Great films of Austrian cinema

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Austria is synonymous with music. Vienna or Salzburg are cities of composers, of opera, of waltzes. But are they filming movies in Austria? Yes, it may not be the most popular cinema in Europe, but there are artists with filmic concerns and films are made every year.

Not much is known about him Austrian cinema but the truth is that it is not just any cinema and it has some directors and films that are somewhat dark and controversial. Not easy at all. There are renowned directors within the world of cinema such as Michael Haneke or Ulrich Seidl, so let's see some of the best Austrian cinema films:

  • michael: is a 2011 film by director Markus Schleinzer that deals with the life of a pedophile and child abductor and his relationship with a 10-year-old victim. A difficult subject that generates rejection taken to the cinema in a film that ends up being very deep, disturbing and very well acted and directed.
  • Funny Games: is an older film, from 1997, directed by Michael Haneke, one of Austria's best known directors. It's about a thriller that focuses on a quiet family that must deal with two strangers who present themselves as friends and neighbors and end up being something else.
  • The Counterfeiters: is a 2007 film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky that is based on a Nazi operation. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 2008.
  • Paradise Trilogy: are three films shot between 2012 and 12013 directed by Ulrich Seidl. One is called Paradise: Love and is about a sex tourist with children from Kenya, the other is called Paradise: Faith and it's about a middle-aged Catholic woman and the third is Paradise:Hope and portrays the life of a teenager who goes to a clinic to lose weight.
  • The piano teacher: It's from 2001 and it's directed by Michael Haneke. It's about how far a man can go for the woman he wants. Loneliness, despair, sadism, brutality and psychological torture.

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