Michael Kreihsl

Man kann nicht alles haben (2021)

When Graz lawyer Brigitte learns that her only daughter Anna-Lena not only wants to marry a man decades her senior, but that he also turns out to be Brigitte's childhood sweetheart, Austropop rock star Richie, she wants to prevent the wedding at all costs. ...

Risks + Side Effects (2021)

A routine check-up reveals that the Pilates trainer Kathrin is suffering from kidney disease and needs a transplant. Her husband Arnold is a successful architect in the middle of a large project and is afraid of donating one of his kidneys. Götz, a friend ...

Vier Saiten (2020)

Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign famili ...

Die Wunderübung (2018)

Joana and Valentin Dorek are a married couple going through a crisis. This prompts them to take a trial session with a couple's therapist. In the therapist's consulting room they start off with their standard programme: she won't stop talking and he isn't ...

Liebe möglicherweise (2016)

Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other. ...

Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht (2011)

The pre-Christmas season is anything but contemplative for Lina, model and advertising jingle singer, and her best friend Nettie, who runs an event and partner agency: the two can hardly save themselves from second-class Christmas orders. And it's not for ...

Alle Sieben Wellen (2010)

Emmi and Leo are back! Almost a year after his "escape" to Boston, Leo is back - and answers. And even though neither of them really wants it (or does he?), even though each has tried to set up his life without the other in the meantime, they become so clo ...

Der Täter (2010)

Jakob Kisch loves Impressionist art. Therefore, the coach driver leads a double life as a gentleman robber. However, during his final heist, his heart fails. Only thanks to his cunning does he escape—and the Monet was only a copy anyway. During preventat ...

Liebe auf Kredit (2007)

Trau' niemals deinem Schwiegersohn (2006)

Heute heiratet mein Mann (2006)

The Mozart Minute (2006)

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of diff ...

Mein Vater, meine Frau und meine Geliebte (2004)

Great feelings about a selfless young doctor on the wrong path of passion: On the eve of the First World War, Ernst is betrayed and betrayed by the two women to whom he gives his heart. He serves in World War I, gets injured, gives himself up. His love for ...

Jetzt erst recht! (2003)

How does someone feel when they suddenly find out that they are not their parents' son? A world collapses for the up-and-coming star lawyer Max when the Prater landlady Gabi introduces herself as his birth mother at his engagement party. Max gets out and t ...

Liebe zartbitter (2003)

After the dashing Bavarian Lena Mayerhofer catches her future husband having a fling with her bridesmaid, she flees to Berlin to take over her Aunt Käthe's long-established bakery. Her gay friend Donald is there to give her advice and support. ...

Tigermännchen sucht Tigerweibchen (2003)

Reluctantly, Rüdiger and Marlene agree to a blind date and, to their surprise, they hit it off straight away. The happiness of the newly in love couple has just one flaw: in order not to scare their partner away, they conceal the fact that they have child ...

Probieren Sie’s mit einem Jüngeren (2000)

Anna Haslböck, writing as Karina Norden, hires young drummer Nicolas Auer to pose as her lover and boost sales for her new book on dating younger men. Nicolas, recently dumped by a girlfriend influenced by Anna's advice, reluctantly plays along while Anna ...

Hunters in the Snow (2000)

The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction. Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around hi ...

Charm's Incidents (1996)

Humourous interpretation of the poems and writings of Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. These are organized into a sequence, suggesting a storyline, about a poor Russian poet who lives in Vienna, falls in love and has several bizarre adventures. ...

Auf dem Weg (1990)

Intimate images of Schreiner's own family and friends' experiences, presenting them as seemingly unconnected scenes that resemble snapshots from a photo album. ...

A Licensed Liberty (1990)

Karl has a childlike innocence and naive purity. In spite of making false friends and enemies, he retains his decency in New York which remains a foreign city for him. ...

Idomeneo (1988)

Idomeneus, King of Crete, one of the great heroes during the total destruction of the famous city of Troy was sailing back to his realm when a terrible storm broke loose near the city of Sidon. The storm was of such violence that in his fear Idomeneus made ...

Eine Bewegung der Zeit (1987)

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyday situations are seen briefly, continously but rarely as perceived and consciously experienced. ...

Kinderfilm (1985)

The sunday ritual at home with parents, an alumni meeting of former school colleagues who once again, and some of them as young mothers and fathers, are confronted with the world of (their) children. Shots of mentally and physically disabled people who are ...

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. ...

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. ...

Wild Mouse (2017)

Kings should be treated courteously! At least, that's what famous music critic Georg thinks. But he finds himself counting pennies when his chief editor suddenly fires him from the Viennese newspaper for which he has been writing for decades. While keeping ...

Liebe möglicherweise (2016)

Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other. ...

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden (2016)

Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers. ...

The Poll Diaries (2010)

In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in. ...

Falco: Damn It, We're Still Alive! (2008)

Deals with the life, work, and tragic death of Johann "Falco" Hölzel. The biopic portrays his work through his early days, as member of the Viennese band "Drahdiwaberl", and later with his own hits as solo artist, like "Der Kommissar", "Wiener Blut", and ...

Suzie Washington (1998)

Nana Iaschwili, a teacher from East Europe, wants to emigrate to America to start a new life. After landing in Vienna, the authorities notice her falsified visa and arrest her. Nana, threatened with deportation, would prefer anything except being sent back ...

Half the World (1993)

The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant ...

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. ...

Film Hour (1991)

Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking. ...

Hund und Katz (1991)

Auf dem Weg (1990)

Intimate images of Schreiner's own family and friends' experiences, presenting them as seemingly unconnected scenes that resemble snapshots from a photo album. ...

Die Stadt der Anderen (1989)

Two women in two different countries leading different lives. One lives in Austria, one in Yugoslavia, yet their lives become strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else's head and the city around you isn't the one you us ...