The second season of Crooks will soon be produced by Netflix. The successful German series is directed by director Marvin Kren, who is Austrian like co-star Christoph Krutzler. Filmed partly in Vienna, Crooks thus provides us with an opportunity to talk about some Austrian TV series.
South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has often mentioned Alfred Hitchcock, Guillermo del Toro, Martin Scorsese and Akira Kurosawa among the directors who have had the greatest influence on his filmmaking. Yet, he never mentioned the name of Fritz Lang. What do these two authors actually have in common?
Not only literature, but also theatre and film are fields in which Elfriede Jelinek feels particularly at home. And, in fact, a constant fusion of genres in a style that is difficult to classify – together with a strong autobiographical nature and a marked feminism – has become one of the trademarks of her works.
Christopher Plummer, sadly, has passed away. The actor left us on the morning of Friday, February 5, while he was at his home in Weston, Connecticut, with his wife Elaine Taylor. Below are some interesting facts from the filming period of The Sound of Music about him and his character Georg von Trapp. This is our way of remembering and paying tribute to him.
Erich Stroheim was a child of his places and his times, before he was a filmmaker who left his mark through his own unique brand of authorship. An Austrian, first and foremost, who grew up in late-19th century Vienna, a city which stimulated him with originality, with the experimentation with new lan-guages which are at one with the artist who creates them, and with a Habsburgian myth which was gradually decaying.