Helmut Qualtinger Movies

Five film directors were given the task of making short films based on titles of drawings by Paul Klee.

After World War II, an aging controversial Norwegian Nobel Prize winner must confront his past and the moral implications of his Nazi sympathies...

The second film adaption of the legendary monolog by Helmut Qualtinger and Carl Merz.

Mr. Karl tells his life story – from the 1920s to the 1950s. As an opportunist and survivor, he combines different facets of the Austrian soul....

Tells of the tribulations of a middle-aged official of the Austro-Hungarian Bureau of Weights and Measures in fighting the local shopkeepers and...

The antihero "Mr. Karl" tells a "young person", the viewer, his life story while he sits at work in the warehouse of a delicatessen. The narrator...

District Inspector Pokorny was transferred some time ago from Vienna to the fictional Upper Austrian town of Mühlstadt after assaulting a...

In Germany during World War II, a well-known psychic decides to collaborate with the Nazis.

A man comes to a small village to begin his new job as an attendant at the nearby castle. But everybody in the village claims that he surely must be...

A quiet, unassuming man sentenced to a long term in a maximum-security prison uses his time to study and begins to write cryptic short stories.