Rainer Egger Movies

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, En...

When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake.

A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact.

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...

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

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 hea...

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 wa...

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 l...

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...

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...

The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty, de...

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 r...

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, sex...

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 an...

The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurti...

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 aro...