A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Genoveva’s 16th‐century Munich family is murdered and her home burned. Violated by masked killers, she vows vengeance. She turns to friend Ernst, unaware he aids her family’s traitors, and to Walpurga, whose true motives shock her. Can she still enact her revenge?
Roland Mathis dies after falling down the stairs. He was an unsavoury private eye who had been blackmailing Anton Galba and his secret lover about their affair. Galba, who is the director of the local sewage treatment plant in Dornbirn, panics and gets rid of the body by putting it in the grinder....
The furniture manufacturer Albert and the doorman Paul could both be Conny's fathers, the result of a long-suppressed affair between both men and the same woman. This is becoming a huge problem, because Conny is demanding unpaid alimony - from 30 years. Paul's marital happiness and Albert's...
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I, however, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire sowed the seeds of its own demise. At the height of World War I, the world of the Habsburgs was on the brink of collapse. Almost exactly 100 years ago to...
Two murders of prostitutes in a similar way - no wonder that Commissioner Sandra Mohr suspects a connection. The obvious suspicion that a serial killer could be up to mischief in Styria is initially dismissed by her supervisor Sascha Bergmann.
Lower Austria in the 80s. Anna helps out in her uncle's tavern to fund her studies and meets handsome Kurt who casts an eye on her. But when the local factory closes, life in the valley changes. Anna learns that Kurt is going to marry. Then a terrible accident occurs. The film conveys the rural...
Erik(a) Schinegger – the ski star who became a media sensation. Erika was hailed as a champion skier, until a sex test determined that she was a he – and Erik was rejected and accused of fraud. A story based on real life, a tale about nature and the taboo subjects of 1970s society.
Paulinus is a young novice at a small Austrian monastery in 1929. In a few days he will take his final vows and become a full member of the order. His only contact to the outside world is Jakob, a young farmer, who visits the monastery every day to deliver errands. When Paulinus' feelings for Jakob...
Psychological and sociological portrait of Camillo Castiglioni, the king of inflation, who became one of Europe's richest men in the twenties through speculation and war profiteering.
Voices of the past are populating a ruinous mansion. A piano is playing, laughter and applause. In the midst of an invisible society the young mistress calls for a stranger. She wants him to free her, but is yet unsure about her decision.
