Stephan Paryla-Raky

Meine Schwester (2011)

Katharina Wallner is the owner of a long-established business for film videos. After the will of her disinherited landlord Heinz Ortner she should now close the lovingly run shop. So far, she was able to withstand Ortner's harassment, but the dreamy old la ...

Fear & Shivers (2010)

Hertha is determined to shoot her unfaithful husband. But by chance, she becomes a hostage-taker, giving her neurotic victim Philipp the worst hours of his life. A road movie across Lower Austria: Not even the Waldviertel wine bottles remain unscathed in t ...

Heimat zu verkaufen (2010)

The Berghotel Edelweiss, located amidst a picture-book landscape, is a traditional family business. To meet growing demands, Max Höllerer takes out a loan to expand the property. Unfortunately, he has speculated. The bank sells the house, but secretly pla ...

Echte Wiener - Die Sackbauer-Saga (2008)

It's 30 years later and the Sackbauers have estranged themselves from everyone; only mother "Toni" tries to re-establish the old happy family. ...

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. ...

O Palmenbaum (2000)

Kati and Jonas have planned to get married secretly during their Christmas trip to Mauritius - but in the end, Kati's entire family gets wind of the plan and shows up at the airport to accompany them. ...

Die Frau, die einen Mörder liebte (2000)

Single Bells (1997)

Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to ...

Die Nacht der Nächte (1997)

Mundl - Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter (1994)

A faithful family has gathered around "Mundl": his wife Toni, who says little but always has the last word; his son Karli, who marries Irmi, a woman from "higher circles", and his parents-in-law, the Werners, who have some difficulty in getting accustomed ...

Du bringst mich noch um (1994)

Both have families, both are gripped by a perilous passion. Simon, school professor, and Helga, wife of a successful internist, get to know each other on their daily journey to kindergarten. They fall in love, but how should it go on? ...

Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer (1988)

La Fiancée qui venait du froid (1983)

Paul is a playboy: a former girlfriend asks him to marry Zosia, a Polish girl, opponent of the regime of her country (it's 1981,December would see the state of siege in Poland and the arrest of many opponents) Paul hesitates but they told him so: it will b ...

After Midnight (1981)

The Political drama shows the denunciation and persecution of the 19-year-old Sanne in the Nazi state. After she falls in love with her cousin, Sanne is betrayed by her jealous aunt to the Gestapo. ...

Austern mit Senf (1979)

Luc and Gaston are French bus drivers who would do almost anything for pretty girls. Thus they "borrow" one of their firms busses in order to bring some girls to Kitzbuehel for skiing. ...

A Little Night Music (1977)

A tangled web of affairs is weaved around actress Desirée Armfeldt and the men who love her: lawyer Fredrik Egerman and Count Carl-Magnus Malcom. When Desirée's show travels through Fredrik's town, the estranged lovers' passion rekindles. ...

Coup de Grâce (1976)

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area. ...

Jesus of Ottakring (1976)

In the year 1970 several Austrian newspapers reported of Viennese people beating a homeless person to death because they thought he had stolen 50 Schilling. This story was the foundation for the play JESUS VON OTTAKRING which Pellert brought to the big scr ...

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 ...

Karl May (1974)

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich. By fusing theater, music, and cinema, Syberberg conjures up Karl May (1842-1912), the immensely popular Ger ...

Der Hauptmann (1971)