Screenplay: Joseph Roth

Direction Michael Haneke

Cast Branko Samarovski · Judit Pogány · Thierry van Werveke · Deborah Wisniewski

Plot Vienna after the Monarchie (WW I). Andreas Plum has been a humble soldier. Now as a war-disabled person he receives a license to run a barrel-organ, which enables him to...

Direction Ermanno Olmi

Cast Rutger Hauer · Anthony Quayle · Sandrine Dumas · Jean-Maurice Chanet

Plot The story of a Pole who is saved from destitution by a generous stranger and the difficulty he faces in repaying the debt. Venice Film Festival: Golden Lion.

Direction Wolfgang Staudte

Cast Josef Meinrad · Erwin Linder · Katrin Schirrmeister · Peter Vogel

Plot The disabled ex-soldier Andreas Pum lost a leg for emperor and father land. After leaving the army he receives a license and a drehorgel. One day he gets into a...

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Helmut Qualtinger · Agnes Fink · Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic · Evelyn Opela

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Ulrich Mühe · Klaus Maria Brandauer · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Corinna Kirchhoff

Plot Ulrich Muhe plays a German businessman who was born completely without scruples. This makes him an eminently suitable candidate for success in the chaotic years after World War I. The...

Direction Johannes Schaaf

Cast András Bálint · Rosemarie Fendel · Doris Kunstmann · Elma Bulla

Plot It is based on the 1938 novel Die Kapuzinergruft (The Emperor's Tomb) by Austrian author Joseph Roth.

Direction Axel Corti · Gernot Roll

Cast Max von Sydow · Charlotte Rampling · Claude Rich · Tilman Günther

Plot The film chronicles the decline and fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire via the story of the Trotta family. The film begins in 1859 at the battle of Solferino in Northern...

Direction Gregory Ratoff

Cast Jean Hersholt · Don Ameche · Allen Jenkins · J. Edward Bromberg

Plot Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born...