List of Austrian films of the 2000s
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A list of films produced in the Cinema of Austria in the 2000s decade ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Austrian films see Category:Austrian films.
In cases of international co-productions, films in the making of which an Austrian studio was the majority partner (with a foreign film studio as a co-producer with a minority interest) are indicated by "(maj.)" in the "Notes" column. Films in the making of which an Austrian studio was the minority partner (with a foreign film studio as a co-producer with a majority interest) are indicated by "(min.)" in the "Notes" column.
The dates in parentheses are the start dates of film runs in Austrian cinemas.
2000–2003[]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | ||||||
| Hundstage | Ulrich Seidl | Maria Hofstätter | ||||
| Virgil Widrich | short | |||||
| Elsewhere | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | – | documentary | Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion (May 31) | ||
| The Piano Teacher | Michael Haneke | Won 3 awards at Cannes | ||||
| Lovely Rita | Jessica Hausner | Screened at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| Everyman's Feast (Jedermanns Fest) | , entered into the 24th Moscow International Film Festival | |||||
| Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container (Ausländer raus!) | Christoph Schlingensief, Elfriede Jelinek, Paulus Manker, Daniel Cohn-Bendit | documentary | ||||
| , | Jürgen Vogel, Meret Becker, Jasmin Tabatabai, Mavie Hörbiger, Michael Ostrowski, Oliver Korittke | feature film | ||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| Free Radicals (Böse Zellen) | Barbara Albert | |||||
| Fast Film | Virgil Widrich | short | ||||
| Struggle | Ruth Mader | Screened at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival | ||||
| Yu | Franz Novotny | Entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival | ||||
2004[]
In 2004, 24 Austrian films were produced either as solely Austrian productions, or with an Austrian majority interest and opened in the cinemas. 16 were feature films and 8 were documentary films. A further 8 films were produced with an Austrian minority production interest, 7 of them feature films: for example Michael Haneke's , which is a predominantly French production.[1][2]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time of the Wolf (Wolfzeit) | Michael Haneke | Isabelle Huppert, Béatrice Dalle, Patrice Chéreau | feature film | (min.), screened at Cannes |
| The Edukators (Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) | Hans Weingartner | Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch | comedy | (min.), Y3 Film (Germany, Hans Weingartner's film company in Berlin). Screened at Cannes. |
| Darwin's Nightmare | Hubert Sauper | documentary | ||
| , Cornelia Froboess | children's film | |||
| Nacktschnecken | Michael Glawogger | , Michael Ostrowski, Pia Hierzegger | comedy | |
| Martin Bruch | documentary | |||
| Anja Salomonowitz | documentary | |||
| Info Wars | Sebastian J. F. | documentary | Parallel Universe | |
| Henry Hübchen, Moritz Bleibtreu, Roland Düringer | feature | Dor Film (maj.) | ||
| Antares | Götz Spielmann | , | feature | |
| No Rest for the Brave | Alain Guiraudie | , Thomas Blanchard | feature | |
| Hotel | Jessica Hausner | Screened at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival |
2005[]
In 2005, 24 Austrian films were produced either as solely Austrian productions, or with an Austrian majority interest and opened in the cinemas. 15 of them were documentary films, and nine were feature films. A further six films (three documentary films and three feature films) were produced with an Austrian minority interest co-production partner – for example, the award-winning documentary Darwin's Nightmare, a production with a majority French interest.[2][3]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | documentary | (premiere: January 14) | ||
| Klub Zwei (Simone Bader & Jo Schneiser) | – | documentary | (January 20) | |
| – | documentary | (January 28) | ||
| , , | feature | (February 24) | ||
| , Roland Düringer | Roland Düringer, , | comedy | (March 4) | |
| about the group Accordion Tribe | documentary | Fischer Film (min.) (March 4) | ||
| Welcome Home | Andreas Gruber | , , | feature | (maj.) (March 18), entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Gustav Deutsch | – | documentary | (April 1) | |
| Marek Harloff, Mavie Hörbiger, Arno Frisch | feature | (maj.)) (April 14) | ||
| – | documentary | (min.) (April 15) | ||
| Georg Misch | – | documentary | Navigator Film (maj.) (May 18) | |
| Wolfram Paulus | , , | feature | (May 19) | |
| , , , , | documentary | Geyrhalter Film (May 20) | ||
| Schläfer | Benjamin Heisenberg | Bastian Trost, Mehdi Nebbou, | feature | coop99 (min.) (June 3), screened at Cannes |
| , Alexander Binder | – | documentary | Meter Film (June 24) | |
| – | documentary | (September 12) | ||
| Ragin | Kirill Serebrennikov | Zoya Buryak, Aleksandr Galibin | feature | (min.) (September 23), Russian film |
| Operation Spring | , | – | documentary | (September 23) |
| We Feed the World | Erwin Wagenhofer | – | documentary | Allegro Film (September 30) |
| , | – | documentary | Navigator Film (maj.) (September 30) | |
| Maurizio Zaccaro | , Nancy Brilli, Mario Adorf, Virna Lisi | feature | Lisa Film (July 10), originally produced for broadcasting in Italian TV in 2003 | |
| – | documentary | , (November 11) | ||
| Jörg Kalt | Maria Popistasu, , Simon Schwarz | feature | Amour Fou Filmproduktion (maj.) (November 11) | |
| Peter Kern | , Hilde Dalik | feature | (November 18) | |
| Caché (UK: Hidden) | Michael Haneke | Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Maurice Bénichou | Thriller | (min.) (November 18) Best Director at Cannes |
| Sabine Derflinger | – | documentary | (November 18) | |
| Workingman's Death | Michael Glawogger | – | documentary | (maj.) (November 25) |
| – | documentary | Loop Media (December 2) |
2006[]
In 2006, 34 Austrian films were produced and opened in the cinemas. All of them were either solely Austrian productions, or had an Austrian majority interest. 17 of them were documentary films and 16 were feature films.[2][4]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Headsman (Henker) | Steven Berkoff, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie Cox | drama | (maj.) (Austrian cinema premiere: January 20) | |
| (Spiele Leben) | Georg Friedrich, Birgit Minichmayr | Thriller | (maj.) (January 20) | |
| – | documentary | (maj.) (January 20) | ||
| , , | fantasy | Verein Loom (January 21), digital movie | ||
| (Neue Welt) | – | documentary | (January 27) | |
| Grbavica | Jasmila Žbanić | Mirjana Karanović, , Leon Lucev | feature | (maj.) (March 3rd) |
| Klimt | Raúl Ruiz | John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres | feature | (maj.) (March 3rd) |
| – | documentary | Friedemann Derschmidt (March 31), Video production with cinema premiere | ||
| (Tintenfischalarm) | Alex Jurgen | documentary | (April 7) | |
| No Name City | , Georg Misch | – | documentary | (April 21) |
| Our Daily Bread (Unser täglich Brot) | Nikolaus Geyrhalter | – | documentary | Geyrhalter Film (April 21) |
| , , Michael Ostrowski | feature | (April 28) | ||
| Georg Misch | – | documentary | Mischief Films (maj.) (May 12) | |
| , | comedy | (May 19) | ||
| Out of Hand (Keller – Teenage Wasteland) | Elisabetta Rocchetti, Ludwig Trepte, Sergej Moya, Georg Friedrich, Birgit Doll | drama | (maj.) (June 9) | |
| Silent Bloodnight | , | , , | horror | (July 7) |
| Snow White | Samir, | , Carlos Leal, | feature | (maj.) (September 1) |
| (Fallen) | Barbara Albert | Nina Proll, Birgit Minichmayr, Ursula Strauss | drama | coop99 (September 8) |
| Friendship (Freundschaft) | , | Erwin Steinhauer, | comedy | (September 15) |
| (In 3 Tagen bist du tot) | Andreas Prochaska | , | horror | (September 22) |
| – | documentary | (September 22) | ||
| – | documentary | Fischer Film (September 27), digital film | ||
| – | documentary | (September 29) | ||
| – | documentary | Studio West (September 29) | ||
| Wolfgang Murnberger | , , | Children's film | (maj.) (October 6) | |
| , , | Science fiction film | (October 19) | ||
| (Karo und der liebe Gott) | , , | children's film | (November 2) | |
| – | documentary | (November 17) | ||
| – | documentary | Amour Fou Filmproduktion (November 24) | ||
| Slumming | Michael Glawogger | Paulus Manker, August Diehl, Michael Ostrowski | feature | (maj.) (November 24) |
| – | documentary | (December 1) | ||
| Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | – | documentary | (maj.) (December 6) | |
| Ruth Beckermann | – | documentary | (December 15) | |
| (Zen & Zero – An Austrian Surfextravaganza) | – | documentary | (December 29) |
2007[]
In 2007, 34 Austrian films (19 documentary films and 15 feature films, including the two feature films Winterreise and Deepfrozen, which are mentioned on the website of the Film Institute, but not in the Film Report) were first screened in Austrian cinemas, 25 of them either solely Austrian productions, or with an Austrian majority interest (the latter including 7 feature films). 9 films were produced with an Austrian studio as the minority co-production partner, 8 of them feature films – for example Hans Weingartner's Free Rainer, which is a production with a majority German interest.[5]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | documentary | (maj.) (January 19) | ||
| Martin Nguyen | – | documentary | (January 19) | |
| – | documentary | (January 26) | ||
| Taxidermia | György Pálfi | , | feature | (min.) (February 9) |
| Winterreise | Hans Steinbichler | Josef Bierbichler, Sibel Kekilli | feature | (February 23)[6] |
| – | documentary | (maj.) (February 23) | ||
| (Immer nie am Meer) | Dirk Stermann, Christoph Grissemann, Heinz Strunk | tragic comedy | (March 9) | |
| To the Limit (Am Limit) | – | documentary | (min.) (March 16) | |
| (Wiens verlorene Töchter) | – | documentary | (March 23) | |
| The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) | Stefan Ruzowitzky | , August Diehl, Devid Striesow | historical drama | (maj.) (March 23), won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2008 |
| Jakob M. Erwa | feature | (March 30) | ||
| Sabine Derflinger | Claudia Michelsen, Ulrich Tukur, , Tobias Moretti | feature | (April 13) | |
| (A Megacities Remix) | – | , (April 20) | ||
| (Aus der Zeit) | – | documentary | Harald Friedl (May 4) | |
| – | documentary | (May 4) | ||
| – | documentary | (May 10) | ||
| Sudabeh Mortezai | – | documentary | (May 25) | |
| Ma Mère | Christophe Honoré | Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes | drama | Amour Fou Filmproduktion (min.) (July 20) |
| (Guca!) | , , | comedy | Josef Aichholzer Film (min.) (August 24) | |
| Radu Gabrea, | , Alicja Bachleda-Curus, | drama | (min.) (August 31) | |
| – | documentary | Wega Film (September 21) | ||
| Ulrike Ottinger | – | documentary | (maj.) (September 21) | |
| (Keine Insel – Die Palmers-Entführung) | Alexander Binder | – | documentary | (September 28) |
| Anja Salomonowitz | – | documentary | Amour Fou Filmproduktion (October 5) | |
| Midsummer Madness | Maria de Medeiros, Dominique Pinon, Chulpan Khamatova, Tobias Moretti | comedy | (min.) (October 12) | |
| Helmut Wimmer, | – | documentary | (October 12) | |
| The War on Drugs | – | documentary | (October 12) | |
| Import Export | Ulrich Seidl | , Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich | drama | (November 9). Entered into the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. |
| , | – | documentary | (November 16) | |
| Free Rainer | Hans Weingartner | Moritz Bleibtreu, , Milan Peschel, Simone Hanselmann, | comedy | coop99 (min.) (November 23) |
| Rumpelstilzchen | Katharina Thalbach | feature | (min.) (December 6) | |
| – | documentary | Sixpack Film (December 7) | ||
| – | documentary | Fischer Film (December 7) | ||
| Deepfrozen | Andy Bausch | Peter Lohmeyer, Lale Yavas, Thierry Van Werveke | comedy | Wega Film (min.) (December 27)[6] |
2008[]
In 2008, 33 Austrian films were first screened in Austrian cinemas (20 feature films, 13 documentary films), 28 of them either solely Austrian productions, or with an Austrian majority interest (source: Austrian Film Institute[7])
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bye Bye Blackbird | Robinson Savary | James Thiérrée, Derek Jacobi, Izabella Miko, Jodhi May, Michael Lonsdale | drama | (min.) (January 4) |
| (Hafners Paradies) | documentary | (maj.) (January 11), about the old Nazi Hafner in his exile in Spain | ||
| – | documentary | (January 18) | ||
| (Freigesprochen) | Frank Giering, Lavinia Wilson, Corinna Harfouch, Robert Stadlober | drama | (maj.) (January 18), based on a novel by Ödön von Horváth | |
| Falco – Verdammt, wir leben noch! | , Arno Frisch, Christian Tramitz | biographical film | (maj.) (February 7), about the Austrian Popstar Falco | |
| , | family film | Extra Film (maj.) (February 29) | ||
| – | documentary | (March 7) | ||
| – | documentary | Epo Film (maj.) (March 14) | ||
| (Schindlers Häuser) | Heinz Emigholz | – | documentary | (April 4) |
| (Darum) | Harald Sicheritz | Wolf Bachofner, Wolfram Berger, Roland Düringer, , Nadeshda Brennicke | drama | (April 4) |
| – | documentary | (maj.) (April 25) | ||
| Ülkü Akbaba (April 25) | ||||
| Jump! | Joshua Sinclair | Ben Silverstone, Patrick Swayze, Martine McCutcheon, Heinz Hoenig, Anja Kruse | drama, biographical film | (maj.) (May 1) |
| – | documentary | Klaus Hundsbichler (May 9) | ||
| Revanche | Götz Spielmann | Johannes Krisch, | Thriller | Prisma Film, Spielmann Film (May 16) |
| Peter Kern | (May 23) | |||
| (Nua ka Schmoez!) | documentary | (May 30) | ||
| Pol Cruchten | Amour Fou Filmproduktion (min.) (June 6) | |||
| Wolfram Paulus | (June 6) | |||
| feature | (July 20) | |||
| Lotus Film (min.) (August 1) | ||||
| Amour Fou Film, (maj.) (August 29) | ||||
| Dariusz Gajewski | feature | Prisma Film (maj.) (September 5) | ||
| documentary | Fortuna Media (September 18) | |||
| La Bohème | Robert Dornhelm | MR Film (maj.) (October 10) | ||
| David Unger Film (October 17) | ||||
| Philipp Stölzl | documentary | Dor Film (min.) (October 24) | ||
| Let's Make Money | Erwin Wagenhofer | documentary | Allegro Film (October 31) | |
| n/a | feature | Tigerline Film (November 20) | ||
| documentary | Navigator Film (November 21) | |||
| Heinz Emigholz | documentary | Amour Fou / KGP Filmproduktion (November 21) | ||
| comedy | (December 19) | |||
| Love Comes Lately | Jan Schütte | Otto Tausig, Rhea Perlman, Elizabeth Peña, Barbara Hershey | comedy | Dor Film (min.) (December 19) |
| Andreas Prochaska | horror film | Allegro Film (December 26) |
2009[]
In 2009, 34 Austrian films were first screened in Austrian cinemas (17 feature films, 17 documentary films), 28 of them either solely Austrian productions, or with an Austrian majority interest (source: Austrian Film Institute[8]
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Studio/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | documentary | Marko Doringer / (maj.) (January 1) | ||
| (Ein Augenblick Freiheit) | Navíd Akhavan, , | drama | (maj.) (January 9) | |
| – | documentary | (January 16) | ||
| Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (Hexe Lilli) | Stefan Ruzowitzky | , Michael Mittermeier | animation | (min.) (February 19) |
| Gustav Deutsch | – | documentary | (maj.) (February 27) | |
| Der Knochenmann | Wolfgang Murnberger | Josef Hader, Josef Bierbichler, Birgit Minichmayr | crime, comedy | (March 6) |
| Nikolaus Geyrhalter | – | documentary | Geyrhalter Film (March 20) | |
| , Volker Schmidt, | comedy | (March 20) | ||
| – | documentary | kinoki, witcraft (March 27) | ||
| Universalove | Thomas Woschitz | Stefan Arsenijevic, , | KGP (maj.) (April 17) | |
| Contact High | Michael Glawogger | Michael Ostrowski, , Detlev Buck, Georg Friedrich | comedy | Lotus Film, Novotny & Novotny (maj.) (April 17) |
| Jörg Burger | – | documentary | Joerg Burger Filmproduktion (maj.) (April 17) | |
| Wolfram Berger, , | comedy | Hans Selikovsky Film (April 24) | ||
| Letekidan Micael, | drama, biography | Josef Aichholzer Filmproduktion (min.) (May 15) | ||
| – | documentary | Geyrhalter Film (June 5) | ||
| – | documentary | (min.) (September 18) | ||
| Georg Misch | – | documentary | (September 18) | |
| – | documentary | Filmakademie (September 25) | ||
| The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) | Michael Haneke | Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur | drama | (min.) (September 25) |
| Kilic Film (October 2) | ||||
| Roland Düringer, Fritz Karl | crime, comedy | (October 2) | ||
| Nick Stringer | – | documentary | Allegro Film (min.) (October 2) | |
| Desert Flower (Wüstenblume) | Sherry Hormann | Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins | drama | Dor Film (min.) (October 9) |
| Nina Kusturica | – | documentary | Mobilefilm (October 9) | |
| Sabine Derflinger | – | documentary | gegenfilm (October 16) | |
| animation | Power of Earth Film (October 23) | |||
| Peter Kern | Novotny & Novotny (November 5) | |||
| , Josef Winkler | (November 5) | |||
| La Pivellina | Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel | Vento Film (maj.) (November 13) | ||
| Armands Zvirbulis | Mini Film (min.) (November 20) | |||
| Planet Watch (November 26) | ||||
| Michael Glawogger | feature | Lotus Film (min.) (November 27) | ||
| Willi Resetarits | documentary, biography | Kurt Mayer Film (November 27) | ||
| Lourdes | Jessica Hausner | Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini, Elina Löwensohn | feature | (maj.) (September 1)[9] |
Sources[]
- ^ List of Austrian Films in: Austrian Film Industry Report (Filmwirtschaftsbericht) 2006, facts + figures 2004 (PDF).[permanent dead link] , June 2006, p. 34 (German)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Austrian film premieres 2004, 2005 and 2006 in: Austrian Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2006 (PDF).[permanent dead link] Österreichisches Filminstitut, December 2007, p. 16 (German)
- ^ Austrian Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2005 (PDF).[permanent dead link] Österreichisches Filminstitut, June 2007, p. 43–44 (German)
- ^ List of Austrian Films in: Austrian Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2006, p. 44–45
- ^ List of Austrian Films in: Austrian Film Industry Report (Filmwirtschaftsbericht) 2008, facts + figures 2007 (PDF).[permanent dead link] , December 2008, p. 32f (German)
- ^ Jump up to: a b 2007 in cinema, Austrian Film Institute
- ^ 2008 in cinema Archived September 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Austrian Film Institute
- ^ filmwirtschaftsbericht.filminstitut.at – Erstaufgeführte Kinofilme 2009)
- ^ "Lourdes". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved June 24, 2020.
External links[]
- Austrian film at the Internet Movie Database
- Austrianfilm.com
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