Otto Schenk Movies

Stories about citizens of a big city who encounter a variety of fates as a result of their difficulties in communicating with each other.

When the heart-sick bus driver August is forced into involuntary retirement, he decides to gamble away his severance pay at the casino. But he wins:...

Small war among pensioners: The charming chaotic Walter Hofer and the pedant Eberhard Gatzweiler have had a love-hate relationship for decades. Not...

Performances from Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wachter, the Choir und Ballet der Bayerischen Staatsoper, and the...

The master of the house developed his culinary skills to such an extent that he poached 'the' chef and hired him for his household in New York. Lilli...

Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired...

A murder case is drawing more attention to the family history of historian Adelgunde. In cooperation with a young Russian girl, who knows...

A filmed German performance of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, directed for the stage by Otto Schenk and performed at the Landestheater in 1973.

Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore is one of the staples of the comic opera repertory. The plot hinges on whether earnest but dim-witted Nemorino will snag...

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director, director, theater producer and theater founder. With his...

Austrian version of the novel "Dvenadtsat stulyev".

Although Domingo was younger and Banackova looked more like the sweet and innocent young Madalena than the one played by Tomowa-Sintow in the ROH...

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has...

In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking...