Klaus Händl

Acting

Klaus Händl

Born 1969-09-17 · Rum, Austria

Acting credits

The Piano Teacher poster
7.3

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.

The Piano Teacher

2001

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days poster
7.1

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White Rose. One of its few female members, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to the White Rose, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility.

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

2005

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance poster
7.0

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

1995

Klimt poster
5.2

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.

Klimt

2006

Escort Service poster
8.0

Claudia makes Katrin to work for her provider for Claudia's material security and to leave the "shitty work outside". They are both prostitutes. Katrin learns that the price for being independent is high and goes with physical destruction.

Escort Service

2001

Brigitta poster
9.0

Adaptation of Adalbert Stifter's novella. In the middle of the 19th century, a young painter sets off to visit his friend - Major István Murai - in Hungary. A completely new life opens up to him. He is mesmerized by the beauty of nature, takes his time on his journey and only reaches his destination after detours and with help...

Brigitta

1993

Hunters in the Snow poster
5.7

The protagonist, Franz, copies the paintings of old masters. He slowly loses his sense of reality, resulting in angst-ridden fantasies and a desire for self-destruction. Franz has an uphill battle with the loss of values and spread of capitalism around him. He rejects advertising to the point of destroying its manifestations.

Hunters in the Snow

2000

Requiem for a Romantic Woman poster
4.0

In the summer of 1807, Clemens Brentano stumbles into the most extreme love affair of his life. The woman, who, aged barely 17-years-old, throws herself at him with such terrifying brutality, is called Auguste Bussmann.

Requiem for a Romantic Woman

1999

No artwork available
10.0

Georg works up at the highway. He collects the toll from the tourists; he collects the toll from the truck drivers. All of Europe has to go by him. Below, in the shadow of the mighty bridge, Georg lives with his parents in an old farmhouse with its empty stall. Georg makes a career for himself. And then, he falls in love with a young farm woman. He must decide between love and his job.

Tollgate

1994

Franz Fuchs – A Patriot poster
6.5

A semi-documentary feature about one of the biggest criminal cases in Austrian history – the letter bomb attacks of Franz Fuchs.

Franz Fuchs – A Patriot

2007

Inter-View poster
7.0

A movie about the possibility to be happy—or about the impossibility of the same. A young man interviews people on the street. He asks them about the substance of their lives in order to find answers for himself, but he cannot find any. Then, a young woman: after a couple of disappointments, she finds the happy side of life—she finds something like love. They meet each other…

Inter-View

1999

No artwork available
7.0

We are introduced to seven different people during the course of 20 minutes. What at first appears arbitrary gradually combines to make a whole, specifically integrated for the nineties.

Zapping

1994

Behind the camera