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Götz Spielmann

Götz Spielmann

Götz Spielmann (born January 11, 1961 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.

Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the University for music and performing arts in Vienna. At the Viennese film Academy, his professors included Harald Zusanek and Axel Corti.

After making several short films, and receiving his diploma with Vergiss Sneider!, with the drama Erwin und Julia, Spielmann had his first great success. In 1993, his film The neighbour won the Vienna film award at the Viennale. And in 1994, his film for television, This naive Request, was awarded with the Erich-Neuberg-Preis. In 2006, he was honored with the Upper Austrian culture prize in the “Film” section.

Spielmann is one of the most important contemporary Austrian Film directors. His film The Stranger and Antares were the Austrian candidates for the Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. Antares has been screened widely at more than thirty International Film Festivals.

Spielmann is on the committee of the Association of film Directors in Austria (the Association of the Austrian film directors).

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Movies Made By Götz Spielmann (14)

The Guardian Angel (2022)

When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery. ...

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Südpol (2019)

After many successful years, Hans loses his job overnight - and with it the stability and meaning in his life. Undecided what he wants to do with himself and his future, he drives through Vienna and ends up in the "Südpol", a pub on the other side of the ...

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October November (2014)

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets. ...

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Revanche (2008)

Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. ...

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Antares (2004)

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block. ...

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Spiel im Morgengrauen (2001)

Austria in the last years of the monarchy: Wilhelm Kasda, Lieutenant of the Infantry, lives the life of a young officer. These include small, irrelevant affairs like those with Steffi. Steffi is a simple young woman. Kasda does not realize that her devotio ...

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The Stranger (2000)

The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had ...

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Lovable Lies (1995)

Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret. ...

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The Neighbour (1992)

Set in an old suburb of Vienna traversed by the local railway line and full of old dilapidated houses. In this district, and old man lives and when his neighbour dies and new tenants move in his existence is transformed. ...

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Erwin und Julia (1991)

The story of a few people in Vienna. Erwin, who wants to become an actor and has come from somewhere in the provinces with great ambitions. Karin, a waitress in a suburban espresso bar, who is almost destroyed by her love. Wolf, a writer who finds life dif ...

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Vergiss Sneider! (1987)

Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory. ...

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Abschied von Hölderlin (1985)

Spielmann was born in Wels in 1961, grew up in Vienna, Austria. Starts writing and directing while still in school. His first film is aired on television in 1978. In 1980 he starts studying screenwriting and directing at the Vienna Film Academy. Two films ...

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Foreign Land (1984)

The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere. ...

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Movies Starring Götz Spielmann (8)

Ciao, Czerny, Ciao (2023)

An opportunistic filmmaker exploits the ugly on-set experience of his girlfriend to dump a washed-up actor in favor of a famous star. ...

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The Happiness of Others (2008)

The film "The Happiness of Others," is engaged in the happy hunting of man in the mental state of happiness. Be happy - and every second of their lives - is the goal of human existence. Welch various ways are there of her, this "feeling of indescribable jo ...

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Uprising (2001)

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis. ...

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Quintett komplett (1998)

Ulrich believes that affairs can't harm a truly good marriage. That's why he's set his sights on the attractive Jutta. Jutta believes that his life so far can't be all there is to it. That's why she's set her sights on Ulrich. Sigi believes that his marria ...

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Sternberg - Shooting Star (1988)

Sternberg lands with his parachute in the bed of a stewardess, in the car of an airport employee and finally on a freeway service area. There he meets Harry. Harry is blind and he joins Sternberg who is looking for his Hedi. Together they land in the flat ...

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PARADISE LTD. (1986)

Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the living quarters. They all have definite ideas about life and living together and want to make them come true. Bu ...

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Tod eines Lesenden (1984)

A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler. ...

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