Michael Janisch

Der Feuerteufel - Flammen des Todes (1999)

Several emblematic buildings in Vienna suffer from a series of explosions that destroy works of art of inestimable value, as well as generating a large number of victims. Detective Peter Bender will need the help of Lena, a student of art, discover the mur ...

The Inheritors (1983)

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private schoo ...

Die Geschichte einer Vielgeliebten (1982)

Rosamunde is a suburban girl and works as a model in Vienna. The men around her are not only fascinated by her beauty. It's also her lust for life and her unassuming, spontaneous manner which knocks them out. Dr. Zoller, a journalist, as well as Silberer a ...

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. ...

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. ...

The Girl from Petrovka (1974)

A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The KGB is most displeased and does everything it can to break them up. ...

The Journey to Vienna (1973)

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna. ...

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 ...

The Refusal (1973)

The story of the last days of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter (1907-43), who was executed by the Nazi regime because of his refusal to compromise with a perverse system. ...

Der fidele Bauer (1971)

The Vampire Happening (1971)

An American actress inherits a Transylvanian castle, unaware that her ancestor was really a vampire countess, and has emerged from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary ...

And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot (1971)

The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Me ...

Fast ein Poet (1968)

Where Are You Taking That Woman (1966)

A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay ...

An Alibi for Death (1963)

Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the ca ...

Dwarf Nose (1963)

TV adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tale. ...

Donadieu (1962)

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (1961)

Vienna, circa 1930: The "sweet Viennese girl" Marianne is supposed to find the man of her life in the butcher Oskar. She flees to the bon vivant Albert, who first makes her pregnant and then bitterly disappoints her. He abandons her, leaving Marianne all a ...

Am Galgen hängt die Liebe (1960)

Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee (1959)

Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. The former Nazi used the money to build a career in business in post-war Germany. His buddy also benefits fr ...

The Journey (1959)

A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary. ...

Einmal noch die Heimat seh’n (1958)

Because the young hunter Michael has carelessly fallen for the head forester's daughter, he incurs the wrath of his colleague Bertl. This not only earns him a beating, but also a charge for a crime he did not commit. Fortunately, he manages to flee to Afri ...

08/15 at Home (1955)

The third part of Paul May′s "08/15" trilogy based on the novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst takes place shortly before the end of World War II: In the spring of 1945, the German troops are practically defeated, and the battalion of Kowalski, major general von ...

Schicksal am Lenkrad (1954)

Franz Schubert – Ein Leben in zwei Sätzen (1953)

Franz Schubert toils by day as his father's clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven's shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandonin ...

Annaluise & Anton (1953)

Despite their social differences Luise, called Pünktchen, a girl from rich parentage befriends Anton, a boy who has to earn his own money in order to afford life for his sick mother and himself. ...

Die Regimentstochter (1953)

A Tyrolean rifle regiment adopt a young baby girl they have rescued and she becomes the "Daughter of the Regiment". In 1811, as a full-grown woman she falls in love with one of the new recruits while the regiment battles French forces during the Napoleonic ...

Gangsterpremiere (1951)