Erik Frey

Childhood in Vienna 1934-1938 (1989)

Vienna 1934. Nora Fiala grows up in a middle class home. The atmosphere of her home and the political situation have their effect on her. ...

Wiener Walzer (1988)

Maria Stuart (1986)

Einmal Moskau und zurück (1984)

Tarabas (1981)

On the eve of WWI, Russian landowner's son Nicholas Tarabas, a Catholic sympathizer turned assassin exiled to America, returns as a ruthless soldier dubbed "the Terrible." Yet when anti-Jewish violence erupts, his conscience awakens for the first time. ...

Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)

In 1912, in Austria, the painter Egon Schiele is sent to jail accused of pornography with the nymphet Tatjana in his erotic paints. His mate, the model Vally, gets help from a famous lawyer to release him. Then he leaves Vally, marries with another woman a ...

Operation Hydra (1980)

The film jumps between the 40s and the 70s in Germany. Fateful and foreshadowing it highlights the entanglement of the economic system with the activities of the Nazi party, the Holocaust and the attempts to come to terms with the stories of the past. A s ...

Vor Gericht seh'n wir uns wieder - Skurriles aus dem schönen Wien (1978)

The Standard (1977)

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, ...

Schichtwechsel (1977)

Feuerwerk (1976)

Geliebtes Scheusal (1971)

Hochwürden drückt ein Auge zu (1971)

A ship, a bus, a pastor, a businessman and a lot of alcohol. ...

Emilia Galotti (1971)

Was kam denn da ins Haus? (1970)

Reiterattacke (1968)

3. November 1918 (1965)

On November 3, 1918, a group of Austro-Hungarian officers in a makeshift hospital of the Austro-Hungarian Army, somewhere in the Karawanks, is completely cut off from the outside world by persistent snowstorms. A machinist's mate manages to reach the trapp ...

An der schönen blauen Donau (1965)

Ariadne auf Naxos (1965)

Opera by Strauss ...

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung (1964)

The Cardinal (1963)

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. ...

Der einsame Weg (1962)

Lumpazivagabundus (1962)

Three upright apprentices - tailor Zwirn, carpenter Leim, and shoemaker Knieriem - win a lottery and get rich overnight. Leim marries his master's daughter, Zwirn squanders his fortune on the glamorous Signora Palpiti, and Knieriem drinks away his wealth. ...

Professor Bernhardi (1962)

Donadieu (1962)

Der Bauer als Millionär (1961)

The fairy Lacrimosa's daughter lives with a forest farmer. If she marries a poor man, her mother will regain her magical powers. «Envy» wants to prevent this and turns the forest farmer into a hard-hearted millionaire. ...

Mann im Schatten (1961)

Crime Thriller with Helmut Qualtinger as Chief Inspector who investigates a Murder in 1961 Vienna. The murder is based on a real murder, the "bathub murder", which gained quite some media attraction in austria in the 1940's. ...

Der Verräter (1959)

Trees Are Blooming in Vienna (1958)

Beautiful Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian era. Lixie, a court councilor's daughter raised in a middle-class family, has fallen in love with the piano teacher Toni. To make a good impression on Lixie's strict father, Toni urgently needs a job. Then chanc ...

Solang' die Sterne glüh'n (1958)

After their circus goes bankrupt, old clown Pipo, trick rider Cora, and little Silvio are left penniless. They can't even afford to feed the animals they have left. Reporter Conny Meister immediately senses a touching story. Dairy owner Runkelmann, on the ...

Der Kaiser und das Wäschermädel (1957)

Die Lindenwirtin vom Donaustrand (1957)

The innkeeper of the Linden Inn is struggling with her debts and her rival, the butcher Kilian. A boost comes when the young interior designer Helga furnishes the inn with furniture from a nearby castle. In the process, she falls in love with the estate ma ...

Heimweh... dort, wo die Blumen blüh'n (1957)

Castle in Tyrol (1957)

A comedy directed by Géza von Radványi. ...

Die unentschuldigte Stunde (1957)

Biggi is about to take her high school diploma. To avoid an impending chemistry exam, she fakes an illness. She obtains the necessary certificate from the handsome doctor Dr. Weiringk. She promptly falls in love with her savior and marries him. However, as ...

Unter Achtzehn (1957)

The social worker Luise Gottschalk dedicates all her passion to the Viennese caretakers and derailed young people. Tirelessly, she advertises to adults for understanding the needs of adolescents. She is particularly committed to a girl named Elfie Breitner ...

Dort oben, wo die Alpen glühen (1956)

Försterliesel (1956)

Through the Forests and Through the Trees (1956)

The composer Carl Maria von Weber is on his way to Prague with his bride Caroline Brandt when their carriage is attacked by bandits. Fortunately, Count Enzio von Schwarzenbrunn rushes to their aid and puts the villains to flight. However, the noble host wh ...

Kronprinz Rudolfs letzte Liebe (1956)

The sensitive Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf is suffering from his marriage, dictated by his father, Emperor Franz Joseph, and the strict court etiquette. He meets a kindred spirit in the very young Baroness Mary Vetsera. ...

Die Försterbuben (1955)

When seminarian Martin Rufmann arrives in St. Eustachen, idyllically located in the Carinthian mountains, the local choral society is celebrating a joyous festival. Martin is the youngest son of the widowed head forester Thomas Rufmann. Martin's older brot ...

Sarajevo (1955)

The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. ...

It Happened on July 20th (1955)

A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. ...

Espionage (1955)

Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Frequent letters from the Russian Empire, however, make him suspect of sharing his knowledge with unauthorized authorities. ...

The Last Act (1955)

Albin Skoda embodies a frantic Adolf Hitler in his last days, scrambling to keep the Third Reich alive as morale within the bunker wanes and Berlin is encircled by enemy troops. Based on Michael A. Musmanno's book Ten Days to Die, Oscar Werner costars as f ...

Ludwig II (1955)

Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. ...

The Forester of the Silver Wood (1954)

Hubert Gerold, the new forester of the Silver Forest, fights against the deforestation of his idyllic forest with the help of the court councilor. He actually succeeds in convincing the local council to sell building land instead of the forest. When Hubert ...

Imperial Manoeuvres (1954)

In Franz Joseph I's Vienna, Captain Eichfeld publishes a witty satire on imperial Austrian army abuses, using the pseudonym "Spectator." It's popular, but Eichfeld dares not reveal his identity, as he wants the hand of conservative General von Trattenbach' ...

Hab’ ich nur Deine Liebe (1953)

On the green field (1953)

Drei, von denen man spricht (1953)

Ich und meine Frau (1953)

The conversion of a pedantic family tyrant into an understanding husband and father. ...

April 1, 2000 (1952)

It is the year 2000 and the World Global Union is in charge, although other countries are allowed to elect their own government leaders, as long as they support the Union. When Austria's newly-elected president, played by Josef Meinrad, makes his inaugurat ...

Maria Theresia (1951)

A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa. ...

Vienna Waltzes (1951)

A biography of the composer Johann Strauss. ...

Cordula (1950)

Eroica (1949)

Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven. ...

Liebe Freundin (1949)

Gottes Engel sind überall (1948)

The Other Life (1948)

The film tells the story of a young Jewish woman who, during the Nazi era, is hidden by her friend, treated in a hospital using her identity papers, and dies there. As a result, her friend loses her official identity. For the first time, the question of th ...

Am Ende der Welt (1947)

Old Bell, owner of the sawmill and the surrounding forests in a remote place "at the end of the world," died twenty years ago. Since then, the down-to-earth and nature-loving Michael March has been the sawmill's manager. Then Bell's daughter Roberta comes ...

Das Herz muß schweigen (1944)

On New Year's Eve 1900, Paul Holzgruber started a new praxis as a radiologist. The young Maximiliane Frey is his assistant and they have worked side by side for years helping people. Holzgruber repeatedly points out the dangers of radiation to Maximilian ...

Die goldene Fessel (1944)

Herr von Lips is a wealthy landowner, surrounded by money and luxury. But what he lacks is a wife, who really loves him. So he comes up with the plan to mingle among the people in simple clothing to find the missing bride. Three fine friends --- "fine", ...

Trip Acquaintance (1943)

A nervous private investigator, his bumbling boss, a woman in love, 10,000 Reichsmark and two reversed cases. A crime comedy directed by E. W. Emo. ...

Die heimliche Gräfin (1942)

A comedy of confusion in aristocratic Vienna at the turn of the 19th into the 20th Century: The young Bohemian Countess Antschi Dorival trades places with her friend Martina, because she wants to become an actress and applies as such at the city theatre un ...

Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941)

In this intricately plotted crime comedy, Johannes Heesters plays the worldly insurance detective Peter Holm, who is determined to apprehend jewel thief Robert Makaroff. To this end, Holm travels to Copenhagen, where the Hungarian actress Lilly Hegedüsch ...

Dreimal Hochzeit (1941)

Prince Alexander loves the commoner Vera and defies his uncle the Tzar as well as his peers by arranging his wedding. But Vera leaves him because she does not want to be the cause of him spending the rest of his life as a social outcast. ...

Liebe ist zollfrei (1941)

The Postmaster (1940)

When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's d ...

Judgement Day (1940)

The greengrocer Ferdinand Strubel wants his daughter Marianne to marry the son of the brewery owner Baron von Schnackenberg. Since Strubel is an impossibly cheap bastard, the marriage is to take place on 20 May, which, coincidentally, is the same day the ...

Fräulein (1939)

Miss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with t ...

Millionäre (1937)

"Millionaires" is an Austrian feature film from 1937, a comedy directed by Karlheinz Martin. The film premiered on July 31, 1937, in Vienna and is based on a story that illuminates life and love in the social milieu of the time. ...

Burg Theatre (1936)

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an ...

Herr im Haus bin ich (1970)