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IMPORT/EXPORT (2007)

Jon W. — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:24:41 +0000

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life…

Director: Ulrich Seidl.
Writers: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl.
Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka, Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko, Dmytro Andriyovich Gachkov, Natalija Baranova, Miloslava Kubkova, Katka Ackermannová, Lucie Radlová, Zdenka Tothová, Natalja Epureanu, Gerhard Komarek, Herta Wonesch, Petra Morzé, Ronald Volny, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich, Erich Finsches, Gerhard Fuchs, Margarete Schlamm, Sissy Nöster, Katharina Riedinger, Olga Macho, Magdalena Vorlaufert, Christine Ewal, Karoline Friedrich, Herta Sezemsky, Gertrude Strommer, Hans Buxbaum, Josef Haller, Walter Neukirch, Karl Schandl, Rudolf Schneider, Nikolaus Tscholitsch, Alexander Kato, Paul Hofmann, Peter Linduska, Marco Dobianer, Serdar Caliskan, Thomas Nash, Harald Huschka, Lukas Prusa, Gerald Uwira, Michael Komzak, Christina York, Michael Thomas, Brigitte Kren, Ramazan Akpinar, Cemkaan Akbulut, Sinan Saridogan, Akin Öztürk, Alexander Sykora, Martin Fiedler, Dirk Stermann, Miliza Jovic, Christofer Pucher, Marta Totova, Alexander Mroc, Ján Horváth, Dezider Hricko, Jozef Balog, Mária Mrocová, Nikola Mrocová, Diana Anastasia Sergeyeva.
Cinematographers: Edward Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler.
Composer: Roman Gottwald.

2007 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

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MP4 | 2.67 GB | 1024×576 | 23.976 FPS | 2500 kb/s | AAC 192 kb/s
Languages: German, Russian, Slovak, Czech, English | Subtitles: English (hard)

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MKV | 6.54 GB | 1280×720 | 23.976 FPS | 5106 kb/s | DTS 5.1 1509 kb/s
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ULRICH SEIDL INTERVIEW:
MP4 | 299 MB | 1280×720 | 23.976 FPS | 1544 kb/s | AAC 181 kb/s
Languages: German | Subtitles: English (hard)

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SPASS OHNE GRENZEN (1998)

Jon W. — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:19:02 +0000

Whether in the countryside or on the edge of the city, amusement parks or fun fairs are hot across Europe. Their names, amusement parks and fun fairs, say it all: People want to be amused, they want to have fun. For example, at the Europark in southern Germany a dummy with a contorted face sits in an electric chair. Smoke comes out of him and a light flickers off and on from out of the roasted “brain” of the dummy, which shudders and cries in pain. A film on the culture of amusement in today’s “leisure” society.

Director: Ulrich Seidl. AKA Fun Without Limits
Writer: Ulrich Seidl.
Stars: Dorothea Spohler-Claussen.
Cinematographer: Wolfgang Thaler.

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Languages: German | Subtitles: English (hard)

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Languages: German | Subtitles: English (soft)

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Thanks to Max Palmer for the suggestion.

HUNDSTAGE (2001) [DIRECTOR’S CUT]

Jon W. — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 14:12:44 +0000

Summer in Vienna is the backdrop for intersecting anecdotes about six locals. Anna, a compulsive hitchhiker, travels to shopping malls with strangers. A widower asks a cleaning woman to strip for him. A divorced man and woman who still live together try to make each other miserable. A teacher suffers violence at the hands of her boyfriend. These different people live out unfulfilled existences, attempting to muffle their isolation.

Director: Ulrich Seidl. AKA Dog Days
Writers: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz.
Stars: Maria Hofstätter, Alfred Mrva, Erich Finsches, Gerti Leher, Franziska Weisz, Rene Wanko, Claudia Martini, Victor Rathbone, Christian Bakonyi, Christine Jirku, Viktor Hennemann, Georg Friedrich, Ingeborg Wehofer, Leopold Schlol, Silvia Piglmann, Karl Christoph, Henriette Maslo, Christina Horvath, Norbert Raftl, Edith Helm, Editha Maurer, Christine Raffelsberg, Peter Kristek, Elfriede Draszdak, Alfred Strobl, Marco Kutzeroff, Hermine Mayer, Elke Kreiseder (voice), Alfred Sild (voice).
Cinematographer: Wolfgang Thaler.

2001 Venice Film Festival – Winner Grand Special Jury Prize.
2001 Venice Film Festival – Nominated for the Golden Lion.

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Language: German | Subtitles: None

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DIE LETZTE RUNDE (1983)

Jon W. — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:58:30 +0000

The intellectual Willie flees from his bourgeois-academic environment, leaving behind his wife, child, and job to lead a vagabond life. In Vienna, he meets the retired laborer Josef, who becomes his closest friend. Together, they drink and roam the city. Willie makes one last attempt to visit his ex-wife in Salzburg, but she turns him away. Secretly, he takes his son Tommi with him, putting him in danger when they encounter a sinister motorcycle gang.

Directors: Peter Patzak, Georg Madeja. AKA Tramps.
Writer: Wolfgang Ainberger.
Stars: Elliot Gould, Heinz Moog, Andrea Jonasson, Danny Hirsch, Klaramaria Skala, Hanno Pöschl, András Gönczöl, Erni Mangold, Petra Maria Grühn, Klaus Kelterborn, Evi Meisel, Gustl Goldsteiner, Lukas Resetarits, Wolfgang Reinbacher, Hans Pemmer.
Cinematographer: Dietrich Lohmann.
Composer: Peter Zwetkoff.

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PAUSE! (1977)

Jon W. — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:30:57 +0000

Here the different poses of the artist provide the raw material for Peter Kubelka to create an ecstatic work that deals with rhythm and repetition, as much as with human actions and automatisms. Together with Mosaic and Afrikareise, Kubelka considers this to belong to his metaphoric film work.

Director: Peter Kubelka.
Stars: Arnulf Rainer.

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THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY: AN ESSAY ON MAHLER (1985)

Jon W. — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 23:57:23 +0000

This television essay from 1985 was written by Leonard Bernstein to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s birth. Recorded in Israel, Vienna and later in London, it is punctuated by biographical interludes and illustrated by musical examples drawn from the cycle of Mahler’s works recorded by Bernstein. Bernstein talks, plays and conducts various orchestras (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker) and soloists (Janet Baker, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp, Walton Groenroos) in performances spanning 17 years.

Director: Humphrey Burton.
Writer: Leonard Bernstein (script).
Stars: Leonard Bernstein, Janet Baker, Walter Groenroos, Christa Ludwig, Edith Mathis, Lucia Popp.

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REQUIEM FÜR DOMINIK (1990)

Jon W. — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 08:50:54 +0000

During the anti-communist revolution in Romania in 1989, political exile Paul Weiss struggles to learn the fate of a childhood friend. As he slowly uncovers the truth, he descends into a world of revolutionary chaos, imprisonment and attempted assassination.

Director: Robert Dornhelm.
Writers: Michael Köhlmeier, Felix Mitterer.
Stars: Felix Mitterer, Viktoria Schubert, August Schmölzer, Angelica Schütz, Antonia Rados, Nikolas Vogel, Georg Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Alain Michel, Jean Marc Jouve, Werner Prinz, Regine Ahner, Liselotte Weber, Oscar Shilz, Georg Metzenrad.
Cinematographer: Hans Selikovsky.
Composers: Harald Kloser, Thomas Schobel.

1991 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.

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PASSAGE A L’ACTE (1993)

Jon W. — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 12:03:43 +0000

Four people at the breakfast table, an American family, are locked in the beat of the editing table. The short, pulsating sequence at the family table shows, in its original state, a classic, deceptive harmony. Matin Arnold deconstructs this scenario of normality by destroying its original continuity. It catches on the tinny sounds and bizarre body movements of the subjects, which, in reaction, become snagged on the continuity. The message that lies deep under the surface of the family idyll, suppressed or lost, is exposed–that message is war.

Director: Martin Arnold.