Cornelius Obonya

Alma and Oskar (2023)

Vienna, Austria, 1912. The brilliant painter Oskar Kokoschka, considered one of the main representatives of the expressionist movement, has a tumultuous relationship, both professional and romantic, with the composer Alma Mahler. ...

The Fox (2023)

At the dawn of World War II, a young motorcycle courier in the Austrian army encounters a wounded fox cub and takes it with him to occupied France. The soldier and the fox develop an unlikely bond. Based on the true story of Franz Streitberger, director Ad ...

De Facto (2023)

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting. ...

Sachertorte (2022)

Karl meets Nini at a Berlin train station: it is love at first sight. But the few hours they spend together before she travels back to Vienna end in a mishap in which Karl loses her phone number. He decides to move to the Austrian capital to find his dream ...

Letzter Gipfel (2021)

Gasperlmaier doesn't have it easy: A mysterious phone call leads him to Loser, where the bodies of two women become his latest murder case. While Gasperlmaier battles his fear of heights and his weak stomach, he and Dr. Weiss from the Liezen District Polic ...

Letzter Kirtag (2020)

Even Franz Gasperlmaier had never seen anything like this before. He's seen a lot of things, after all, Gasperlmaier has been a police officer in Altaussee for more than twenty years. But a stabbed man on a Monday morning in the festival tent at the Altaus ...

Lead (2020)

1866: The Prussian-Austrian war has left deep marks on Alois. ...

Louis van Beethoven (2020)

1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called "Louis", is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way - much to the dismay of the people around him. Some years later, he meets Mozart during times of political upheaval. The unconvent ...

Anton Bruckner - A Giant in the Making (2020)

Underestimated by his contemporaries, but today acclaimed as one of the greatest and imaginative composers of his time. Anton Bruckner was a genius of tones. Such great conductors like Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev and Simon Rattle let the composer comes ali ...

Der Fall der Gerti B. (2019)

Three friends from Floridsdorf – separated by 40 years and with lives that couldn't be more different – ​​meet on an evening that will change their future destinies forever. ...

I've Never Been to New York (2019)

In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes u ...

Adults in the Room (2019)

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with ...

Die Professorin – Tatort Ölfeld (2018)

A murder case is drawing more attention to the family history of historian Adelgunde. In cooperation with a young Russian girl, who knows surprisingly much about her father, Adelgunde finds out about strictly guarded family secrets. ...

Inspektor Jury - Der Tod des Harlekins (2018)

A tricky case for Inspector Jury and his (ex-)aristocratic friend Melrose Plant: In Rackmoor, a picturesque Yorkshire harbor town, a woman dressed as a harlequin is murdered. The dead woman is said to be Dillys March, the adopted daughter of the extremely ...

Erik & Erika (2018)

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 ta ...

Herrgott für Anfänger (2017)

Taxi driver meets love,God,frendship,with bunch of great humor. ...

Lungau: Wilderness in the Heart of the Tauern (2017)

Mordkommission Königswinkel (2017)

The Abduction from the Seraglio (2017)

A Mozart opera at La Scala in Milan. ...

High Life at Low Temperatures (2017)

The summits and sheer mountain ridges of Austria's "Little Siberia" funnel the freezing air from snow-covered peaks into a gigantic hollow – a high-level plateau at 1,000 metres from which it cannot escape: Lungau is Austria's coldest region. Creeks and ...

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers. ...

Salzburg - Gesamtkunstwerk im Herzen Europas (2016)

The von Trapp Family: A Life of Music (2015)

Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of a well-known musical family, overcomes many obstacles to pursue her musical career and move to the United States. ...

Meine fremde Frau (2015)

A serious car accident completely robs Maria of her memory. Husband Bruno angrily searches for the fugitive driver involved in the accident and discovers that Maria had secrets from him. When Maria wakes up from the coma, Bruno is overjoyed at first. The c ...

Zum Sterben zu früh (2015)

A night-time chase. The dealers in their off-road vehicle are sweating bullets, because Diller and Kessel have them in their sights. A routine operation for the well-rehearsed duo, long-time friends who have always had each other's backs. And at the moment ...

Ausstieg Rechts (2015)

Die Hebamme (2014)

After the death of her mother Gesa also wants to learn the profession of midwife, But because the city midwife rejects her she has to apprentice to Professor Kilian in the city's birthing house. However, he abuses the unmarried pregnant women housed there ...

Polt. (2013)

Much has changed for Simon Polt, a retired gendarmerie inspector. He's embarking on new career paths, and his future with his long-time girlfriend, Karin Walter, suddenly took on a completely new perspective. Polt has little contact with the police, who no ...

Jedermann (2013)

Since 1920, "Jedermann," "The Play of the Rich Man's Death" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has been performed at the Salzburg Festival in front of the mighty Salzburg Cathedral. In 2013, Julian Crouch and Brian Mertes, as the directing team, took on the challen ...

The Secret Mona Lisa (2012)

The Mona Lisa by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous painting in the world. What is the secret behind the "real" Mona Lisa? It draws legions of visitors to the Louvre in Paris to contemplate her enigmatic expression. In this ...

Im Reich des Regenbogens - Abenteuer Farbe (2012)

Kathedralen der Flüchtigkeit (2012)

Verfolgt - Der kleine Zeuge (2012)

Having just arrived in Vienna, eight-year-old Tao is forced to watch as two men murder his relatives in their Chinese restaurant. The killers catch him too, but the boy manages to escape. When Ester, who has recently gone blind, crosses his path, he follow ...

So wie du bist (2012)

Helene was tough as nails in her job. Not only defendants but also some of her colleagues are relieved that the unapproachable judge is finally retiring. One glass too many at the farewell party, a car accident and suddenly Helene's life is turned upside d ...

The Revenge of the Siren (2012)

In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he was actually betrayed by his ambitious cousin Hettenhein that wants his lands and castle. The Pope's Great I ...

Spain (2012)

Four loosely connected stories tell of the here and now, where human trafficking, the vagaries of people smugglers, violence against women, restrictive immigration laws, gambling addiction, debt and business deals of all kinds are the order of the day. ...

Der Wettbewerb (2011)

The Fischbach brothers and their families live next door to each other just outside Vienna. Hubert works for an oil company, Viktor runs an organic food store. When a climate protection competition is announced in the community, it's all about who uses les ...

Der Eisenhans (2011)

German TV adaptation of Grimm's fairy tale "Iron John". ...

Lust auf die Lust (2011)

Heilig, Rein & Sauber (2011)

Plötzlich fett (2011)

Self-confessed body fetishist Nick hates fat people. He puts his heart and soul into his job as the manager of a fitness temple. The lavishly endowed Eva, on the other hand, is a pastry chef in a hotel on the roof of which Nick's studio is located. A body- ...

Meine Schwester (2011)

Katharina Wallner is the owner of a long-established business for film videos. After the will of her disinherited landlord Heinz Ortner she should now close the lovingly run shop. So far, she was able to withstand Ortner's harassment, but the dreamy old la ...

Die Mutprobe (2010)

After 16 years, Sabine travels back to her home village. The occasion is a class reunion. She wants to return to Vienna that very evening. She has only come anyway because things are still not settled between her and her childhood sweetheart Leonhard. The ...

Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus (2010)

Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are co ...

Cordoba - Das Rückspiel (2010)

A multicultural satire about the German guest workers and numerus clausus refugees in Austria, about the mysterious tension between German prepotency and feelings of inferiority and about the clash of cultures - told and performed by a single actor. ...

Half a Life (2009)

A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can't reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-anal ...

The Reason Why (2008)

Think of a really nice person, a friend of yours, someone who could never hurt a fly. Imagine finding out that he is supposed to have killed someone. You're told that he has shot a person in a bar, for no obvious reason. He has already confessed. He says t ...

Mein Mörder (2005)

In the final days of the war, little Hans escapes certain death: he flees from a Nazi euthanasia center. Years later, Hans encounters the doctor who is responsible for destroying his life... ...

C(r)ook (2004)

A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason. ...

My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)

Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler make ...

Unser Opa ist der Beste (1995)

Retired coffee house owner Franz is a real hypochondriac. When he overhears the doctor's prognosis during a visit to the doctor, everything is clear to Franz: the terminally ill patient can only mean himself. He has three weeks left to sort out the affairs ...