Rainer Egger

Rose (2026)

In the turmoil of the Thirty-Years' War, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded Protestant village claiming to be heir to a long-abandoned manor. His quest for recognition and acceptance are complicated by his secret: under a false identity, false name ...

New Tales of Franz (2023)

In the second part of the successful children's book adaptation, Franz, Gabi and Eberhard go on a turbulent hunt for criminals during the summer holidays – and uncover a completely different secret in the process. ...

A Retribution (2022)

In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman's son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands. ...

Tales of Franz (2022)

Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help: Gabi and Eberhard. When Franz discovers Hank Haberer's "10 rules for a real man" for himself one day, tu ...

Der Fall der Gerti B. (2019)

Three friends from Floridsdorf – separated by 40 years and with lives that couldn't be more different – ​​meet on an evening that will change their future destinies forever. ...

Snowman (2018)

Antonia is stuck in her everyday life. She oversleeps, procrastinates and searches the internet for a happy life. Spontaneously, she decides to give structure to her existence and asks her fling for a steady relationship. ...

Life Guidance (2018)

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves ...

Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty? (2017)

Luisa works as a couples therapist and has a loveless relationship with her husband Richard, but at the same time she is having an affair with Richard's boss Leopold. As everything slowly threatens to get out of hand, she wakes up one morning to find a sec ...

Frantz (2016)

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance's grave to lay flowers. ...

Hanna's Sleeping Dogs (2016)

When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the "sleeping dogs" of the family history awake. ...

Alone in Berlin (2016)

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime's victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel's son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long belie ...

Unmensch (2016)

"I'm not a bad person, really. I buy fair trade vegetables and hate HC Strache." Excerpt from the play Jasper is rehearsing with his theater group. The young actor is inspired and wants to increase the energy of the text by bringing a gun on stage. The dir ...

Jack (2015)

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria's most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way. ...

Die Libelle und das Nashorn (2012)

Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-year-old legendary actor Nino Winter and his autobiography. The two meet again in the evening at the hotel bar. Ada involves Nino in a game - he is suppose ...

Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben (2011)

In April 1945, as Jewish prisoners on a death march from Hungary reach an abandoned barn near an Austrian village, their SS guards vanish, leaving them starving, freezing and helpless while villagers remain divided over their fate. Desperate for food and h ...

Lautlose Morde (2010)

A woman admitted in a mental health centre in order to overcome the death of her son decides to finish with her life. Her situation worries her husband and also her roomate, who is admitted in the centre although being in perfect mental situation. ...

Detektiv wider Willen (2009)

After a stroke of fate, star lawyer Mark Degen completely turns his life around. The workaholic, who only took on lucrative cases, becomes a courageous lawyer with social commitment. When his daughter, public prosecutor Ricarda, loses her first case agains ...

The Suffering of Mr. Karpf - the Birthday (2009)

It is Mr Karpf's birthday and he waits by the phone, but nobody calls. He concludes that there must therefore be something wrong with the phone. ...

Welcome Home (2004)

Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in the usual way, through incarceration and deportation. Bu ...

Struggle (2003)

The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a stubborn, sexually frustrated and ugly midlife man. ...

The Praying Mantis (2001)

Trixi Jancik leads a risky double life. At home, she is an obedient housewife. But when she puts on a disguise and goes to the racetrack to indulge in her secret passion, she catches a glimpse of a better life. Although she blows her grocery money, she has ...

Paul Is Dead (2000)

A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact. ...

The Red Violin (1998)

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays ...

The Unfish (1997)

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village. ...

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 ...

Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen (1994)

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but on ...

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 ...

Wüstenherzen (1993)

The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child. ...

Shalom, general (1990)

The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty, death. He has to take care of "General" Kulat, an old Wehrmacht officer, a fanatic militarist. Their confron ...

Waller's Last Trip (1989)

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood ...

In Achtzig Tagen um die Welt (1988)

PARADISE LTD. (1986)

Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the living quarters. They all have definite ideas about life and living together and want to make them come true. Bu ...

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 Suffering of Mr. Karpf - the Birthday (2009)

It is Mr Karpf's birthday and he waits by the phone, but nobody calls. He concludes that there must therefore be something wrong with the phone. ...