Rainer Egger
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Innsbruck, Austria
Birthday: January 01, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-06-24
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The Red Violin
Overview: 300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Detektiv wider Willen
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-30
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Paul Is Dead
Overview: A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-01-27
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Tales of Franz
Overview: Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help: Gabi and Eberhard. When Franz discovers Hank Haberer's "10 rules for a real man" for himself one day, turbulence is inevitable and the friendship of the three gets into trouble.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-14
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The Unfish
Overview: Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1997-09-20
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Die Libelle und das Nashorn
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Half the World
Overview: The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture based on various languages and lifeforms has grown rampant. Everyone is looking for a way to survive.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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Welcome Home
Overview: Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in the usual way, through incarceration and deportation. But it's different this time: the story continues in Ghana, where everything is suddenly turned upside down.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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Der Fall der Gerti B.
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-11-25
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Waller's Last Trip
Overview: For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to remember his life along the way: Beginning in his childhood in the 1920s, he commemorates the death of his great love as well as he recalls the legal battle with his illegitimate daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-04-13
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The Suffering of Mr. Karpf - the Birthday
Overview: It is Mr Karpf's birthday and he waits by the phone, but nobody calls. He concludes that there must therefore be something wrong with the phone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Hanna's Sleeping Dogs
Overview: When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-06-09
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Schächten
Overview: In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the law into his own hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-07-30
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Käthe Kruse
Overview: The young actress Käthe is not 18 when she conquered Berlin's theater stages. Privately she finds her luck alongside the famous artist Max Kruse, but the wild marriage is considered scandalous and has a negative effect on the sale of his art. Thus, Käthe moves without him into an artists' colony on Monte Verità on Lake Maggiore. Out of necessity, she creates a doll that has never been seen before: with a natural expression and vivid facial expressions. What follows is a blitz career. But the phenomenal success of their handmade dolls causes unpleasant imitations - their company is about to go out.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-04-05
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Frantz
Overview: In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-07
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PARADISE LTD.
Overview: Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the living quarters. They all have definite ideas about life and living together and want to make them come true. But they don´t really know what they want. Everyday life causes problems and when a merry-go-round of changing relationships among the young people begins to run quicker and quicker, the constant moving from one room to the other ands before the eyes of the astonished house superintendent with the setting up again of the wall which separated the two walls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Alone in Berlin
Overview: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-15
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Shalom, general
Overview: The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty, death. He has to take care of "General" Kulat, an old Wehrmacht officer, a fanatic militarist. Their confrontation becomes war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Life Guidance
Overview: The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sleep. The great majority of top achievers view themselves as happy. An outsourced agency has been established for the rest: Life Guidance is charged with turning these individuals into optimal people as well. Alexander has internalized the system but one wrong word to his child triggers Life Guidance. He starts to rebel and encounters the horror of the system in all its brightness and affability.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-01-12
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Struggle
Overview: The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a stubborn, sexually frustrated and ugly midlife man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-18
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Jack
Overview: Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Unmensch
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-20
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Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-01-21
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In Achtzig Tagen um die Welt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-12-31
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Wüstenherzen
Overview: The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen
Overview: This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet officers form death block 20 attempt to escape, but only 150 of them actually succeed. Following the tally-ho of the SS, a barbaric manhunt begins. Only very few fugitives survive. With a lot of good luck, the two young officers Michail and Nikolai reach the Karner family's farm. Frau Karner persuades her husband to hide the two escapees.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-10-23
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Kino im Kopf
Overview: Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs have. Michael Glawogger invited 12 people to talk about their ideas for a film and then shot short fragments for them. The result is a crime-story-erotic-lyrical-experimental-vampire-fantasy-horror-soap-opera-splatter-trash-road-movie-melodrama posing as a documentary!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Snowman
Overview: Antonia is stuck in her everyday life. She oversleeps, procrastinates and searches the internet for a happy life. Spontaneously, she decides to give structure to her existence and asks her fling for a steady relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-08-11
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Phoenix on the Corner
Overview: Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters in the films become his own. His dreams, wishes and reality become one in the fuzzy reflection on the projection window. A surreal play by Peter Patzak.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-10-23
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Tiefwassertaucher unterm Dach
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-04-05
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