Otto Schenk Movies

Hannes Engel is a successful radio presenter in the countryside. By chance, he is heard by program director Conrad Scheffer one night, who...

The film consists of several small episodes that take place in and around Munich.

When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins:...

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has...

A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.

Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other.

Tsarist Russia: Lisa lives apart from her husband Fedya, who drinks too much, wastes his money and hangs around with gypsies. Her mother is pushing...

Small war among pensioners: The charming chaotic Walter Hofer and the pedant Eberhard Gatzweiler have had a love-hate relationship for decades. Not...

A comedy directed by Frank Strecker.

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag...

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his...

Retired coffee house owner Franz is a real hypochondriac. When he overhears the doctor's prognosis during a visit to the doctor, everything is clear...

Otto Schenk’s brilliant production captures both the dark romanticism of the story as well as its fairy-tale magic. It is a superb setting for...

The priest Hannes Jagermüller struggles to keep his flock under control in the idyllic village of St. Gilgen on Lake Wolfgang. His arch-rival,...

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking...