Xaver Schwarzenberger

Directing

Xaver Schwarzenberger

Born 1946-04-21 · Wien, Austria

Xaver Schwarzenberger (born 21 April 1946) is an Austrian cinematographer and film director. He has worked on more than 100 films since 1970. His 1983 film Der stille Ozean was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement. Source: Article "Xaver Schwarzenberger" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Fever poster
6.5

The married couple Carl and Vera Sylvester live far beyond their means. She is a regular customer at the Dorotheum art auctions, he puts up with Lilli, his lover, and has become addicted to gambling . Carl wants to use the business ruin to make a new start with his wife . He noticesnot that Vera has long since planned an infamous campaign of extermination against him .

Fever

1998

Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders poster
3.4

No synopsis available yet.

Beim nächsten Mann wird alles anders

1989

Muttis Liebling poster
5.1

Wolferl, a 38-year-old bank employee, still lives together with his overprotecting mother Maria. While his father Josef, who secretly plans to end his hypocritical marriage, and his sister Nannerl think Wolferl should become independent, mummy's boy seems to enjoy this lifestyle. When he gets to know beautician Eva and falls in love with her, his jealous mother tries everything, including a faked suicide attempt, to keep her son...

Muttis Liebling

2007

Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas

2005

Single Bells poster
7.3

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 Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... 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 Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear...

Single Bells

1997

No artwork available
7.7

In WWII Munich, Anna works for a Nazi family as a nanny but secretly steals food and cigarettes and bring those to a Jewish family, who hides from the Nazis. One day, the family is discovered and only by chance can Anna save the family's only daughter, Franziska. Together they escape to Anna's native village where Anna tells everybody that Franziska is her daughter...

Annas Heimkehr

2003

Feine Dame poster
5.5

Regina Steinberg, 40, considers herself a sacrificing wife and mother. Everyone else thinks she is an egocentric. Her husband loves her anyway - until there is a scandal. When Regina, the wealthy dentist, suspected that her husband, Dr. Julius Stemberger, has a relationship, she puts her friend Nora on him. While Regina is on a spa with her mother, Julius seeks Nora's closeness, and Nora does not permanently fend off his advances. Eventually Regina finds out what is going on behind her back and Nora feels that Regina is not a "fine lady" when it comes to her interests.

Feine Dame

2006

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Das Kapital

1997

Copacabana poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Copacabana

2008

O Palmenbaum poster
6.2

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.

O Palmenbaum

2000

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die skandalösen Frauen

1993

Otto - The Movie poster
6.5

East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.

Otto - The Movie

1985

Clarissas Geheimnis poster
4.1

18-year-old Stella lives with her mother Clarissa on a picturesque lodge in the South African bush. When Clarissa one day died in a tragic car accident, the young woman makes a surprising discovery: Obviously, her mother was not a South African, but the daughter of a rich industrial family from Austria. But why did she leave her homeland, change her name and even lied to her daughter over the years? To find out the truth, Stella travels to Styria.

Clarissas Geheimnis

2012

Otto – The New Movie poster
5.7

Otto is Friesland's answer to Rambo and stands between two worlds, two women and two animals. While he's trying to cure a dog with bite inhibition and a cat with suicidal tendencies, the dream of his sleepless nights crosses his path: Gaby. Otto falls instantly in love, but Gaby thinks only of Amboss, a real guy with muscles of steel and a brain of rubber. Well, Otto on the other hand is not exactly well built and attractive. But he's determined to get the lady's attention, even if it means taking part in body-building competitions...

Otto – The New Movie

1987

Andreas Hofer poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Andreas Hofer

2002

Und ewig schweigen die Männer poster
5.0

Theo buys a Harley Davidson. He can afford it. Then he gets a young girlfriend and leaves his wife. However, this does not make Theo happier, but his soon-to-be ex Gabi. As everyone gets along better without him. Family, company, everything is going great. This is not how Theo imagined his new life. Increasingly, he wonders if he really is the jerk everyone thinks he is.

Und ewig schweigen die Männer

2008

Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein poster
6.5

Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites the family to the Italian winery for Grandpa's 80th birthday, the feelings are on the table alongside pasta, pesto and vino, because Gioia happens to meet Max again ...

Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein

2001

Bella Ciao poster
7.0

Teresa and her husband Adam are on a romantic vacation to Taormina, Sicily, intended to cement their reconciliation. But Lorenz, Teresa's young companion through "The Night of Nights," has settled in precisely this place. It's not long before Teresa and Lorenz meet by chance. Adam surprises them, draws the wrong conclusions, and wants to cut their vacation short. Teresa, with her mother's help over the phone, tries to change Adam's mind. As a successful divorce lawyer, however, Adam wants to behave differently than his clients and not stand in the way of their young couple's happiness.

Bella Ciao

1996

Gewitter im Mai poster
8.0

Germany, around the turn of the century. When sailor Poldi returns to his Bavarian home village after many years at sea he falls for his childhood friend Dorle. But Dorle is already promised to the village blacksmith Domini. A bitter rivalry between the two ensues.

Gewitter im Mai

1987

The Silent Ocean poster
6.8

A doctor, who commits malpractice in a major urban hospital, retreats to a remote house in the countryside. Although he is acquitted, his conscience is not so easily appeased. When a murder occurs and the southern Styria village searches for the culprit, he has to take a stand.

The Silent Ocean

1983

Fesseln poster
3.6

A couple travel to the mountains to talk about their marital crisis. When the wife falls during the hike and only survives seriously injured, she is at the mercy of her pathologically jealous husband, who now makes her life a living hell, vacillating between loving care and hateful torment. A thematically confused thriller that even the routine staging cannot save.

Fesseln

1995

Lamorte poster
9.0

Twelve classmates meet up again after thirty years. They chat, banter a little - and suddenly the mood changes. Because it turns out that the envied manager Iris is terminally ill...

Lamorte

1997

Tafelspitz poster
6.0

The master of the house developed his culinary skills to such an extent that he poached 'the' chef and hired him for his household in New York. Lilli flies to New York with her private secretary William, where she cooks for her unknown boss using every trick in the book. During a walk she meets a young man with whom she ultimately falls in love.

Tafelspitz

1994

Margarete Steiff poster
7.1

Based on the life of German toymaker Margarete Steiff, the movie shows her long way from a 10-year-old girl, confined to a wheelchair, to one of the first and most successful creators of toy stuffed animals.

Margarete Steiff

2005