Simon Hatzl

Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)

They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?! ...

Operation White Christmas (2023)

Enis, in his late 20s and of Turkish background, must pay off a huge debt to save his video store. With help from an Asian amateur hacker, he contacts a mysterious businessman on the darknet. The businessman offers a bizarre deal. If they prevent the Kazak ...

First Snow of Summer (2023)

Alexander grows up in a small house with his loving grandmother. In order to avoid his father's fate, on his tenth birthday, he promises her that he will never fall in love. Every Sunday, Alexander visits his father, who has retreated to live in the Vienna ...

Mostly Minimalistic (2022)

The contrasts between Marlen (Corinna Harfouch) and Fynn (newcomer Daniel Sträßer) couldn't be any more extreme if they tried: Marlen's apartment is packed to the rafters with objects too valuable or important to throw away, while Fynn plans to go throug ...

Taktik (2022)

Hostage-taking in a maximum security prison. Three felons bring three friends with homemade bombs under their control. A police officer who happens to be on duty conducts the negotiation with the highly narcissistic head of the hostage-takers, who are read ...

Different Bayern (2021)

The Trouble with Being Born (2020)

Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that ...

Achterbahn (2018)

Major Vilser is in trouble. First he gets a young Vorarlberg policeman assigned as a sidecar, then his twelve-year-old son Florian is at the door. And Gerlinde Zach from the anti-corruption agency has her eye on him. ...

Border Country (2018)

In southern Burgenland, Austria, 18-year-old Renate is found dead in a wooded area. Investigator Elfriede Jandrasits, who is known for her tenacity at the Eisenstadt Criminal Police Office, takes on the case. She is under a lot of time pressure because her ...

Die Stille danach (2016)

Paula Rom and her family live in the suburb of a small city - happily and approved by society. Their average and inconspicuous life changes totally, when her 15 years old son shoots ten of his classmates and kills himself afterwards. From that day nothing ...

Agony (2016)

On the 3rd of October a twenty-four-year-old student from Vienna kills his lover and chops up her corpse. Her torso is found in a dumpster, other body parts and the head are missing. There is no clue about the motive of the murder. A silent chronology of t ...

Pokerface - Grandman Takes Them All (2016)

Rosa Hofer accidentally discovered that her son-in-law Udo is highly indebted . She follows and observes him secretly and finds out that he is trying to make some money in illegal poker games in a more than dubious cafe. To avoid the worst and save the fam ...

If You Knew How Beautiful It Is Here (2015)

The 16-year-old daughter of the highest dignitary in Hüttenberg is found murdered in the disused mine. For the first time, Muck has to deal with a case of this magnitude. ...

Gruber Is Leaving (2015)

John Gruber is in his mid thirties, an egocentric, living life in the fast lane and sparing no expense. But all of a sudden he is thrown off track by a cancer diagnosis and by the person who unwillingly delivers the news: Sarah, a DJane from Berlin, who is ...

Wer ist Zoé? (2014)

Julia, 28, lives a double life as Escort and tells her daughter Lilli, 10, that she works as a secret agent. ...

Taking It Back (2013)

Most of the time, Patrick Angerer enjoys a pretty laid back view of life. So he's not especially impressed by the protest action his workmates are taking against the strict wage targets set by the new management of Falkendorf steel plant. But things sudden ...

Nicht ohne meinen Enkel (2013)

Franziska only wants the best for her bright grandson Tobias. That's why the retired teacher is very worried when the boy starts to drop off at school. His mother Silke, a hands-on woman from a modest background, is not worried. She doesn't want to raise T ...

The Miracle of Carinthia (2011)

A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl. ...

The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott (2010)

Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kid ...

Not My Daughter (2010)

The fall is so rapid that it seems like a bad dream. Just a moment ago, 16-year-old Nadja was a carefree, cheerful young girl, but shortly afterwards the horror follows: the older boy she falls in love with is a junkie who also drags Nadja into misery. Her ...

Der erste Tag (2008)

The movie is about a nuclear desaster in the Czech nuclear power station Dukovany. ...

Das große Glück sozusagen (2008)

Georg is a writer hoping for his big breakthrough. When he meets the unemployed Alois, he recognizes in him the novel material he has been so desperately searching for. Alois has a strange habit: he entangles his fellow human beings in absurd situations se ...

Falling (2006)

Five former high school friends reunite for an evening of fun, remembrance and sadness in this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship. A look at how youthful idealism turns into adult pragmatism, and how one can fight such changes, from the director of ...