Reinhard Nowak

Casimir lives in Warsaw with his wealthy wife Catherine, but something is missing in his life until Caroline shows up. They flee to Vienna, where great obstacles await them.

Helene (86) and Toni (70) are completely different. One is planned and well-timed, the other impulsive and spontaneous. As an unlikely team, they embark on a journey to Switzerland for euthanasia. But their road trip through the mountains turns out differently than planned.

Sascha Bergmann from LKA Graz and his colleague Anni Sulmtaler are investigating a suspicious death in Mursbruck.

Irina, a single-mother, must move in with her sugary sweet mother-in-law, Trudi. In spite of feeling suffocated by Trudi’s relentless generosity and greasy home-cooked meals, Irina always tries to maintain a grateful facade. Yet she’s plagued by a creeping sense of unease and is even terrorized by spine-chilling visions when she’s alone. How long can she grit her teeth and swallow everything while denying the rage that is growing in her gut?

Manuel, convicted several times for fraud, relapses during his probationary period. His girlfriend Sylvia threatens to leave him if he doesn't finish his rogueries. Dieter has almost completely retired from social life after the accidental death of his wife and lives only for his bar PLANTER'S CLUB. In the back room of the bar, the gambling addict Frank is ripped off by Manuel. After a brawl, the policemen called in arrest the two of them.

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A homeless man is found dead on Graz's Schlossberg hill. Tour guide Tony Blauer becomes entangled in the mysterious crime and soon finds himself drawn into the world of the "Sandlers." Together with his British friend Duncan, he attempts to solve the case. A long-forgotten secret comes to light and leaves its mark on Graz and its history.

Football is the only joy in the life of middle-aged office worker Heimo. One day, soccer suddenly disappears and no one but Heimo knows what football is.

Emma is an unemployed housewife, whose children have grown up and moved out. When she finds out that her husband is looking for his sexual awaking, doing this by having an affair with another woman, Emma takes over a neon-lit sex-shop that she turns into an erotic boutique for women. This journey leads her into an adventure with a group of other women who are all looking for their own sexual awaking.

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Paula, an above-average intelligent student, is in love with her classmate Charlotte. At the same time she feels permanently provoked by dissolute Lilly to challenge her limits.

1987, Vienna's Favoriten district, the new home of 12-year-old Vlado. Having grown up with Czech television, he immersed himself in the world of Western films, devouring one VHS tape after another. After being diagnosed with cancer, Vlado made his first short film.

An unhappily in-love car mechanic living in a small village finds himself at a crossroads; the apparent senselessness of life saddens him, and his only friend, the local butcher, is not much help.

A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.

Former detective Brenner has become an ambulance driver and finds himself, much to his dismay, caught up in a war between two rival first aid organizations.

A small retirement home on the edge of Vienna where the city's oldest residents live. Patients over the age of 100 begin to die under mysterious circumstances. The police's secret investigation concentrates on the nursing staff at first. But the new medical director, Dr. Klein, discovers that one of the patients is the culprit.

The film deals with questions that have long tormented us: Who was the first civil servant? How has the civil service developed over the course of history? What did Mr. Weber, Engineer Breitfuß, Ms. Knackal, and Mr. Claus do before MA 2412 existed? How did they meet? Why was MA 2412 actually founded? What if the EU decides to introduce a Europe-wide Christmas department? And what is the point of it all?

Thomas, a young programmer, leads an uneventful life. He suffers under his irascible boss and spends his lonely evenings watching videos. However, his monotonous life changes when he meets Tamara at the video store, who brings new color into his life with her open and warm-hearted nature. Despite initial difficulties, a loving romance develops between the two.

A year ago, Katrin and Max got to know and love each other with the support of the phlegmatic bass dog Kurt. Should they now match their friends and marry? At first it doesn't look promising: Katrin is fighting for a job in London and Max is constantly gone, he seems to meet other women. The help of a second Christmas dog is needed to steer fate in the right direction.

Car salesman Gerry Schartl is on his way to dream holidays in an all-inclusive club at Cosamera. He´s a smart guy, great in his job, and his life is perfect - well, nearly perfect...

Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.

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Major Kottan was actually born in the depths of the 1970s in a folk play by Helmut Zenker for the Vienna Volkstheater. More than 30 years after the film script was written, the Rabenhof version of the first Kottan TV episode, "Hartlgasse 16a," demonstrates the story's timeless validity. The stage version of this "milestone in television history," whose resonance is still felt in the German-speaking television landscape today, takes place here and now in the Rabenhof municipal building. The revival of the folk play genre is one approach to this venture; another explores the question of whether Helmut Zenker is not a direct artistic descendant of Ödön von Horvath.

Inspector Lanz has finally found peace after the serial killer he was chasing for years was killed in a car chase in London. Lanz now has time to relax for a few days in Vienna with his wife Karen. There the nightmare begins again: the killer is alive and he is now targeting Karen.

48 hours in the life of the Neugebauer family. The May weekend with a small family celebration, which was planned as peaceful and contemplative, turns out to be a kind of Rocky Horror Picture Show in Vienna's municipal housing estate. Just like the other residents, the Neugebauers are preparing for the impending Mother's Day.

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.

Blasius is plagued by the memory of a car accident. He in turn plagues his aunt, until she finally tramples on his favourite toy car. Their tiny Viennese residence becomes jsut too small.

Paul and Bernd take over a small upscale antique store together. On one nightly excursion, Bernd introduces Paul and Lisa with each other. What was intended as a little variety to marriage-like everyday life develops into a great romance accompanied by a threat: If Eva hears about the affair, the financing for the shop will be in danger. Slowly but surely, Paul is ready to give up everything for Lisa: the shop, Eva and especially the loan. Bernd knows that Dragan is his only hope.

Bank robber Schellack is abandoned by his accomplices during a coup. In his desperation, he takes student driver Fink hostage. The two trust each other more and more, and soon it's almost second nature for the hostage to help the kidnapper escape.

Trauma surgeon Thomas Reiter voluntarily withdraws into a secure institution because he no longer wants to face everyday life. He solves his problems in his imagination – a Western fantasy. A priest is commissioned by his worried parents to bring their son back to reality. When Thomas invites him to follow him into his Western world, the priest realizes that this escape from reality is not without its fascination...

Using original texts from Qualtinger, the two authors develop a pandemonium of 'Viennese cordiality'. Set in a municipal building, in the Prater and the surrounding streets, sausage stands, etc., characters and unerring punchlines result in an enjoyable Viennese film, written for the squad of local cabaret artists.

A number of horrific murders of women take place in a big city. The police follows a lead to a young man named Jesse. The evicence is overwhelming and Jesse desperately tries to prove his innocence. Suddenly his girlfriend is in mortal danger.

Chris and Peter live and work in the apartment belonging to Birgit, Peter's former girlfriend and Chris' present girlfriend. In spite of this threesame life is quite smooth, until Chris meets the Polish model Clara.

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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?

Live recording of those timeless army satire about three men for whom the madness of conscription is the signpost for their lives. "Atompilz von Links" in 1985 awarded the "Austrian cabaret prize."