
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…
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Romy Award
1990
6.6In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Uprising
2001
7.2Alex, 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
5.9A 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
10.0Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.
Vergiss Sneider!
1987
5.7When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.
The Guardian Angel
2022
Film credits
2000s · 2 titles
6.6In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.
Uprising
2001
NRThe film "The Happiness of Others," is engaged in the happy hunting of man in the mental state of happiness. Be happy - and every second of their lives - is the goal of human existence. Welch various ways are there of her, this "feeling of indescribable joy" for a few brief moments by capturing and feel it to be able to show this film. Using a variety of colorful portraits and interviews with successful people, he takes the phenomenon of "Happiness" critical eye.
The Happiness of Others
2008
1990s · 2 titles
6.5Ulrich believes that affairs can't harm a truly good marriage. That's why he's set his sights on the attractive Jutta. Jutta believes that his life so far can't be all there is to it. That's why she's set her sights on Ulrich. Sigi believes that his marriage to Jutta could be in jeopardy because of this. Therese believes Ulrich is intelligent enough not to completely succumb to his sexual urges. But she's wrong.
Quintett komplett
1998
No synopsis available yet.
Hund und Katz
1991
1980s · 3 titles
A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.
Tod eines Lesenden
1984
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. But they don´t really know what they want. Everyday life causes problems and when a merry-go-round of changing relationships among the young people begins to run quicker and quicker, the constant moving from one room to the other ands before the eyes of the astonished house superintendent with the setting up again of the wall which separated the two walls.
PARADISE LTD.
1986
3.8Sternberg lands with his parachute in the bed of a stewardess, in the car of an airport employee and finally on a freeway service area. There he meets Harry. Harry is blind and he joins Sternberg who is looking for his Hedi. Together they land in the flat of the model married couple, Alf and Evy. With his appearance he upsets the day-to-day life of the couple.
Sternberg - Shooting Star
1988
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.2Alex, 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
7.2Alex, 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
7.2Alex, 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
5.9A 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
5.9A 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
10.0Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.
Vergiss Sneider!
1987
10.0Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.
Vergiss Sneider!
1987
5.7When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.
The Guardian Angel
2022
5.7When a body is found floating inside a pond deep in the forest, Detective Paul Werner is faced with a mystery.
The Guardian Angel
2022
6.2Set 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
6.2Set 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
5.8The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere.
Foreign Land
1984
5.8The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere.
Foreign Land
1984
5.8The day to day life of a boy and a farm hand working a farm in the middle of nowhere.
Foreign Land
1984
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Dieses naive Verlangen
1993
3.7Successful 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
8.0The 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
8.0The 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
6.1The 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
6.1The 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
5.9Director 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
5.9Director 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
5.9Director 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
3.7Austria 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
3.7Austria 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
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

