List of Austrian film directors
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The list of Austrian film directors includes Austrian
director
s and directors born in Austria
or Austria-Hungary
who made at least one fictional or documentary film for cinema. Directors who were active in more than one era are listed only in that era, where they started their career as director.
, Josef Berger, Eduard von Borsody
, Julius von Borsody
, Julius Brandt, H. K. Breslauer, Michael Curtiz
, Ludwig Czerny, Géza von Cziffra
, Paul Czinner
, Alfred Deutsch-German, Karl Ehmann, Hugo Eywo, Friedrich Fehér, Franz Ferdinand, Felix Fischer, Jacob Fleck
, Luise Fleck
, Fritz Freisler, Walter Friedemann, Carl Friese, Ernst Friese, Norbert Garay, Karl Gebhardt, Willi Godlewsky, Arthur Gottlein, J. H. Groß, Josef Halbritter, Alfred Halm, Emmerich Hanus, Heinz Hanus, Karl Hartl
, Julius Herzka, Rudolf Herzog, Cornelius Hintner, Franz Höbling, Arthur Holz, Hans Homma, Wilhelm August Jurek, Emil Justiz, Wilhelm Klitsch, Erich Kober, Eduard Köck, Franz Köhler, Anton Kolm
, Alexander Kolowrat-Krakowsky, Alexander Korda
, Heinrich Korff, Fritz Kortner
, Otto Kreisler, Georg Kundert, Alfred Lampel, Robert Land, Karl Hans Leiter, Franz Leitner
, Emil Leyde, Edmund Loewe, Hans Otto Löwenstein, Viktor Lustig, Ernst Marischka
, Hubert Marischka
, Joe May
, Gustav Aurel Mindszenty, Maurice Armand Mondet, Wolfgang Neff
, Max Neufeld
, G. W. Pabst, Arnold Pressburger, Johann Schwarzer
, Paul L. Stein
, Wilhelm Thiele
, Gustav Ucicky
, Claudius Veltée, Berthold Viertel
traditional animation: Peter Eng, Ladislaus Tuszynski, Hans Berger
documentary films: Joseph Delmont
, Bruno Lötsch, Leopold Niernberger, Richard Oswald
, Franz Antel
, Alfons Benesch, Rudolf Bernauer
, Géza von Bolváry
, Siegfried Breuer
, Rudolf Carl
, E. W. Emo
, Walter Felsenstein
, Walter Firner, Willi Forst
, Wilfried Frass, Wolfgang Glück
, Leopold Hainisch, Herbert Heidmann, Heinz Helbig, Hans Herbert, Eduard Hoesch, Ernst Hofbauer
, Paul Hörbiger
, J. A. Hübler-Kahla, Otto Kanturek
, Rudolph Katscher, Georg C. Klaren, Walter Kolm-Veltée
, Viktor Korger, Carl Kurzmayer, Anton Kutter
, Alfred Lehner, Wolfgang Liebeneiner
, Paul Löwinger
, Franz Marischka, Georg Marischka
, Ann Matzner, Adi Mayer, Rudolf Meinert, Kurt Meisel
, Gerhard Menzel
, Ernst Neubach
, Otto Preminger
, Harald Reinl
, Hans Schott-Schöbinger, Georg Tressler, Bernhard Wicki, Herbert Wise
documentary films: Hans Hass
, Herbert Heidmann, Max Zehenthofer
, Karin Brandauer, John Cook
, Axel Corti
, Robert Dornhelm
, Michael Glawogger
, Wolfgang Glück
, Franz Josef Gottlieb
, Andreas Gruber
, Peter Handke
, Michael Haneke
, Paul Harather
, Herbert Holba
, Gerald Kargl
, Peter Keglevic
, Peter Kern
, Leopold Lummerstorfer
, Paulus Manker
, Otto Mühl, Manfred Müller
, Rolf Olsen, Peter Patzak
, Wolfram Paulus
, Stefan Ruzowitzky
, Ulrich Seidl
, Götz Spielmann
dokumentary films: Hubert Sauper
, Helmut Berger
, Klaus Maria Brandauer
, Andrea Maria Dusl
, Gerhard Ertl
, Michael Haneke
, Jessica Hausner
, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
, Edgar Honetschläger
, Jörg Kalt, Nina Kusturica
, Max Linder
, Leopold Lummerstorfer
, Ruth Mader
, Anja Salomonowitz
, Hubert Sauper
, Götz Spielmann
fictional and documentary films: Rainer Frimmel
, Arash Riahi
documentary films: Hubert Sauper
experimental films: Titus Leber
, Bady Minck
, Virgil Widrich
Austrians
Austrians are a nation and ethnic group, consisting of the population of the Republic of Austria and its historical predecessor states who share a common Austrian culture and Austrian descent....
director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
s and directors born in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
or Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
who made at least one fictional or documentary film for cinema. Directors who were active in more than one era are listed only in that era, where they started their career as director.
Silent film era (1906-1930)
fictional films: Willi Alexander, Alexander Arakoff, Richard Arvay, Artur BergerArtur Berger
Artur Semyonovich Berger was an Austrian-Soviet film architect and set designer. He was active in Austria between 1920 and 1936, during which time he worked on about 30 feature films...
, Josef Berger, Eduard von Borsody
Eduard von Borsody
Eduard von Borsody was an Austrian cameraman, film editor, film director and screenplay writer.- Life :Eduard von Borsody began his film career as a cameraman...
, Julius von Borsody
Julius von Borsody
Julius von Borsody was an Austrian film architect and one of the most employed set designers in the Austrian and German cinemas of the late silent and early sound film periods...
, Julius Brandt, H. K. Breslauer, Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz was an Academy award winning Hungarian-American film director. He had early creditsas Mihály Kertész and Michael Kertész...
, Ludwig Czerny, Géza von Cziffra
Géza von Cziffra
Géza von Cziffra was a Hungarian and Austrian film director and screenwriter.- Life :Cziffra was a Banat German in origin, born in 1900 in Arad in the Banat region, at that date in the Kingdom of Hungary, now in Romania....
, Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner was a writer, film director, and producer.Czinner was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. After studying literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna, he worked as a journalist. From 1919 onward, he dedicated himself to work for the filming industry as writer, director and...
, Alfred Deutsch-German, Karl Ehmann, Hugo Eywo, Friedrich Fehér, Franz Ferdinand, Felix Fischer, Jacob Fleck
Jacob Fleck
Jacob Fleck was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman.-Biography:...
, Luise Fleck
Luise Fleck
Luise Fleck, also known as Luise Kolm or Luise Kolm-Fleck, née Louise or Luise Veltée , was an Austrian film director, and the second ever female film director in the world, after Alice Guy-Blaché...
, Fritz Freisler, Walter Friedemann, Carl Friese, Ernst Friese, Norbert Garay, Karl Gebhardt, Willi Godlewsky, Arthur Gottlein, J. H. Groß, Josef Halbritter, Alfred Halm, Emmerich Hanus, Heinz Hanus, Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl
Karl Hartl was an Austrian film director.-Life:Born in Vienna, Hartl began his film career at the Austrian Sascha-Film company of Alexander Kolowrat and from 1919 was assistant to the Hungarian director Alexander Korda...
, Julius Herzka, Rudolf Herzog, Cornelius Hintner, Franz Höbling, Arthur Holz, Hans Homma, Wilhelm August Jurek, Emil Justiz, Wilhelm Klitsch, Erich Kober, Eduard Köck, Franz Köhler, Anton Kolm
Anton Kolm
Anton Kolm was an Austrian photographer who became one of the first film directors and film producers in the history of Austrian cinema....
, Alexander Kolowrat-Krakowsky, Alexander Korda
Alexander Korda
Sir Alexander Korda was a Hungarian-born British producer and film director. He was a leading figure in the British film industry, the founder of London Films and the owner of British Lion Films, a film distributing company.-Life and career:The elder brother of filmmakers Zoltán Korda and Vincent...
, Heinrich Korff, Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director.Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year...
, Otto Kreisler, Georg Kundert, Alfred Lampel, Robert Land, Karl Hans Leiter, Franz Leitner
Franz Leitner
Franz Leitner is a former Austrian motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the 1995 Speedway Grand Prix of Austria. He is a only Austrian who rode in Speedway Grand Prix series.- Speedway Grand Prix results :- World Championships :...
, Emil Leyde, Edmund Loewe, Hans Otto Löwenstein, Viktor Lustig, Ernst Marischka
Ernst Marischka
Ernst Marischka was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 93 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962...
, Hubert Marischka
Hubert Marischka
Hubert Marischka , brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter.- Career :...
, Joe May
Joe May
Joe May , born Julius Otto Mandl, was a film director and film producer born in Austria and one of the pioneers of German cinema....
, Gustav Aurel Mindszenty, Maurice Armand Mondet, Wolfgang Neff
Wolfgang Neff
Wolfgang Neff was an Austrian film director. He directed 50 films between 1920 and 1930.He was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary .-Selected filmography:* Nat Pinkerton im Kampf...
, Max Neufeld
Max Neufeld
Max Neufeld was an Austrian film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1919 and 1957. He directed the 1934 film The Song of the Sun, which starred Vittorio De Sica.-Selected filmography:...
, G. W. Pabst, Arnold Pressburger, Johann Schwarzer
Johann Schwarzer
Johann Schwarzer was an Austrian photographer and pioneer producer of adult films through his Saturn-Film concern.-Biography:...
, Paul L. Stein
Paul L. Stein
Paul Ludwig Stein was an Austrian-born film director with 67 films to his credit. Stein began his career in Berlin in 1918 and worked exclusively in the German silent film industry until 1926, when he first went to Hollywood, and spent the next five years commuting between Germany and the U.S.,...
, Wilhelm Thiele
Wilhelm Thiele
-Selected filmography:* Orient Express * The Road to Paradise * Die Privatsekretärin * Dactylo * Waltz Time * The Lottery Lover * London by Night...
, Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky
Gustav Ucicky was an acclaimed Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He was one of the more successful and acclaimed directors in Austria and Germany from the 1930s through to the early 1960s...
, Claudius Veltée, Berthold Viertel
Berthold Viertel
Berthold Viertel , born in Vienna, Austria was a screen writer and film director.-Arrival in America:He was married to screenplay writer and actress Salka Viertel from 30 April 1918 to 20 December 1947. The pair came to Los Angeles in 1928 planning to stay for just three years...
traditional animation: Peter Eng, Ladislaus Tuszynski, Hans Berger
Hans Berger
Hans Berger was born in Neuses near Coburg, Bavaria, Germany. He is best known as the first to record human electroencephalograms in 1924, for which he invented the electroencephalogram , and the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm known as "Berger's wave".- Biography :After attending...
documentary films: Joseph Delmont
Joseph Delmont
Joseph Delmont, was an Austrian film director of some 200 films, largely shorts, in which he was noted for his innovative use of beasts of prey. He was also a cameraman, actor and screenplay writer...
, Bruno Lötsch, Leopold Niernberger, Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald
Richard Oswald was an Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter.Richard Oswald, born in Vienna as Richard W. Ornstein, began his career as an actor on the Viennese stage. He made his film directorial debut at age 34 with Das Eiserne Kreuz...
early sound film era (1929-1959)
fictional films: Otto AmbrosOtto Ambros
Otto Ambros was a German chemist, notably involved with the research of chemical nerve agents.-Early life:He was the son of a university professor. He went to school and passed his Abitur exam in Munich. In 1920 he went to the University of Munich to study chemistry and agricultural science...
, Franz Antel
Franz Antel
Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale...
, Alfons Benesch, Rudolf Bernauer
Rudolf Bernauer
Rudolf Bernauer was an Austrian lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, film director, producer,and actor.He was born on 20 January 1880, in Vienna, Austria....
, Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.- Biography :...
, Siegfried Breuer
Siegfried Breuer
Siegfried Breuer was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter.- Biography :...
, Rudolf Carl
Rudolf Carl
Rudolf Carl was an Austrian actor who appeared in more than 150 German language films between 1934 and 1969. He also directed two films Der Leberfleck and Dort in der Wachau.-Selected filmography:* The White Horse Inn...
, E. W. Emo
E. W. Emo
E. W. Emo was an Austrian film director, specialising in comedies, 21 of them with the actor Hans Moser. He also worked outside Austria and wrote some screenplays....
, Walter Felsenstein
Walter Felsenstein
Walter Felsenstein was an Austrian theater and opera director.He was one of the most important exponents of textual accuracy, productions in which dramatic and musical values were exquisitely researched and balanced...
, Walter Firner, Willi Forst
Willi Forst
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...
, Wilfried Frass, Wolfgang Glück
Wolfgang Glück
Wolfgang Glück is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His film 38 – Auch das war Wien was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-External links:...
, Leopold Hainisch, Herbert Heidmann, Heinz Helbig, Hans Herbert, Eduard Hoesch, Ernst Hofbauer
Ernst Hofbauer
Ernst Hofbauer was an Austrian film director.During the early 1970s, in Munich, Hofbauer teamed with Walter Boos, Wolf C...
, Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger was an Austrian theatre and film actor.-Life and work:Paul Hörbiger was born in Budapest, the son of Hans Hörbiger, an engineer who wrote Welteislehre on glacial cosmology, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902 the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the...
, J. A. Hübler-Kahla, Otto Kanturek
Otto Kanturek
Otto Kanturek was an Austrian cameraman, cinematographer and film director.-Life:He trained at the Graphischen Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna and, after a voluntary internship for Gaumont Newsreels, he became an assistant film cameraman with them in 1912 and the following year got a post with...
, Rudolph Katscher, Georg C. Klaren, Walter Kolm-Veltée
Walter Kolm-Veltée
Walter Kolm-Veltée was an Austrian film director. He directed nine films between 1933 and 1959. He was the son of Austrian film director Luise Fleck from her first marriage....
, Viktor Korger, Carl Kurzmayer, Anton Kutter
Anton Kutter
Anton Kutter was a German film director and screenwriter. He studied mechanical engineering at Stuttgart Technical University....
, Alfred Lehner, Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...
, Paul Löwinger
Paul Löwinger
Paul Löwinger was an Austrian actor, theatre manager and writer.While still a child, he performed on his parents' stage, the Löwinger Bühne. In 1938 they were probably the first theatre ensemble which performed in front of television cameras. The same year he married Liesl Meinhard...
, Franz Marischka, Georg Marischka
Georg Marischka
Georg Marischka , was an Austrian actor, screen writer, director and film producer for cinema and television.- Life :...
, Ann Matzner, Adi Mayer, Rudolf Meinert, Kurt Meisel
Kurt Meisel
Kurt Meisel was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in 65 films between 1934 and 1994. He also directed 21 films between 1949 and 1984.Meisel was married to the actress Ursula Lingen...
, Gerhard Menzel
Gerhard Menzel
Gerhard Menzel was a German screenwriter. He wrote for 38 films between 1933 and 1965.He was born in Waldenburg, Germany and died in Comano, Switzerland.-Selected filmography:* Morgenrot...
, Ernst Neubach
Ernst Neubach
Ernst Neubach was an Austrian screenwriter, producer and director.-Biography:Neubach was a veteran of World War I, after which he worked as a master of ceremonies in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. He wrote lyrics for songs and over 2,000 hits, including I've lost my heart in Heidelberg...
, Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
, Harald Reinl
Harald Reinl
Harald Reinl was an Austrian film director. He is especially known for the movies he made based on Edgar Wallace and Karl May books .He started his career as an extra in the mountain-films of Arnold Fanck...
, Hans Schott-Schöbinger, Georg Tressler, Bernhard Wicki, Herbert Wise
Herbert Wise
Herbert Wise is an Austrian-born film and television producer and director.He was born as Herbert Weisz in Vienna, Austria and began his career as a director at Shrewsbury Repertory Company in 1950. He was at Hull Rep and then as Director of Productions at Dundee Rep 1952-55...
documentary films: Hans Hass
Hans Hass
Hans Hass is a diving pioneer known mainly for his documentaries about sharks, the energon theory, and his commitment, later in life, to the protection of the environment. He was born in Vienna, Austria.-Early years:...
, Herbert Heidmann, Max Zehenthofer
1960s to 1980s
fictional films: Ruth BeckermannRuth Beckermann
Ruth Beckermann is a Jewish Austrian filmmaker.Ruth Beckermann lives and works as an independent author and filmmaker in Vienna and Paris. Her films have been shown at prestigious festivals...
, Karin Brandauer, John Cook
John Cook (filmmaker)
John Cook was an Austrian filmmaker. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada , Cook lived and worked most of his life in Europe and often referred to himself as "Viennese by choice" , having moved to Austria in the late 1960s after a career in commercial photography in Paris...
, Axel Corti
Axel Corti
Axel Corti was an Austrian writer and director.- Life :...
, Robert Dornhelm
Robert Dornhelm
Robert Dornhelm is an Austrian film and television director of Romanian ancestry. He has worked on numerous television programmes and has also released such movies as Echo Park, The Venice Project, Der Unfisch, and A Further Gesture...
, Michael Glawogger
Michael Glawogger
Michael Glawogger is an Austrian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer.From 1981 to 1982 Glawogger studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and then from 1983 to 1989 at the Vienna Film Academy...
, Wolfgang Glück
Wolfgang Glück
Wolfgang Glück is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. His film 38 – Auch das war Wien was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-External links:...
, Franz Josef Gottlieb
Franz Josef Gottlieb
Franz Josef Gottlieb was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1959 and 2005...
, Andreas Gruber
Andreas Gruber
Andreas Gruber is an Austrian screenwriter and director of both television and film.From 1974 to 1982 he studied screenwriting and directing at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna....
, Peter Handke
Peter Handke
Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...
, Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
, Paul Harather
Paul Harather
Paul Harather is an Austrian film director, producer and screenplay author.He studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna....
, Herbert Holba
Herbert Holba
Herbert Holba was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed five films between 1961 and 1971. His 1971 film The First Day was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
, Gerald Kargl
Gerald Kargl
Gerald Kargl is a film director.- Biography :Being fascinated by moving pictures, he began shooting short films at the age of 14. Between 1976 and 1982 he founded and organized the Austrian film festival Die Österreichischen Filmtage. At the same time he was founder and editor of the Austrian film...
, Peter Keglevic
Peter Keglevic
Peter Keglevic is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 30 films since 1976. His film Bella Donna was screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Bella Donna * Kill Cruise...
, Peter Kern
Peter Kern
Peter Kern is an Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He has appeared in 70 films since 1957 and directed a further 23. He starred in the 1978 film Flaming Hearts, which was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival...
, Leopold Lummerstorfer
Leopold Lummerstorfer
Leopold Lummerstorfer is an Austrian film director, author and producer. He resides in Vienna and near Kapuvár....
, Paulus Manker
Paulus Manker
Paulus Manker is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer.Manker is considered one of the most maverick German-speaking actors, and polarizes public opinion like scarcely no other...
, Otto Mühl, Manfred Müller
Manfred Müller
Manfred Müller is a German former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Müller began his career with Schwarz-Weiß Essen, before moving to Wuppertaler SV in 1971. Wuppertal immediately earned promotion to the Bundesliga, and finished a surprising third in their first season in the top-flight...
, Rolf Olsen, Peter Patzak
Peter Patzak
Peter Patzak is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 60 films since 1973. His film Kassbach – Ein Porträt was entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival and his film Wahnfried was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected...
, Wolfram Paulus
Wolfram Paulus
Wolfram Paulus is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 19 films since 1981. His 1986 film Heidenlöcher was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...
, Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Academy Award-winning Austrian film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna...
, Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl is an Austrian film director, writer and producer.-Selected filmography:* 1990 Good News* 1992 Loss Is to Be Expected * 1995 Animal Love ...
, Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien...
dokumentary films: Hubert Sauper
Hubert Sauper
Hubert Sauper is a documentary filmmaker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare which was nominated for an Academy Award....
after 1990
fictional films: Barbara AlbertBarbara Albert
Barbara Albert is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director.She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was Nordrand, which describes the reality of life of Yugoslavian children in Vienna.She heads the production company Coop 99...
, Helmut Berger
Helmut Berger
Helmut Berger is an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He is most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award.He appears primarily in European cinema, but...
, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
, Andrea Maria Dusl
Andrea Maria Dusl
Andrea Maria Dusl , is an Austrian/Swedish film director, author and illustrator.She was born in Vienna, the daughter of Austrian architect Erwin H. Dusl and Swedish captain's family Pettersson's descendant Monica Jüllig. Between 1981 and 1985 she studied stage design at Vienna's Akademie der...
, Gerhard Ertl
Gerhard Ertl
Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany...
, Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke
Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
, Jessica Hausner
Jessica Hausner
Jessica Hausner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films since 1995. Her film Lovely Rita was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival...
, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others and the 2010 film The Tourist.-Personal life and family:...
, Edgar Honetschläger
Edgar Honetschläger
Edgar Honetschläger is an Austrian artist, filmmaker and is the co-creator of Chickens Suit, a clothing range for chickens.-Personal life:...
, Jörg Kalt, Nina Kusturica
Nina Kusturica
Nina Kusturica is a Bosnian-born, Austrian film director, film editor und film producer.-Biography:She studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna to become a film director and editor and earned her degree with the film Auswege which had its permiere at the Berlin International...
, Max Linder
Max Linder
Max Linder was an influential French pioneer of silent film.-Birth and early career:Born Gabriel-Maximilien Leuvielle in Saint-Loubès, Gironde, France to a Catholic wine-growing family, he grew up with a passion for the theatre and as a young man joined a theatre troupe touring the country...
, Leopold Lummerstorfer
Leopold Lummerstorfer
Leopold Lummerstorfer is an Austrian film director, author and producer. He resides in Vienna and near Kapuvár....
, Ruth Mader
Ruth Mader
Ruth Mader is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She has directed six films between 1992 and 2003. Her film Struggle was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
, Anja Salomonowitz
Anja Salomonowitz
Anja Salomonowitz is an Austrian film director and screenwriter, specialised on documentary films with political or social background.-Biography:...
, Hubert Sauper
Hubert Sauper
Hubert Sauper is a documentary filmmaker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare which was nominated for an Academy Award....
, Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann
Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien...
fictional and documentary films: Rainer Frimmel
Rainer Frimmel
Rainer Frimmel is an Austrian director and photographer. After studying psychology in Vienna he graduated as a photographer...
, Arash Riahi
documentary films: Hubert Sauper
Hubert Sauper
Hubert Sauper is a documentary filmmaker best known for the highly controversial Darwin's Nightmare which was nominated for an Academy Award....
experimental films: Titus Leber
Titus Leber
Titus Leber is a writer and director of films based on classical music.- Biography :Titus Leber was born in Zell am See, Austria. He studied at the Lycée Français de Vienne, where he received a baccalaureate degree in 1969 and a Ph.D in mass media communication in 1975...
, Bady Minck
Bady Minck
Bady Minck is a filmmaker, film producer and artist. She studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts and experimental film at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her work has been screened at international film festivals and exhibited at museums like the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
, Virgil Widrich
Virgil Widrich
Virgil Widrich is an Austrian director, screenwriter, film-maker and multimedia artist.Widrich works on a large number of films and multimedia projects, sometimes as part of a creative team...