Known for Acting
Born
May 3, 1953 (age 73)
Birthplace
Wien, Austria
Filmography
25 films, 7 shows


Dracula
2025 · 2h 10m
country: France
In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.


Little Siberia
2025 · 1h 45m
country: Finland
A pastor's faith turns upside down when a meteorite lands in his small Finnish town, its impact stirring up chaos and criminal intentions.


The Final Problem
2019 · 1h 29m
country: Austria
A snowed-in holiday hotel. A dead body in a room locked from the inside. The hotel manager wants to cover it up, but in the blink of an eye the whole hotel knows about it. Among the guests is an inspector - or at least he convincingly claims to be - who, together with his assistant who has travelled with him, undertakes extensive investigations. Then even a second murder takes place!


The Tobacconist
2018 · 1h 49m
country: Austria
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys and hardships of life by working as an apprentice to the mutilated war veteran Otto Trsnjek in a small tobacco shop, where he meets the famous psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, a regular customer, who will become a valuable friend in times of chaos and uncertainty.


Hagazussa
2018 · 1h 42m
country: Austria
In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.


The Captain
2018 · 1h 58m
country: Germany
Germany, 1945. Soldier Willi Herold, a deserter of the German army, stumbles into a uniform of a Nazi captain abandoned during the last and desperate weeks of the Third Reich. Newly emboldened by the allure of a suit that he has stolen only to stay warm, Willi discovers that many Germans will follow the leader, whoever he is.


Tom of Finland
2017 · 1h 56m
country: Iceland
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.


Carry On
2015 · 24m
country: Austria
An old married couple lives on an isolated farm. For his daily work the farmer has an old donkey to help him. When the pragmatic farmer learns that the death of his longtime companion is near,he notices that he loves the animal more than he can admit.
Mikrokosmonauten
Mikrokosmonauten
2013
country: Germany


How to Live Your Life
2011 · 1h 40m
country: Austria
A coming-of-age movie about how hard life is and how great it can be...It's the story about Karl "Charlie" Kolostrum, a young guy who tries to get along with his life but hasn't learned to live as an adult yet.


Combat Girls
2011 · 1h 40m
country: Germany
Marisa, a 20-year-old German girl, hates foreigners, Jews, cops, and everyone she finds guilty for the decline of her country. She provokes, drinks, fights and her next tattoo will be a portrait of Adolf Hitler. But Marisa's convictions begin to crumble when she meets a young Afghan refugee, and she learns that the black and white principles of her gang are not the only way.


Total Therapy
1997 · 2h 5m
country: Austria
Nine persons sign up for a self-awareness course at an isolated country estate. Dr. Romero, a charismatic therapist, and his assistants confront the patients with their problems. Cut off from the rest of the world, the participants are increasingly drawn into the therapy's spell.


Before Sunrise
1995 · 1h 41m
country: Austria
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
Seemannsbegräbnis
Seemannsbegräbnis
1995 · 19m
country: Austria
The bum Gas and the junkie Sebastian comb through the garbage cans for useful things after the Christmas holidays and end up finding a dead baby. In order to honor the death of the baby, they leave the city to bury it in the countryside.
So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight
So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight
1994 · 1h
country: Austria
In Garcia Lorca's mother tongue, death is a woman: "la muerte". Daniel slips into the role of "death as a female" and speaks before a video camera on the life and death of the famous Spanish poet. Then the story begins.
Michelle
Michelle
1994 · 1h 5m
country: Austria
Karl lives as a taxi driver in Vienna. Every evening he slowly makes his way from bar to bar until one day his friend, the river, washes up the beautiful Michelle...


Sisi auf Schloß Gödöllö
1994 · 40m
country: Germany
A few hours in the life of empress Sisi; a summer night at Gödöllö. A game with operetta and melodrama; a grotesque with much colour, music, dancing, and bloodshed.


Schindler's List
1993 · 3h 15m
country: United States
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
My way oder Die Mistkübel haben Angst vor der Leere
My way oder Die Mistkübel haben Angst vor der Leere
1993 · 38m
country: Austria
Haymon Maria Buttinger, a legendary Austrian prop master, singer and actor. A showman in front of the camera and his great dream of being Macbeth, Quasimodo and Jeckyll-Hyde just once. The portrait of a friend.


I Love Vienna
1991 · 1h 44m
country: Austria
I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.
Studio Schönbrunn
Studio Schönbrunn
1988 · 17m
country: Austria
"Studio Schönbrunn" is an ironic play with quotations. Paula Wessely in the Nazi-Wien-Film-production "Heimkehr", Leni Riefenstahl's biography, as well as Nestroy, Mozart, Marx, Frank Sinatra, Jandl. The text is adapted, de-familiarized and de-subjectivized. Consequently, the leading actor shoots the film's author.
Das Hartmut-Wolf-System
Das Hartmut-Wolf-System
1988 · 1h
country: Austria
The Hartmut-Wolf-System is a relationship between two people which adheres to strict internal and external rules. The Hartmut-Wolf-System leads to self-destruction. A face à la viennoise.
Hinter dem Regenbogen
Hinter dem Regenbogen
1987 · 45m
country: Austria
A milieu drama which boldly and thoroughly examines the social and psychological causes of a severely disturbed father-daughter relationship.


The Cop & the Girl
1985 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
A tough cop but his life in ruins. His superiors are only looking for a reason to sack him. The girl is 17 years old and lives on the street. As the cop helps her one night, she steals his gun and flees. He should report the loss of his gun to his boss, so he has to search for the girl. At the Dutch border it falls into the power of the police! Henceforth they are on the run, without a plan and without a goal ..


Coconuts
1985 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
Grein, a truck driver, works for Sienmann, an undesirable man, dedicated to fraud.