Miguel Herz-Kestranek

The Great World Theatre - Salzburg and Its Festival (2020)

A documentary about how the Salzburger Festspiele came to be and evolved almost 100 years ago. ...

Patrick (2019)

Patrick, 20-years-old, lives in Paris with his older boyfriend. He runs a teenage pornography website, which results in a prison sentence following a raid at a party. Mário, 8-years-old, was kidnapped 12 years ago in Portugal. Patrick and Mário are the s ...

Das doppelte Lottchen (2017)

Lotte and Louise meet at a summer camp. Everyone who sees the two falls open in surprise, the girls look so much alike. It doesn't take long before they find out that they are actually twins. ...

Die Ketzerbraut (2017)

Genoveva's 16th‐century Munich family is murdered and her home burned. Violated by masked killers, she vows vengeance. She turns to friend Ernst, unaware he aids her family's traitors, and to Walpurga, whose true motives shock her. Can she still enact he ...

Helden - Wenn Dein Land Dich braucht (2013)

Scientists try to simulate the Big Bang and the experiment gets out of control. While satellites come down and chaos arises, the stories of several people trying to survive is told. ...

Reigen (2012)

This play, which premiered in Berlin in December 1920, was considered one of the biggest theater scandals of the last century. There were tumultuous scenes during performances and later even a trial – which, in turn, led to Arthur Schnitzler banning his ...

The Perjured Farmer (2012)

The wealthy farmer Karl Bruckner and his fiancée Anna are about to marry when Karl is killed in a car accident. While a world collapses for Anna, Charles' stepbrother Franz takes the opportunity to take possession of the family-owned farm. He lets Charles ...

Ein Schatz fürs Leben – Abenteuer in Panama (2011)

Dr. Wilhelm Brock, a seasoned but never successful Precolombian treasure hunter, is on the trace of the legendary, elusive Oromec treasure in Panama. Finding the missing clue gives him a cardiac crisis. His bossy daughter Johanna tries to sell the boat he ...

Ausgerechnet Afrika (2010)

Nanga Parbat (2010)

Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died. ...

The Angel Maker (2009)

A child death in a small german town dismay its inhabitants, who start to think that the death is related with an old leyend. ...

Johanna – Köchin aus Leidenschaft (2009)

Johanna and Arnold Melzer are a well-coordinated team. He takes care of the kitchen, and she looks after the guests of their picturesque inn on the southern Styrian wine route. When Arnold runs off with the young kitchen assistant Valentina, leaving behind ...

Bible Code (2008)

Johanna Bachmann is a young police received an emergency call from his father he believed dead, but to meet him, kill him. Nevertheless, the man gets to give her daughter a bag with various personal items. These will put you on the track of a manuscript th ...

Utta Danella - Tanz auf dem Regenbogen (2007)

Eva Habermann plays a bright, young woman who has to choose between two very different men. Miguel Herz-Kestranek embodies the charismatic singer Roman and Gunther Gillian the nature-loving veterinarian Christian. The other roles are brilliantly cast with ...

Herzdamen (2006)

Three seasoned women, successful and in the prime of their years, have had enough of the masters of creation. Maria finally leaves her husband Josef, to whom she led the common starred restaurant in Vienna in spite of his affairs during the marriage. The f ...

A Pirate's Heart (2006)

The end of the 14th century. Parents send the eldest son Jan to study in Hamburg, and the youngest - Klaus - to the monastery. No sooner had the children moved away from their homes, as on Klaus'es eyes the robbers kill their parents and burn the house. On ...

König der Herzen (2006)

Florian König is in his early 20s and lives with his mother. He assists her whenever he can. In the weekly newspaper "Alt Ausseer Bote" he reports on a foundling that has been handed in at the baby hatch of Bad Aussee hospital, and is subsequently dismiss ...

Klimt (2006)

A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

Rose unter Dornen (2006)

Die Spur im Schnee (2005)

Alpenglühen zwei - Liebe versetzt Berge (2005)

Seven months after marrying and settling on Rosa's Alpine pasture, fishmonger Hannes flees back to Hamburg. Furious, Rosa follows him to the Hanseatic city. ...

Girls on Top 2 (2004)

Inken and Lucy are facing hard times when their parents' money is radically cut off. Together with Lena, who is fed up with her boyfriend, they desperately search for money, an apartment and love. But because each individual point is difficult to realize o ...

Das unbezähmbare Herz (2004)

Alles Glück dieser Erde (2003)

To their big surprise, the capable waitress Gundula Kirchner receives from the estate owner Xaver Schönborn the offer to manage his stud as managing director. Gundula, who has some qualifications, seizes the opportunity and has the business under control ...

The Poet (2003)

A contract killer sees a chance to free himself from a tragic past. ...

Mein Mann, mein Leben und du (2003)

Schönbrunn - Well of Beauty (2002)

Schönbrunn is a world of marvels and mystery, of public glamour and curious secrets. The wealth of its building and landscape architecture, the grand views and hidden details, the wildlife, tamed nature as well as its past and present human population sup ...

Zwei Seiten der Liebe (2002)

Carola and Dieter Martin have been married for 25 years. After Dieter dies in a car accident, Carola finds out that he was gay and had been in a relationship with the much younger lawyer Tobias Volperius for six years. Deeply shaken by this discovery, she ...

Uprising (2001)

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis. ...

Sass (2001)

Brothers Franz and Erich Sass grew up poor. Together with his brother Franz, Erich specializes in cracking safes. Erich spends the money with his hands full. In the meantime, the police have also become aware of the brothers. Pursued by Detective Fabich, t ...

Der Bestseller: Millionencoup auf Gran Canaria (2001)

Crime novelist Leo Leitner tries to overcome his creative crisis on Gran Canaria. His lively roommate Bianca puts him on the trail of a real crime. The imprisoned millionaire fraudster Horst Rogner is said to have hidden his loot on the island. The money i ...

Liebe unter weißen Segeln (2001)

The marine doctor Dr. med. Karen Stendal is assigned to the sailing training ship Albatros, which heads her great love Gregor Simonis as captain. But contrary to expectations Gregor behaves emphatically cool and dismissive to the attractive doctor. During ...

Stimme des Herzens (2000)

Rosamunde Pilcher: Möwen im Wind (1999)

Dr. David Douglas is about to start his own private clinic and marry architect Jane Merchenson. Then his father dies, leaving debts from a real estate fraud he fell victim to, so selling the mortgaged Cornish family estate Oaktree isn't nearly enough. Davi ...

Drei Tage Angst (1998)

Die Nacht der Nächte (1997)

Kalkuliertes Risiko (1997)

Secret service ace Ben risks his life every day. But the job pays badly. Ben can't even pay the lawyer who has to fight for custody of his daughter. Then the agent receives a lucrative offer: for one million marks, he is to crack the security system of arm ...

Drei in fremden Betten (1996)

Hoteliers Otto and Ludwig König run a luxury hotel at Munich's Viktualienmarkt. They are surprised by a visit from their rich sister Nane, owner of the Hotel Sacher in Vienna: she wants to marry for the fifth time and this immediately causes alarm among t ...

Der Diamant des Geisterkönigs (1992)

A fantasy movie directed by Ernst Wolfram Marboe. ...

Ein Mann nach meinem Herzen (1987)

'38 - Vienna Before the Fall (1986)

The film presents the political events surrounding the Anschluss in March of 1938 through the lives of Carola Hell, a popular young actress at the prestigious Theater in der Josefstadt, and Martin Hofmann, the Jewish journalist she plans to marry. When we ...

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. ...

Merken Sie sich dieses Gesicht (1985)

Critical crime movie about a young, idealistic television reporter who is a loser in a world of cynicism and economic pressure. ...

Es war nicht die Fünfte, es war die Neunte (1985)

Weltuntergang (1984)

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. ...

Der Narr von Wien (1982)

Der richtige Mann (1982)

Karl Hirnschall is in his thirties and is a member of a Viennese avant-garde theatre group in the early seventies. When he is finally fed up with acting for low fees, he goes back to his former life. He becomes the "right man" for a grocery firm whose prod ...

Der selige Herr aus dem Parlament (1980)

Berggasse 19 (1979)

Film deals with the life and work of Sigmund Freud. ...

Fräulein Else (1975)

Else is the pretty daughter of a Viennese lawyer. The young lady has been invited by her aunt to spend a few days on a summer holiday in San Martino. There she receives an express letter from her mother requesting her to ask the wealthy art dealer Dorsday ...