Orf Movies

Using archive film material never seen before, Hollywood veteran Leon Askin portrays Adolf Lanz (1874-1954),the man who gave Hitler his ideas.

Albania in the southeast of Europe – situated between Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro – hosts an astonishingly diverse landscape. Harmonic c...

Primary school teacher Sabine Schuster suffers a sudden stroke during a theatre rehearsal with her pupils. Doctors are able to save her life in hospit...

The climate is changing, global temperature is rising. The impacts are already apparent, especially in the mountains but also in the lowlands. The per...

The traditional Christmas concert enchants every year with classic and popular Christmas music from all over the world. The most touching program high...

Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the t...

In her Berlin apartment, where the S-Bahn and long-distance trains pass by, the actress Edith Clever reads Molly Bloom’s monologue from James Joyce’s...

Documentary film portraying the Austrian artist Paul Flora.

A multicultural satire about the German guest workers and numerus clausus refugees in Austria, about the mysterious tension between German prepotency...

During the WW2, a Swiss mountain farmer, refuses to follow the government policy to increase self-sufficiency with produce. In his opinion, the steep...

The world famous conductor reminisces about his life in a wide ranging discussion about his varied and successful career.

It is one thing to survive the Holocaust, but quite another to deal with the lasting impact of this experience. This film portrait of Ruth Klüger, an...

The diabolically brilliant doctor Dr. Knock from Karlsruhe takes over a rural doctor's practice in Bavaria. To achieve his goal of a lucrative sanator...

A coming-of-age drama about an unhappy teenager who is repressed by his conservative and ambitious family.

In this new documentary, filmmakers Jascha Hannover and Arkadij Khaet set out to explore the origins of Jewish humour, tracing the use of irony and sa...

Diana and Andrew Chelsom have been married and have now lived separated for a long time.Anne Chelsom ,their daughter comes now to Cornwall to spend so...

The wealthy farmer Karl Bruckner and his fiancée Anna are about to marry when Karl is killed in a car accident. While a world collapses for Anna, Char...