pre-Buddhist oriof tigers; an internationally acknowledged holy gins are in perfect harmony with the Buddhist
order which offers therapy to drug addicts from doctrine of the purifying power of water for both
all over the world, or a nunnery devoted to or- body and mind. After all, Buddha became enlighphan care.
tened upon gazing on a river.
Duration: 30 min.
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Sawatdii Pii Mai! –
New Year in Thailand
Sawatdii Pii Mai! –
Neujahr in Thailand
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Pope Benedict XVI. – My Vatican
Papst Benedikt XVI. – Mein Vatikan
Women in the Vatican
Frauen im Vatikan
Liberation Theology and the Vatican
Das Kreuz mit den Armen – Benedikt
XVI. und die Theologie der Befreiung
Before being elected Pope Benedict XVI, Jospeh
Cardinal Ratzinger was the right-hand man of former Pope John Paul II and his most influential
theological advisor. During this time, he provided a first glimpse into the daily routine of the
Vatican, a mystery wrapped in an enigma which
no one knows better than he. The film also portrays the organization and internal structures of
the Vatican, presents its peculiarities and shows
numerous locations which have never been allowed to be filmed before.
It has become something of a cliché nowadays to
describe the Vatican as a state exclusively for
priests and men. Of the closest members of the
pope’s staff, around 15 percent are currently women and their numbers are increasing. Women in
the Vatican protect the historical treasures of the
church, they help determine if someone should
be canonised, they oversee the restoration work
taking place in St. Peter’s and, for the last few
years at least, have held executive positions in
the governing body of the church.
Jon Sobrino, a priest who lives and teaches in El
Salvador has come in for heavy criticism from the
Vatican for espousing liberation theology. The
Vatican’s Congregation of the Faith issued a controversial notification against him, for arguing
that a commitment to helping the poor is the key
to understanding Christian belief. The Congre
gation of the Faith accused the Jesuit priest, in
two of his published writings, of neglecting the
divine nature of Jesus by stressing his human
side.
This documentary shows nine miniature portraits
of exemplary women working for the pope and
his church who are involved in making decisions
which affect the fate of this microstate.
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Customs
Bräuche
The Charm of Allah –
Why People Convert to Islam
Der Charme Allahs – Warum
Menschen zum Islam wechseln
Magic Christmas & Magic Easter
These documentaries portray Austrian regions
and its people who have preserved rich culinary,
mystically woven and widely unknown Christmas
and Easter traditions.
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From Fasting to Festival –
Lent and Easter Customs
This film shows the customs and traditions of
Easter, such as the ashen cross, the Stations of
the Cross, passion plays and more.
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From Darkness to Light –
Advent and Christmas Customs
When the Days are Getting Shorter –
Rituals and Customs of Autumn
This film presents the most wellknown Christmas
customs, from the Advent wreath and calendar
to the story of the three kings.
Disdained by many because of its character of
transition, autumn however is a time rich in festivities. This film shows among others the Harvest
festival and the feasts of All Saints and All Souls.
Islam has a poor image among western cultures,
appearing strange and distant to many people.
It’s seen as a religion of desert dwellers and migrants. However, Islam’s culture is not as different
to the west as many tend to think: both men and
women are equal; socially Islam stands for equality and brotherhood, for justice and fairness;
politically Islam seeks unity and humane governance and its religion is of strong ethical principles and a firm moral code.
For these reasons Islam attracts more and more
people that make the decision to convert. It’s not
inconceivable that tomorrow our neighbours, relatives, friends or work colleagues may choose to
become Muslims. This documentary shows people that sought out another religion defining
themselves as Muslims. It explains the charm of
a belief that, to its advantage, is far simpler to
understand than Christianity.
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Killing in the Name of Allah?
Töten für Allah? – Religiöse Gründe
des Terrorismus
Tel Aviv – A Life between
Heaven and Hell
Tel Aviv – Leben zwischen
Himmel und Hölle
Bordering on Reconciliation –
The Armenia-Turkey Issue
Die Grenze der Versöhnung –
Das Kreuz der Armenier mit der
Türkei
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-man of Moroccan
descent, has often been referred to as “the 20th
hijacker” who was prevented from taking part in
the 9/11 attacks only because he was detained
three weeks before 9/11 on immigration charges.
This documentary listens to a first-hand story by
his mother about his childhood and youth and
attempts to get to the religious ideological roots
of Islamist terror. The relationship between Islam
and violence is commented by powerful Muslim
voices including the Secretary-General of His bollah in Beirut and the imam of Vienna’s Al-Shura
mosque.
Tel Aviv, “the big orange”, is known for its openness and tolerance. It all started over 100 years
ago on the dunes north of Jaffa, when 66 Jewish
immigrant families acquired land with the aim of
founding a garden city. Whilst Jerusalem is regarded as the spiritual heart, Tel Aviv presents itself
as cosmopolitan and modern. The “white city”
on the Mediterranean is a magnet for young people and creative types from all over the world. It
is a centre for art, fashion, beach and nightlife, a
city that is growing all the time and constantly in
motion. Although Tel Aviv as the former capital of
the nascent state of Israel was and still is so important for the country’s identity, the people
who live here sometimes give the impression
that they live in a bubble, turning away from the
politics and acts of war that surround them. Old
and young inhabitants of Tel Aviv present the
“big orange” in this documentary.
After almost a century of bitter enmity, representatives of the Turkish and Armenian governments
signed a treaty providing for the establishment
of diplomatic relations. If the parliaments of
both countries ratify the agreement, soon the
border between the two countries is expected to
be opened. However, any rapprochement with
Turkey is extremely contentious within Armenia,
as to the present day Turkey denies any responsibility for the Armenian genocide. During the
First World War, the Ottoman Young Turks killed
over a million Armenians. For a long time Armenians fought to have these events internationally
recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century. The genocide has now been recognised by
most civilised countries - but not by Turkey. And
for this reason many Armenians wonder if it is
not perhaps a mistake to take steps towards reconciliation with their larger Turkish neighbour
without an admission of guilt.
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Out of the Ashes
Aus der Asche
The Right to Femininity – Female
Genital Mutilation in Africa
Das Recht auf Weiblichkeit
Nepal – Empowered Women at
the Foot of the Himalaya
Nepal – Starke Frauen am Fuße
des Himalaya
For over 20 years a bloody civil war has raged in
northern Uganda. The conflict is the longest and
perhaps most brutal in the history of the African
continent. Today northern Uganda is an area of
permanent crisis in a chronic state of emergency.
“Out of the Ashes” illuminates the situation of
women in the disputed area and shows their efforts to find a way back to normality in the current fragile peace. As central figures within their
families and as a growing economic force, women are acquiring a decisive role in the socially
fractured structure of the region.
135 million girls and women world-wide are suffering from this extreme form of sexual violence,
often euphemistically played down as “female
circumcision”. Female genital mutilation is
practiced in 28 African countries, usually under
extremely primitive and totally unacceptable hygienic conditions – by using pieces of broken
glass, tin lids or rusty, blunt razor blades. The
film observes genital mutilation practices in
countries like Togo, Nigeria, Sudan and Ethiopia
and documents the struggle fought by nongovernmental organisations against this form of
torture.
The Hindu kingdom of Nepal on the Roof of the
World is also called South Asia’s poorhouse. Women are a particularly disadvantaged group.
While 90% of all women are illiterate, their life
expectancy is a mere 54 years. An ongoing development assistance project aims to improve the
quality of women’s lives and to stop their discrimination and exploitation. Many women have
learnt how to read and write and some have become interested in local politics. Finally the women have broken their silence and dare to have a
voice – a new beginning.
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Dakinis – The Feminine Side of Wisdom
Dakinis – Die weibliche Seite der Weisheit
The word “dakini” represents an entire world.
The dakini principle is a feminine credo. The language of the dakini is heard in silence and read in
the darkness or in space. Opening this door is
agreeing to enter the dimension of the intangible,
the irrational …
The dakini principle only belongs to womankind,
in the same way as the masculine principle only
belongs to men. The more a human being becomes open and receptive, the closer she becomes
to what is known as the “dakini, the being of wisdom”.
Kandro Tsöring Chodron, an eminent dakini, who
was the spiritual companion of one of the greatest Buddhist masters of all time, Jetsun Pema,
who has devoted her life to the Tibetan Children’s
Village in order to educate those that the Dalai
Lama calls “the seeds of our future Tibet”, Ama
Adhe, who was locked away in Chinese prisons
for twenty-seven years, and Dominique Marchal,
one of the first female commercial pilots, who
discovered Buddhism later in life and dedicated
herself to humanitarian work: the programme
contains portraits of women as different as they
are moving. With the help of her spiritual guide,
Sogyal Rinpoche, the author of the work “The Tibetan Book of Life and Death”, Véronique Jannot
takes us to meet these women with such unusual
destinies.
“Meeting them, listening to them, is an unforgettable experience. As one leaves them one
feels enriched, with the sense of having received
one of life‘s gifts …”
Duration: 53 min.
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Roma – In the Heart of Europe,
yet at the End of the World
Roma – Mitten in Europa,
am Ende der Welt
The World in a Ball
Der Ball ist rund
Street Children in Ecuador
Kinder der Straße
Five hundred thousand Roma live in Slovakia –
as much as ten percent of its entire population.
Relations between “whites” and “gypsies” are
strained. Anti-Roma demonstrations are a regular occurrence in Eastern Slovakia. Lomnicka, a
village at the foothills of the Carpathians, is exclusively inhabited by Roma, home to a population of about two-and-a-half-thousand. Its buildings are run down, the majority of them even
unsound. Families of eleven are living on welfare
of 300 Euro a month and without running water,
electricity or sewers. Hardly anyone is employed
here, and in winter children run through the
snow in sandals, looking for firewood. Yet
Lomnicka’s inhabitants are still privileged among
East-Slovakian Roma. Nine out of ten Roma in
Slovakia are unemployed. They were and still are
consistenly excluded from the labor market and
there is virtually no chance for the Roma to free
themselves from depending on welfare.
This documentary shows the very contradictory
consequences of globalization in a single, remote setting: in the secret world capital of soccer in
northeast Pakistan, Sialkot. According to a Pakistani legend, the ball is not only round, but also
a „Golden Ball,“ a „Gola Zareen.“ In Sialkot,
50,000 workers sew about forty million handmade balls per year. That‘s seventy percent of the
hand-stitched soccer balls on the world market.
It takes about three hours to finish a ball. The
business, which began more than 100 years ago
with the manufacture of balls, hockey sticks, and
cricket bats for their British colonial masters,
kept booming for decades and is economically
important for all Pakistan. Now burgeoning competition is posing a threat: el cheapo balls from
China are becoming better and better, and hightech products from Thailand are becoming cheaper and cheaper.
Many Ecuadorian children, fleeing from the violence of broken families, end up on the streets
where they eke out a living as shoe cleaners, cigarette sellers or pick pockets. To give them
hope for a better future the Salesians of Don
Bosco in Ecuador began a project many years
ago called “Golasco – Football for Street Children.” In specially designed football schools the
children make new friends and develop a new
outlook on life while playing football. The film
shows the different phases of this sensitive resocialization process, from the first contact between social workers and children living on the
streets to their reintegration into the school system and their eventual reunification with their
families.
Duration: 30 min.
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Sun, Moon and Stock Markets
Sonne, Mond und Börsenkurse
The World in Their Hands –
How Deaf-blinds Feel Their Lives
Welt der Nähe – Wie Taubblinde
ihr Leben fühlen
We live in an enlightened world. Or at least that’s “I am a German measles child,” Anita says. “It
the way it appears. But raise the curtain on the was all but certain that I would be born disabled.
figures, graphics, laws and hard economic data, My mother decided to have me nevertheless,
and what lies behind it is a tide of irrationality, and I will be eternally grateful to her. Because I
including company bosses taking advice from fi- am so happy to be alive.” Anita is deaf-blind. She
nancial astrologers, new employees being selec- hears and sees practically nothing. The world of
ted according to their star sign and pendulums the deaf-blind ends with the reach of their hands.
being used to make critical decisions. The more Being unable, or barely able, to see and hear,
the controlled world falters as a result of crises, deaf-blind people are unable to register anything
the more gratefully people seem to resort to pri- in the distance. They live in a world of nearness.
vate mythologies, astrology and divination. The Director Jonny Roth immersed himself in this
film explores this centuries-old fascination and subject for two years. “If you are unable to hear
examines the modern-day relationship between and see, what’s left?” This question wouldn’t let
enlightenment, religion and superstition.
go of the young director. He had to find out and
present this strange, intimate world to the rest of
us so that we could feel it ourselves.
Duration: 35 min.
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The Gender In-Between –
Transvestites in Rio
Das Geschlecht dazwischen
Nothing is as beautiful as a carnival in Rio de
Janeiro. However, that there are also dark sides
to the Brazilian coastal city is often overlooked.
100 metres – that is the length of the street where transvestite prostitutes earn their living. This
is the story of Luana Muniz, a sex worker, who
speaks openly about her experiences and
dreams. She tells of the tough competition, the
solidarity and the violence on the streets, of the
way she presents herself as both man and woman and of her attitude to life. An intimate portrait of a life lived beyond sexual codification and
social controls.
Duration: 64 min.
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Safari: Indonesia
Safari: Africa
Mega Shark
Our Safari through the jungles and islands of Indonesia will be introducing us to an array of unusual and often dangerous animals, all in brilliant
3-D.
Africa, kingdom to some of the worlds most rare
and endangered species. Here we join our 3-D
camera team as they begin a unique journey. For
the first time ever, using the newest technology,
Africas most unusual, largest and dangerous
wildlife will be filmed in 3 dimensions – close
enough to touch.
This is a detective story. Take one monstrous
shark, ancestor of present day Great White, and
various controversial theories about whether or
not it is in fact extinct. Add a group of highlyskilled profilers who pool their knowledge to
build up a picture of “carcharadon megalodon”,
the most terrifying predator which has ever lived
and you have Mega-Shark. In a truly unique approach, the concept of the FBI criminal profiler is
juxtaposed and interwoven with all the elements
which make up a quality natural history film
about sharks.
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The 3-D Planet journey brings breathtaking and
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This, the world’s first 3-D Travel Adventure series,
delivers unequalled and intimate access to a remarkable panorama of landscapes, cultures and
adventures. 3-D Planet is anything but a standard travel series. Its glorious 3-D images, combined with its action-driven edge, launch viewers
on their own unforgettable round-the-world voyage of discovery.
A docu-fantasy on the year’s most haunted night,
retelling spooky tales through the encounters of
two young students and enabling the viewer to
experience the mystical chills in 3-D. We travel
with them, the length and breadth of the Highlands as they meet and interview six seemingly
normal people, all of whom claim to have endured the horror of coming face to face with some
of Scotland’s most famous and most terrifying
ghosts. Their journey takes them across isolated
moors and mountains, past deeply mysterious
lochs and through dark and forbidding forests to
meetings on galeswept hilltops, at ancient, brooding castles and in desolate, neglected cemeteries.
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Komodo – Kingdom of the Dragon
Komodo – Königreich der Drachen
Penyu Penyu – The Turtles
of the Celebes Sea
Penyu Penyu – Die Schildkröten
der Celebes-See
Cenotes – The Holy
Wells of the Maya
Cenoten – Die heiligen
Quellen der Maya
At the heart of the Indonesian archipelago lies “Penyu Penyu” is a documentary of the life of the In a region where there is hardly a drop of rainfall
the Komodo region, a unique paradise where na- extremely endangered sea turtles in its fascina- for two thirds of the year and any precipitation is
tural selection has run its course for millions of ting and mostly unexplored habitat including quickly absorbed by the limestone, the Mayan
years, without the interference of humankind. rare footage from the “Jellyfish Lake” of Kakaban, culture had prospered for over 3000 years.
This group of islands is one of the last home of the nocturnal dance of the manta rays and the “D’zonot” – holy wells – was what the Maya called
reptile domination, and the ruler of this kingdom mysterious “Turtle Tomb” underwater cave sys- the countless, small water holes in the seasois the Komodo Dragon. “Kingdom of the Dragon” tem giving an impression of all the difficulties a nally dry forest of Yucatán, which guaranteed
explores the magnificent bio-diversity found sea turtle has to deal with from the moment of its their survival over so many centuries. Flooded
both above and below the waters of the Komodo birth.
passageways, fissures and caves connect the inNational Park, and the growing threat of human
dividual Cenotes of Yucatán, as these wells are
encroachment into the dragon’s domain.
called today, over great distances. In them, the
water from seasonal rainfalls flows in broad underground streams from inland to the ocean.
This documentary takes you on a journey through
this beautiful labyrinth …
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Dolphin Warriors
Dolphin Warriors
About a Sundance
Sonne, Geister und Schmerzen –
Der Sonnentanz der Blackfoot
Califia’s Island of Gold –
A Journey to the Other California
Califias Goldinsel – Streifzüge durch
das andere Kalifornien
The life of dolphins in captivity is ultimately a sad
one. They live in small enclosed environments.
They depend on their caretakers for food and activities – boredom becomes a problem. They are
much less self-sufficient than they are in the wild.
The most frightening example of dolphins in captivity is the use and training of dolphins to kill
divers, to search for mines and to attack enemy
ships as live “kamikaze” torpedos for the Native
of countries such as the United States and the
Soviet Union during the Cold War. It also traces
in detail the dramatic release of three of the US
Navy’s 100 dolphins – Buck, Luther and Jake –
and their life at the hands of the US government.
Expert and activist Ric O’Barry, better known as
the “personal trainer” of Flipper is playing a big
part in this film. His latest multi-award winning
documentary “The Cove”, where he documents
the massacre of the dolphins in Japan is a big
success both with critics and at box offices
around the world.
For a century the Piercing Sundance, a sacred ritual of the First Nation people to sacrifice one‘s
self to the Great Spirit, was forbidden in Canada.
It was almost forgotten when the farmer Morris
Crow had the vision of bringing back this ritual of
his ancestors. 29 years later this Sundance is an
established sacred event for many of the First
Nation People in the west of Canada. For the first
time ever a camera was allowed to document a
Sundance during which 16-year-old Morris Jr. got
his initiation.
This documentary presents a sweeping view of
Baja California, the world’s third largest peninsula, and a relatively unknown part of Mexico. European classical music, American literature and the
hard labor of the film’s protagonists are used to
portray the social development of a people
caught between two continents.
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recordings.
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Rastafari – Peace, Love and Justice
Rastafari – Gleiche Rechte und
Gerechtigkeit
Mountains of Freedom –
Jamaica’s Struggle Against Slavery
Berge der Freiheit – Jamaikas Kampf
gegen Sklaverei
Paraguay – Heart of South America
Paraguay – Das Herz Südamerikas
Prior to his coronation in 1930, Ethiopian King
Haile Selassie was entitled Ras Tafari (“Prince of
Peace”). Ever since, some people on the Caribbean island of Jamaica have considered the only
globally acknowledged black ruler of the time as
God Jah, the Redeemer, henceforth calling themselves Rastafari or Rasta. For them, Jamaica was
but the imperial slum of Great Britain, while Africa was their ancestors’ home, and reggae their
powerful medium.
As the last British slave ship docked in Jamaica in
1808, a new era began for the native “Maroons”.
As well as winning their freedom, the former slaves also forced Britain to sign a peace treaty – an
event celebrated by their descendants to this
day. Each year in January the largest Maroon
settlement, Accompong, becomes the setting for
a colourful and lively festival. Many other Jamaicans, over 95 percent of whom are the descend
ants of African slaves, take part in exhilarating
festivities in which the diverse African religions
play a central role.
Paraguayans are thoroughly positive and cooperative people. With this affirmative outlook on
life, they have survived the highs and lows of the
country’s different forms of government – an astounding attitude not often seen among the
peoples of the world.This documentary offers a
somewhat different picture of the South American country – a land in which people can live free
of the constraints and duties of the modern
world and shows emigrants, who explain why
they were drawn to this place out of all.
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At the Sacred Rivers –
Cultural Treasures of India
An den heiligen Flüssen –
Kulturschätze Indiens
Calcutta – Kolkata – A Rickshaw
named Desire
Kalkutta – Kolkata – Eine Rikscha
namens Sehnsucht
The Other Face of Bangladesh
Das andere Gesicht von
Bangladesch
For more than 60 years, Austrian and Indian scientists have been working together to protect
ancient Indian cultural assets. With high commitment and technical expertise on both sides, the
researchers are striving to preserve unique treasures of art for future generations. The Graz University of Technology has been active in Ladakh
for many years to save the old Buddhist temples
there from decay, holy places such as the over
1,000-year-old shrine in Wanla on the sacred river Indus. For 15 years, a dedicated art historian
from Vienna has measured one of the world’s
most famous cultural monuments and reconstructed the surrounding palace gardens - the Taj
Mahal at the sacred river Yamuna. Gudrun Lamprecht visited all these places and documented
the impressive work of the Austrians and their
Indian colleagues.
Only from a distance can the dream of “Eternal
India” be dreamed in an undisturbed way. In reality, clichés fade fast into fleeting snapshots of
the tourism – and film-industries. This is especially true for a metropolis like Calcutta, which in
2001 has been renamed to Kolkata by the
government of the Indian state West Bengal. Kolkata is one of fastest growing Mega Cities on the
planet. According to nonofficial estimates, about
15 million people now live in Greater Kolkata. For
over 140 years, Calcutta had been the capital of
the British Crown Colony India. Through architecture and infrastructure the colonial heritage is
still reflected, as evidenced by the last tramway
on the entire subcontinent. One thing though is
for sure: The real ruler of the city always has
been and always will be Kali, the Hindu-goddess.
Its inhabitants affectionately call it „Sonar Bangla“ — Golden Bengal. But behind the news of
floods and poverty, the true face of Bangladesh
remains hidden: its rich culture, amiable people,
and unique nature. Thus, the documentary takes
a trip through a largely unknown country — and
shows the other face of a region between misery
and boom: the Bengali, their culture and lives
beyond the headlines. A people with a turbulent
history under shifting sovereignties, which has
only been living in its own state for 40 years.
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Descent Into the Underworld –
The Caves of Vieng Xay
Vorstoß in die Unterwelt –
Die Höhlen von Vieng Xay
Everyday Life in Beijing –
Private China
China privat – Alltag in Peking
Modest Prosperity – China, Away
From the Economic Miracle
Bescheidener Wohlstand – China
abseits des Wirtschaftswunders
Laos, with its vast primeval forests, steep limestone cliffs and caves, is a country that has embraced secrecy and withdrawn from the modern
world. Where the territory of Laos reaches like a
bridgehead far into Vietnam the CIA bombarded
the Laotians in a war that officially never took
place. In the inaccessible province of Houphan,
the caves of Vieng Xai lie hidden in a formidable
karst mountain range. Hermetically sealed for
decades, the Communist Party only opened the
breathtaking rocky landscape to international
visitors in the last year. The approximately 400
caves of Vieng Xai are an undiscovered gem for a
group of European cavers who are now exploring
them. Presidents, ministers and rice growers
alike all barricaded themselves in the karst caves,
and 23,000 people found refuge in them. The Lao
revolutionaries went underground and moved an
entire town to the caves, building underground
military sick bays, armouries and barracks.
China’s government wants to present to the
world a country on the way to modernity. The
communist party has changed the giant empire
at a rapid pace, organised the Olympic Summer
Games 2008 and presents the country as an hospitable economic power. The old China must
make way for glittering new buildings and complex street systems. Many people try to escape
the modernisation into the tranquillity of antique
districts and temple complexes of Buddha and
Confucius where time seems to stand still. This
documentary portrays the everyday lives of
Beijing’s inhabitants: how they live, what has
changed and what they expect from the future.
Booming mega-cities, garish advertising, shopping centres full of consumer goods: this is the
image of China we are constantly presented with
on television. In fact, only the cities in the East of
China are really profiting from the boom. However, more than half of the Chinese population
lives in the country and has nothing to do with
this “new” life. This documentary shows Chinese
village-life, where people live the perfect communist dream with all its drawbacks: itinerant
workers, discrimination against women and
an ailing health care system..
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Hainan Island –
China’s Tropical Paradise
Hainan –
China’s tropisches Paradies
The Imperial City of Kyoto –
The Gion Matsuri Festival
Kaiserstadt Kyoto –
Das Gion Matsuri Fest
Among Gods and Demons –
Shamanism on Bali
Unter Göttern und Dämonen –
Schamanismus auf Bali
For centuries the Chinese considered it the breeding ground of poverty and barbarism – the island of Hainan, China’s southernmost province.
Today, Hainan Island stands for one of the
world’s most attractive beaches. Now that
China’s new middle class can afford to go on holiday, the local population, primarily farmers and
fishermen, has been caught up in an economic
boom thanks to the influx of rich tourists. Werner
Fitzthum documents the tourists’ activities, as
well as the daily life of the island’s inhabitants
and the national Li minority.
It is one of the most famous and spectacular festivals in Japan: Gion Matsuri, the festival of cherry blossoms. The hectic, modern life of Japan fades into the back-ground as, once a year, this
unusual drama unfolds – a kind of parable,
shedding insight on how we should conduct our
lives. The festival floats, with their secular and
spiritual themes, and the portable shrines have
captivated the Japanese public since 1140. Indeed Kyoto has a kind of magnetic attraction for
many Japanese, as there is no better place to experience “hanami” – the awein-spiring viewing
of the blossoming trees.
Behind the sunshine, palms and sandy beaches
of Bali hides an unfathomable cosmology full of
black and white magic. Hinduism fuses with animism and veneration of the dead here to create a
unique blend of philosophies to explain the
world. Those who seek the meaning of life here
or anticipate healing find many answers – and
yet more questions. The holiday paradise of Bali
is home to an estimated 10,000 shamans. For
the Balinese the sea embodies the feared underworld, where demons, monsters and evil spirits
live. The gods, on the other hand, sit on the mistshrouded volcanoes of the interior, in the unreachable upper world. Magical transition rituals
accompany every new stage of life, from birth to
the wild celebration of death. And the island’s
inhabitants view the many, complicated ceremonies not as restrictive, but instead as liberating.
This documentary is a fascinating journey to
exotic places and into one’s own subconscious.
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The Land of the Yellow Mountain
Im Reich des Gelben Berges
Kalahari Struggle –
San Tunes –
Southern Africas San under Pressure The Dance Festival in the Kalahari
Verlorenes Land – Die politische
San Tunes –
Tragödie der Buschmänner
Das Tanzfest in der Kalahari
In the southeast corner of the Anhwei province
centuries-old villages have preserved their original appearance. After decades of grinding poverty, the inhabitants of the region are trying to
maintain a firm grip on their traditions while hoping that tourism will boost their economic prospects. Discover a region that reflects the fortunes
of China as a whole – a people in search of a new
identity while walking the fine line between preserving their centuries-old culture and succumbing to the temptations of a globalised economy.
The San, the inhabitants of the Kalahari, achieved
world fame through the film “The Gods Must be
Crazy”. The then very one-sided representation
of the San as simple Bushmen has absolutely
nothing to do with the social reality. The San possess valuable skills and knowledge about the
natural world. During the entire last millennium
their story was one of subjugation, dispossession
and exploitation. Even today the San are fighting
huge existential and social problems and most of
them live miserable lives. The film documents
their legal and political fight for a minimum
amount of self-determination.
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Before the arrival of Europeans, the people who
call themselves simply “San” have been known
as “Bushmen”. Once a year the sandy fields of
the Kalahari are transformed into a stage for
mysterious trance, healing and hunting dances.
It is predominately the older San who today are
still able to call the spirits of the haunted animals
that visit the bodies of the living during these
nocturnal trance dances. Many San groups from
all over Africa travel to Botswana to display their
unique spiritual energy and forget the problems
of their difficult daily lives.
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Shamans of Survival – The Spiritual
Heritage of Southern Africa’s San
Schamanen des Überlebens –
Das spirituelle Erbe der San im
Südlichen Afrika
Cameroon –
The Golden Days of the Kingdom
Kamerun –
Die Goldenen Tage des Königreichs
Lake Malawi – The Lake of Stars
Nyassa – See der Sterne
San societies exist all over Southern Africa. Their
living conditions vary considerably from country
to country depending on respective state policies. After centuries of displacements, exploitation, enslavement and even genocide, their mere
survival appears almost miraculous. It may be
summarized under the heading “against all
odds”. Today, many dispersed San communities
struggle to maintain a rest of self-determination
– against governmental bodies claiming to own
the proper designs for their future development.
The cultural creativity of their ancestors has been
declared world heritage in the case of rock art
left for posterity. Trance dances, healing methods and the art of hunting and gathering in
some of the harshest natural environments on
earth appear on myriads of ads for tourism. They
are often presented as shamans from time immemorial. But their vast knowledge makes many
San rather appear as true “Shamans of Survival”
in the self-acclaimed modern age that refers
them to the past.
This documentary takes you to a land of sacred
kings and sultans. It accompanies the regent of
Mankon during his golden jubilee. For that, he
must first obtain the consent of all his royal
ancestors by making offerings to them. Only then
may he distribute their lifeblood — the wine of
the raffia palm tree — to the living. The religious
ceremonies, mask dances, and dedications of
spears and guns last one week before the people
of the kingdom gather for the great community
dance. Sacral kingship has all the ingredients
that fit the popular stereotypes of Africa: animal
sacrifice, warrior parades, ancestor worship, and
the transformation of the king into the shape of
an elephant …
The very year of 1859 David Livingstone in southeastern Africa reached a yet undiscovered inland
sea of freshwater, 579 kilometers long, 75 kilometers wide and more than 700 meters deep.
The natives in their language called these third
largest waters of Africa, “Nyassa” – simply “The
Lake”. As the waves reflected the last rays of the
evening sun forming thousands of iridescent
lights Livingstone is alleged to have called out “A
lake of stars!” He didn’t know that to this day his
description lives on in the name “Lake Malawi”,
as it is called today. And the “stars” of Lake Malawi are alive! Colourful and brightly iridescent
fish inhabit the crystal clear waters. Through millions of years they have evolved from a single
species of river dwelling fish to more than 880
different but closely related species which are
endemic to Lake Malawi.
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“Wines should be able to tell you about their history.” If this piece of winemaker’s wisdom also
extends to South Africa, then the wines of the
Cape region should have a bitter aftertaste – a
taste of slavery, exploitation and inhumane working conditions. The new South Africa is constantly trying to rectify this. Black Economic Empowerment is supposed to bring long denied
social justice to black people, even in the area of
wine growing. The documentary gives an account of this long and difficult path to justice and
shows, with intimate images, the daily lives of
wine growers at the other end of the world.
Emmanuel Ekeigwe is an immigrant of Nigerian
descent. Having arrived in Austria in 2001 the
former professional football player immediately decided to go about pursuing his beloved
profession and try his luck in Viennese soccer.
His initial enthusiasm was soon slowed down
by encounters with native soccer players
and their provisos towards people of other
skin color. After several throwbacks Emanuel
Ekeigwe decided to found his own soccer team,
solely for African immigrants: the “New African
Football Academy”. Since 2005 this team is
fighting for its place in Austrian society and
has managed to become well accepted by most
other teams in the Vienna football league. But
still life as an African originated soccer player
remains tough and various hurdles have to be
tackled …
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Lion Film Festival 2008, South Africa; “Golden Knight” for
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Sao Tomé und Principe –
Forgotten Islands on the Equator
Sao Tomé und Principe –
Die vergessenen Inseln am Äquator
For 500 years both islands were Portuguese colonies, gaining independence only in 1975. The
country is now a democracy having come through
15 years of a failed experiment in Marxism. The
population of 150,000 live largely in poverty
however test drilling for oil in the Atlantic has
roused hopes that the country may soon be rich.
So far, however, only small quantities of oil have
been found, although the oil is of extremely high
quality. Tourists have hardly discovered the islands yet. Formerly successful exports such as
coffee, cacao and copra bring in barely any money because international market prices have
fallen dramatically and the Marxist government
nationalised the plantations. The livelihood of
local fishermen has also been threatened by foreigners, who have bought fishing licenses from
the islands’ government. This documentary explores the difficult lives of the people in the Gulf
of Guinea, in the second smallest country in Africa.
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Gabon – The Original Africa
Gabun – Ursprüngliches Afrika
No Journey Too Far – A Journey
Through Ethiopia with Almaz Boehm
Kein Weg zu weit – Mit Almaz Böhm
durch Äthiopien
Alps Without Borders
Alpen ohne Grenzen
Hardly anyone knows of the West African nation
Gabon. And almost no-one knows that three
quarters of the country is covered in rainforest –
which is the source of considerable income. Gabon is politically stable and has been ruled for
the last 40 years by President Omar Bongo and
his family. In comparison to other African countries, Gabon is well off, even if large portions of
the population don’t share in the prosperity.
Western countries also make good profits here
by selling products such as off-road vehicles to
the military and by building hospitals. This documentary shows the original heart of Africa, giving
us a portrait of its people and tracing the
country’s economic transition from an oil producing land to a conservation and tourism destination.
Ethiopia, with its wonderfully bizarre landscapes,
cultural diversity and millennia of history, holds
an extraordinary fascination. However its bitter
poverty also puts us to shame. Life expectancy is
just 48 years, and on average people eke out
their existence on less than 100 dollars a year.
Ethiopian-born Almaz Boehm has recently taken
over the running of the organisation “People for
People” from her husband, Austrian actor Karlheinz Boehm, and is committed to continuing his
life’s work. No journey on unsurfaced dirt roads
is too far nor hours spent marching on foot too
long for her to reach out to the poorest of the
poor, giving them pinpoint assistance using well
thought-out methods and also courage and
hope.
The Alps – a towering natural landscape in the
heart of Europe, but one whose unique beauty
and wilderness is threatened by transit roads,
power stations, mass tourism, development and
migration. Bilateral efforts and projects aim to
protect the Alps in the future as a nature area
and place of recreation. This documentary shows
the sometimes difficult path towards cooperation – but also its many successes, from sustainable tourism and the exchange of information and
products, to joint events to help break down barriers, forge common links and conserve the uniqueness of the region.
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The New Balkans
Rückkehr nach Europa
Savagery and darkness, tribal feuds and vendettas, political insecurity and mafia structures: numerous myths are interwoven with the Balkans
and there is hardly another region of Europe
which has to put up with such deeply entrenched
clichés. However, there are also other things to
be found today: the ability to forgive, the return
of displaced people, entrepreneurship, creativity
and co-existence of different cultures.
The ten self-contained episodes describe a voyage of discovery, through the whole of the Balkans, from the bay of Kotor in Montenegro all the
way to Istanbul. Starting in Rome, the eternal
city, it invites you to Novi Sad on the Danube, Tirana in the Albanian coastal plains, and Thessaloniki on the Aegean Sea amongst other spectacular destinations. Combined with unprejudiced
insights into the sensitivities of the peoples and
intimate portraits of individual inhabitants this
journey draws a picture full of magnificent colours and wild beauty, from a dark past and a
hopeful future as part of a united Europe.
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Beringer, Robert Neumüller, Franz-Leopold Schmelzer,
Wolfgang Niedermair, Ute Gebhardt
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• Montenegro – Wild Beauty
• Kosovo – Cutting the Lifeline
• The Albanian Renaissance
• Istanbul: Truth, Fear and Hope
• Serbia – Exit Europe
• Greece – Alexander’s Shadow
• Romania – timisoara.com
• Bulgaria – The Long Revolution
• Macedonian Wedding
• Bosnia – A Miracle which Does Not Shine
Paths of Peace in the Carnic Alps
Friedenswege in den Karnischen
Alpen
Wonderland Underworld –
The Caves of Slovenia
Wunderwelt Unterwelt –
Die Höhlen von Slowenien
Fairy Ring and Snakebite –
Natural Poisons on Hiking Trails
Hexenring und Schlangenbiss –
Naturgifte am Wanderweg
For three years during the First World War, bitter
fighting raged between Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers along the Carnic Alps. 90 years
after the end of this devestating conflict, a well
maintained network of hiking trails runs along
the impressive high mountain landscape of the
Carnic Alps. The former front and supply lines
have become paths of peace. This documentary
brings to life the story of this region – taking us
on a journey along former communication trenches, caverns and troop positions, where today
hikers and mountain climbers from all over the
world enjoy peace and freedom.
The most famous cave in Slovenia is the Postojna
Cave. It is the oldest and maybe the most beautiful tourist cave in the world. Ceilings, walls, and
floor are full of dripstones, translucent sinter curtains, columns, filigree tubes and basins.
Through this wonderland runs what probably is
the longest electric cave railroad in the world. A
tourist attraction: Already, 32 million people
have visited the 21-kilometer-long cave. It is the
cradle of „bio-speleology“ — in no other cave in
Europe live as many animals as in the Postojna
Cave. In Slovenia, there are more than 9,500
known caves. Archives of earth‘s history — for
scientists a treasure trove of knowledge about
the geological context. For idealistic spelunkers,
they are a perfect playing field to quench a thirst
for knowledge and adventure. Speleology is one
of the last adventures of our time.
Poisonous snakes and poison mushrooms have
always appeared sinister to humans and are
deeply entwined in our mythology. In most cases
our fears are unfounded and are rooted in our
ignorance of which animals and plants are truly
poisonous. This documentary, from prize-winning film maker Kurt Mündl, shows in extraordinary images the real dangers confronting hikers
and walkers in the form of natural poisons in forests and meadows and gives fascinating insights into the life and protective mechanisms of
flora and fauna.
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Rescue Pilots – Crossing Boundaries
in the Sky
Rettungspiloten – Grenzgänger am
Himmel
Wonderland of Ice
Wunderwelt aus Eis
Untersberg – Fabulous Nature
Untersberg – Sagenreiche Natur
This documentary accompanies rescue and police pilots on their daily operations throughout the
year. Together with a team of emergency doctors,
they tend to the injured in remote mountain villages, save them from steep mountainsides, and
fly them to hospitals. When mountain climbers
are in danger, the rescue pilots move into action
– fast. As in the case of avalanche when every second counts and can mean the difference between life and death to the trapped victims. Their
missions are frequently carried out under unfavorable and even dangerous conditions. However, wind, fog, snow, and the black of night do
not keep these pilots from saving lives. Top concentration, courage, and experience are required
for the job; and these kings of the air philosophize about their most dangerous maneuvers, their
own limits, heroism, and the constant and very
real fear of crashing.
They are considered to be the largest ice caves in
the world and attract thousands of visitors every
year who want to see the unique ice formations
with their own eyes: the “Eisriesenwelt” in the
Austrian Alps. This documentary pays a visit to
one of the most impressive natural treasures on
earth and presents a portrait of the people for
whom the ice has become an integral part of life.
Historical pictures show the discovery of the ice
caves and their development from being the goal
of expeditions to being a place for day trips
through the construction of the, at that time,
steepest cable car system in Europe. Fascinating
stories, that make the ice sparkle, give an astounding insight into this unique natural spectacle
of stone and ice. Or would you have believed that
the “Eisriesenwelt” once served as the training
arena for ice skaters? In this wonderland of ice
everything seems possible.
The Untersberg, a giant massif between Austria
and Bavaria, is considered the most fabled
mountain in the Alps – rich in myths and caves.
Thousands of city dwellers go there in search for
new challenges and thrills. Unwillingly they are
intruders in the lives of the inimitable local
inhabitants, who have learned to live harmoniously in and with nature and to take things as
they come. An intimate insight into a modest life
dominated by a mountain that is slowly changed
by mass tourism.
Duration: 25 min.
Directed by Claudia Ernstreiter
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In one of the largest continuous and untouched
regions of the European Alps, lies an extravagant
sculpture park made out of incomparable subalpine marble. Internationally renowned artists
have created a unique symbiosis here between
the pristine highland environment and man-made space. This film takes viewers on a journey of
discovery, past mountain lakes and deep gorges,
where steep cliffs of marble protrude from the
earth, back into the history of this precious stone
and shows its mining and very special connection to art and architecture.
Duration: 45 min.
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Happy Landings – Germans in Vienna
Gut gelandet – Deutsche in Wien
Does the “Kraut” or in Austrian terms “Piefke”,
the unpopular German, still exist? Since the credit crunch the Germans are the largest immigrant
group in Austria and mingle everywhere with the
locals. But those who live and work here are on
their guard and look to adapt as far as possible.
Many have no idea what‘s in store for them - a
foreign language, prejudice, differences in mentality. A culture shock, says the Viennese essayist, Franz Schuh. After arriving in Vienna, many
Germans feel driven onto the defensive, but the
defensive makes them creative. So, are they at
home already, or still guests?
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Sölker Marmorwelten
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Working Animals
Tierische Arbeit
Even in an age of rapid mechanization humans
still use animals to work in certain areas. With
their particular abilities and special senses, animals are in a position to accomplish tasks, which
neither man, nor machine could deal with in this
extent of ease. This six-part series tells of some
of these irreplaceable animals and focuses on
the very special symbiosis of human and animal
that develops through intensive daily work. Very
personal stories explain these partnerships and
trace their secrets showing off the highly specialized, at times very dangerous professions and
extreme conditions they work in, which often requires years of training. Above all the viewer receives a deep insight into their very nature, their
abilities, behavior, instincts, emotions and ultimately their individual character traits.
The episodes and their protagonists:
Cesar, The Patrol Sniffer
(Police dog)
Machines on Four Legs
(Noriker working in the forest)
A Nation and its Queen
(Beekeeping)
Not Having to Fight Over Prey
(Falconry at Rosenburg)
The Horse as Soldier with the Mountain Infantry
(Haflinger)
Georg, The Sheep Herder
(Sheepdog)
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Secrets of the Lagoon
Die Geheimnisse der Lagune
Time Flashes
Time Flashes
Even people who have visited Venice many times
find that the city on the lagoon has plenty of hidden sides that are worth discovering. The historic
importance of some of these places cannot be
read about in the travel guides. Innovations that
began in Venice and conquered the world from
the Middle Ages onwards are taken for granted
today. We hardly know anything about their origins. This documentary presents what is perhaps
the best known city in the world from an unusual
angle: a Venice whose secrets, which are exciting
and amusing in equal measure, are sure to have
been a mystery to most people until now. In the
fifteenth century the Republic of San Marco
reached the peak of its power and wealth. The
state enjoyed the highest revenues in the world.
Almost 200,000 people lived in Venice, which
was the largest city in Italy and the fourth largest
in Europe. Today its population only numbers
around 70,000.
This exquisitely lavish HD production journeys
through natural and cultural history and covers a
period of 30,000 years. The film looks at the “Venus of Willendorf”, possibly Austria’s most valuable archaeological find, as well as the imprisonment of Richard the Lionheart after one of his
crusades. However the film also shows long-disappeared wild animals such as the wisent – the
European bison – and the largest fresh-water fish
in the world – the up to 9 metre-long hausen –
which was still to be found in the Danube until
the end of the 19th century.
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Lower Austria’s Wild Forests
Niederösterreichs Wilde Wälder
A Stroll Through Vienna
Durch die Stadt – Beschauliches
Wien
Vienna’s Historic City – The World
Heritage Site in 24 Hours
Ein Tag im Weltkulturerbe Wien
Innere Stadt
They are the relics of ancient primeval forests,
and the nucleus of a new understanding of nature:
Lower Austria’s Wild Forests. The film portrays
natural forests in Lower Austria: the famous Rothwald in the Dürrenstein wilderness area in the
district of Scheibbs, the core zones of the Vienna
Woods biosphere park, the Marchauen nature
reserve and a small, private “primeval forest” on
the slopes of the Geisbühel mountain in the
Pielach Valley. In each case the starting point is
the people who live with and in the forests and
who determine their fate. It is only through their
passion that these forests have been saved. And
only through their vision will they be preserved.
The film exposes a difficult balancing act between protection and exploitation.
In case you have never had the opportunity to
visit Vienna, here is your chance. This two part
documentary is a very personal stroll through
one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Without the lecturing of experts but accompanied
by contemporary sounds and highlights of current film music, the journey leads to the most famous places of interest in the city. The results
are breathtaking pictures taken at all times of the
day and year. Buildings, parks and monuments
but also wine taverns (Heurige) and, of course,
the Vienna Prater Park recount story after story
and capture the flair of the past as well as the
mystical charm of famous personalities who
have lived here.
After much debate Vienna’s old city was finally
added to UNESCO’s world heritage list. Developed from early Celtic and Roman settlements it
turned into a Medieval and Baroque city and
soon became the musical capital of Europe. Thus
the urban and architectural qualities of the Historic Centre bear outstanding witness to a continuing interchange of values throughout the second
millennium – rich in architectural ensembles, including Baroque castles and gardens, as well as
the late-19th-century Ringstrasse lined with
grand buildings, monuments and parks.
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This tour through the old city takes in the Stephansdom, with its permanent scaffolding, as
well as luxury shops in posh locations and expensively renovated palaces but also lesser
known winding backstreets with colourful, antique facades. Contemporary impressions are
mixed with archival footage, weaving the past
and present into a striking synthesis.
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Biljana Srbljanovic – My Belgrade
Biljana Srbljanovic – Mein Belgrad
Veit Heinichen – My Trieste
Veit Heinichen – Mein Triest
Vaclav Havel – My Prague
Vaclav Havel – Mein Prag
The young Belgrade dramatist Biljana Srbljanovic
has become the most important literary voice of
Serbia’s opposition. The diary that she wrote during the NATO bombing campaign in former
Yugoslavia brought her international attention
and was published in magazines around the
world. Her play “The Fall,” a farce about the family of a dictator, was premiered in Belgrade two
days after the Serbian parliamentary elections.
This fascinating and woman takes us on a literary
tour through her hometown and paints a very
personal picture of everyday life in one Europe’s
most interesting cities.
Best-selling author Veit Heinichen presents his
Trieste, his adoptive city for the past fifteen years.
Writer, former dissident and Czech President
Vaclav Havel presents his Prague. In an exclusive
interview, he describes his relationship with his
home town, talks about his family, his favorite
places, forays the city’s history and comments
on its current development. He accompanies the
viewer through the theatres in which he had memorable performances as an actor, the prisons
he was held captive as political rebel and gives
exclusive insight into his country estate in
Hradecek.
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The author not only takes viewers to the different
scenes of his novels, but also forays the city’s
multi-faceted history. Like inspector Proteo Laurenti, Veit Heinichen too appreciates the region’s
culinary highlights, which reflect the different influences the city was exposed to at different periods of its history. Together with top chef Ami
Scabar, his long-time companion, Veit Heinichen
serves the audience a menu of Trieste’s cultural
history from antiquity to the present.
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Bon Voyage
Schöner Reisen
Time to Travel
Reisezeit
Around the World in 80 Days
In 80 Tagen um die Welt
Weekly magazine presenting the most beautiful
travel destinations all over the world. Items of 8
to 9 minutes each, more than 150 items available from 2004 up to now
Travel documentaries:
From Genua to Marseille
Hungary
Coast of Amalfi
From Venice to Istanbul
From Argentina to Chile
India
These 8 short travel-documentaries trace the
footsteps of Phileas Fogg travelling along the
route Jules Verne described so vividly and rich in
detail.
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documentaries people & places science
Last Frontier – History of the Conquest of Space
Die letzte Grenze – Die Geschichte der Eroberung des Weltalls
For thousands of years mankind has turned his
eyes to the Moon and the stars seeing them so
far and unreachable. We dreamt about space travels, but beyond the atmosphere the unknown
void ruled. Then, science and braveness allowed
the great jump and the dream came true.
This production recalls the whole story of the
conquest of space from the first missiles to the
space probes, from the first moonlanding to the
interplanetary voyages. A superbe collection
produced after years of research in world archives, with images of the main American, Russian,
European missions and with the recent launches
of the Japanese, Chinese and Indians.
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In the Beginning Was the Particle –
CERN and the Question of God’s Existence
Im Anfang war das Teilchen – CERN und die Frage nach Gott
The Big Bang Machine: CERN –
The European Organisation for
Nuclear Research
Die Urknallmaschine: CERN –
das Europäische Zentrum für
Kernforschung
It is the world’s largest machine and consumes
the same amount of electricity as a mediumsized town: the particle accelerator that the
CERN European research centre for particle physics has built near Geneva is big in every respect.
The research it is being used to conduct relates
to no less a matter than the origin of the universe.
Taking questions of this magnitude as its starting
point, this documentary leads to a discussion
between physicists and theologians regarding
the role of chance, people’s individual responsibility and whether, between all of these questions and answers, there is any room at all for God.
Or indeed whether at this precise time modern
Physics again sees a place for God in its world.
CERN is Europe’s organisation for nuclear research. Particles are accelerated to almost the
speed of light in this gigantic structure, then
made to collide and split into even smaller particles. However, public opinion is also split on this
project. Antimatter has already been generated
here, and sceptics fear that black holes might be
produced. Is there a possibility of endangering
the world by seeking to find out more about how
it was created? The Austrian scientist Norbert Frischauf has worked at CERN for many years. With
him it was possible to gain access to the fascinating core of the world’s largest research centre,
to obtain an insight into the scientists’ work and
to complete a crash course in particle physics.
empts to describe it as the beginning of everything. The question of what there was before
the big bang has, until now, pushed up against
the limits of the human understanding of space
and time. At least theoretically, however, some
researchers are attempting to look over the edge
of our universe and thus back into the possible
worlds before the big bang. What exactly the big
bang theory can prove, and to what extent –
through new findings – must it be rebutted or
cast in a new light? Is it actually possible to say
what existed before the big bang, or is it all as yet
merely speculation?
Researchers and scientists are largely agreed
that there was a big bang. However, the recent
research results are looking to lay to rest att-
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documentaries science
Factory of the Future
Fabrik der Zukunft
The House of the Future
Das Haus der Zukunft
The Light of the Future
Das Licht der Zukunft
Over the course of several months this documentary observes fascinating pilot projects as particularly innovative production processes are designed and implemented. The film documents the
history of how these projects came about, reports on research progress and setbacks, and
shows the hopes of the researchers and the potential of the new technologies. Numerous examples demonstrate how the factory of the future is already working today. How can fossil
fuels be replaced by renewable sources in future? How might an industrial and working environment where production is sustainable look in
around 50 years’ time? What do the factory of the
future’s eco-intelligent products - products that
are produced and used in an eco-friendly way,
yet which are still competitive - look like?
Based on adventuresome accounts of the pilot
projects, this documentary shows the construction of three low-energy “passive houses” and
explains the principle underlying these energysaving buildings by explaining the new technologies involved. Like no other scientific subject of
the past few years, the energy efficiency of buildings has made enormous progress and attracts
the interest of researchers, architects and consumers alike – not least because of the constant rises in fuel oil and gas prices.
There is no doubt that light is of outmost importance for our wellbeing, health and security. If
there were no light, we would not be able to survive. In the Western world, where societies are
active 24 hours a day, there is need and demand
for more sophisticated sources of light which can
be used at any place and time. All around the
world, scientists are performing research in light
laboratories in order to find out more about natural and artificial light. In numerous studies, they
develop techniques that help lead the light into
spaces which hardly ever see direct sunlight, as
for instance certain areas in hospitals or underground stations. By means of huge mirrors, the
sunlight can even be cast into entire villages
which otherwise would remain in the shadow all
day. In this documentary we discuss sustainable
development in the field of light studies, search
for intelligent solutions in architectural design
and consider the pros and cons of newly developed lighting systems.
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Masdar City – The Green City in the Desert
Masdar City – Die Grüne Stadt in der Wüste
In translation Masdar means “source” or “origin”, the “beginning of something new”. Masdar
City is indeed the “beginning of something new”,
a flagship urban development project. In Masdar
City the sun will be the source from which, it is
hoped, the country’s future prosperity will pour
forth. Although the Emirate still has a wealth of
oil reserves – 9% of the world’s accessible crude
oil – its government is conscious of the finite nature of oil production. With the power of the sun
Abu Dhabi is building on the energy source that
never runs dry and which will help the country
continue to be a leading energy supplier. The
emirate on the Arabian Gulf is building a city in
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the desert for 40,000 people. The cost: 22 billion
US dollars. The seven construction phases of this
green city in the desert, which will cover 6 square
kilometres, are expected to be complete by 2016.
The city will be the first energy self-sufficient,
zero-carbon city, with almost total recycling of
service water and waste. The first subsection of
the city - the university - was opened in September 2009.
The focus of this feature is the idea behind the
project and its planning and realisation, plus the
extent to which it might be possible to transfer it
to our own cities. The film introduces the people
who are designing, planning and building Masdar City and who live, study and work there.
Will Masdar City become the “blueprint” for carbon-free urban planning and for the industrial
future?
Natural Home –
Ecological Construction
Die Natur im Haus –
Ökologisches Bauen
The Future has Begun – New Environmental Technology in Austria
Die Zukunft hat begonnen – Neue Umwelttechnologie in Österreich
Housing that does without heating Systems,
often constructed using the material excavated
at building sites – “Ecological construction” is
in and brings a new meaning to the buzzword
“sustainability”. In the times of financial crisis
and global warming, building ecologically would
seem to be the order of the day. Designers,
architects and famous property developers are
collaborating intensively to increase the attraction of passive construction. This film shows outstanding and optically convincing “Eco-Houses”
whose unused building material can be reprocessed in an environmentally friendly way.
A complete reconstruction lies ahead for our
energy system over the next ten years. The traditional hierarchical energy supply structure is
being turned on its head. Thanks to smart grids,
people have the option of feeding electricity that
they have produced themselves into the network,
whilst on the other hand being able to continue
to draw power from it when they need it. The
overall optimisation of network loads is to
everyone’s benefit.
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This film shows current developments and the
way that such technologies work. From the energy-saving swimming pool to increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, the measures result in
energy savings that lead to a reduction in CO2
emissions of 600 tonnes per year. Today, modernisation work carried out on power plants is bringing about record efficiency factors of an impressive 59 per cent. Practical examples and
theoretical considerations show how in future it
will be possible to foster, generate and transport
energy in an even cleaner, more efficient and
environmentally friendly way.
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Hydropower – Green Electricity
Das Öko-Stromland
Energy 2050 –
Life After the Oil Crash
Energie 2050 – Was kommt nach
dem Erdöl-Zeitalter?
Apart from environmental pollution, war and Our energy system is on the threshold of a fundahumanitarian problems of all kinds we are also mental change. 50 years ago the foundations of
confronted with another difficult task: securing our current energy supply were laid and now the
energy supplies. Rising energy consumption eve- time has come to set the course for the next 50
rywhere and numerous environmental problems years. By 2050 our yearly energy requirements
are forcing more and more countries to go eco. A will have more than doubled as more and more
sustainable development of the energy sector is people use more fuel. In light of the massive debecoming more and more important and solar mand for energy, extremely efficient methods of
plants and wind and hydro power stations are on energy production are required. Scientists are
the increase. This documentary concentrates on working around the clock to develop sustainable
the almost unbridled power of water and the va- technologies that can operate on a tenth of currious possibilities it offers for energy production. rent energy requirements and which, it’s hoped,
The production of electricity is graphically ex will soon replace fossil fuels. The documentary
plained in spectacular pictures from a visit to “Energy 2050” follows a number of these exciting
Europe’s largest power station building site. Sta- projects and examines issues such as the rise of
te-of-the-art pump accumulator plants allow wa- China, the increase in blackouts and intelligent
ter to be used several times over and, through supply networks of the future.
countless other features and functions, contribute to sustainability in the energy sector. A documentary about Eco-energy, its production and
advantages.
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Light Years Ahead –
Nature as a Source of Energy
Um Lichtjahre voraus –
Energiequelle Natur
Biomass, solar power, wind and water could supply us with all of the electricity and heat we need.
Today some 130,000 persons are employed in
Germany in the renewable energy resources sector. However, environmental groups and municipalities are still the only ones coming up with initiatives of this kind. The political will for
far-reaching initiatives is lacking, and individual
initiatives are no longer enough. Now, the political sphere is faced with the challenge of creating
a suitable framework for engineering a complete
change-over to renewable resources.
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Solar City
Solar City
Hydrogen – Power of the Future
Der Stoff, aus dem die Zukunft ist –
Energie aus Wasserstoff
Hydrogen – The Fuel of the Future
Wasserstoff – Das Erdöl der Zukunft
An important experiment in sustainable building
has been completed in the industrial city of Linz:
The Solar City was developed as a model city for
the 21st century, a prime example of ecologically
sound urban development.
What’s up with the hydrogen myth? The film
shows the future of energy production, transport
and processing based on hydrogen as a source
of energy.
Iceland is the world’s first country to introduce
hydrogen power with the aim of ridding itself of
environmentally damaging fossil fuels by the
year 2030. It is predicted that the world’s resources of fossil fuels will be exhausted in 50 years,
and prices for such forms of energy will be on the
rise as of 2020 due to climbing demand worldwide in countries such as China, India and Japan.
The fuel of the future is hydrogen, available in
unlimited quantities and easily produced by
using sunlight, wind, geothermal heat and water.
As the name might imply, special attention has
been given to the use of sustainable building methods, from low to zero energy technology, solar
collectors and photovoltaic cells to water use
and treatment, the development is a practical implementation of sustainable building practices.
Internationally known architects like Norman
Foster and Richard Rogers have developed low
energy buildings for the project. It’s a rare example of how new technologies and ecologically
friendly design can result in an improved quality
of living for nearly the same cost as conventional
building methods.
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Gretzmacher Filmproduktion and ORF in association with
BMVIT and the city of Linz.
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The centres of our energy industry in Central Europe, Iceland and the US are illustrated in
sweeping pictures and accompanied by mystical
music. The film is supported by detailed research
and has a global approach. Fascinating 3-D simulation takes us into the world of electrical chemistry.
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Electricity from the Sun –
Photovoltaics Worldwide
Strom aus der Sonne – Fotovoltaik
weltweit
Our Knowledge is But a Drop –
Water, the Unknown Element
Unser Wissen ist ein Tropfen –
Wasser, das unbekannte Wesen
The market for solar power is experiencing a
world-wide boom. What are the options this new
technology has made possible? What opportunities does it provide both to our countries and
developing nations? Can solar energy help to
address climate change and solve the energy
problem? Using first-class pictures and computer
animation of superb educational standard, the
film casts a glance at the status quo from technological, economic and social points of view.
Water – just a liquid or much more? New analy- The theory of “water memory” has long been
ses of this life giving substance have caused a avidly acclaimed by pseudo scientists and their
sensation around the world. Many researchers disciples. To some degree, the healing method of
are convinced that water is capable of storing homeopathy is based on this phenomenon as
information and retrieving it. This documentary well as the potent capacity of so-called “invigolooks at water’s “memory” and attempts to find rated” water (Granderwasser). The controversy
out what scientific surprises still lie in store as to whether this water memory is a fantasy,
from worldwide research in this area. Scientists charlatanism, or one of the most sensational dishave found out, for example, that water can coveries of all time has been raging for decades
store measurable information – even without – and the quest for the truth leads us to discoveany contact. Bacteria can also assess changes rers in the US, Russia, Germany, Austria and Jain water, a thousand times more precisely than pan.
any physical or chemical measuring instruments. The possible applications are innumerable: limitless retention and storage capacity and
the key to discovering the origins of life on our
planet. One thing is clear – research into water
is just at the beginning.
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Top Secret: Water – Investigating
an Inexplicable Phenomenon
Das Gedächtnis des Wassers
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Nature Tech – How Engineers Are
Inspired by Nature’s Top Designs
Das Genie der Natur
Space Medicine
Space Medicine – Medizin aus dem
Weltraum
Why are blossoms never dirty and can we also
make our cars that way? Why can geckos walk on
the ceiling and can we use their tricks to create
better adhesives? Why is the spider’s web tougher than steel? Exciting new developments in
computer technology, chemistry and physics are
now enabling us to understand Nature’s designs
better than ever before. Scientists are not simply
trying to copy nature – they are taking hints, extracting principles and applying winning designs
of evolution in a new, human context.
Only a few people have had the privilege of travelling into space and most people don’t realise
that a journey into space places the human body
under extreme stress. Astronauts have to battle
with dizziness and nausea, as well as muscle deterioration, bone degradation and even heart
disorders. However these experiences are invaluable for medicine. They are problems that occur to millions living on earth, especially older
people. Much of the medical research from space
is already being used in clinical diagnosis and
therapy and in caring for the elderly. This fascinating documentary follows the work of researchers at aviation and space medicine centres and
shows how their efforts make life easier for both
astronauts and us, introducing volunteers, who
spend weeks lying motionless in bed, in the
name of space research.
Visually this three-part series is an attractive,
fast-paced mix of stunning natural history shots,
computer-assisted design and CGI graphics of
futuristic inventions, ultra-modern, spacy architecture and high tech as well as scenes of the
world’s leading designers and engineers at work,
all created by the team that made “Limits of Perception”.
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Chinese Power of Healing
Die Heilkraft der Chinesen
Tailor Made Drugs –
Dream or Reality?
Medikamente des 3. Jahrtausends
My Brain and I
Das Hirn und ich
Age-old, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has
drawn an increasing number of followers in the
West, including many Europeans, who now enrol
for training in the Middle Empire. Chengdu, capital of the province of Szechuan, is one of the centres of this traditional school of medicine. This
documentary goes beyond cliché to show everyday traditional Chinese medicine and seeks to
answer the question of whether a symbiosis between Western and ancient Chinese medicine is
possible at all.
Personal, individualized treatments, free of negative side effects are nearly a reality. According
to John Kuriyan, world renowned researcher in
the field of molecular medicine and Chancellor’s
Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, it’s not a revolution, it’s many revolutions, a
completely new type of medicine that will be
made possible by the new perspectives and possibilities found at the molecular level. This documentary examines how these treatments will be
developed and shows the effects the revolution
in molecular medicine has already had on the
world.
In one of the world’s most powerful computers,
10,000 electronic brain cell clones are operating
independently. In the next ten years Henry Markram wants to simulate the entire workings of
the human brain. With his “Blue Brain” project in
Lausanne in Switzerland the brain researcher
has set new standards in brain research. This documentary shows, using examples from everyday life, the rivalry between those who believe in
determinist theories and advocates of free will
and takes a look at the results of brain research
over the last couple of years.
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Cyberhand – Hope for a New Life
Hoffnung auf ein neues Leben
Weather Lab Alps
Wetterküche Alpen
Azores High and Iceland Low –
Europe under Pressure
Azorenhoch und Islandtief
Christian Kandlbauer lost both arms in a high voltage accident. And yet today the 20-year-old can
lead a largely normal life again. This has been
made possible by artificial arms and hands –
operated only through the power of thought. Developed in Austria through a commission from
the American ministry of defence in order to return disabled soldiers to duty, Christian was the
first patient in Europe to receive the “Cyber
hand”. This documentary shows the development of this miracle of technology from conception to realisation and accompanies Christian on
his arduous journey back to a normal life; from
his first tentative attempts with the thought-controlled prostheses to gripping and feeling.
Is it true that our winters are becoming shorter
and shorter? Is the number of catastrophes
caused by weather phenomenons in the alpine
area really growing? Flying their hot air balloon,
equipped with a mobile weather station, meteorologists are taking a comprehensive look into
the consequences of climate change.
Summer in the Alps: But suddeny within minutes,
the temperature drops below zero degrees Celsius, snowfall endangers both animals and humans. What’s behind such a dramatic change of
weather within such short time? Will there be
more of these phenomenons? Seeking an answer
scientists try trace the origins of this phenomenons from the Azores, through the Rhone valley,
the Gulf of Genoa to the heart of the Alps.
Duration: 45 min.
Duration: 30 min.
Directed by Elke Weiss
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Trentino Mountain Festival 2003: Silver Gentian
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Humorous Shorts
Bloopers
Concealed Camera
Mishaps in TV studios,
at recordings and various events
500 clips
66 clips
Absolute life/Absolute life erotic
Home Video Funnies
Concealed-Camera-like reports, anchormen visiting people in private homes, etc.
Funny clips sent in by our audience
474 clips
Real Dope
80 clips
The clips are suitable for an international audience
as language is a minor factor.
footage
Humorous Shorts & Erotic Cips
Animal Clips
Erotic Clips
Funny and cute animal scenes
79 clips
Compilation of soft-erotic clips from an educative erotic format for adults.
76 clips; 3-5 minutes each
Funny Sports
Soccer mishaps
46 clips
Starmania
Funny Outtakes of Shows
Nude People
Campaign by a clothes store in which people are
storming into the store totally naked in order to
get clothes for free
Casting funnies
90 clips
The clips are suitable for an international audience
as language is a minor factor.
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Ball Season 2011/12
Life Ball
Celebrating the beauty of life and the diversity of world cultures, the Life
Ball reinvents the great Viennese Ball tradition with glamorous, outlandish
performances and inspirational speeches. Since 1993, world famous personalities and artists have lent their voices and support to Europe’s largest
and most spectacular annual charity event dedicated to raising support for
the worldwide fight against HIV and AIDS. With their personal impulses and
involvement, the likes of Sharon Stone, Sir Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Catherine Deneuve, Liza Minnelli, Kim Cattrall, Heidi Klum, Dennis Rodman,
Naomi Campbell have inspired courage and promoted the joyful aspects of
life, giving a clear sign against discrimination and ignorance.
Vienna Opera Ball
The traditional Vienna Opera Ball is the highlight of the Viennese ball
season, taking place in the building of the Vienna State Opera, which, almost overnight, is being transformed into a glittering, extravagant ball
room. The Vienna Opera Ball sticks to the strict traditional dress code of
white tie and tails for men and floor-length ballgowns for women. Among
the guests are national and international politicians, businessmen, artists
and stars like Sophia Loren, Geri Halliwell, Paris Hilteon, Pamela Anderson,
Carmen Electra, and Nicolette Sheridan. The opening ceremony begins with
the famous polonaise danced by young men and women all dressed in
black and white. Arias by opera singers and dances by the Vienna State
Opera and children’s ballets complete the picture.
Experience this sparkling event with breathtaking dance performances, famous music acts such as Simply Red or Grace Jones among others and the
glittering spectacle of the famous fashion show in the finale. Both top models and dazzling celebrities can be seen on the catwalk presenting creations from famous designers all over the world. So far Donatella Versace,
Jean Paul Gaultier, Vivienne Westwood or Agent Provocateur to name just a
few, have contributed their imagination to this statement of humanity, tolerance and understanding.
Next Life Ball: May 21st, 2011
For more information go to www.lifeball.org.
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Science Clips
ORF Footage
Do you look like your first name? Will asteroid “Apophis” hit the earth in
2029? Ever heard of nano-technology? These are not the only extraordinary
topics this series is dealing with: From the mathematical solution to avoid
standing in lines forever to the question if computer addicts are solitary
loners or cheerful, social folks reaching out for more, from “wearable technologies” to the mystery of animal languages. Take a trip into unknown
territories and discover scientific mysteries you never thought of. Are blue
eyes a genetic error? Why female guinea pigs don’t like machos? …
ORF is home to Austria’s largest media footage collection with more than
70 years of coverage of exclusive news, current affairs, sports, science, travel, wildlife, natural history, arts, music and practically every other subject
that researchers may come across for TV and other media use.
… we have the answers. More than 1000 items are available on the newest
developments and discoveries in the fields of scientific research, health,
and technology.
Moreover, we can offer spectacular footage ranging from historical moments in politics to recordings of natural disasters as well as clip packages
(science, travel, and many more).
One of our most successful contents is our collection of Humorous Shorts
with innumerable bloopers, home video funnies, concealed camera, animal
and sports clips, young “talents”, and outtakes of funny shows.
We sell footage for TV and all other media use (image films, commercial
spots, online & mobile rights, etc.).
Available worldwide
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Travel Entertainment
Video on Demand (VOD)
DVD Production
Passenger satisfaction is one of the top priorities
for any airline, according to the World Airline Entertainment Association (WAEA) – and Inflight
Entertainment is a proven means to enhance the
inflight experience. IFE is also a way to advance
the airline’s “brand”, and to differentiate one
airline’s service from another‘s. To some extent,
IFE is an effective way for an airline to express its
own national or regional character*. With its extensive program portfolio ORF delivers exactly
what passengers traveling to a specific destination need: information, entertainment, surprise.
Recent figures illustrate that VOD is a growth
market and offers huge potential for TV stations,
cable operators, telcos and VOD portals alike. As
a public broadcaster with a huge production
portfolio and archive, ORF is able to offer interesting formats for on demand usage, from internationally renowned shows like UNIVERSUM and
classical music concerts, operas to niche content by regional content. Different language versions available can give you an additional USP
and separate you from your competition. Moreover, ORF can supply you with material tailored to
your specifications in regard to format, data rate,
etc. and deliver content either via FTP, on hard
disk or Beta tape. For an overview of ORF’s content portfolio have a look at our website tvsales.
orf.at.
Content Sales International publishes around 50
DVD products every year with selected industry
partners. The priority areas of focus are family
series, sport and comedy programmes, TV thrillers and documentaries, children’s programmes
and music. With exclusive access to ORF’s archive, plus partnerships with domestic and international producers, ORF Enterprise Content Sales
International offers a comprehensive selection of
German-language television programmes in all
genres for licensing on DVD. In addition, ORF
Enterprise Content Sales International also publishes and licenses sound recordings and audio
books.
We also suggest checking out the UNIVERSUM
catalogue for top notch natural history documentaries around the globe.
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Our partners (selection):
index
1918 – A New Beginning�� 111
Big Alma��122
Cows in Jackets – Advertising Unlimited��160
A Glimpse of the Other Side –
The Big Bang Machine: CERN��198
Culinary Journey of the Senses��138
Near Death Experiences�� 165
Biljana Srbljanovic – My Belgrade�� 195
Customs��170
A Heaven for Horses�� 42
The Black Lion�� 40
Cyber hand – Hope for a New Life�� 207
A Heaven for Pets �� 42
Bon Voyage��196
Dakinis – The Feminine Side of Wisdom��173
A Life of Travel – Retracing the Journeys of
Bordering on Reconciliation –
The Dare�� 31
Max Reisch��130
The Armenia-Turkey Issue�� 171
Days of Catastrophe – Death in the Dark�� 105
A Real Lady�� 17
Breaking Ice�� 51
Days of Catastrophe – Terror at the Airport��106
A Stroll Through Vienna��194
Bricks – Building Blocks of Life�� 93
Days of Catastrophe – White Death �� 107
A Women’s Race to the Top of the World�� 155
Brotherly Love�� 51
Days of Terror ��124
About a Sundance��179
Brothers�� 38
Deadly Souvenirs �� 27
Abrazos – Tango en Buenos Aires �� 135
Brothers II �� 38
Death at Dawn – The Emperor’s Last Battleship�� 111
Absolute Discretion�� 20
Buddhist Monks – Setting Out to Change
Death at the Congress �� 21
Active Buddha – Another Face of Thailand��168
Their World View��168
Death by Organ�� 21
Africa 11��186
Calcutta – Kolkata – A Rickshaw named Desire�� 181
Death from Africa �� 28
African Terroir ��186
Califia’s Island of Gold – A Journey to
Descent Into the Underworld –
Alone, Everywhere�� 99
the Other California��179
The Caves of Vieng Xay��182
Alps Without Borders�� 187
The Camera Murderer�� 8
The Devil on the Mountain�� 27
Among Gods and Demons – Shamanism on Bali��183
Cameroon – The Golden Days of the Kingdom�� 185
Devouring God – From Sacrificial Meals to
Andreas Hofer – The Liberty of the Eagle�� 33
Carl Djerassi – The Father of the Pill��129
Lord’s Last Supper ��150
Apples and Pears – On the Trail of Ancient Fruit��136
Carribbean Moments ��152
Dinner for Two�� 41
Archduke Johann – Visionary and Philanthropist ��122
Carve the Joint�� 15
Dished Up – A Culinary Journey�� 141
Architects of Illusion�� 90
The Cat�� 51
Dolphin Warriors��179
Architecture of Remembrance – The Monuments
Cenotes – The Holy Wells of the Maya��178
DVD Production��212
of Bogdan Bogdanović�� 119
The Charm of Allah – Why People Convert to Islam��170
Dying for Hitler�� 115
Around the World in 80 Days��196
Chefs Around the World��144
The Edelweiss Enigma�� 161
Art City London �� 91
Chinese Power of Healing��206
Electricity from the Sun – Photovoltaics
Art City New York�� 91
Christiaan Barnard ��129
Worldwide��204
The Art Of … �� 163
The Christmas Dog �� 48
Elvis Lives�� 26
At the Sacred Rivers – Cultural Treasures of India�� 181
2 Christmas Dogs�� 48
Emperor Franz Joseph and World War I �� 111
Azores High and Iceland Low –
The Church Under the Rainbow – Gay Christians��166
Energy 2050 – Life After the Oil Crash ��202
Europe under Pressure�� 207
Coffee – En Route from Orient to Occident�� 147
Energy for Life – Putting Feng Shui to the Test �� 94
B-Team�� 77
Coffee Express – A Journey Through the
Erik(a) – The Man Who Became Women’s
Bad Blood�� 26
World of Coffee��148
World Downhill Champion��130
Ball Season 2011/12 ��210
Coffee, Milk and Sugar��104
Erika & Otto�� 43
Bear on the Run!�� 16
Con Amore, Pomodori – Tomatoes Conquer
Erotic Clips��209
Estranged Passengers – Following the Footsteps
Behind the Facades – The Secrets of
the World�� 145
Vienna’s Ringstraße �� 94
Cooking for Kids ��143
of Viktor Ullmann�� 131
The Best Selling Monks – A Miracle with
Coop Himmelb(l)au – Clouds and Crystals�� 91
Europe’s Largest Crucible – The Hunt for
Side Effects ��128
Corn – A Handful of Life �� 147
Jackl the Sorcerer��108
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Everyday Life in Beijing – Private China ��182
Good Sex – The Sense of Joy��159
In Memory of My Father �� 10
Ex – A Romantic Comedy �� 66
Goya – Fervour and Failure�� 98
In the Beginning Was the Particle ��198
Exitus�� 23
Granite�� 28
The Infernal Comedy – Confessions of a
Explorer Express�� 83
Great Masters �� 96
Serial Killer ��134
The Factory of the Future��199
The Guardian of the Spring�� 27
Inside the Infernal Comedy ��134
Fair Trade or Greed – The Route to a
Hainan Island – China’s Tropical Paradise ��183
Inside the Outsiders – Of Artists and
Fair Global Economy��103
Halloween �� 177
Another Reality �� 101
Fairy Ring and Snakebite – Natural Poisons on
Happy Landings – Germans in Vienna �� 191
Into the Future, Bravely �� 33
Hiking Trails��189
The Healer I + II �� 39
Inventing the Shopping Mall – The Gruen Effect �� 90
Faith, Love, Death�� 29
Heaven �� 52
The Invention of Europe ��119
Fake Holidays �� 18
Heavenly Lust and Kosher Sex ��159
Jesus was a Surfer �� 167
Family Business �� 22
Hermann Gmeiner –
Johann Strauss the Elder – Life is a Dance ��132
Fast Forward �� 54
Founder of SOS Children’s Village �� 125
Joined in Love �� 33
Fasting – A Journey to Freedom��150
Heroes, Cult and Kitchen ��140
Julia – An Exceptional Woman �� 61
Fatal Trust �� 22
Hildegard Burjan – Charity Pioneer �� 125
K-Files �� 56
Felice – Heiress With a Heart�� 41
Hildegard of Bingen – The Legacy �� 125
Kalahari Struggle – Southern Africa‘s San
The First Bite – A Cultural History of the Apple��146
Hip Hop: Caught Between Commerce and
under Pressure ��184
The First Day�� 34
Street Culture ��100
The Kampusch Case ��123
Forced Labour! – Fighting for Survival�� 117
His Mother & Me �� 13
Kiddy Contest�� 78
Four Women and a Funeral �� 57
Hitler’s Counterfeiters�� 115
Kiki’s Cosmos – The Art of Kiki Kogelnik �� 99
Franz Fuchs �� 12
Hitler’s Mountaineers ��116
Killing in the Name of Allah? �� 171
Freddy and the Beetle Bunch�� 87
Hitler’s Useful Idols – A Star for all Seasons ��112
King Without a Crown – Basso Star René Pape �� 131
Freddy’s Friends – Sing Along!�� 87
Hitler’s Useful Idols – Hitler’s Wings ��113
Komodo – Kingdom of the Dragon ��178
Freud’s Lost Neighbours�� 117
Hitler’s Useful Idols – Otto Skorzeny:
Kyselak – The First Graffiti Tagger �� 98
Fronteira Brasil – The Struggle for Land
Hitler’s “James Bond” ��114
Lake Malawi – The Lake of Stars �� 185
in Mato Grosso ��104
Holy Oil – A Cultural History of Olive Oil �� 145
The Land of the Yellow Mountain ��184
The Future has Begun – New Environmental
Home for Sale �� 32
Last Frontier – History of the Conquest of Space �� 197
Technology in Austria�� 201
Homebound Through the World��122
Leaves and Flowers �� 18
The Future of Ageing��162
Homo Sapiens? �� 64
Leaving for Bread and Butter ��118
Gabon – The Original Africa�� 187
The House of the Future ��199
Legacy: Austria’s Influence on American Skiing �� 155
Gate to Hell, The�� 52
How The Computer Became Personal �� 157
Liberation Theology and the Vatican ��169
Life Ball ��210
Gefilte Fish and Baba Ganush –
Humorous Shorts ��208
A Jewish Cooking Show��150
Humus – Forgotten Climate Aid ��103
Life for the Queen ��160
The Gender In-Between – Transvestites in Rio�� 175
Hunting & Fishing ��160
The Light of the Future ��199
The Genesis of Wine��149
Hydrogen – Power of the Future ��203
Light Years Ahead – Nature as a Source of Energy ��202
Genius and Geometry –
Hydrogen – The Fuel of the Future ��203
Lighter Than Air ��108
Traces of Our Enigmatic Ancestors�� 90
Hydropower – Green Electricity ��202
Lighting Design �� 92
Giorgio Armani – A Man for All Seasons�� 93
I Love My Car! ��158
The Line �� 75
God Is With Us – Georgia’s Church and State in
The Imperial City of Kyoto – The Gion Matsuri
Line by Line – Paul Flora in Film ��100
Times of Crisis�� 167
Festival ��183
Living Art –Artists and their Gardens �� 93
index
*LOL* – Laughing out Loud �� 77
Natural Home – Ecological Construction �� 201
Pioneers of Heliskiing, Snowboarding &
Losing Control�� 21
Nature Tech – How Engineers Are Inspired by
Freestyle Skiing �� 155
Love is a Dream 46
Nature’s Top Designs �� 205
Planet �� 177
Love Potions and Magic Meals ��136
Nelson Mandela – Man of Peace ��129
Polly �� 47
Love, Lies & Passion �� 63
Nepal – Empowered Women at the
Polt I – Polt Has to Cry �� 19
Lower Austria’s Wild Forests ��194
Foot of the Himalaya��172
Polt II – Flowers for Polt �� 19
Mad about Machines ��156
Never Again Opera �� 20
Polt III – Heaven, Polt and Hell �� 19
Magic Mushrooms�� 72
The New Balkans ��188
Polt IV – Death at the Wine Harvest �� 19
The Mail-Bomber – Unsolved Questions ��124
New World – A Journey through Central Europe ��118
Poor Pig – Much Loved, Wildly Controversial ��164
Majestic White Horses – The Spanish Riding School
Nikolaus Harnoncourt – 25 Years Styriarte ��132
Pope Benedict XVI. – My Vatican ��169
of Vienna �� 95
No Journey Too Far – A Journey Through
The Porsche Saga ��120
Mama’s Boy �� 17
Ethiopia With Almaz Böhm �� 187
The Potato-Story ��146
The Man from the Ötztal Valley and his World ��126
No Mercy �� 32
The Power of Prayer �� 165
Marathon Instead of Pilgrimages ��166
Noble Sweets – A History of Temptation ��148
The Power of the Grain – History of a Survival Food 146
Marble Worlds – The Sölk Valley �� 191
Novotny & Maroudi �� 72
Prague Spring 1968 ��119
Masdar City – The Green City in the Desert ��200
Oh Baby, a Baby �� 43
The Prince of Her Dreams �� 41
Maximum Male Beauty ��159
On the Road to Santiago – Brothers III �� 38
Princely Treasures – The Liechtenstein Saga ��109
Meat – Between Tabu and Delicacy �� 147
One Kilogram of Wheat ��104
Pumpkins – Old Myths and Liquid Gold ��149
Mega Shark ��176
Operation Job �� 23
The Race �� 73
Metamorphoses – Alfred Kubin’s World of Images 100
ORF Footage �� 211
Rastafari – Peace, Love and Justice ��180
Mickey, Marlene & Me – A Portrait of
Orth Castle Hotel �� 62
Real Dope �� 77
Gottfried Helnwein �� 101
The Other Face of Bangladesh �� 181
Red Snow �� 53
The Millenium Murderer �� 20
Our Knowledge is But a Drop – Water,
Rediscovering Clay – The Renaissance of a
Miniversum �� 86
the Unknown Element ��204
Forgotten Material �� 94
minority:rulez �� 67
Out of Paradise, Back into Hell ��108
Rediscovering Freedom – The Puch 500 ��158
Miracles ��166
Out of the Ashes ��172
Rescue Pilots – Crossing Boundaries in the Sky ��190
Resistance to Hitler �� 115
Modest Prosperity – China, Away From the
Paracelsus – Man is his own Medicine ��162
Economic Miracle ��182
Paraguay – Heart of South America ��180
Retribution�� 24
Molly & Mops – 100 Kilos of Love �� 45
Passion �� 26
The Right to Femininity – Female Genital Mutilation
Molly & Mops – Café Mops �� 45
Paths of Peace in the Carnic Alps ��189
in Africa ��172
Molly & Mops – Life is not a Piece of Cake �� 45
Payback Time �� 25
Rock Diaries �� 74
Moscow Power –Between Throne and Altar �� 167
Penyu Penyu – The Turtles of the Celebes Sea ��178
Roma – In the Heart of Europe, yet at the
Mother Teresa – Saint of Darkness �� 121
The People’s Money �� 28
End of the World ��174
Mother’s Heart�� 52
Pepper – Grain of Fire �� 145
Rosé and Green Gold – Culinary Delights
Mountains of Freedom – Jamaica’s Struggle
The Perp �� 14
from Styria �� 137
Against Slavery��180
Piber �� 95
Round and Tasty – A Cultural History of
Musically-Culinary ��136
Pictures in the Sky – The Art of Pyrotechnics �� 157
the Dumpling �� 137
My Beautiful Daughter �� 39
Pig-Perfect �� 86
Safari: Africa ��176
My Brain and I ��206
Pilgrimage, Bathing & Praying –
Safari: Indonesia ��176
Natascha Kampusch – One Year after Her Escape ��123
The Hindu Festival of Kumbh Mela ��164
San Tunes – The Dance Festival in the Kalahari ��184
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Sanctuary – Escape to Uncertainty ��118
Time to Travel ��196
Sao Tomé und Principe – Forgotten Islands
Tobacco – The Weed that Changed the World ��156
Working Animals ��192
on the Equator ��186
Tom Turbo Detective Club �� 85
The World in a Ball��174
Sawatdii Pii Mai! – New Year in Thailand ��168
Top Secret: Water – Investigating an
The World in Their Hands – How Deaf-blinds
Scent of Heaven and Hell – A Cultural History of
Inexplicable Phenomenon ��204
Feel Their Lives �� 175
Ritual Fragrances �� 157
Totally Fit! �� 86
The World of Peter Paul Rubens �� 98
Science Clips�� 211
Trautmann �� 30
Yoga �� 151
Secrets of the Lagoon ��193
Travel Entertainment ��212
Yoga Antistress with Ateeka �� 151
Seiji Ozawa – Maestro, Teacher, Student �� 131
The Tree of Salvation �� 29
Yugo 45 – The Worst Car in the World ��158
Shamans of Survival �� 185
Trick Factory �� 84
Shanghai – The Port of Last Resort �� 117
The Ultimate Nude – The Artist and his Model �� 101
Shoe Stories ��156
The Unfaithful ��164
Sigmund Freud �� 130
Untersberg – Fabulous Nature ��190
Silent Cooking ��142
Utopia with Milk and Sugar – Café Tamar ��102
Singing for Life – Voices from the Townships ��102
Vaclav Havel – My Prague �� 195
Sleeping Beauty �� 22
Vampire Princess ��109
Small Fish �� 11
Veit Heinichen – My Trieste �� 195
Solar City ��203
Video on Demand ��212
The Sound of Hollywood ��133
Vienna Opera Ball ��210
Space Architecture �� 92
Vienna Woods – A Region of Delights �� 137
Space Medicine �� 205
Vienna’s Historic City – The World Heritage Site
Spirit of Ski ��154
in 24 Hours ��194
Spirit of Ski: Chapter 3 ��154
Vino Santo ��149
Spirit of Ski: Elements ��154
Vitásek – A Comedian’s Life �� 67
Street Children in Ecuador ��174
Vive Le Roi! �� 70
Stubborn Men �� 18
The Voynich Code– The World’s Most
Subhumans – Pursued, Deported, Exterminated ��116
Mysterious Manuscript ��110
Sugar Granny �� 17
Weather Lab Alps �� 207
Summits of Pleasure ��139
Welcome in Vienna �� 36
Sun, Moon and Stock Markets �� 175
When the Sun Stands Still – Kepler, Galileo and
Sweet Temptation ��148
the Heavens ��109
Systemic Yoga with Ateeka �� 151
White Beauty �� 58
Tailor Made Drugs – Dream or Reality? ��206
Wien Film �� 49
Tango – A Strange Turn �� 135
The Wild Gardener �� 71
Taxi Orange �� 76
Wine Tycoon, The �� 60
Tel Aviv – A Life between Heaven and Hell �� 171
Wishing for a Baby �� 23
There Is Probably No God �� 165
Wolfgang Who? ��132
Those That Can Cure are Always Right ��162
Women in the Vatican ��169
Till You Die �� 53
Wonderland of Ice�� 190
Time Flashes ��193
Wonderland Underworld – The Caves of Slovenia ��189
7 Wonders �� 82
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