Otto Tausig – MRQE

Das Vaterspiel

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today’s Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that one could never escape from its own past. Written by themoth-1

Love Comes Lately

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Though approaching his eighties, Max Kohn shows no signs of slowing down. He pursues his love life – both real and imagined – with youthful vigor, thereby risking his relationship to Reisel, the woman he loves but neglects. LOVE COMES LATELY is a film about real and imagined longings, the never ending dream of love and the power of fiction.

Nobel

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A movie from the italian director Fabio Carpi.

Bednye rodstvenniki

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Shameless slimeball Eduard “Edik” Letov – clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt – puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors’ long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh – who wishes to bury his mother’s remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them – and the lech Simon – a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator – turn Letov’s latest scheme into a veritable cat’s cradle.

Epsteins Nacht

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gebürtig

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a scoop tries to lure him back, Geburtig must decide whether to confront his past.

Jedermanns Fest

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann’s Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann (“John Everyman”) deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his life’s failures. Not following much of a plot, the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann (Klaus Maria Brandauer) imagining his last big gala event while rendered unconscious as a result of a car accident in his Ferrari. He is a success in Vienna but not in fashionable Paris, so he wishes to impress French elder stateswoman Yvonne Becker (Juliette Greco).

Place Vendôme

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She’s got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.

The Port of Last Resort

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

Auf Wiedersehen Amerika

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have decided to return to Poland for a visit. They intend to have Moshe’s best friend Isaac, an unlucky, depressive German, take care of their house while they are gone. Unfortunately, Isaac loses his job before they go and ends up accompanying them on a Polish freighter. When the ship dies in a German port, the threesome must go overland to Gdansk. They encounter many mishaps along the way.