Biography
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian novelist, short story writer and playwright. His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism. Schnitzler was banned and called "Jewish filth" by the Nazis in Austria and Germany.
Complete Filmography
The talent
2025
Novel
A gifted young cellist from a fallen aristocratic family must make an impossible choice when her best friend's powerful father offers a solution to he...

Traumnovelle
2025
Novel
After his wife confesses to having sexual fantasies about another man, a revered doctor becomes intrigued by a secret sex 'ball' attended by some of t...

Casanova's Return
2023
Novel
Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just...

The Doctor
2022
Original Concept
A girl lies dying in a hospital room. A priest wants to enter, but her doctor, Ruth Wolff, won't allow it. The incident brings her into such heavy ext...
Circle of Love
2021
Theatre Play
A redefined love story in the footsteps of Schnitzler

Mademoiselle Else
2021
Author

The Other
2020
Writer
After his wife's death, a man makes a dramatic discovery that turns his life upside down.

Hello Again
2017
Original Story
Ten lost souls slip in and out of one another's arms in a daisy-chained musical exploration of love's bittersweet embrace. A film adaptation of Michae...

Dying
2017
Writer
Morir revolves around the couple Luis and Marta, whose lives are paralyzed by the outbreak of a disease that is accompanied by guilt, lies and fear, t...

Fräulein Else
2014
Novel
Else joins her aunt to spend her holidays in a remote luxury hotel in India. She receives a message by her mother disclosing that her father has enorm...

Deseo
2013
Novel
Eight short stories of seduction and illicit encounters between lovers, filled with humor and eroticism, which use a circular structure located in the...

Ich
2011
Original Story
Mademoiselle Else
2010
Novel
"Mademoiselle Else" is an adaptation in video of Fräulein Else, a novel by Arthur Schnitzler. It is the account in the first person of the last days o...

Eyes Wide Shut
1999
Author
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He ...

Romance/Romance
1993
Story
This delightful pairing of one-act musicals, one classic and one modern, takes a comical and moving look at the mysteries of love. Act I, based on Sch...
Slepý Geronimo a jeho brat
1993
Novel
The story of a brother's hard-tested love, based on Arthur Schnitzler's novel.

The Return of Casanova
1992
Novel
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dar...

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
1991
Novel
The 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the cast of the "Queen of the Night", opera that promoted sin...

The Bachelor
1990
Novel
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Nightmare in Venice
1989
Novel
A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for...
Mistress Berta Garlan
1989
Book
The adaption of Arthur Schnitzler's brilliant study of the moral illusion and reality in a small town near Vienna at the end of the century. - After ...

Rinbu
1988
Novel
Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's novel, "La Ronde", many people are having sex in a variety of ways. A girl and her boyfriend go to a pool bar where sh...

Der einsame Weg
1987
Writer
Fräulein Else
1987
Writer
TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.

The Distant Land
1987
Theatre Play
Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who enj...

Love Circles
1985
Theatre Play
French erotic auteur Gerard Kikoine makes the world his canvas in this sexy roundelay of intimate encounters across the globe. Following a pack of cig...
Der Mörder
1984
Novel

New York Nights
1984
Theatre Play
Nine New Yorkers' successful lives all intertwined in a treacherous tale of passion, a game of seduction. The only rule; anything goes.
Tod eines Lesenden
1984
Original Story
A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the e...
The Way Out
1983
Novel
Such a soul torments young composer Georg von Wergenthin, around whom the author creates a precise picture of the fin de siècle, its neuroses and its ...

The Knight, Death and The Devil
1983
Idea, Story
A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the...

The Return of Casanova
1980
Novel

New Year's Eve
1978
Writer
A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New Year’s Ev...

Fräulein Else
1975
Novel
Else is the pretty daughter of a Viennese lawyer. The young lady has been invited by her aunt to spend a few days on a summer holiday in San Martino. ...

Reigen
1973
Writer, Theatre Play
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an...

Las tres perfectas casadas
1973
Novel
Sterben
1971
Novel
Das weite Land
1970
Writer
Hofreiter, who has a relationship with Natter's wife Adele, confronts Natter after the latter launches a newspaper advertisement linking the suicide o...

Das Wort
1970
Writer
Arthur Schnitzler's key piece describes the liaisons of his artist colleagues from the Cafe Central, Vienna. Behind the character "Treuenhof" is Peter...

Traumnovelle
1969
Novel
After a frank confession by his wife, a doctor is called to see a dying patient. The cause of the night brings him to meet an old friend, a pianist, w...

Liebelei
1969
Writer
Das Märchen
1966
Writer

Circle of Love
1964
Theatre Play
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."

Der einsame Weg
1962
Writer

Anatol
1961
Writer

Das weite Land
1960
Writer

Christine
1958
Theatre Play
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Ba...
Liebelei
1958
Writer
Gefährtin
1954
Writer

La Ronde
1950
Original Film Writer
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an...

The Naked Angel
1946
Novel
A sculptor lends money to a bankrupt man, who agrees to allow his daughter pose for the sculptor's next work. The film caused a scandal in Argentina f...

Love Story
1933
Theatre Play
A young German officer's (Wolfgang Liebeneiner) life is turned upside when he tries to end his affair with a married baroness (Olga Tschechowa) after ...

Liebelei
1933
Original Film Writer
Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets...

The Green Cockatoo
1932
Writer
Silent amateur movie based on the grotesque by Arthur Schnitzler.

Daybreak
1931
Novel
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

Fräulein Else
1929
Novel
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s j...

Fair Game
1928
Theatre Play

Liebelei
1927
Story
Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.
Young Medardus
1923
Author, Theatre Play
Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of conf...

The Affairs of Anatol
1921
Theatre Play
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he let...

The Merry-Go-Round
1920
Theatre Play
Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons he...

The Way Out
1918
Novel
Such a soul torments young composer Georg von Wergenthin, around whom the author creates a precise picture of the fin de siècle, its neuroses and its ...

Love's Devotee
1914
Screenplay, Theatre Play
Two friends, Fritz and Theodor, make the acquaintance of Christine and Mizzi, who are also friends. Fritz is immediately captivated by Christine, who ...
The Exposure
N/A
Writer
The film, based on Schnitzler's 1924 novella "Fräulein Else," follows Lili, a 19-year-old lawyer's daughter, who undergoes a humiliating naked show to...