Tommy can't take it anymore. At home, the 14-year-old Vienna boy is the only man among many women: Sister, mom, grandma and great-grandma tugging at Tommy's nerves, also the schoolboy suffers from lovesickness. Nothing left to do but get out so Tommy travels to his father Hubert. Shortly after...
Simone Mankus is a woman in her prime who has left little out in her life. The former showbiz diva is a child of the late 60s, endowed with humor, a sensual lust for life, but also the melancholy of an entire generation that has lived through wilder times. Now, just as she is planning her big...
Marie's father in law dies and leaves the world with his last wish being Marie and her husband to move into his house. Unfortunately Marie's hypochondriac mother in law isn't happy at all with the whole situation...
Professor Karl Michaeli is a former star cellist and grantler , as he is in the book. After the death of his beloved wife Maria in 2014, the retired music professor lives alone in a three-room apartment in Vienna. To his displeasure, several foreign families are housed in his apartment building....
An unhappy young photographer is about to make his debut as a journalist. He is to write an obituary about the weapons-crazy mayor of a Lower Austrian village who, it is said, had a tank from WWII. In the course of his research he unearths a conspiracy of wifes murdering their husbands to get an...
From one day to the next, Anna, a millionaire's wife from Hamburg, is left with nothing: her husband has absconded with a fraudulent loan and a young mistress. Anna returns to Vienna, where a wealthy friend leaves her her fruit stall at the famous Naschmarkt. However, the sleazy Charly also has his...
Using original texts from Qualtinger, the two authors develop a pandemonium of 'Viennese cordiality'. Set in a municipal building, in the Prater and the surrounding streets, sausage stands, etc., characters and unerring punchlines result in an enjoyable Viennese film, written for the squad of local...
Nothing can help. Leopold's cholesterol levels have finally broken through the sound barrier and it is his Steffi, of all people, whose cooking is to blame for everything, who has to put him on a strict diet. When Steffi's best friend Sophie is left without a husband and money overnight, the two of...
How does someone feel when they suddenly find out that they are not their parents' son? A world collapses for the up-and-coming star lawyer Max when the Prater landlady Gabi introduces herself as his birth mother at his engagement party. Max gets out and tries to build a new life. In the process,...
