Ellen Umlauf

Everyman's Feast (2002)

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jeder ...

Ene mene muh – und tot bist du (2001)

A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medica ...

Hinterholz 8 (1998)

Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated house park in the south of Vienna, where they regularly go on pilgrimage with their son Philipp. Just as ...

Der Coup (1997)

Happy Weekend (1996)

The young policeman Joachim Krippo likes to occasionally share his bed with a nice married couple. When he is supposed to be guarding the criminal Engel Potraske during a court appearance, the dangerous Engel manages a spectacular escape, but departs minus ...

Tierärztin Christine II: Die Versuchung (1995)

A vet has successfully taken over her father's practice. Now the already smouldering marital crisis comes to a head when anonymous letters accuse her husband of having an affair. Meanwhile, the doctor is being courted by the local mayor. ...

Der schwarze Fluch (1995)

A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island. ...

Tierärztin Christine (1993)

When her father suffers a heart attack, Christine, a qualified vet, travels with her two children from Munich to Carinthia to take over his veterinary practice while he recovers. However, this puts her marriage to architect Thomas, which is already in cris ...

Justice (1993)

Senator Isaak Kohler shoots and kills Professor Winter in a crowded restaurant, while Winter is dining with the struggling idealistic young lawyer, Felix Spat. Kohler puts up no defense and is sentenced to twenty years. Kohler then gets his daughter Helene ...

Happy End durch drei (1992)

Wings of Fame (1990)

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then dies as a result of an accident. Next, they both find themselves in after-life, where souls of all famous people a ...

Jenseits von Blau (1989)

Blue is the dominant color in the cold, sterile world of adults. 12-year-old Maria dreams of other colors beyond blue. In her dreams, she repeatedly sees a boy in a castle who asks her to play a piece on the piano for him. When she fails, the castle goes u ...

Silence Like Glass (1989)

True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness. ...

The Venus Trap (1988)

The 30-years old Max is MD and engaged to the attractive Coco, who jealously keep watch over him. After he heard the lovely voice of an unknown misdialing woman, he starts a restless search ... ...

Schloßherren (1986)

Sterne fallen nicht vom Himmel (1985)

Kaltes Fieber (1984)

Pierre earns his money in an unusual way. Together with Dr. Schumann, he helps people die. Schumann is the agent, and Pierre takes care of the jobs. But one day Pierre starts to think about what they are actually doing. Then he meets Silvie, who happens to ...

Freak Orlando (1981)

Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout. ...

Day of the Idiots (1981)

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. ...

Kesse Teens und irre Typen (1979)

Three young friends will spend a season in Alicante (Spain). There life is easy drinks, girls and parties. On one of their usual night trips, they find three women, old friends of more relaxed times. ...

Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)

An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate. ...

Exekution: A Study of Mary (1979)

This film is in effect a slideshow of exquisite single photographic images in sparkling black and white, representing Mikesch's own version of Mary Stuart. "The drama of a woman who attempted a kind of liberal emancipation in a time of upheaval, but got ca ...

Die Ratten (1979)

Das Männerquartett (1978)

Bel Canto or May a Hooker Sob? (1977)

An unsuccessful artistic director tries to raise money for a new opera house at a gala with celebrities from the worlds of culture and finance (and thus secure his own career) - an attempt that fails miserably. ...

The Serpent's Egg (1977)

In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic. ...

Mosquito the Defiler (1977)

A deaf and dumb accountant suffers from a psychic trauma in his childhood. He is collecting puppets and mutilates female bodies in the mortuary. After his secret love died by an accident he starts to kill. ...

Das chinesische Wunder (1977)

Die Elixiere des Teufels (1976)

Monk Medardus, administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul. ...

Gold Flakes (1976)

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films. ...

So oder so ist das Leben (1976)

An entrepreneur of social prestige gets intimate with the housekeeper, while his wife has a lover who is 20 years younger than her, whom she eventually loses to her nymphomaniac daughter. ...

The Last Word (1975)

Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt. ...

The Black Angel (1974)

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one hand, it is a companion piece to Willow Springs, featuring two Schroeter regulars as characters far from h ...

The Last Days of Gomorrah (1974)

Her only foray into science fiction—about the havoc wrought on society by a television that satisfies every human craving—The Last Days of Gomorrah was a favorite of Sanders-Brahms, who brought feminist politics to the New German Cinema movement of the ...

Crazy - Total verrückt (1973)

A comedy directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb ...

Blau blüht der Enzian (1973)

The students at a school of hotel management repurpose the institute into a hotel with a show stage, double-cross the principal, the groundskeeper, and a grumpy millionaire, and cause so much mischief and confusion that, in the end, there is only one thing ...

Mark of the Devil Part II (1973)

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition. ...

Jules und die olympischen Geister (1972)

Innocent Girls Abroad (1972)

"A vivid, exciting look at the lives of vulnerable young girls who are hustled into the promised land of professional glamour" ...

Cabaret (1972)

Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force. ...

Ferdy und Ferdinand (1972)

A Bit of Everything (1971)

Sex drama of a 15 year old girl who answers an advertisement for a "playmate" to a young couple. ...

Salome (1971)

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, S ...

Der erste Frühlingstag (1971)

Dial Love for Murder (1970)

A man plans to kill his wealthy wife for her money and so he can be with his beautiful young mistress. However, things don't turn out exactly as he had planned. ...

Angels Who Burn Their Wings (1970)

Munich at night: Robert Susmeit, a 16-year-old teenager who is jealously obsessed with his mother Hilde, traces her and her latest lover at a mundane apartment building where he kills the man in the heat of the moment at a swimming pool. His fatal outburst ...

Let It All Hang Out (1969)

The girlfriend of a beatnik-hippy artist enjoys having her body painted, posing naked for her boyfriend and seducing other men. ...

Ein dreifach Hoch dem Sanitätsgefreiten Neumann (1969)

Ende eines Leichtgewichts (1969)

Graf Porno und seine Mädchen (1969)

Graf Porno is a real playboy who makes money out of everything that falls into his hands. During great sex parties he puts his girls on and afterwards everything that is not nailed down is missing. Harry Holst, on the other hand, is a young man who has suc ...

Madame Legros (1968)

Der nächste Herr, dieselbe Dame (1968)

A sleazy comedy directed by Ákos Ráthonyi. ...

Ich will Mjussow sprechen (1967)

Der Kreidegarten (1967)

Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967)

Georg Maltus wants to make a career as an editor in Munich, but has to make do with a job as publicity manager for pop singer Kim Calder. Kim lives on the outskirts of the city in a wooden house with bum types who are involved in his "Wilder Reiter GmbH". ...

The Fountain of Love (1966)

The town leaders of an Austrian mountain village conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical "fountain of love" that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents to check out the veracity of ...

Man soll den Onkel nicht vergiften (1965)

Mädchen hinter Gittern (1965)

The inmates of a reformatory for underage girls have had turbulent pasts: prostitution, crime, violence, and drugs dominated their lives. One of these young women is the rebellious Karin, who lets no one get close to her. Only the young pastor Johannes man ...

Die neue Mittelwelle (1964)

Wie ein Dieb in der Nacht (1964)

Bezaubernde Mama (1964)

Winterquartier (1963)

a tv-movie by Rainer Erler ...

Allotria in Zell am See (1963)

Playboy Mark Fürberg lands in Zell am See with his drunken friend Pit Tanner. ...

Don Juan kommt zurück (1963)

Die Fledermaus (1962)

Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein, legal counsel at Arabayam & Co., is serving an eight-day sentence in the Grinzing district prison for insulting a public official. At the same time, however, he is to attend Prince Orlofsky's ball on behalf of his employer, Basil Ar ...

The Miracle of Father Malachia (1961)

The ardent prayer of a monk brings about a true miracle in a West German industrial town, which, however, is not understood by the people but only exploited as a lucrative sensation. ...

Season in Salzburg (1961)

The actors Heinz Doll, Hans Stiegler and Werner Mack have failed to look after the end of the last season in time for a new commitment and are now unemployed. Since they are just right that the Salzburg mountain hotel "Zum Blaue Enzian" staff looking for. ...

Scherben bringen Glück (1957)

Geheimnis einer Ärztin (1955)

Viennese Women (1952)

A mix between Italian neo-realism, German expressionism and Austrian exploitation. ...

Zwei in einem Auto (1951)