Michael Schottenberg

Villa Henriette (2004)

Twelve-year-old Marie has a very special relationship with the house where she lives with her extended family. Marie secretly talks to it as if it were alive and interprets strange occurrences in the somewhat dilapidated building as 'human' reactions and b ...

Blumen für Polt (2001)

Gendarmerie inspector Simon Polt in the Weinviertel region finds it too much of a coincidence when crook Riebel is killed in a motorcycle accident and his friend Willi is found dead on the same day. But the residents of the otherwise peaceful Lower Austria ...

The Piano Teacher (2001)

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her. ...

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 ...

Kreuzfeuer (1997)

Kino im Kopf (1996)

Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs have. Michael Glawogger invited 12 people to talk about their ideas for a film and then shot short fragments f ...

Der Bockerer II - Österreich ist frei (1996)

Vienna, 1947. Bockerer and his wife Binerl have survived the war, though his butcher's shop was destroyed by bombs. Karl Bockerer opens up a new establishment in the center of the city. Post-war Vienna is divided into four zones in which the Allies run th ...

Schnellschuß (1995)

Geschäfte (1995)

Das Geheimnis (1994)

Eine Minute dunkel macht uns nicht blind (1986)

Portrait of a great lady based on the real life of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, an Austrian architect, who joined the resistance movement against Hitler. ...

Tod eines Schaustellers (1984)

The Butcher (1981)

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war. ...

Der Lebemann (1979)

A man tries to make money to impress his girlfriend. ...

Feuer! (1979)

A historical drama about the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian empire. ...

Der Einstand (1977)

A young ex-convict returns to his home village. But he soon realizes that nothing is the same for him as before. ...

Lady Dracula (1977)

A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon she goes on a killing spree. ...

Geschäfte (1995)

Das Geheimnis (1994)

The Arrival of Averill (1992)

In this highly symbolic political allegory, Averill is traveling through a troubled countryside amid rumors of war to visit his father. He reaches a train station in a city which is paralyzed by a transportation strike and is forced to take lodgings in a b ...

Caracas (1989)

Despite its South-of-the-Border title, Caracas is an Austrian love triangle. Gas-station owner Gerhard Zehmann is saddled with cheating wife Regina Bill. The man would like to escape to Venezuela, but he can't unload his wife. Then he meets a woman who is ...

The Diary of Dr. Döblinger (1986)

Based on the many observations made during his extremely interesting and far from dull life, Dr. Döblinger relates four episodes in which he wants to give us a picture of the loneliness and incomprehensibility of mankind. ...

Landläufiger Tod (1980)

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