Michael Sturminger Movies

Four film-makers embark on a cinematic survey of Austria, documenting the political and social state of the nation and its people. An eye-opening...

Ozren is raised in Vienna by his mother Silvija, who works as a prostitute, and his aunt and uncle. The film shows the demimonde of Vienna in the...

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day,...

Nana Iaschwili, a teacher from East Europe, wants to emigrate to America to start a new life. After landing in Vienna, the authorities notice her...

Anticipation in Salzburg Festival: the new production of "Don Giovanni" is in its final rehearsals and the arrival of the famous conductor Marius...

Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to...

The play about the rich man's death.

After a car accident, Sebastian contracts an uncanny sleeping sickness. Every day he sleeps a minute longer than the preceding day. Sebastian...

A sophisticated hotel somewhere on the French coast. Silvia and Gustav meet here, they have recently split up after 19 years of marriage. But they...

When confronted by soldiers and a reporter in a subterranean concert hall within his presidential palace, dictator Diman Cha delivers a series of...

Lars Eidinger is one of Germany’s most talented and versatile actors with his love of improvisation and physical acting style. This...

The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the...

Four men on a roofl. One of them wants to jump off, while the others are singing a fare-the-well song.

Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturminger’s cinematic staging of Puccini’s “Tosca”, the centrepiece of...

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to...

Mythological hero Scipio must choose between Fortune and Constancy in this superb 2006 Salzburg Festival production of Mozart's "Il Songo di...