At a time when the consequences of the recent war were still quite evident, the image of a nation doing everything it could to start over was undoubtedly quite powerful. The documentary Leben am Wiener Naschmarkt, along with many other films of its kind, had precisely this aim. Restored by Filmarchiv Austria and presented on the Filmarchiv On channel.
The tourist documentary Von Steeg über Goasauschmied zum Gosausee und auf den Dachstein stands as almost an outstanding work within Karl Köfinger’s filmography. While, in his previous documentaries, the director had mainly focused on the routes and places visited, here much more emphasis is placed on the people.
Von Salzburg über St. Gilgen, Mondsee und Bad Aussee is a precious document, an undoubtedly valuable work, which spans the two great epochs of cinema: the silent era and the sound era.
At the end of the 1920s (when the film Von Mariazell über Admont nach Bad Aussee was made) a directorial approach full of virtuosity was by no means common in Austria. And this denotes above all the great foresight of director Karl Köfinger, now practically forgotten.
In The Right to Love, the Flecks deal with the controversial issue of male impotence, in a feature film that shows a decidedly more mature and self-conscious direction than the pair’s previous works. At the Viennale 2019, as part of the retrospective dedicated to Louise Kolm-Fleck.
In Crucified Girl, Louise Kolm-Fleck and Jakob Fleck staged the personal tragedy of a young woman in a sensitive and completely subjective way, so that they could empathise with what was being portrayed, but also maintain the right detachment and rationality in portraying such a dramatic situation that only a few people at the time could really understand. At the Viennale 2019.