Otto Grünmandl

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

In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the help of a young female student, sets out across the Himalayas to find the lost island of Atlantis.

A gentle and melancholic love story set before the ironically depicted background of the Austrian Post Office.

When land surveyor K arrives at a small village that houses a castle, local authorities refuse to allow him to enter. As he tries to convince the officials that they sent for him, they clamp down with increasingly complicated bureaucratic obstacles.

Prinzenbad gives us a microcosm of a society dominated by male power plays, wheeling and dealing, corruption, love, and eroticism.

The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you’d least expect it.

The former waiter Ernst Held believes himself to be called higher and seeks self-realization as a poet. When he recites poems to his wife's beautician in an ambiguous situation, his wife puts him out the door. Completely destitute, the thwarted poet must therefore return to the lowlands of life and become the head in the Munich pub "Goldener Löffel".

Excerpts from and insights into the world of the Austrian cabaret artist Otto Grünmandl. His work, his life and memories of his childhood in Tirol, which was overshadowed by the Nazi regime's persecution from 1938 - 1945.

A black comedy about the possibilities of donating life. Some donate their kidneys, others donate sperm. Ultimately, everyone wants to die with a clear conscience, for no one wants to live with it.