Maria Hofstätter

The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director's parents and how they met.

Based on the childhood memories of actor Michael Degen, the movie deals with the everyday struggle to survive as a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany. As his father had died in 1940 after being released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Michael and his mother fear to be deported themselves. They manage to live in Berlin with false names and faked papers, hidden by several, often broken, people...

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.

In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.

Şubat 1943: Nazi rejimine karşı yapılan bir el ilanı eyleminde genç üniversite öğrencisi Sophie Scholl kardeşi Hans ile birlikte Münih Üniversitesi’nde tutuklanır. Gestapo’nun günler süren sorgusu, direnişci ile sorgu memuru Robert Mohr arasında psikolojik düellolara dönüşür. Sophie, önce kendisi ve kardeşinin özgürlüğü için savaşır, sonunda direniş örgütü Beyaz Gül’ün diğer üyelerini korumaya yönelik itiraflarda bulunur, ancak kendi hayatını kurtarabilecekken bile inandıklarını inkar etmez * müthiş üzücü gerçek bir hikâye.

Şüpheci bir gazeteci, yazacağı makale için gönülsüz bir şekilde aşk acısı terapisine başlar ve sonunda çekici terapiste kalbini açar.

Andreas, Avusturya Alpleri'ndeki ıssız vadiye dört yaşındayken yerleşen bir yetimdir. Andreas, büyüyüp yetenekli bir çiftlik işçisi olur ve vadiye elektrikle birlikte ışık ve ses getiren ilk dağ demiryollarından birini inşa eden çalışma ekibine katılır. Ayrıca hayatının aşkını -Marie'yi- bulur. Bakalım mutlulukları uzun sürecek midir?

For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.

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.

The story of those who are going through suffering, struggle, loss and despair, trying to find their way out of the depths.

Matthias, mükemmel bir sevgili, kusursuz bir evlat ya da evlilik danışmanı gibi davranmakta ustadır. Kendisi için başkası olmak mesleğinin bir parçası. Asıl zorluk ise kendi kimliğine bürünmesi gerektiğinde başlar.

Georg işini kaybettiğinde, kendisinden bir çocuk isteyen genç karısı Johanna'dan gerçeği gizler. Bunun yerine, eski patronuna karşı bir intikam kampanyasına girişir ve eski bir okul arkadaşıyla birlikte bir roller coaster'ı yenilemeye başlar.

A retired police officer discovers a dead body on a frozen lake. When his own family members become the prime suspects, he decides to start his own investigation.

Alice ve Niklas, en büyük dileği kendi çocuklarına sahip olmak olan genç bir çifttir. Birkaç başarısız girişimden sonra, zihinlerini temizlemek için Sardunya'ya tatile gitmeye karar verirler. Orada, diledikleri her şeye sahip gibi görünen Avusturyalı bir aileyle tanışırlar. Fakat görünüş aldatıcı olabilir...

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...

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.

When Fuchs starts his new job as a teacher in a prison school, replacing the old and unconventional teacher Berger against her will, he is forced to confront his biggest fear, triggered by the mysterious, withdrawn inmate Samira.

A small town orchestra goes on a tour to Austria - an occasion to escape their everyday lives, indulge in heavy partying and try to connect with their true emotions. However, not everything will go as planned...

School principal Hans is about to retire, but neither he nor his wife, Rita, are happy about their newly gained free time. For the past 35 years, their marriage has followed a well-established routine, with Rita setting the pace. As far as Rita is concerned, there is no reason to change anything. In fact, she does not like change at all. However, a stroke of fate reopens old wounds and forces them to ask themselves: Are they still a couple, or two separate individuals?

A land surveyor lives in his own ordered world, until one day he allows himself to become aware of something which his measuring instruments do not enable him to comprehend further. Searching for a principle of order which will embrace his new experiences, he encounters new spheres of existence...

A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now.

After the forcible transfer to his Bavarian home village, an ex-criminal cop investigates the death of a school principal who he thinks had lots to hide.

Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.

Diziye konu olan olaylarda hep tanıdık temalar hakim. Almanya’da gündelik yaşamı etkileyen ya da geçmişte etkilemiş olan her konu, dizide ele alınıyor ya da alındı: Almanya’nın birleşmesi, terör, organ ticareti, küreselleşme, ırkçılık, uyuşturucu kullanımı, çevre skandalları, çocuk istismarı, işsizlik, sanayi suçları, yaşlı bakımıyla ilgili sorunlar, ya da eş bulma hizmetleri. Gerçek yaşamdakinden farklı olarak, toplumsal ayrılıklar “Tatort”ta her zaman çözülmese de, cinayetin faili her zaman bulunuyor ve pazar akşamı herkes yatağına huzur içinde gidiyor. Edebiyatbilimci Jochen Vogel’in sözleriyle “Tatort, Alman toplumunu anlatan bir roman.”

14 years after the events that led to a mass exodus of its residents which left the town of Braunschlag deserted, its mayor comes up with a cunning plan - from now on, within the towns borders the year is 1986, a return to times long gone.

To save his town Braunschlag from bankruptcy, the mayor decides to fake a Marian apparition. This black-humored farce revolves around greed, corruption, churchianity and alcohol.

Trautmann is an Austrian television series.

When the snow is gone old secrets see the light of day.

Everything dark. From the cell phone to the refrigerator, from the lamp to the toilet flush - nothing works anymore. Not even in the small village of Kekenberg on the Della, where people have to think quickly. Because it quickly turns out that when it comes to surviving without electricity, we're all pretty stupid these days.

A mayor and a criminologist, convinced that the world would be better off without prisons, launch a revolutionary and controversial rehabilitation project.