Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler

1862-05-15 Vienna, Austria 64 Credits

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.

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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

Traumnovelle

2025

Novel

5.5

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

Casanova's Return

2023

Novel

6.1

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

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

Mademoiselle Else

2021

Author

9.0
The Other

The Other

2020

Writer

8.0
Writing

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

Hello Again

Hello Again

2017

Original Story

5.9
Writing

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

Dying

2017

Writer

4.4
Writing

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

Fräulein Else

2014

Novel

5.0

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

Deseo

2013

Novel

6.6

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

Ich

Ich

2011

Original Story

Writing

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

Eyes Wide Shut

1999

Author

7.5

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

Romance/Romance

1993

Story

Writing

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

The Return of Casanova

1992

Novel

6.1

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

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

1991

Novel

3.0

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

The Bachelor

1990

Novel

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

Nightmare in Venice

Nightmare in Venice

1989

Novel

3.8

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

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

Der einsame Weg

1987

Writer

Writing

Fräulein Else

1987

Writer

Writing

TV adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s eponymous book with Edith Clever as the only film actress.

The Distant Land

The Distant Land

1987

Theatre Play

5.0

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

Love Circles

1985

Theatre Play

4.1

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

New York Nights

1984

Theatre Play

2.8

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

Writing

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

The Knight, Death and The Devil

1983

Idea, Story

10.0
Writing

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

The Return of Casanova

1980

Novel

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve

1978

Writer

Writing

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

Fräulein Else

1975

Novel

1.0

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

Reigen

1973

Writer, Theatre Play

3.0
Writing

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

Las tres perfectas casadas

1973

Novel

5.3

Sterben

1971

Novel

Das weite Land

1970

Writer

Writing

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

Das Wort

1970

Writer

Writing

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

Traumnovelle

Traumnovelle

1969

Novel

6.8

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

Liebelei

1969

Writer

Writing

Das Märchen

1966

Writer

Writing
Circle of Love

Circle of Love

1964

Theatre Play

5.8

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

Der einsame Weg

Der einsame Weg

1962

Writer

Writing
Anatol

Anatol

1961

Writer

Writing
Das weite Land

Das weite Land

1960

Writer

Writing
Christine

Christine

1958

Theatre Play

6.3

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

Writing

Gefährtin

1954

Writer

Writing
La Ronde

La Ronde

1950

Original Film Writer

7.3
Writing

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

The Naked Angel

1946

Novel

6.2

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

Love Story

1933

Theatre Play

4.7

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

Liebelei

1933

Original Film Writer

7.0
Writing

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

The Green Cockatoo

1932

Writer

7.0
Writing

Silent amateur movie based on the grotesque by Arthur Schnitzler.

Daybreak

Daybreak

1931

Novel

4.0

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

Fräulein Else

Fräulein Else

1929

Novel

6.3

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

Fair Game

1928

Theatre Play

Liebelei

Liebelei

1927

Story

3.5
Writing

Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.

Young Medardus

1923

Author, Theatre Play

4.9

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

The Affairs of Anatol

1921

Theatre Play

5.6

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

The Merry-Go-Round

1920

Theatre Play

5.0

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

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

Love's Devotee

1914

Screenplay, Theatre Play

Writing

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

Writing

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...