Wolfgang Birk

Kain

A young textile worker attempts to reunite with his love and is shot by border guards. A semi-documentarian movie with a strong pacifist message.

Passion eines Politkers

A politician is afraid about his reputation

Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne

At the cabaret "The Green Spider", a stranger shoot the singer. Since the murder happens during a trumpet solo nobody hears the shot.

As the Sea Rages

After five years of war, Clements, a professional seaman, has no ambitions other than to live in peace and carry out his activity. Having settled down in the archipelago of the Aegean Sea, he has founded a small sponge fishing company in an idyllic place and foresees an optimistic future. Unfortunately, he soon finds himself caught in a crossfire...

Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch

In the Vienna of the Biedermeier era, the young Carl makes a delicate wager with two officers: If he does not succeed in presenting a new romantic adventure by the next day, he has to treat the soldiers to ten bottles of sparkling wine. Albeit he tries in vain to seduce the pretty maid Franzi, Carl brags about his alleged conquest the next day in his favourite pub. When the senior lieutenant Stephan, who is head over heels in love with Franzi, hears about Carl’s putative success, he writes, out of his lovelornness, a catchy song about the carefree maids of Vienna. The song becomes the talk of the town — but the Viennese maids are so disgruntled about the earworm that they go on strike in protest at the grand Radetzky ball…