Hermann Schmid

Regentage (2002)

After nearly two decades of wedded bliss, Rosemarie and Hubert Haller's marriage is a shambles. While Rosemarie begins an affair with Bernd, a self-proclaimed guru, adventuresome charmer Hubert finds refuge in the arms of Monica. At the last moment, Hubert ...

Gebürtig (2002)

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront ...

Business for Pleasure (1997)

A voyeuristic tycoon orchestrates a risky, passion-charged triangle between himself, his right-hand man, and a beautiful executive. ...

Spurensuche (1997)

Tempo (1996)

Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the route becomes a regular assignment, Jojo finds romance and deadly enemies along the way. ...

Alltagsgeschichte – Treffpunkt U-Bahn (1993)

Ignaz Wuzel and Gerhard Jeschko are regulars at the espresso in the Südtiroler Platz underground station. Warden Leopold Prinz knows the problems of the children from Karlsplatz. In 1993, Elizabeth T. Spira filmed people on the Vienna subway network. Abov ...

Im Museum (1993)

A curator and a visitor walk through an imaginary museum of recent German history. The focal plane follows the scenario of a tour in that the (subjective) camera simulates a stroll through a museum: in an open field, however. ...

Weininger's Last Night (1990)

This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The ...

Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community (1988)

One of the main theses of the Marienthal study was that prolonged unemployment leads to a state of apathy in which the victims do not utilize any longer even the few opportunities left to them. The vicious cycle between reduced opportunities and reduced le ...

'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)

The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we ...

...beschloss ich Politiker zu werden (1985)

Headstand (1982)

A misunderstood youth is incorrectly placed in a mental hospital. ...