Known for Directing
**Andreas Prochaska** (born December 31, 1964, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and film editor. He grew up in Bad Ischl and later moved to Vienna to study journalism and theatre studies, though he did not complete his degree. In 1985 he began working in the film industry as an assistant to director Paulus Manker and gained practical experience across multiple departments, including sound design, directing, production, and editing for both film and television. Prochaska first worked as a co-editor on the *Tatort* episode *Flucht in den Tod* (1987) and as an editing assistant on Wolfram Paulus’ film *Nachsaison* (1988). He later collaborated with director Michael Haneke, initially as an editing assistant on *Benny’s Video* (1992) and *71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance* (1994), before serving as editor on *The Castle* (1997), *Funny Games* (1997), and *Code Unknown* (2000). He made his directorial debut in 1998 with *The Three Post Robbers*, an adaptation of the children’s novel by Christine Nöstlinger, which became a success at the Austrian box office. After directing several television films and series episodes, he turned to the horror genre with *Dead in 3 Days* (2006), a slasher film notable for having its cast speak in Austrian dialects. The film’s success led to a sequel two years later. In 2010, Prochaska directed his first comedy, *The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott*, which won the inaugural Austrian Film Award in 2011 and earned him the prize for Best Screenplay. He received the Bavarian Television Award and an International Emmy Award in 2012 for directing the television film *A Day for a Miracle* (*Das Wunder von Kärnten*). His Western thriller *The Dark Valley* (2014) brought him the Bavarian Film Award for Best Director in 2013 and won eight German Film Awards in 2014, with Prochaska nominated for Best Director. He lives in Purkersdorf near Vienna with his wife Astrid, an art therapist, and their four sons. His son Daniel Prochaska is also a film editor and director. from Wikipedia
Born
December 31, 1964 (age 61)
Birthplace
Wien, Austria
Filmography
34 films, 17 shows


Die Kuh, die weint
2026 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
A girl disappears, and a cow drops dead. While the men tell each other jokes, the women grab the bull by the horns—together they take on the crime.


Welcome Home Baby
2025 · 1h 55m
country: Austria
Judith works as an emergency doctor in Berlin. When she inherits a house in Austria from the family who gave her away as a child, her quest to solve the mystery of her origins turns into a nightmarish journey into the past and the dark places of her soul.


The Flood - Death on the Dike
2023 · 1h 43m
country: Germany
During a storm surge on the North Sea coast in 2007, farm worker Iven takes 3-year old Wienke, the daughter of dike warden Hauke Haien and his wife Elke, to Hamburg and leaves her outside a children’s home. Iven becomes a doorman in St. Pauli. 15 years later, he is visited by a young woman. She wants to know who she is and where she comes from. And she wants him to find her parents. Unwillingly, for he too has a past he would prefer to forget, Iven takes her to the village of Stegebüll on the coast. For the pair, a dramatic journey back in time begins to the fateful events in Stegebüll and the downfall of Hauke Haien and his family.


If You Knew How Beautiful It Is Here
2015 · 1h 31m
country: Austria
The 16-year-old daughter of the highest dignitary in Hüttenberg is found murdered in the disused mine. For the first time, Muck has to deal with a case of this magnitude.


Sarajevo
2014 · 1h 38m
country: Austria
The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska and written by Martin Ambrosch, focusing on the examining magistrate Dr. Leo Pfeffer (Florian Teichtmeister) investigating the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Trying to do his job in a time of lawlessness and violence, intrigues and betrayal, Leo struggles to maintain his integrity and save his love, Marija, and her father, prominent Serbian merchant. But the events of Sarajevo have set into motion an inescapable course of events that will escalate to become … the Great War.


The Dark Valley
2014 · 1h 55m
country: Austria
The Alps, late 19th century. Greider, a mysterious lone rider who claims to be a photographer, arrives at an isolated lumber village, despotically ruled by a family clan, asking for winter accommodation.


The Miracle of Carinthia
2011 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A marriage couple find their daughter drowned in the pool house. At the hospital, the doctor refuses to give up and holds tightly to a remote hope of saving the girl.


Vanished
2011
country: Austria
Alfred Walch lives in Krems with his wife Anna and his three children Alexandra (17), Daniel (19) and Sonia (6). On Alexandra's 17th birthday, the town festival takes place in Krems. Two reasons to celebrate. The usual arguments between teenagers and parents about when to be home are inevitable. She persuades her father to let her stay longer. But Alexandra doesn't come back at this time either. The parents' initial anger towards their daughter gradually turns to worry and panic when it turns out that the girl was last seen in the harbor area, a shady neighborhood, where she had a violent argument with her supposed boyfriend, Moritz. When there is still no trace of Alexandra the next evening, Inspector Lenz and his colleague Lisa are called in. A large-scale search is launched without success. Alexandra remains missing...


The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott
2010 · 1h 53m
country: Austria
Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kidnapped actress Elfriede Ott.


Dead in 3 Days 2
2008 · 1h 35m
country: Austria
One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again in the middle of a murder mystery.


Der erste Tag
2008
country: Austria
The movie is about a nuclear desaster in the Czech nuclear power station Dukovany.


Dead in 3 Days
2006 · 1h 37m
country: Austria
When Nina and her high school friends receive eerie text messages declaring that they will all die within three days, they dismiss it as a hokey prank - until one by one, the pals start turning up dead in the alpine countryside. With the cops stymied, Nina and her remaining friends must scour their past for clues to identify the madman before he kills them all.


Ausgeliefert
2003
country: Austria
After three years of intensive therapy, 37-year-old prison psychotherapist Michael Trenk is convinced that his patient Cornelia Steinweg is ready for freedom again. Despite objections from his colleagues, he prevails and secures her early release. While Trenk has long since moved on to new tasks, he realizes that Steinweg constantly seeks contact with him, needing him as her only contact in freedom, even to the point of abuse: Trenk realizes that he was wrong. His professional career, the life of his child, and his wife are at stake.
Novaks Ultimatum
Novaks Ultimatum
2003
country: Germany
Die Hunde sind schuld
Die Hunde sind schuld
2001 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
Gesteinigt - Der Tod der Luxuslady
Gesteinigt - Der Tod der Luxuslady
2000
country: Germany


The 3 Postal Robbers
1998 · 1h 33m
country: Austria
The Mupfer gang is again forced to admit defeat by the Schmutzer gang, and the Mupfers then begin to stir up trouble. If the bosses - Meier and Ferri - do not come up with a brillant idea soon, they will be toppled. Ivonka Pivonka, a 12-year-old girl who is inclined to snoop, is on the trail of three robbers of postal money transports. Unfortunately, Ivonka is more curious than she is careful. After being caught, she is locked up at gentle-natured Kitty's apartment. Meier and Ferri read about Ivonka's disappearance and decide to help her escape. With the help of Liese, Ivonka's best friend, and Alice and Aline, two elderly ladies, they begin to track down the postal robbers.
Gute Nacht, Johann
Gute Nacht, Johann
1993 · 21m
country: Austria
The hero is an astronaut who has fallen from the heavens; afflicted by nightmares, he vegetates in his hospital room until an aged, sexless humanity needs him again...