Kurt Sowinetz

Die Kaffeehaus-Clique (1990)

Die Erpressung (1990)

Höchste Eisenbahn (1987)

The storyline of this episodic film, made on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), is a PR team's train journey through Austria. The professionals are to use the inspiring surroundings to develop a new advertising c ...

Welcome in Vienna (1986)

Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attemp ...

Eine blassblaue Frauenschrift (1984)

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. Is the child his? Should he help ...

The Devil's Lieutenant (1984)

In the pre-WWI Austro-Hungarian Empire, an older officer (Capt. Kunze) investigates a brilliant junior officer (Lt. Dorfrichter) suspected of complicity in a murder by poisoning. ...

Professor Bernhardi (1983)

Der Narr von Wien (1982)

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. ...

Wahre Geschichten - frei erfunden (1980)

Die Bräute des Kurt Roidl (1979)

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

Hofnarr sucht Hof (1978)

Drei Schwestern (1977)

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, ...

Bomber & Paganini (1976)

The story follows two simple as well as incorrigible petty crooks, who always fail spectacularly in search of the big coup. ...

Feuerwerk (1976)

Die Halde (1975)

On his wanderings, Tom meets young Lizzi and accompanies her to the vacation resort "Im Sonnengrund". The residents there are threatened by a huge garbage dump that will bury them all. ...

Change (1975)

Based on the drama by Wolfgang Bauer. Fery Kaltenböck is a painter of the Viennese avant-garde in the post-1968 milieu. His lack of success plunges him into depression. Out of frustration, he builds the Pölten painter Blasius Okopenko into a star, only t ...

Comenius (1975)

Nichts als Erinnerung (1974)

Eine Nacht in Venedig (1974)

Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II. Its libretto was by F. Zell and Richard Genée based on Le Château Trompette by Eugène Cormon and Richard Genée. The farcical, romantic story involves several c ...

Die beiden Nachtwandler oder Das Notwendige und das Überflüssige (1973)

Defraudanten (1973)

Weights and Measures (1973)

Tells of the tribulations of a middle-aged official of the Austro-Hungarian Bureau of Weights and Measures in fighting the local shopkeepers and traders whose weights are frequently light. ...

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 ...

Das Märchen von der harten Nuß (1972)

Pero and Jovo (1972)

Nasrin oder Die Kunst zu träumen (1972)

Galgentoni (1972)

Der Tod des Ministers (1972)

Die heilige Johanna (1971)

Finder, bitte melden (1970)

Richard Nielson, who is in Vienna as the English representative at an aviation conference, has to stand in for his boss on his wedding day. Vicky Nielson then vows revenge on her husband. She releases seven balloons into the Viennese sky, each bearing a no ...

Zug fährt Wiental (1970)

Die Herberge (1970)

Das Wort (1970)

Arthur Schnitzler's key piece describes the liaisons of his artist colleagues from the Cafe Central, Vienna. Behind the character "Treuenhof" is Peter Alterberg recognized, "Winkler" = Arthur Schnitzler, "Flatterer" = Frida Uhl, "Rapp" = Stefan Großmann, ...

Die Geschichte der 1002. Nacht (1969)

Zwei aus Verona (1969)

Die Enthüllung (1969)

Der Bürger als Edelmann (1969)

Traumnovelle (1969)

After a frank confession by his wife, a doctor is called to see a dying patient. The cause of the night brings him to meet an old friend, a pianist, who tells him of a mysterious ball where he is due to perform. Based on the book "Traumnovelle" ("Rhapsody: ...

Reiterattacke (1968)

Das vierte Gebot (1968)

Die Unbekannte aus der Seine (1968)

Ein Genie wird verkannt (1967)

Ein Monat auf dem Lande (1967)

Der Befehl (1967)

Krach im Hinterhaus (1966)

Die Hinrichtung (1966)

Endkampf (1965)

a tv-movie by Rainer Erler ...

Lumpazivagabundus (1965)

Leim, the carpenter's journeyman, invests his lottery winnings wisely and marries his master Hoblmann's daughter Pepi, securing a comfortable middle-class life. Zwirn, the tailor, falls for the alluring Signora Palpiti and lavishes his newfound wealth on h ...

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 ...

Der Himbeerpflücker (1965)

The pub "Zum Weißen Lamm" (the White Lamb) is filled to the brim with nasty bores. The innkeeper, played by a sweat-soaked Helmut Qualtinger, and his self-righteous circle of regulars are thrown into turmoil when a quest who is supposedly "the Rasberry pi ...

Alles gerettet (1964)

Ein Volksfeind (1964)

Häuptling Abendwind oder Das greuliche Festmahl (1964)

Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1963)

Max Frisch's famous parable about the cowardice of opportunists: Mr. Biedermann brings two arsonists into his home and pretends that they are his best friends. ...

Warten auf Godot (1963)

Donadieu (1962)

Protektionskind (1962)

Valnocha, der Koch (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. ...

Ein Tag im Leben von... (1961)

Jedermann (1958)

Das Abgründige in Herrn Gerstenberg (1957)

Gangsterpremiere (1951)

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 ...