Anna Haslböck, writing as Karina Norden, hires young drummer Nicolas Auer to pose as her lover and boost sales for her new book on dating younger men. Nicolas, recently dumped by a girlfriend influenced by Anna’s advice, reluctantly plays along while Anna secretly maintains a ten-year affair...
A poetic attempt to show the state of mind of people critical of the regime in Prague who vacillate between their love of their homeland and their desire to emigrate, illustrated by the example of a philosophy professor who has to work as a gravedigger and luggage transporter at the airport.
The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a controversy with a welldressed gentleman, disturbs the public order, and hits a policeman. Andreas Pum goes to jail, loses his license and...
Necessity is the mother of invention. After their stock portfolios slide into the cellar, the two friends Roderik and Fabian have set up another profitable business: the "Marriage Swindler Company". Roderik is the brilliant strategist who directs the amorous scams with a great deal of foresight....
Dan-Linh, Count Otto's future wife, is kidnapped. He immediately agrees to pay, but when he hands over the money, he finds Dan-Linh dead in the car. The whole family immediately becomes suspects for the two investigators. Envy, hatred and resentment were the feelings that the family had towards...
Just when bestselling author Leo Leitner was awarded an Austrian literary prize, a mysterious death overshadowed the pompous event. His host Hofrat Lassnig-Schiele may have a hand in it. Charming and funny 'Vienna' episode of the successful crime series! Crime author Leo Leitner is surprisingly...
At a conference in Verona, the dutiful German family man falls under the spell of the Italian Elsa. As soon as he falls for her, she disappears without a trace. Leo wife Hannah remorsefully confesses the affair. She forgives him. Then suddenly Elsa appears.
How does someone feel when they suddenly find out that they are not their parents' son? A world collapses for the up-and-coming star lawyer Max when the Prater landlady Gabi introduces herself as his birth mother at his engagement party. Max gets out and tries to build a new life. In the process,...
Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him.