Otto Tausig

Der Mann mit dem Fagott (2011)

Bremen, 1891. Udo Jürgens' grandfather Heinrich strolls thoughtfully about the Christmas market. For days, the young man has suffered a momentous decision: should he emigrate to America or seek his fortune in Moscow? The touching performance of a street m ...

Glücksbringer (2011)

Agnes, the proud managing director of a renowned Viennese jewelery business, has been happily married to the jeweler Leo Wieland for 17 years. He designs for her the exclusive collections and proves her despite the obvious age difference - Leo is a lot you ...

Kill Daddy Good Night (2009)

The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itsel ...

Berlin '36 (2009)

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on ...

Der Nikolaus im Haus (2008)

Klaudia Wehmeyer, the proud co-owner of a pastry shop, has to stand trial because her manager Müller and her fraudulent partner Lehmann accuse her of embezzling half a million euros. After she is wrongly sentenced to prison, the spirited woman flees the c ...

Love Comes Lately (2007)

Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life - both real and imagined - with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film abou ...

Roots (2005)

Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attem ...

Wenn der Vater mit dem Sohne (2005)

Paul, a former concert pianist, lives in the picturesque town of Krems with his adopted son Rico. Since the accidental death of his wife Anna, he has been living alone with his son. When Paul falls in love with the beautiful Luisa, he starts playing the pi ...

Epsteins Nacht (2002)

Jochen Epstein is released from prison after serving 15 years for murder. He is determined to emigrate from Germany and leave the past behind him forever. But familiar places, repressed memories and a never-forgotten girlfriend break the armor that the old ...

Gebürtig (2002)

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront ...

Everyman's Feast (2002)

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jeder ...

Nobel (2001)

This is the story of writer Alberto's long journey to Stockholm, where the Nobel Prize awaits him, in a blazing Maserati. He is accompanied by Alessandro, a young journalist whose job is to interview him along the way. Personal and generational dynamics ar ...

Ein unmöglicher Mann (2001)

Hirnschal gegen Hitler (2000)

Place Vendôme (1998)

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing ...

Black Flamingos - Sie lieben euch zu Tode (1998)

An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of ...

Debt of Love (1998)

Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. How ...

The Port of Last Resort (1998)

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII. ...

Das Geständnis (1996)

Hofrat Geiger (1996)

Viennese curator Dr. Martin Geiger has achieved honor and prestige in his career and has just been appointed Hofrat. In his private life, however, he is not so successful and still mourns the loss of his former holiday sweetheart. One day, the student Mari ...

Queen Margot (1994)

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre. ...

Bye Bye America (1994)

The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr ...

Abraham's Gold (1990)

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-tru ...

Nocturne Indien (1989)

The enigmatic but vivid imagery of this loosely plotted film is based on a similarly evocative novel by the Italian author Antonio Tabucchi, Noturno Indiano. An old friend of the hero's has been living in Bombay with a prostitute. His friend Peter Schlemih ...

Herbst in Lugano (1988)

Der Bierkönig (1988)

Die Lokomotive (1986)

Is was, Kanzler? (1984)

October 1982: The entire German political scene is corrupt, the German government a puppet of the USA. To play it safe, the CIA replaces German politicians with compliant doubles. When the chancellor's doppelganger, of all people, is to be taken out of cir ...

The Uppercrust (1981)

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt". ...

Keine Leiche ohne Lilli (1980)

Egon Schiele (1980)

Biographical TV movie about controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele. ...

Bomber & Paganini (1976)

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

Attempted Flight (1976)

The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at ...

Die Insel der Krebse (1975)

Dr. Andre Tourenne is a biologist by training, but has conducted a great deal of research in the field of cybernetics in recent years. ...

Unverhofft (1973)

Chopin-Express (1971)

Was kam denn da ins Haus? (1970)

Fink und Fliederbusch (1969)

Tragödie auf der Jagd (1968)

Kurzer Prozeß (1967)

District Inspector Pokorny was transferred some time ago from Vienna to the fictional Upper Austrian town of Mühlstadt after assaulting a suspect while on duty. There, as he says, he has to deal with "idiotic scoundrels who steal each other's chickens." P ...

Der Heiratsschwindler heiratet (1966)

Professor Bernhardi (1964)

1964 TV broadcast of the Arthur Schnitzler play ...

Kean (1963)

Menschen von Budapest (1960)

In spring 1957 Budapest, former lovers Sándor and Mónika reunite after 16 years at a street‐corner café. Their conversation flashes back to 1941, when Hungary joined WWII under Horthy and eight fresh teacher‐graduates, including Sándor and Mónika, ...

Der Herr aus Zürich (1958)

Der Herr Schmidt (1971)

Tartuffe oder Der Betrüger (1970)

Die Kobibs'chen des Mr. Miggletwitcher (1969)

Die Begnadigung (1968)

Die Schule der Frauen (1967)

Familie Schimek (1966)

Geisterkomödie (1962)