Kurt Palm

Kafka, Ganja, Maniacs (2014)

It is summer and five overly-seasoned college students have been given the task of writing a group paper on Franz Kafka's "The Country Doctor." At first they are reluctant, but in a cloud of hashish they come up with the idea to film the story instead. The ...

Bad Fucking (2013)

Because of its name, the small Austrian town of Bad F* is a tourist attraction—until a landslide cuts it off from the rest of the country. Three years later, a murder sets a multitude of devastating developments in motion... ...

Hermes Phettberg, Elender (2007)

Der Wadenmesser (2005)

Der Schnitt durch die Kehle oder Die Auferstehung des Adalbert Stifter (2003)

At Swim-Two-Birds (1997)

A Dublin student writes a novel about a tavern keeper about the parishioners in his tavern (including the student), who in turn write novels featuring the innkeeper and the student, and other novel composers about other novelists. ...

Der Papst ist kein Jeansboy (2011)

The actor, columnist, author, moderator, the failed pastoral assistant, the self-confessed gay sadomasochist, the total work of art Hermes Phettberg, who has always been relentlessly open about his life, his suffering in himself and the world, gives insigh ...