Andrea Eckert

After two pregnancies, Sonja struggles with her body feeling and the relationship with her husband Milan. Frauke, shortly before her 60th birthday, shares this fate and feels almost invisible to her husband. Daughter Julie is working on her modeling career, but a flaw is discovered on her body again and again ...

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Lisa has accepted the marriage proposal from her Croatian boyfriend Hrvoje and is in seventh heaven. However, the walk down the aisle presents the couple with an unexpected problem. Hrvoje's strict Catholic mother, who insists on a traditional wedding, and Lisa's divorced parents from the former hippie scene are worlds apart. So the bride-to-be tries to persuade her quarrelling parents Gerd and Theresa to pull themselves together during the celebrations in Croatia! Easier said than done, because Theresa is extremely skeptical about her daughter's marriage plans. When she discovers that the groom is apparently seeing someone else, her worst fears seem to be confirmed.

The young fashion designer Laura floats in the seventh heaven: After she has found an engagement ring with her friend Alexander, she is sure that he wants to use the joint visit to his parents to officially stop her hand. However, the family weekend is not a good star. Alexander's self-confident mother makes Laura feel that she is not good enough for her son. To make matters worse, even his ex-girlfriend Susanne appears, who leaves no stone unturned to win Alexander back.

Georg Sommer is a macho through and through. His life consists of hot nights with beautiful women, expensive cars, and finally, the coveted position as sales manager at a champagne company. But then, out of nowhere, the resolute Wally enters Georg's life and snatches his promotion from under his nose. Wally knows the most intimate details of Georg's life and claims to be his feminine side incarnate – the woman within him! She knows that his brother Michael has been mentally disabled since a serious car accident – ​​Georg's weakest spot. While the womanizer still believes he's on the winning side, Wally quickly wins the sympathy of Lisa and Georg's colleagues. It quickly becomes clear: two is one too many! And Wally isn't prepared to give up her existence without a fight.

Hartmut has been with Erika for over 40 years, but his wife has Alzheimer's and their memories together are fading. When they both visit their granddaughter's dance club, they hear songs from the seventies. Suddenly Erika is moving to the beat of the music as if she had never forgotten a dance step. And although she then falls back into her own world, Hartmut finds new hope. If he could manage to turn back time, he could bring back Erika, the love of his life.

A new collaboration between director Sigi Rothemund (Siggi Götz) and writer Erich Tomek.

The ambitious business consultant and single father Edgar Strack is desperately trying to reconcile family and work needs. Alone: ​​He does not succeed. His three adolescent children are frustrated, his new girlfriend Barbara complains, in the company he is betrayed by a competitor. In his distress, Edgar hired the spirited interpreter Ana, whom he had just fired as a colleague, as a new nanny. And lo and behold: Suddenly everything runs like clockwork again.

Paul Krüger and his drinking mates can't accept their beer pub "Flachbau", reaching its 25th jubilee, is about to be closed because the publican Karin fell in love Internet-dating mundane gastronome "Hansi" Falkenheyn Waldstätten and wants to start a new life in his native Austria. Krüger and his buddy Bernd, who has a never-declared crush on her himself, leave Ecki 'guard the fort'in Berlin and travel to Salzburg to stop her wedding preparations. Krüger and Bernd's theory the groom may merely be after the Flachbau sale proceeds is unexpectedly confirmed by their local gentleman inn keeper Poldi, a charming ladies men who volunteers to sabotage scam artist Hansi, to whom he lost a meanwhile ruined lover, leaving only Karin to be forced to learn the truth about her groom before he gets her to the alter, a matter of hours.

Michael, a hardened petty criminal, has made a hot score with two accomplices. On a hectic escape through the streets of Prague, he notices a young woman who is about to throw herself off a bridge into the Vltava. Quick-witted, he jumps in after her and saves Klara's life - and his own. For Michael, it is a moment of enlightenment that leads him back to his fatherly friend Father Christoph. The priest prays hard for him and hides his protégé in a monastery, where Michael enters the seminary and develops his talent as a restorer. Six years later, Michael returns to Prague and meets Klara again by chance. He has never forgotten her, but she does not recognize her former rescuer.

A film about a piece of Germany's dark past at the end of the 19th century.

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The teacher Senta falls in love with the award-winning chef Stefan, who rents out his romantic winegrower's house in southern Styria to her during the summer holidays. She soon notices that a quirky gendarmerie inspector is keeping the property under surveillance. Senta finds out too late that the policeman thinks Stefan is a multiple woman murderer and that she is trapped like bait.

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An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

This film, dramatizing Weininger's life, is an adaptation of the 1982 play Soul of a Jew by Israeli writer Joshua Sobol. Weininger's last despondent hours are depicted in a dramatic furioso. His whole life passes by like distorted images in a mirror. The young genius fights a desperate battle against time, his fellow men - and against himself.

Karl Markovics presents the "Austrian Film Summer" on ORF III. Actor and director Karl Markovics has selected 21 works from the Austrian film scene – from cult classics to classics, from directorial debuts to masterpieces – and he lets you know why you absolutely have to see this film!

What are the Knickerbocker Band doing at midnight in the cemetery? Is a spirit really speaking form the sinister grave? Why does Melissa, daughter of the dead sorcerer, receive threats? Has it all to do with the mysterious legacy of the magician?

Herbert Krcal (Roland Düringer) and his wife Margit (Nina Proll) dream of owning a home. They prefer to do this in the "Blue Lagoon", a prefabricated house park in the south of Vienna, where they regularly go on pilgrimage with their son Philipp. Just as regularly, they have to recognize the bitter truth that they cannot actually afford the dream house they have visited.

Two beautiful young women kill men in a villa in Tuscany: Maya and Cora have been friends since childhood. Maya has an alcoholic artist father who deserted the family, a mentally disturbed mother and a violent brother, Carlo. Cora is from a wealthy middle-class family. Cora helps Maya to poison Carlo's friend Detlef, who is threatening to blackmail her. They then kill Carlo when he tries to rape Cora. Cora's family takes Maya in, and a happy time begins for her, particularly when they spend the summer in Italy.

Assistant Pastor Josef Mohr arrived in Oberndorf in 1818. In a time of political upheaval and economic hardship he writes a Christmas carol together with the teacher Franz Gruber. The main roles in Franz Xaver Bogners fictive history of the most famous Christmas song in the world "Das ewige Lied" play Tobias Moretti, Heio von Stetten and Erwin Steinhauer.

In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.

Miranda and Josef's relationship is shaken when Anastasia enters the couple's life. The chronology of a partnership unfolds: from getting to know each other to the fading of passion.

The two friends Marie and Hannah spend a vacation together in Italy. While Hannah has just been divorced, the fun-loving Marie throws herself into an affair with the Viennese surgeon Xavier Gruber. However, he only wants a vacation flirtation without consequences - and leaves her the business card of car mechanic Xavier Martin, which he received by chance, when he leaves unexpectedly. Back in Germany, Marie begins to write ardent love letters to the supposed doctor in Vienna. The shy mechanic is initially amused, but eventually falls in love with the letter writer and confesses his feelings to her without clearing up the misunderstanding.

A 36-year-old high-school music teacher in Vienna yearns to become a rock musician. His life consists of defiant students, cynical colleagues, and a broken marriage. Does he have a chance at his dream?

Two crooks escape from jail and take refuge in a remote hotel. However, their plans soon start to go wrong, leading them to wonder whether they really are free or whether in fact they are already being roasted alive in the flames of hell.