List of Austrian films of the 1980s

A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 1980s ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see Category:Austrian films.

1980s[]

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Studio/Notes
1980
Exit... nur keine Panik (Exit - Just Don't Panic)	Franz Novotny	Paulus Manker, Hanno Pöschl, Isolde Barth, Eddie Constantine	Action comedy	/ Terra-Film
(Meat grinder)	[de]	Hanno Pöschl, [de], [de]	Drama
1981
Anima – Symphonie phantastique	Titus Leber	Mathieu Carrière, Charo López		Screened at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival
Der Bockerer	Franz Antel	Karl Merkatz		Entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival
Mephisto	István Szabó	Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Rolf Hoppe, Karin Boyd	Drama	Hungarian-West German-East German-Austrian co-production
[de] (The Schoolboy Gerber)	Wolfgang Glück	Gabriel Barylli, Werner Kreindl	Drama
(Sandino's Dream)	[de]		Documentary	filmed in Nicaragua
(The World Belongs to the Thorough)	Peter Patzak	[de]	Crime film	Beginning of the Kottan series
(Die a Little)	[de]		Drama
1982
(The Excluded)	Franz Novotny	Rudolf Wessely, Paulus Manker, Christine Kaufmann	TV Drama	Based on Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek
[de]	[de]	[de]	Comedy	1983
[de] (The Inheritors)	[de]	Nikolas Vogel,	Drama
[de] (Be Gentle, Penguin)	[de]	[de], Heinz Hoenig	Romantic comedy	u. a.
1983
Angst (Fear)	Gerald Kargl	Erwin Leder, [de], [de], [de], Rudolf Götz	Horror
(Brain Burning)	[de]	[de], [de], [de], Eva Kerbler	Drama
	[de]	[de], [de]	Satire
Der stille Ozean (The Silent Ocean)	Xaver Schwarzenberger	Hanno Pöschl, Marie-France Pisier		Entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival
1984
Dicht hinter der Tür (Just Behind the Door)	[de]
Malambo	[de]	[de]
1985
Oberst Redl (Colonel Redl)	István Szabó	Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe	Drama	nominated for an Oscar and other awards
Die Praxis der Liebe (The Practice of Love)	Valie Export	Adelheid Arndt, Rüdiger Vogler		Entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival
Raffl	Christian Berger	, Dietmar Schönherr		Entered into the 14th Moscow International Film Festival
Das zweite Schraube-Fragment			Short	Screened at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival
1986
Echo Park	Robert Dornhelm	Susan Dey, Tom Hulce, Heinrich Schweiger	comedy	American-Austrian co-production
Heidenlöcher	Wolfram Paulus	,	Drama / new Heimatfilm	u. a. Entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival
[de] (Müller's Office)	[de]	, Barbara Rudnik, [de]	Musical comedy / detective film
1987
38 – Auch das war Wien ('38 – Vienna Before the Fall)	Wolfgang Glück	, Sunnyi Melles	Literary film after Friedrich Torberg	Nominated for an Oscar
[de] (Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown)	Franz Antel	Oliver Tobias, Mary Crosby, Audrey Landers, John Phillip Law, Karin Dor, Mathieu Carrière, Rolf Hoppe, Zsa Zsa Gabor	Musical / Biographical film	Austrian-East German co-production
Schmutz	Paulus Manker		Drama	Entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival
Das weite Land (The Distant Land)	Luc Bondy	Michel Piccoli, Bulle Ogier	Drama	Austrian-West German co-production. Screened at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival
1989
Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent)	Michael Haneke	[de], Birgit Doll, , Udo Samel	Drama	Michael Haneke's cinefilm debut.
(Death and Life in the Castle)	[de]		Documentary	Documentary film about Hartheim Euthanasia Centre
(The Dead Fishes)		Joe Berger, Erwin Leder	Drama

External links[]

Austrian film at the Internet Movie Database
http://www.austrianfilm.com/