On September 10, 1898, Sisi, the Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was stabbed to death with a sharpened file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. The successful fiction about Sisi by Norbert Beilharz is based on Elisabeth's inner monologue and, subjectively, on many events in her life.

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. A...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. Aft...

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...

Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show i...

A journey to an unknown star, a children's theatre play, an untalented writer and the fear of becomi...

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from...

Hubert Gerold, the new forester of the Silver Forest, fights against the deforestation of his idylli...

The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgi...

A biography of the eighteenth century Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father....

In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess...
Austria in the mid-1950s. Seamstress Elfi Redlich and her two children are about to emigrate to Amer...