Аватар персоны Christof Schertenleib

Christof Schertenleib

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01-01-1958

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Capricorn

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Christoph Schertenleib

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35 Works

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2 Works

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29 Works

Mountain Ride

Mountain Ride

After years of mass tourism in the Alps, a rethinking is slowly taking place. Whether researchers, artists or philosophers, many are trying to approach the essence of the mountains in new ways.
0.0

Year:

2024

There Was Nothing Here Before

There Was Nothing Here Before

A Swiss filmmaker of Palestinian origin travels to the West Bank to make sense of the break-up with a childhood friend who became a Jewish settler. While trying to understand why their friendship has not held up in the face of the political situation, he reveals his own tragic family history in Palestine.
0.0

Year:

2024

Our Father

Our Father

Toni, an attractive Catholic priest, impregnates several women in the Swiss countryside of the 1950s until the bishop revokes his priesthood. The six children only meet after Toni's funeral. They talk about their fatherless youth, their brave mothers and the fatal silence they now want to break.
0.0

Year:

2023

Exploited

Exploited

Cheaters and cheated, wage dumping and moonlighting – up close and personal with the labor market inspectors Frédy, Regula, Marcos, Stefan and Chrümu.
0.0

Year:

2022

Lost in Paradise

Lost in Paradise

Evžen lives a bohemian life in Prague. An unexpected trip back to his homeland Switzerland confronts him with the smuggled crocodile Karlchen, his father’s sustained delusion and the grotesque charm of the bourgeoisie.
3.0

Year:

2021

Dark Fortune

Dark Fortune

Late at night, the psychologist Eliane Hess is called to the hospital to take care of Yves, an eight-year-old boy, who just has lost his parents and siblings in a car accident. Eliane is both shocked and curiously drawn to the traumatized boy. As time goes by, she loses the professional distance to the patient, and when Yves' relatives begin a heavy dispute about the boy's future, Eliane makes an unorthodox decision, that throws her life off track.
6.1

Year:

2016

Safari

Safari

Africa. In the wild expanses, where bush-bucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with excitement and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.
6.5

Year:

2016

Exit Oerlikon

Exit Oerlikon

When Hans looks back, he must say: That was a good life! He saw the world, loved his wife Martha and yes, two, three things went wrong. But that doesn't need to be talked about. And now? Two years ago Martha died, Hans can barely manage his daily routine anymore, and after a visit to the vet his beloved dog Miller doesn't return home. Hans is tired. Basically he can't be bothered anymore. He wants to die. But one doesn't talk about this. At best maybe with Willi, his friend. He trusts in him, he considers him as his ally, who should help him implement his plan...
0.0

Year:

2015

In the Basement

In the Basement

Filmmaker Ulrich Seidl explores of the dark underside of the human psyche by entering Austrian basements fitted out as private domains for secrets and fetishes.
6.3

Year:

2014

War

War

Fifteen-year-old Matteo is attractive, albeit somewhat effeminate. The whole world is against him. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe. The pressure increases as his awkward attempts to win his father’s respect fail. One night two men carry him off: his parents send him to a remote alp, where he is forced to spend the summer working hard on a family farm. When Matteo arrives on the alp, a surprise awaits him.
5.3

Year:

2014

Adios

Adios

0.0

Year:

2013

Paradise: Hope

Paradise: Hope

Her mother in Kenya, 13-year-old Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp set in the Austrian countryside. Between workouts and nutrition classes, pillow fights and first cigarettes, she falls in love with a doctor 40 years her senior.
6.3

Year:

2013

Paradise: Faith

Paradise: Faith

For Anna Maria, paradise lies with Jesus, and she devotes her time to door-to-door missionary work. One day after years of absence, her husband, an Egyptian Muslim confined to a wheelchair, comes home—and soon prayers are replaced by fighting.
6.6

Year:

2012

Sagrada - The Mystery Of Creation

Sagrada - The Mystery Of Creation

Gaudi's Sagrada Familia has been continuously under construction since 1882.
5.5

Year:

2012

Paradise: Love

Paradise: Love

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.
6.8

Year:

2012

Zaffaraya 3.0

Zaffaraya 3.0

0.0

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2011

Zwerge sprengen

Zwerge sprengen

0.0

Year:

2010

Women Without Men

Women Without Men

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran's 1953 CIA-backed coup d'état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard garden, where they find independence, solace and companionship.
6.4

Year:

2009

Import/Export

Import/Export

A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
7.0

Year:

2007

Slumming

Slumming

Two yuppies play mean pranks on those around them until one joke has unexpected consequences.
5.9

Year:

2006

Lücken im Gesetz

Lücken im Gesetz

0.0

Year:

2004

Lücken im Gesetz

Lücken im Gesetz

0.0

Year:

2004

Dog Days

Dog Days

Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
6.6

Year:

2001

Große Gefühle

Große Gefühle

0.0

Year:

2000

Models

Models

A revealing and devastating portrait of a trio of aspiring real-life Viennese models. Vivian will stop at nothing to be a magazine cover girl. Lisa fills her time with routine plastic surgery and cocaine binges, while innocent Tanja focuses on the mystical through tarot cards, yoga, and raw animal energy.
6.1

Year:

1999

Kino im Kopf

Kino im Kopf

Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs have. Michael Glawogger invited 12 people to talk about their ideas for a film and then shot short fragments for them. The result is a crime-story-erotic-lyrical-experimental-vampire-fantasy-horror-soap-opera-splatter-trash-road-movie-melodrama posing as a documentary!
0.0

Year:

1996

Animal Love

Animal Love

In conurbations where hundreds of thousands live alongside one another, in the era of a highly technological society, in which communication has never played such a significant role, man has become lonely. Disappointed by his fellow human beings, he turns to animals. Dogs and other domestic animals serve him as companions, life partners, cuddly objects and bedfellows.
6.3

Year:

1996

Lovable Lies

Lovable Lies

Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.
2.0

Year:

1995

Lovable Lies

Lovable Lies

Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.
2.0

Year:

1995

Die Stadt der Anderen

Die Stadt der Anderen

Two women in two different countries leading different lives. One lives in Austria, one in Yugoslavia, yet their lives become strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else's head and the city around you isn't the one you used to know?
0.0

Year:

1989

Aus dem Tagebuch einer alten Frau

Aus dem Tagebuch einer alten Frau

Pictures of everyday life of an old woman: During the week she waits for one event, the visit of her daughter on Sunday.
0.0

Year:

1988

Margreet Honig – True Singing

Margreet Honig – True Singing

Margreet Honig, eighty-four years old, is an internationally sought-after Dutch singing teacher. She teaches all over Europe and works with world-famous singers. She has developed her very own way of working.
0.0

Year:

-

Loss Is to Be Expected

Loss Is to Be Expected

Looks at two communities on either side of the Czech-Austrian border. There's an elderly man in Austria looking for a new wife, and he meets a lone single woman on the Czech side of the border.
4.2

Year:

1992

Tod eines Lesenden

Tod eines Lesenden

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 end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.
0.0

Year:

1984