Vivian Bartsch

Elfriede Jelinek'in Piyano Öğretmeni adlı romanından uyarlanan film, Viyana Müzik Konservatuarı'nda öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışan orta yaşlı bir kadın üzerine kurulu. Annesiyle aralarında sevgi ve nefret karışımı bir ilişki bulunan Erika Kohut adlı bu kadın, bir yandan saygı duyulan ve otoriter bir öğretmen görüntüsü çizerken diğer yandan karanlık arzuları ve müzik arasında ikilem yaşamaktadır. Viyana'nın kenar mahallelerindeki erotik gösterilere ve porno film gösteren sinemalara gidip gelen Erika, anlam katamadığı hayatında bir tür kendi kendini tüketme sürecine girmiştir. Kendine o denli yabancıdır ki bir sevgili edinememekte, geceleri parkta sevişen çiftleri gizlice seyretmekle tatmin olmaktadır. Kendisine karşı garip bir hayranlık ve tutku duyan erkek öğrencisiyle iletişim kurmasının ardından, görünüşteki hayatı ve bastırılmış arzuları arasındaki duvar yıkılmaya başlar.

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.

Bir yanlış anlama sonucu, eserleri eskisi kadar ilgi görmeyen bir ressam olan Liam Price’ın öldüğü ile ilgili dedikodular çıkar. Bu haberle eserlerin satışlarının patladığını gören Liam, gerçeği söylemek yerine “Liam’ın erkek kardeşi” kimliğinde hayatını sürdürmeye karar verir. Fakat intihar eden ressam hikâyesini ilgi çekici bulan güzel gazeteci McKenzie, Liam’ın peşine düşecek; aşk ikisinin de planlarını alt üst edinceye kadar oyun devam edecektir.

When breaking into an electronics warehouse, a member of a young gang is injured and left behind by his companions.

Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a twenty-something from New Zealand, who came to Germany on a one-way ticket. Starting from this situation, the film develops an almost documentary-style portrait of a Kreuzberg ‘situation’: everything is readily available, time, people, summer, streets. And in the end a crash, the film itself: ‘for nothing’?

Ana and Nicolae, a young Romanian couple, travel by bus from Bucharest to Vienna with the prospect of making quick money by handing over a stolen car. As soon as they arrive, however, they are reassured that the car is not yet ready for them. Ana then wants to go back to Romania, Nicolae would rather travel further west. They are stuck penniless in Vienna.

Bella is in a dilemma: She lives with her ex Martin and her new boyfriend Sebastian in a shared flat. Neither does she dare to pour Martin pure wine, nor to quit. Just when Bella has come to an end to the secrecy, a bad news arrives by phone: Two very good, mutual friends of Bella and Martin have been fatally injured. They leave Tom, a two-year-old boy. Bella does not hesitate: Martin and her will take care of the boy. But how should that work in the WG? And what about Bella's relationship with Sebastian?

One day seventeen-year-old Alma sees her father who had left the family five years before and had never contacted them since then accidentally on a subway stop in Berlin. She finds out where he works and start spending time together. Very soon the feelings they have for each other extend a normal father-daughter basis and they erotically attract each other.

A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models. Vivian will stop at nothing to be a magazine cover girl. Lisa fills her time with routine plastic surgery and cocaine binges, while innocent Tanja focuses on the mystical through tarot cards, yoga, and raw animal energy.

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger.

Vienna suburb. Better society. Appearance and reality. A golden cage. But is everything that glitters really gold? Actually, the five "suburban women" of the title couldn't be doing any better in their supposedly perfect, affluent world – could they?

8 x 45 is an Austrian television series.