Elfriede Irrall Movies

Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced Franz Huchel begins to learn about both the joys...

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

Luisa returns to her parents' home when her father becomes bedridden. She's expected to help her mother deal with the drudgery of caring for him, but...

An unconventional essay film that interrogates the visual and ideological legacy of the Vietnam War. Blending staged scenes, archival footage,...

Twelve classmates meet up again after thirty years. They chat, banter a little - and suddenly the mood changes. Because it turns out that the envied...

Fat German star restaurant chef Gregor shows romantic interest in waitress Eden Drebb. She's happily married to hunky Xaver Drebb, but feels...

When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.

A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths....

A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. "Office...

An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.

Valentin Hase (Peter Alexander) falls in love with the rich but cleptomanic society girl Babs (Connie Froboess) without knowing her true identity as...

In a bomb explosion in a parking garage, the architect's wife Anna is buried together with the writer Robert. The two seriously injured people are...

The story of an old married couple. As she dies his imagination calls her back to life and they have a wonderful time together like they didn’t...

A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded...

Georg, a self-confident man of 40, feels it as a heavy defeat when his wife suddenly leaves him. He has always been the superior man, to whom his...

The "Our Gang" type adventures of German working class kids from a Berlin apartment building (number 67) during the early 1930s. With Nazism's rise,...