Directing

Matthias Ramon Jaklitsch

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Hoher Einsatz poster
NR

Two friends, impatient thugs and betting debts, the tobacco store at the corner; a toy gun. High stakes, if you ask me. Where's the coke, anyway?

Hoher Einsatz

2017

To Live and Survive poster
NR

The documentary portrays Erich Finsches, a true Viennese original and Holocaust survivor. Based on over six years of collected material by director Matthias Jaklitsch, who supported Erich on his travels, the film shows him as a positive, humorous, but also argumentative and unique personality in all his humanity. At 97, Erich continues to tirelessly advocate for remembrance of the past, attending memorial ceremonies and schools to spread his message of "Never Again." Instead of a traditional "eyewitness narrative," the film not only documents Erich's life, his youth during Nazi persecution, and his rebuilding of a new life after the war, but also the relationship between the director and the protagonist.

To Live and Survive

2025

To Live and Survive poster
NR

The documentary portrays Erich Finsches, a true Viennese original and Holocaust survivor. Based on over six years of collected material by director Matthias Jaklitsch, who supported Erich on his travels, the film shows him as a positive, humorous, but also argumentative and unique personality in all his humanity. At 97, Erich continues to tirelessly advocate for remembrance of the past, attending memorial ceremonies and schools to spread his message of "Never Again." Instead of a traditional "eyewitness narrative," the film not only documents Erich's life, his youth during Nazi persecution, and his rebuilding of a new life after the war, but also the relationship between the director and the protagonist.

To Live and Survive

2025

Second Door to the Right poster
NR

'Zweite Tür Rechts' is a satirical political comedy about the Austrian government's Department of Direct Democracy.

Second Door to the Right

2019

Second Door to the Right poster
NR

'Zweite Tür Rechts' is a satirical political comedy about the Austrian government's Department of Direct Democracy.

Second Door to the Right

2019