Franz Antel

Directing

Franz Antel

Born — Died

1913-06-28 — 2007-08-11

Place of birth

Vienna, Austria

Known for

Directing

Credits

49 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Franz Antel (June 28, 1913 – August 11, 2007) was a veteran Austrian filmmaker. Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale. In the late 1940s, 1950s and 1960s these were mainly comedies (romantic, slapstick, and/or musical) and K.u.k. films all of which, for Austrian and German TV stations alike, have been a staple of weekend afternoon programming ever since. In between there is quite a sober film about the Oberst (Colonel) Redl affair that shook the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy on the eve of World War I. From the late 1960s, encouraged by the ne…

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Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Tower of Screaming Virgins poster
5.3

King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.

Tower of Screaming Virgins

1968

Casanova & Co. poster
3.9

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.

Casanova & Co.

1977

Casanova & Co. poster
3.9

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.

Casanova & Co.

1977

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown poster
7.0

A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown

1987

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown poster
7.0

A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown

1987

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown poster
7.0

A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.

Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown

1987

The Countess Died of Laughter poster
3.7

A man goes to a convent with exciting news, one of the nuns is an heir to a fortune! The man causes the nuns to become obsessed with him as he tries to find the right heir.

The Countess Died of Laughter

1973

House of Pleasure poster
4.6

Susanna travels to Paris with her small group of actors. There she saves Emperor Napoleon from rather painful predicaments, uncovers a number of nasty court intrigues and finds, with much skill and ability, the man of her choice.

House of Pleasure

1969

Sexy Susan Sins Again poster
3.5

The German innkeeper Susan, now leading an acting troupe, travels to Italy and uses feminine wiles to undo an assassination plot against Napoleon, and rescue a local count (a great romancer) from his own enemies.

Sexy Susan Sins Again

1968

Trinity Plus the Clown and a Guitar poster
5.3

A town awaits the arrival of a gunslinger to help defeat a gang of bandits, but a trio of misfits is mistaken for the anticipated relief.

Trinity Plus the Clown and a Guitar

1975

Sexy Susan Knows How...! poster
4.0

Susanne is the hostess who gives comfort to the visitors to her hotel. All of the vices in the country are heavily taxed, including drinking and making love. Susanne and a group of nude women try to give some relief to the beleaguered and overtaxed clientele.

Sexy Susan Knows How...!

1970

Sexy Susan Knows How...! poster
4.0

Susanne is the hostess who gives comfort to the visitors to her hotel. All of the vices in the country are heavily taxed, including drinking and making love. Susanne and a group of nude women try to give some relief to the beleaguered and overtaxed clientele.

Sexy Susan Knows How...!

1970

The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan poster
3.6

The literal English translation of the German-titled film here is "The Hostess of the Lahn." Suzanne (Terry Torday) is the beautiful redhead who runs an inn in the town of Giessen. She is the subject of many inspirational love songs by the student population. The lyrics also reflect the Germans' resentment and hostility toward the French occupation by the army of Napoleon. Suzanne appears in various stages of undress.

The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan

1967

The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan poster
3.6

The literal English translation of the German-titled film here is "The Hostess of the Lahn." Suzanne (Terry Torday) is the beautiful redhead who runs an inn in the town of Giessen. She is the subject of many inspirational love songs by the student population. The lyrics also reflect the Germans' resentment and hostility toward the French occupation by the army of Napoleon. Suzanne appears in various stages of undress.

The Sweet Sins of Sexy Susan

1967

Naughty Nymphs poster
4.8

Two sisters and their lovers try to make sure their older sister is deflowered by every man in town. They make a potency pill so every man chases her, but the use of the pills turn into a disaster.

Naughty Nymphs

1972

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist poster
4.4

The Italian Vittorio Coppa works as a sleeper car commuter and commutes regularly between Munich and Rome. Because he believes that true love exists only in connection with marriage, he is secretly married twice.

The Viking Who Became a Bigamist

1969

Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee poster
8.0

Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. The former Nazi used the money to build a career in business in post-war Germany. His buddy also benefits from this “new beginning”. That's when reporter Wolfgang Löhde gets on their trail...

Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee

1959

Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee poster
8.0

Shortly before the end of the war, SS officer Grohmann sinks several crates of counterfeit English money in Lake Toplitz with his comrade Kopetzky. The former Nazi used the money to build a career in business in post-war Germany. His buddy also benefits from this “new beginning”. That's when reporter Wolfgang Löhde gets on their trail...

Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee

1959

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets poster
6.0

A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

1964

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets poster
6.0

A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

1964

Liebe, Mädchen und Soldaten poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebe, Mädchen und Soldaten

1958

Verliebte Leute poster
5.2

An engineer, a musician, and a salesman are heading off on summer vacation in an old VW and a rented caravan. The confirmed bachelors want to enjoy their freedom. But the musician falls in love with a hotel telephone operator, and the engineer with a merchant's daughter. This leads to turmoil, with lots of fun and music!

Verliebte Leute

1954

Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling poster
6.1

In the year 1968, the “Bockerer” has decided, after many attempts, to marry his long-time widowed housekeeper, Anna. Gustl, whom he as taken in like a son after the war, will open a butchery in the Czech small town Kostelec and invites the Bockerers to spend their wedding journey with him and his Elena. The “Prague Spring”, of which everywhere is talked so much about, promises a nice honeymoon, and their friend Hatzinger is taken along on the journey as well. Soon after their arrival, the Bockerer has to realize that “Communism with a human face” is still an idle wish.

Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling

2003

Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling poster
6.1

In the year 1968, the “Bockerer” has decided, after many attempts, to marry his long-time widowed housekeeper, Anna. Gustl, whom he as taken in like a son after the war, will open a butchery in the Czech small town Kostelec and invites the Bockerers to spend their wedding journey with him and his Elena. The “Prague Spring”, of which everywhere is talked so much about, promises a nice honeymoon, and their friend Hatzinger is taken along on the journey as well. Soon after their arrival, the Bockerer has to realize that “Communism with a human face” is still an idle wish.

Der Bockerer IV - Prager Frühling

2003

Mein Vater, der Affe und ich poster
6.5

On his way to Vienna, veterinarian Klaus Wolf meets Biggi, a hitchhiker. Klaus is supposed to examine rhinos in Vienna, but with a monkey addicted to alcohol and other animal problems, Klaus has enough on his plate. He finds it rather inappropriate that he now also has Biggi on his hands. But he soon discovers a new, shy soul who is not as unsuitable as he initially thought.

Mein Vater, der Affe und ich

1971

Mein Vater, der Affe und ich poster
6.5

On his way to Vienna, veterinarian Klaus Wolf meets Biggi, a hitchhiker. Klaus is supposed to examine rhinos in Vienna, but with a monkey addicted to alcohol and other animal problems, Klaus has enough on his plate. He finds it rather inappropriate that he now also has Biggi on his hands. But he soon discovers a new, shy soul who is not as unsuitable as he initially thought.

Mein Vater, der Affe und ich

1971

Blackmail Chase poster
9.0

A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.

Blackmail Chase

1976

Blackmail Chase poster
9.0

A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.

Blackmail Chase

1976

When Girls Trumpet for Manoeuvres poster
3.6

The Prussian Army is stationed in a small town where they enjoy the girls at the local boarding school.

When Girls Trumpet for Manoeuvres

1975

Blau blüht der Enzian poster
8.5

The students at a school of hotel management repurpose the institute into a hotel with a show stage, double-cross the principal, the groundskeeper, and a grumpy millionaire, and cause so much mischief and confusion that, in the end, there is only one thing left to do: laughing to the bitter end!

Blau blüht der Enzian

1973

Heimatland poster
6.0

Somewhere in the Salzburg mountains, young poacher Hans tries to conquer the heart of pretty schoolteacher Helga but is overthrown by forest warden Thomas. Krambambuli, the dog he once saved from being drowned, indirectly causes his death.

Heimatland

1955

Happy-End am Wolfgangsee poster
3.7

Seduction has to be learned: One orders a harem to his hotel to prove that only she is the one. The other slips into boy's clothes to stand her ground. Handsome hotelier James Sander is idolized by pretty girls and earns a lot of money on the side. But the girls are a thorn in the side of his tax consultant Hilde. She has fallen in love with the attractive bachelor and has worked out a perfect plan to win James' heart. Mike's band has also arrived at his hotel. Sweet Bibi slips there into the role of her sick brother, trying to keep the secret of her womanhood and stand her ground as a drummer. Her game of hide-and-seek is in vain - because Mike is not the only one who has his eye on her. The turbulence in the hotel reaches its climax when hotel servant Pankraz smells a crime in James Bond style and stages the total confusion.

Happy-End am Wolfgangsee

1966

Happy-End am Wolfgangsee poster
3.7

Seduction has to be learned: One orders a harem to his hotel to prove that only she is the one. The other slips into boy's clothes to stand her ground. Handsome hotelier James Sander is idolized by pretty girls and earns a lot of money on the side. But the girls are a thorn in the side of his tax consultant Hilde. She has fallen in love with the attractive bachelor and has worked out a perfect plan to win James' heart. Mike's band has also arrived at his hotel. Sweet Bibi slips there into the role of her sick brother, trying to keep the secret of her womanhood and stand her ground as a drummer. Her game of hide-and-seek is in vain - because Mike is not the only one who has his eye on her. The turbulence in the hotel reaches its climax when hotel servant Pankraz smells a crime in James Bond style and stages the total confusion.

Happy-End am Wolfgangsee

1966

Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau poster
6.9

Vienna, 1956. Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer goes to Hungary to buy meat. Along with his foster son and grandchild, he is caught up in the turmoil of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet occupiers. With some luck and a great deal of cunning, Bockerer and his family manage to escape, but the Austrian border is closed - except for the bridge to Andau...

Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau

2000

Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau poster
6.9

Vienna, 1956. Viennese butcher Karl Bockerer goes to Hungary to buy meat. Along with his foster son and grandchild, he is caught up in the turmoil of the Hungarian revolt against the Soviet occupiers. With some luck and a great deal of cunning, Bockerer and his family manage to escape, but the Austrian border is closed - except for the bridge to Andau...

Der Bockerer III - Die Brücke von Andau

2000

Heute nacht passiert’s poster
10.0

A professor inherits a fashion salon from a former lover. Since he doesn't want his wife to find out about his previous love life, he asks his son-in-law to take over the running of the place. Needless to say, that leads to a lot of misunderstandings.

Heute nacht passiert’s

1953

Ooh... diese Ferien poster
6.0

The Petermann family decides to take a family vacation to the sunny south. The Petermanns are grandfather, father Max, mother Biggi, children Stupsi, son Andy, and pretty Monika, Max Petermann's sister. They rent a speedy sled because Max Petermann has just gotten his driver's license. Not only are there various starting difficulties due to a lack of driving experience, but there is also a special case with the car: hidden deep in the upholstery are secret documents that a trio of gangsters are trying to smuggle abroad. A mix-up of the license plates causes some turbulence. Willi Polz is assigned by the trio to keep an eye on the Petermanns in order to secure the documents at the right opportunity. Of course, something always gets in the way on the trip to Bella Italia. The fact that Willi falls in love with the blonde Monika is the least surprising thing. But the grandfather's actions are the real sensation.

Ooh... diese Ferien

1958

Und ewig knallen die Räuber poster
4.5

A meek tailor named Nickolaus decides to form a band of robbers to proof his manliness. Unfortunately he soon draws the attention of an actual gang-leader, Der Rote Rollo.

Und ewig knallen die Räuber

1962

Das Wandern ist Herrn Müllers Lust poster
7.5

A farming village in the mountains is developing into a fitness center thanks to word of mouth. Young and old, pretty and not so pretty, are making pilgrimages into nature to experience the new "well of health"...

Das Wandern ist Herrn Müllers Lust

1973

Frühstück mit dem Tod poster
6.5

Ted Talbot is a prosecutor in Newtonville. In the course of his work, he accuses Jim Conley of robbing a bank and killing the cashier. Ted's wife Jane takes over Conley's defense. When the court sentences the defendant to death, she files for divorce. Beth Conley, the wife, goes to see the prosecutor and asks him to postpone the execution of the sentence for thirty days. When he refuses, she threatens him with revelations. Deputy District Attorney Hal Young witnesses this confrontation...

Frühstück mit dem Tod

1964