Austrian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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1. Everyman (1961)
105 min | Drama
Death is sent by God to summon the wealthy bon vivant Jedermann. In his time of greatest need, he is abandoned by his lover, friends and wealth.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Ewald Balser, Kurt Heintel, Heinrich Schweiger, Paula Wessely
Votes: 28
2. Moos auf den Steinen (1968)
82 min | Drama
Hostile literary friends Petrik (young, idealistic, unsuccessful) and Mehlmann (enterprising, successful) spend a weekend at a crumbling baroque castle in the Marchfeld, illustrating very different ideas of a post-war Austria.
Director: Georg Lhotzky | Stars: Fritz Muliar, Erika Pluhar, Louis Ries, Johannes Schauer
Votes: 39
3. Ich will leben (1976)
98 min | Drama, Family
Director: Jörg A. Eggers | Stars: Kathina Kaiser, Heinz Bennent, Sonja Sutter, Alwy Becker
4. Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979)
90 min | Drama
In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.
Director: Maximilian Schell | Stars: Birgit Doll, Hanno Pöschl, Helmut Qualtinger, Jane Tilden
Votes: 165
5. Egon Schiele: Excess and Punishment (1980)
95 min | Biography, Drama
The life of cursed painter Egon Shiele, specialized in nudes, and on his late conflicting love for two women.
Director: Herbert Vesely | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Jane Birkin, Christine Kaufmann, Kristina van Eyck
Votes: 464
6. Der Bockerer (1981)
104 min | Drama, History
A politically naïve Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the unification of Germany and Austria and the Second World War.
Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Karl Merkatz, Alfred Böhm, Hans Holt, Marte Harell
Votes: 1,024
7. Tramps (1983)
88 min | Drama
Friendship develops between an aging, former railroad worker living in an abandoned theater and Willie, the wayward, alcoholic architect he shelters (Elliot Gould).
Directors: Peter Patzak, Georg Madeja | Stars: Elliott Gould, Heinz Moog, Andrea Jonasson, Danny Hirsch
Votes: 35
8. Dicht hinter der Tür (1984)
89 min | Drama
It is night, Molly wants to hear a story from Leo. He tells her that he lost his reflection in the mirror while shaving in the morning.
Director: Mansur Madavi | Stars: Nicola Filippelli, Kurt Kosutic, Irene Kugler, Erhard Pauer
9. Malambo (1984)
93 min | Drama
Director: Milan Dor | Stars: Klaus Rohrmoser, Miodrag Andric, Nirit Sommerfeld, Dietrich Siegl
Votes: 11
10. 38 (1986)
97 min | Drama
In 1938, Austria is about to become a part of the Third Reich. A theater actress and a Jewish journalist fall in love and spend time together, completely ignoring the political turmoil of the time despite friendly warnings.
Director: Wolfgang Glück | Stars: Tobias Engel, Sunnyi Melles, Heinz Trixner, Romuald Pekny
Votes: 190
11. Wohin und zurück - Teil 3: Welcome in Vienna (1986)
127 min | Drama
In the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy - Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U. S. Army.
Director: Axel Corti | Stars: Gabriel Barylli, Nicolas Brieger, Claudia Messner, Karlheinz Hackl
Votes: 186
12. Das weite Land (1987)
103 min | Drama
A promising young pianist commits suicide. He spent his last evening in the company of the industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter. His wife Genia is in possession of a farewell note.
Director: Luc Bondy | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier, Wolfgang Hübsch, Barbara Rebeschini
Votes: 39
13. The Seventh Continent (1989)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A European family who plan on escaping to Australia seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel
Votes: 16,946
14. Requiem for Dominic (1990)
R | 85 min | Drama
A drama between revolution and order, captured partly on film, partly on video adding to the gritty reality of the time, place and events as they unfolds in Eastern Europe as the "Iron Curtain" collapsed.
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Felix Mitterer, Viktoria Schubert, August Schmölzer, Angelica Schütz
Votes: 93
15. I Love Vienna (1991)
104 min | Comedy
Director: Houchang Allahyari | Stars: Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Dolores Schmidinger, Hanno Pöschl, Kouros Allahyari
Votes: 132
16. Benny's Video (1992)
Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama
A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Arno Frisch, Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner
Votes: 18,574
17. India (1993)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Harather | Stars: Josef Hader, Alfred Dorfer, Maria Hofstätter, Roger Murbach
Votes: 3,088
18. Ich gelobe (1994)
115 min | Drama
In a small army base at the Eastern border of Austria a young recruit is trained to be a soldier to protect his country in case of war. He has to stay for 8 months and during this time he escapes in his own fantasy world...
Director: Wolfgang Murnberger | Stars: Christoph Dostal, Andreas Lust, Andreas Simma, Marcus J. Carney
Votes: 202
19. Ant Street (1995)
87 min | Comedy
In the middle of Vienna stands an old tenement building, and time has left its mark both on the house and its inhabitants. Here, time passes at a strange pace. Floor by floor, the visitor ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Glawogger | Stars: Robert Meyer, Bibiane Zeller, Nikolaus Paryla, Monika Tajmar
Votes: 101
20. Hannah (1996)
118 min | Thriller
The dynamic PR-agent HANNAH is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang. But while HANNAH... See full summary »
Director: Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Stars: Elfi Eschke, August Zirner, Jürgen Hentsch, Paul Herwig
Votes: 55
21. The Unfish (1997)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish. That causes chaos and hatred in the village.
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Maria Schrader, Eva Herzig, Andreas Lust, Georges Kern
Votes: 194
22. The Inheritors (1998)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery
Austria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. ... See full summary »
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Simon Schwarz, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph, Tilo Prückner
Votes: 1,187 | Gross: $0.20M
23. Nordrand (1999)
103 min | Drama
Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad, and Roman live near the northern border of Austria in 1995. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Albert | Stars: Nina Proll, Edita Malovcic, Astrit Alihajdaraj, Tudor Chirila
Votes: 602
24. Die Fremde (2000)
102 min | Crime, Drama
The seedy underbelly of Vienna at night. Mercedes is a femme fatale from Mexico, newly arrived at the Vienna airport with her German boyfriend Rainer, where they have smuggled a kilo of ... See full summary »
Director: Götz Spielmann | Stars: Goya Toledo, Hary Prinz, Martin Feifel, Nina Proll
Votes: 83
25. The Piano Teacher (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, Music
A young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel, Susanne Lothar
Votes: 71,666 | Gross: $1.90M
26. Gebürtig (2002)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner, Katja Weitzenböck
Votes: 233
27. Böse Zellen (2003)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A young Austrian survives the crash of a commercial airliner. Six years later, she's a clerk, a mother, and happy. Then she dies in a car accident. Over the next year, her daughter goes ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Albert | Stars: Kathrin Resetarits, Ursula Strauss, Georg Friedrich, Marion Mitterhammer
Votes: 555 | Gross: $0.00M
28. Antares (2004)
Unrated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
Three stories revolve around the love lives of an adulterous woman, a checkout girl and a single mother.
Director: Götz Spielmann | Stars: Petra Morzé, Andreas Patton, Hary Prinz, Susanne Wuest
Votes: 3,533
29. Caché (2005)
R | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Votes: 85,134 | Gross: $3.63M
30. Spiele Leben (2005)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
A compulsive gambler is forced to take a chance with his own life.
Director: Antonin Svoboda | Stars: Georg Friedrich, Birgit Minichmayr, Gerti Drassl, Andreas Patton
Votes: 228
31. The Counterfeiters (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during World War II.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky | Stars: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach
Votes: 47,162 | Gross: $5.48M
32. Revanche (2008)
Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.
Director: Götz Spielmann | Stars: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Andreas Lust, Ursula Strauss
Votes: 15,934
33. Ein Augenblick Freiheit (2008)
110 min | Drama
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Director: Arash T. Riahi | Stars: Navid Navid, Pourya Mahyari, Elika Bozorgi, Sina Saba
Votes: 682
34. Little Girl (2009)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A circus woman and her husband find a two year old girl in the trailer park where they are living. With the help of another child, they search for her mother.
Directors: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | Stars: Patrizia Gerardi, Tairo Caroli, Walter Saabel, Asia Crippa
Votes: 741 | Gross: $0.00M
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