Erni Mangold

Christoph Waltz - The Charm of Evil (2021)

Christoph Waltz, the villain with the friendly face, has become an integral part of the international cinema landscape. His breakthrough came with his roles as an SS standard bearer and bounty hunter in films by Quentin Tarantino. His charming portrayal of ...

The Opposite of Eternity (2021)

Anna has the difficult task of accompanying her mother Eva during the slow death of her father. She wants to gather the family one last time in one room. While she seems to almost break down at this task, her mother finds one reason after another not to en ...

Schönes Schlamassel (2020)

Anne falls in love with the Jewish doctor Daniel. Since he is not Jewish, he allows himself to be coached accordingly in order to keep up appearances. Every attempt by Daniel to clear up the misunderstanding achieves the opposite. Eventually he capitulates ...

Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years (2020)

This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously. The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as well as ...

Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias (2019)

Ironically, the art detective Johann Friedrich von Allmen is staying in a high-end Zurich hotel when a million-dollar dahlia painting disappears from the private suite of the owner. What would be more obvious to the eccentric Dahlia Gutbauer than to entrus ...

The Tobacconist (2018)

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tob ...

Under Suspicion (2018)

A male body is found in the Steyr breakthrough reservoir. The police officers of the LKA Linz do not think about suicide. Shortly afterwards it turns out that the dead man is the man who killed Sepp Ahorner's wife and daughter in an accident and who Sepp h ...

Murer: Anatomy of a Trial (2018)

Franz Murer, the Butcher of Vilnius, a former Austrian SS officer, established, organized, and ruled the Vilnius ghetto in Lithuania during the World War II. Different survivors of the Shoah testify when he is judged in 1963, hoping to do justice, but, alt ...

Herrgott für Anfänger (2017)

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

Der letzte Tanz - Making Of (2017)

The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016)

Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man's step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink co ...

Frozen Lake (2015)

A retired police officer discovers a dead body on a frozen lake. When his own family members become the prime suspects, he decides to start his own investigation. ...

Rough Road Ahead (2015)

Germany, 1967. Ruby & Martin, a young couple, are rehearsing their uprising. The price is high: expulsion from school, parental violence, and ultimately institutionalization. But they are ready to take on the cause of love. ...

Hangover in High Heels (2015)

Amelie Klein and Pia Schieder wake up in a rooftop swimming pool full of champagne bottles. With smeared makeup, a terrible hangover, and no memory at all. A complete blackout! That would be embarrassing for anyone, but it's especially bad for the two lawy ...

Ein Sommer im Burgenland (2015)

While Berlin-based businessman Paul Graf is in Shanghai, his nosy busybody mother Maria, who was only to mind his apartment, opens his mail, finds a letter notifying he's to become father and without consulting him travels to see the expectant mother, Nina ...

Therapy for a Vampire (2014)

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa. ...

The Last Dance (2014)

One morning police storms into the house, where Karl lives with his mother to arrest the young man. Whatever the charge is, it seems to be something nobody has the slightest understanding for. Months before: Karl is working in a hospital. He is fascinated ...

Und Äktschn! (2014)

The big opportunity has come for amateur filmmaker Pospiech: The local bank director has announced a film competition. Pospiech wants to win with a portrait of Hitler the private man - and show it to his rival. Nagy, director of an amateur film club and fa ...

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (2013)

The film adaptation Ödön of Horvath's piece about small bourgeois disasters. ...

3096 Days (2013)

A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch. ...

Das Wunder von Merching (2012)

The people of Merchingen used to live from tourism, which has been at a standstill for years. With the incorporation, the idyllic provincial village is now threatened with the loss of its independence. In its hour of greatest need, a rumor spreads that the ...

Coming of Age (2011)

Does luck have a use by date? Both thought that at eighty they have experienced everything until, like a bolt of lightening, Rosa and Bruno come together and immediately fall head over heels. There are two obstacles to their happiness though: Bruno's marri ...

Qualtinger (2011)

Pilgerfahrt nach Padua (2011)

Gundula Glöckner is very worried about the salvation of her daughter Lena. Again and again, the young woman gets to the wrong men. To help her child's happiness, the resolute widow shortly sets out on a pilgrimage: in Padua she wants to pray for Lena at t ...

The Visit (2011)

A tragicomic story about an old woman, who, to the horror of her son, is cooking up a meal in the middle of the night for her long-deceased friends. Fantasy, dream or reality? What is the difference? When people get old... ...

Echte Wiener 2 - Die Deppat'n und die Gspritzt'n (2010)

The Sackbauer family unexpectedly inherits a villa with a large garden in a cottage district in Lower Austria. The villa itself is in acceptable condition, but the garden is less so. Mundl quickly sets about sprucing it up with garden gnomes, lanterns, and ...

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 ...

Tod in Istanbul (2010)

Cologne/Bonn Airport: Detective Inspector Mark Kleinert transfers the young Turkish man Baran Sahin, who has been arrested for illegal possession of weapons, to Istanbul. Seemingly a routine operation - until Kleinert receives a call from his lover Carla P ...

Romy (2009)

From her on-screen triumphs to her off-screen tribulations, this biopic focuses on the captivating life and career of actress Romy Schneider. ...

Bauernprinzessin III - In der Zwickmühle (2009)

Anna and Bogdan's decision to say goodbye to each other, made with a heavy heart, is put to the test: Anna is pregnant and decides to have an abortion without involving Bogdan. As is so often the case, however, events in a small community such as the three ...

Genug ist nicht genug (2009)

Hinter Kaifeck (2009)

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A Woman in Berlin (2008)

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II. ...

North Face (2008)

North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger. ...

Silent Resident (2008)

At some point in the not-so-distant future, an unnamed European city has evolved into a bizarre dystopian metropolis, whose residents inhabit towering utopian high-rises and work, collectively, in a single compound. ...

Copacabana (2008)

Bauernprinzessin II - Kopf oder Herz (2007)

Four years have passed since Bogdan left the Pichlerhof and Anna remained heartbroken. At first glance, the farm with its "three-women economy" is well there. Neighbor Gerhard builds on a common future with Anna. Then suddenly Bogdan reappears. He has made ...

All the Invisible Things (2007)

Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problem ...

Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas (2005)

Die Heilerin (2004)

For a long time, Halfried Seelig forced herself not to make use of her special gift for healing. When she does help a sick man one day, the news spreads quickly. Meanwhile, there is a crisis in the marriage of Halfried's daughter Marion. On her wedding day ...

Bauernprinzessin I (2004)

Due to the accidental death of Pichler Bauer his wife Ilse, Granny Burgi and especially the youngest daughter Anna are suddenly alone on the mountain farm. Contrary to expectations and traditions, Anna inherits the farm. A well considered decision of the f ...

Leaf and Blossom - The Inheritance (2004)

Aunty Agatha has passed away at a healthy ninety years. She had known all along, that her family wanted nothing more than to get their hands on her riches. That's why she devised a cunning plan before leaving her kin - in a state discord: She hires former ...

Annas Heimkehr (2003)

In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the Nazis. One day, the family is discovered and only by chance can Anna save the family's only daughter, Fra ...

Wer liebt, hat Recht (2002)

Based on an autobiographic novel by Anita Lenz, the movie focuses on a apparently happy couple whose marriage turns out to be a big lie. Maja, author of architectural books, lives in Berlin, while her husband Helmut works as a professor of literature in th ...

August der Glückliche (2002)

When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins: a million euros! Looking for a person who truly loves him, August places an advertisement in the newspaper: ...

Ein Hund kam in die Küche (2002)

The teacher Senta falls in love with the award-winning chef Stefan, who rents out his romantic winegrower's house in southern Styria to her during the summer holidays. She soon notices that a quirky gendarmerie inspector is keeping the property under surve ...

Blumen für Polt (2001)

Gendarmerie inspector Simon Polt in the Weinviertel region finds it too much of a coincidence when crook Riebel is killed in a motorcycle accident and his friend Willi is found dead on the same day. But the residents of the otherwise peaceful Lower Austria ...

Edelweiss (2001)

Vera and Erich Dorfmeister benefited from National Socialism . Times may have changed , but their spirit has stayed the same. Daughter Isolde in particular suffered from this , which is why her marriage to jazz musician Paul Richter broke up . Now their da ...

Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein (2001)

Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet M ...

Der Verschwender (2000)

The 3 Postal Robbers (1998)

The Mupfer gang is again forced to admit defeat by the Schmutzer gang, and the Mupfers then begin to stir up trouble. If the bosses - Meier and Ferri - do not come up with a brillant idea soon, they will be toppled. Ivonka Pivonka, a 12-year-old girl who i ...

Drei Herren (1998)

Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, three amiable and harmless inmates of a mental asylum are off to spend the summer in an open institution in the country. The trip they have been looking forward to for so long ends abruptly when the driver of their bus suffers a he ...

Qualtingers Wien (1997)

Using original texts from Qualtinger, the two authors develop a pandemonium of 'Viennese cordiality'. Set in a municipal building, in the Prater and the surrounding streets, sausage stands, etc., characters and unerring punchlines result in an enjoyable Vi ...

Before Sunrise (1995)

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may ...

Das Geheimnis (1994)

Der veruntreute Himmel (1990)

Nach Amerika (1989)

America 1988. After more than 40 years the elderly widow Braine is unexpectedly confronted with her past. She returns to the village of her youth. - Austria 1988. The Border. ...

Studio Schönbrunn (1988)

"Studio Schönbrunn" is an ironic play with quotations. Paula Wessely in the Nazi-Wien-Film-production "Heimkehr", Leni Riefenstahl's biography, as well as Nestroy, Mozart, Marx, Frank Sinatra, Jandl. The text is adapted, de-familiarized and de-subjectiviz ...

Time Troopers (1985)

After a nuclear war, what is left of society creates a special police force to ensure that it doesn't happen again. However, things don't go exactly as planned. ...

MorgenGrauen (1984)

In a city of the future, man has triumphed over nature and at the same time destroyed the environment. In the highly mechanized cities, all goods and services are equally available for everybody. Each person recieves an "energy chip" on their 16th birthday ...

Tramps (1983)

The intellectual Willie flees from his bourgeois-academic environment, leaving behind his wife, child, and job to lead a vagabond life. In Vienna, he meets the retired laborer Josef, who becomes his closest friend. Together, they drink and roam the city. W ...

Contemporaries (1983)

Within the span of 48 hours "contemporaries" encounter each other. In the middle is Max, who lost his job years ago because of his affair with the wife of an influential man. The story of an encounter which turns out badly because the people involved can' ...

The Uppercrust (1981)

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt". ...

The World Machine (1981)

After the passing of her husband, the commissioned painter Anneliese Psiko decides to travel across the country. In the Austrian province of Styria, she discovers a strange work of art entitled "Weltmaschine" (World Machine). From now on, it will change he ...

The Butcher (1981)

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war. ...

Berggasse 19 (1979)

Film deals with the life and work of Sigmund Freud. ...

Kassbach - Ein Portrait (1979)

Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of t ...

I Only Want You to Love Me (1976)

Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his ...

Duet for Three (1976)

Wienerinnen (1974)

Defraudanten (1973)

Der letzte Werkelmann (1973)

Vienna, a few days before the shots in Sarajevo which would trigger what was first called the Great, later simply the First World War: Job seekers from the crown lands flock to the capital of the empire in search of a better life, even if it's the factory ...

Kinderarzt Dr. Fröhlich (1972)

A young woman pharmacist, Eva, is very friendly with a children's doctor, Dr. Fröhlich. Eva's small nephew Peter lives with her and she is often thought to be his mother. A number of amusing and more serious misunderstandings arise from this situation... ...

Sie nannten ihn Krambambuli (1972)

Letzte Grüße, lieber Charlie (1971)

Das Geld liegt auf der Bank (1970)

Die Enthüllung (1969)

Der Bürger als Edelmann (1969)

Polizeirevier 21 (1968)

When Night Falls on the Reeperbahn (1967)

A crime reporter uncovers a lurid plot by a Hamburg gang to dose impressionable young girls with LSD in order to enslave them into prostitution. Featuring mad killers, psychedelic acid trips and ladies mud wrestling! ...

Ein Florentiner Hut (1967)

Die Hinrichtung (1966)

Die Ballade von Peckham Rye (1966)

Schöne Seelen (1966)

Die Gigerln von Wien (1965)

Don Gil von den grünen Hosen (1964)

Tempest in a Water Glass (1960)

Aufruhr (1960)

In the prison of Brixton, it comes to a rebellion of the inmates ...

Mrs. Warren's Business (1960)

A very proper young woman is horrified to discover not only that her mother once worked as a prostitute in order to support her, but that she later became a whorehouse madam rather than give up the business. ...

Bobby Dodd intervenes (1959)

Die Halbzarte (1959)

Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the idea to secretly write a daring play, only about sex. ...

Der Maulkorb (1958)

Out of outrage, the usually proper prosecutor Treskow, after a night of heavy drinking, adorns the statue of the local ruler with a muzzle. The next morning, he can't remember a thing due to his intoxication. In the meantime, his act has been discovered an ...

Der Dank der Unterwelt (1958)

So süß ist kein Tod (1956)

Uns gefällt die Welt (1956)

Ein Herz kehrt heim (1956)

Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen (1956)

The young veterinarian Dr. Vlimmen settles in a small town on the North Sea coast. When he reports the conditions in the local slaughterhouse as cruelty to animals, he makes an enemy of the influential butcher van Heusden, who launches a smear campaign aga ...

.. und wer küsst mich? (1956)

Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)

Dr. Danwitz is a dedicated physician. The assistant doctor works practically day and night on a research project, but without pay. His wife Edith earns the necessary extra money as a model. That's why her pregnancy is a financial disaster for the young cou ...

Hanussen (1955)

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis. ...

Der falsche Adam (1955)

Ingrid - The Story of a Fashion Model (1955)

The romantic conflicts of a runaway young woman who works as a model and is courted by two journalists... ...

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 ...

Der Vogelhändler (1953)

So that a bird dealer can finally marry his beloved, who works at the post office, she wants to get him a position at court, but she is wrongly suspected of having had an affair with the prince, a notorious womanizer. ...

Arlette Conquers Paris (1953)

When Arlette, born out of wedlock, moves from the countryside to the big city of Paris, she is drawn to the bohemian circles, where she can be herself. She quickly feels at home and befriends the painter Luc Lamballe and the student Marc Tissier. After som ...

The Last Waltz (1953)

The singer and dancer Vera Opalinska performs as Arlette in 1920s Paris, where she is a star. Next on the agenda is a tour of the United States. The contract is to be signed after a final, highly acclaimed show. During the negotiations, her new PR agent as ...

Lavendel (1953)

Die Fiakermilli (1953)

An incredibly popular stage performer unknowingly falls madly in love with the lone critic that savaged her performance in the press. ...

Adventure in the Castle (1952)

Großstadtnacht (1950)

Liebe Freundin (1949)

The Angel with the Trumpet (1948)

A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of piano-makers in Vienna. ...

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 ...