Götz Spielmann

Directing

Götz Spielmann

Born

1961-01-11 (65)

Place of birth

Wels, Austria

Known for

Directing

Credits

35 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Götz Spielmann (born January 11, 1961 in Wels, Austria) is an Austrian director and scriptwriter. Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. At the Viennese Filmacadamy, his professors included Harald Zusanek and Axel Corti. After making several short films, and receiving his diploma with Vergiss Sneider!, with the drama Erwin und Julia, Spielmann had his first great success. In 1993, his film Der Nachbar won the Vienna Filmaward at the Viennale. And in 1994, his film for te…

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Revanche poster
7.2

Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.

Revanche

2008

Revanche poster
7.2

Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.

Revanche

2008

Revanche poster
7.2

Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.

Revanche

2008

Antares poster
5.9

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.

Antares

2004

Antares poster
5.9

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.

Antares

2004

Vergiss Sneider! poster
10.0

Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.

Vergiss Sneider!

1987

Vergiss Sneider! poster
10.0

Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.

Vergiss Sneider!

1987

The Guardian Angel poster
5.7

When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.

The Guardian Angel

2022

The Guardian Angel poster
5.7

When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.

The Guardian Angel

2022

The Neighbour poster
6.2

Set in an old suburb of Vienna traversed by the local railway line and full of old dilapidated houses. In this district, and old man lives and when his neighbour dies and new tenants move in his existence is transformed.

The Neighbour

1992

The Neighbour poster
6.2

Set in an old suburb of Vienna traversed by the local railway line and full of old dilapidated houses. In this district, and old man lives and when his neighbour dies and new tenants move in his existence is transformed.

The Neighbour

1992

Foreign Land poster
5.8

The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere.

Foreign Land

1984

Foreign Land poster
5.8

The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere.

Foreign Land

1984

Foreign Land poster
5.8

The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere.

Foreign Land

1984

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Dieses naive Verlangen

1993

Lovable Lies poster
3.7

Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.

Lovable Lies

1995

Erwin und Julia poster
8.0

The story of a few people in Vienna. Erwin, who wants to become an actor and has come from somewhere in the provinces with great ambitions. Karin, a waitress in a suburban espresso bar, who is almost destroyed by her love. Wolf, a writer who finds life difficult because he can't write. Claudia, a German woman, stuck in this neurotic city where everyone, incomprehensibly, makes life so difficult. Everyone is searching for another life, their own, the real life.

Erwin und Julia

1991

Erwin und Julia poster
8.0

The story of a few people in Vienna. Erwin, who wants to become an actor and has come from somewhere in the provinces with great ambitions. Karin, a waitress in a suburban espresso bar, who is almost destroyed by her love. Wolf, a writer who finds life difficult because he can't write. Claudia, a German woman, stuck in this neurotic city where everyone, incomprehensibly, makes life so difficult. Everyone is searching for another life, their own, the real life.

Erwin und Julia

1991

The Stranger poster
6.1

The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had a major drug crackdown, leaving them without buyers and money. Disgusted with Rainer, Mercedes ditches him and hooks up with Harry, a lonely and bored cab driver who agrees to help her find a buyer for the drugs so she can get some cash and go home. She offers Harry a deal he can't refuse. Is he just another pawn for Mercedes or will her promises help him achieve his hope and dreams? The story careens through the night streets of Vienna, following two amateurs navigating their way through the treacherous world of the drug trade. It's a mood piece with the backdrop of a stifling urban loneliness.

The Stranger

2000

The Stranger poster
6.1

The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of cocaine through customs. Unfortunately for them, the city has just had a major drug crackdown, leaving them without buyers and money. Disgusted with Rainer, Mercedes ditches him and hooks up with Harry, a lonely and bored cab driver who agrees to help her find a buyer for the drugs so she can get some cash and go home. She offers Harry a deal he can't refuse. Is he just another pawn for Mercedes or will her promises help him achieve his hope and dreams? The story careens through the night streets of Vienna, following two amateurs navigating their way through the treacherous world of the drug trade. It's a mood piece with the backdrop of a stifling urban loneliness.

The Stranger

2000

October November poster
5.9

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.

October November

2014

October November poster
5.9

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.

October November

2014

October November poster
5.9

Director Gotz Spielmann follows his acclaimed thriller Revanche with this visually captivating character study, in which a family reunion at a mountainside inn lays bare old wounds and reveals long-held secrets.

October November

2014

Spiel im Morgengrauen poster
3.7

Austria in the last years of the monarchy: Wilhelm Kasda, Lieutenant of the Infantry, lives the life of a young officer. These include small, irrelevant affairs like those with Steffi. Steffi is a simple young woman. Kasda does not realize that her devotion is real love. After a night at the hotel, Kasda gives her a bill and disappears. A few years later, in June 1914, Kasda was visited by a former comrade, Lieutenant von Bogner. He had to resign years ago for gambling debts, is now married, works as a cashier in an office and has embezzled money.

Spiel im Morgengrauen

2001

Spiel im Morgengrauen poster
3.7

Austria in the last years of the monarchy: Wilhelm Kasda, Lieutenant of the Infantry, lives the life of a young officer. These include small, irrelevant affairs like those with Steffi. Steffi is a simple young woman. Kasda does not realize that her devotion is real love. After a night at the hotel, Kasda gives her a bill and disappears. A few years later, in June 1914, Kasda was visited by a former comrade, Lieutenant von Bogner. He had to resign years ago for gambling debts, is now married, works as a cashier in an office and has embezzled money.

Spiel im Morgengrauen

2001

No artwork available
5.8

Spielmann was born in Wels in 1961, grew up in Vienna, Austria. Starts writing and directing while still in school. His first film is aired on television in 1978. In 1980 he starts studying screenwriting and directing at the Vienna Film Academy. Two films completed during his studies (Abschied von Hölderlin & Vergiss Sneider! receive international prizes and are screened at the Stadtkino, an arthouse cinema in Vienna. Spielmann graduates in 1987.

Abschied von Hölderlin

1985