Peter Patzak

Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus (2010)

Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are co ...

Jugendliche 2 (2009)

Follow-up to Patzak's JUGENDLICHE made nearly 40 years later. Peter Patzak, Walter Kindler and Peter Huemer talk to the protagonists featured in their 1972 documentary, about what happened with their dreams and how their lifes turned out in reality. ...

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 ...

Sternzeichen (2005)

Rufer, der Wolf (2005)

Verliebte Diebe (2003)

After a successful coup in a luxury hotel in Lichtenstein, the jewel-thief Claire hardly dares her eyes: among the guests are her old "colleague" and former lover Vinzenz Kröger, who now leads a middle-class life. Actually, Claire does not want to have an ...

The Uncrowned Heart (2003)

This comedy is set in the tiny and fictitious state of Sachenia, located close to the Alps. The sleepy and provincial region has magnificent landscape and beautiful old buildings, and is one of Central Europe's best kept secrets. The hero of this cheerful ...

Die Wasserfälle von Slunj (2002)

Briton Robert Clayton's business flourished and when his son Donald reached the right age he became a partner. The Claytons have found irreplaceable help and a friend in the board of directors and authorized signatory Josef Chwostik. But gradually the auth ...

Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell (2002)

Nichts wie weg (2001)

Adeus und Goodbye (2001)

Director Peter Patzak visits and interviews friends who decided to move from Germany to Rio de Janeiro and New York City. ...

Der Mörder in dir (2000)

Kill me softly – Frauenmord in Frankfurt (2000)

Hart im Nehmen (2000)

When a young couple in Vienna suddenly find themselves unemployed, they open a little restaurant near a local soccer place. Soon they have to find out about the odds and ends of self-employment as they have to learn that their newly won independence suffer ...

Gefangen im Jemen (1999)

Die Entführung (1999)

Everything goes well for the businessman of Berlin Carl Heldfeld till his daughter Ina is kidnapped and his wife Laura is injured and remains paralyzed. ...

Sweet Little Sixteen (1999)

16-year-old Sophie Reiner is living a happy life, but then her friend Karen is murdered after a visit to a disco. Sophie's perfect world is shattered. She falls in love with the charming detective Mike Kleist and begins a secret affair with him. When anoth ...

Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten (1998)

A private detective is hired in the USA to locate the heiress to a fortune worth millions. When he discovers that she has died of a heroin overdose, he passes off an accomplice as the person he is looking for. But suddenly others also come forward to clai ...

Hotel Shanghai (1997)

German two-part miniseries about the westerns staying at a popular hotel in Shanghai as the Japanese invasion of China also known as the Second Sino-Japanese War begins in 1937 as a precursor to WWII. ...

Glück auf Raten (1996)

Schmetterlingsgefühle (1996)

Burning Heart (1995)

Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India. ...

Das geborgte Nest (1995)

Tödliche Besessenheit (1994)

When a businessman falls in love with a widowed actress, her dream of owning her own theater on the North Sea coast finally seems to come true. But suddenly a young man enters her life and things take a dramatic turn. ...

1945 (1994)

Jenseits der Brandung (1994)

Das Babylon Komplott (1993)

Chris Lang, a journalist from Vienna, can't believe the sinister thing he has uncovered: is a certain Schatz organizing large-scale arms trafficking and supplying components for a superweapon to Iraq? While Chris searches for answers to these questions, it ...

Es Lebe die Liebe, der Papst und das Puff (1993)

Wolf, a dangerously wealthy but gravely ill businessman, invites his brother Paul, now a Vatican priest, to his remote castle seeking absolution, which alone can restore his virility and power. ...

Rochade (1992)

At the centre of Peter Patzak's existentialist film noir stands the hopeless struggle against the arms mafia in Czechoslovakia and its connections with Austria after the fall of the iron curtain. ...

St. Petri Schnee (1991)

In Morwede, a remote Westphalian village, the doctor meets Dr. Amberg in the 1930s. ...

Lex Minister (1990)

Minister Otto Sauer has just resigned. As usual, he walks over to the Eden Bar to muse about the rise and the fall of the mighty. This time, however, the evening takes a different course. He himself gives an account of the symbiosis of power and corruption ...

Death of a Schoolboy (1990)

On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo. His assassination caused a chain of events that brought about World War I and the downfall of old Europe. Who is the assassin? Who is GAVRE PRINCIP, a man that fate brou ...

Mistress Berta Garlan (1989)

The adaption of Arthur Schnitzler's brilliant study of the moral illusion and reality in a small town near Vienna at the end of the century. - After the famous radio adaption by Max Ophüls in 1954. ...

Midnight Cop (1988)

Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who ...

Camillo Castiglioni oder die Moral der Haifische (1988)

Psychological and sociological portrait of Camillo Castiglioni, the king of inflation, who became one of Europe's richest men in the twenties through speculation and war profiteering. ...

Lethal Obsession (1987)

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, ...

Wahnfried (1986)

Lake Lucerne in 1868: a passionate and forbidden affair flares up between the gifted composer Richard Wagner and the much younger Cosima von Bülow - the aristocrat is already married and the mother of four children. Contrary to all conventions, the two pu ...

Die Försterbuben (1984)

An alpine village shortly before the First World War. Widowed forester Rufman has little sympathy for his sons Friedel and Elias. Both find it difficult to cope with themselves. One day, a stranger appears whose curiosity confuses the suspicious villagers. ...

Springtime in Vienna (1984)

Martin Powolny, a down and out actor, calls himself Tiger. He lives in a tree house and practices his characteristic yell. An offer to make a film and an air-travel ticket entice him into the big city of Vienna. The director hopes he can finance the film i ...

Tramps (1983)

The intellectual Willie flees from his bourgeois-academic environment, leaving behind his wife, child, and job to lead a vagabond life. In Vienna, he meets the retired laborer Josef, who becomes his closest friend. Together, they drink and roam the city. W ...

Phoenix on the Corner (1982)

Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters in the films become his own. His dreams, wishes and reality become one in the fuzzy reflection on the projec ...

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". ...

The World Machine (1981)

After the passing of her husband, the commissioned painter Anneliese Psiko decides to travel across the country. In the Austrian province of Styria, she discovers a strange work of art entitled "Weltmaschine" (World Machine). From now on, it will change he ...

Der Aufstieg - Ein Mann geht verloren (1980)

Gesundheit (1979)

Kassbach - Ein Portrait (1979)

Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of t ...

Santa Lucia (1979)

Das Einhorn (1978)

A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he disc ...

Glücksachen (1977)

For thirty years Anna sat at the checkout in the supermarket; now she is retired and doesn't know what to do with her life. She drifts through Viennese museums and cafés until one day in the park she gets into a conversation with a group of bikers. And s ...

Shattered Dreams (1976)

A young Viennese policeman can not free himself from his mistress and is also extorted over his illegal arms business. ...

Parapsycho: Spectrum of Fear (1975)

Split into three episodes, this film examines extrasensory perception, reincarnation and telepathy. ...

Jugendliche (1972)

Documentary about youth in Austria. Peter Patzak and Walter Kindler traveled the country to speak with young people of a wide variety of different social classes and environments. ...

Slaughter Day (1972)

Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage ag ...

His Bag (1968)

Facetten (2007)

Rufer, der Wolf (2005)

Nichts wie weg (2001)

Adeus und Goodbye (2001)

Director Peter Patzak visits and interviews friends who decided to move from Germany to Rio de Janeiro and New York City. ...

Lex Minister (1990)

Minister Otto Sauer has just resigned. As usual, he walks over to the Eden Bar to muse about the rise and the fall of the mighty. This time, however, the evening takes a different course. He himself gives an account of the symbiosis of power and corruption ...

Lethal Obsession (1987)

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, ...

The World Machine (1981)

After the passing of her husband, the commissioned painter Anneliese Psiko decides to travel across the country. In the Austrian province of Styria, she discovers a strange work of art entitled "Weltmaschine" (World Machine). From now on, it will change he ...

Exit... But No Panic (1980)

A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine. ...

His Bag (1968)