Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stefan Ruzowitzky (born December 25, 1961) is an Academy Award-winning Austrian film director and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stefan Ruzowitzky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hinterland
2021
Director, Screenplay
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes...
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020
as Himself
This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film coun...
Narcissus and Goldmund
2020
Writer, Director
In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. There, he...
Patient Zero
2018
Director
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to spe...
Cold Hell
2017
Director
A young Vienna-based taxi driver of Turkish origin witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The perpetrator, a serial killer, makes eye contact with her;...
Radical Evil
2014
Director, Writer
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men...
Deadfall
2012
Director
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during anothe...
Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book
2009
Director, Screenplay
Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". Wit...
The Counterfeiters
2007
Director, Screenplay
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during...
Anatomy 2
2003
Screenplay, Director
The doctor and soccer player in the leisure time Jo Hauser decides to move to Berlin and be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his kn...
All the Queen's Men
2001
Director
A mismatched team of British Special Services agents led by an American must infiltrate, in disguise, a female-run Enigma factory in Berlin and bring ...
Anatomy
2000
Screenplay, Director
Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissec...
The Inheritors
1998
Screenplay, Director
In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be ...
Tempo
1996
Director, Writer
Jojo, a bicycle messenger prone to daydreaming, gets a job offer from a stranger that begins to blur the lines between fantasy and reality. When the r...
Ice Fall
N/A
Director
A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollar...
Kristallnacht
N/A
Director, Screenplay
Set in Berlin on the eve of war, police lieutenant Wilhelm Krützfeld over the course of 24 hours navigates a city turned into a powder keg. Following ...