Paulus Manker

Two yuppies play mean tricks on one another until one joke has fatal consequences. (imdb)

Feature Film about the murder of the famous Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayer. (imdb)

Brother of Sleep recounts the story of musician Johannes Elias Alder, a man with supernatural hearing and prodigious musical ability. Born the illegitimate son of the local priest, and derided as a "child of the Devil," he must somehow learn to deal with his extraordinary talents. Set in a remote village among the Alpine peaks, Alder's fate is sealed by the dichotomy of his tormented genius and his love for a woman he cannot have. (sonypictures.com)

Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Separate families adopted the impoverished orphans. At the dawn of the 20th Century the double-blind experiment hits crescendo for Dora & Lili, born the evening Edison unveiled his incandescent bulb. In 1900, technology was accelerating, could women's rights and national self-determination keep pace?

Made for German TV, this adaptation of Rosei's post-modern thriller views the generational conflict between father and son through the lens of the mystery genre. Despite the aesthetic limitations of the small-screen, Haneke's sophisticated mise-en-scène fully exploits the film's stylish Venice locale. (arananfms.blogspot.com)

"Weiningers Nacht" portraits the last night in the life of the Austrian philosopher Dr. Otto Weininger (1880-1903) who got world-famous by his book "Sex and Character" (Vienna 1903), based on his PhD thesis, rejected by Sigmund Freud, but highly appreciated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and August Strindberg.

Two young characters in this story of rebellious youth are named after two Germans, brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl who were imprisoned and executed for their anti-Nazi stance during World War II. In this film, the rebels do not have such a clear-cut enemy but nevertheless, they cannot accept the way life is heading in Austria of the 1950s and they revolt by stealing, mugging, and trying out terrorist methods (bombs). (imdb)

This two-part drama examines the fate of the generation of Germans which came of age after World War II. (imdb)

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. (imdb)