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- In November 9th 1977, the Industrialist Walter Michael Palmers was kidnapped in front of his house in Vienna. After 100 hours of captivity and the payment of 31 billion Schillings, Palmers was set free. About two weeks later, Thomas Gratt and Othmar Keplinger were arrested at the swiss-italian border. The kidnapping was a money-raising-measure of the Bewegung 2.Juni , a sister organisation of the RAF (red army faction) 1979, Thomas Gratt is sentenced to 15 years in prison, Othmar Keplinger to 5 years, and Reinhard Pitsch, who also took part in the action, to 6 years. For the first time after 30 years, Gratt, Keplinger and Pitsch are ready to speak extensively about the events and backgrounds of 1977.
- And the sun also rises! The filmed autobiography of the Viennese electrician Walter Stoschek who taped his life from 1968 to 1986. Always revering to an imaginary audience, he records every important as well as every not so important incident of his life with a S8 camera.
- Hermann Wallner's everyday "world view" is a panorama of the surrounding landscape framed in metal girders. Although his freedom of motions is restricted to a few movements of the hand, his precision work is monumental in scale. Small lapses of concentration, such as at the beginning of the film when we hear a seemingly incidental radioed instruction coming from the off of this "world view", Wallner dare not allow himself: "Swing to the left, please...ah, to the right...sorry..." Hermann Wallner operates a crane although he really wanted to become a bulldozer driver. This, together with a few other shreds of information recounted by Wallner himself, is all the story Alexander Binder and Stefan Hafner need to complement this "conception of the world" impressively drawn from the bird cage perspective. In a few painstakingly arranged shots Binder and Hafner sketch the co-ordinates of a crane driver's field of vision and movement. Tilts and pans accurately aligned on metal girders; the view from above divided by metal struts; unobtrusive views into the operator's cabin. The sparse but at the same time efficient images would tend to give the impression of a brazen mechanical loftiness were it not for Wallner's voice in the off as an irretrievable human counterpoint. Wallner's short account of an incident when the crane toppled over (with him still in the cabin) is enough for Binder and Hafner, with a wink in our direction, to cause the seemingly solid structure to waver. (Robert Buchschwenter)
- In 1933 Eugeniu Botez, an engineer by profession and a commandant of the harbour of Sulina, wrote a novel. He entitled it 'Europolis' and signed it under the name of Jean Bart. A year later he died. In this strange novel Jean Bart prophecies that one day nothing will be left from the town, once full of life. With the death of Europolis Europe will be slowly dying in pains. A few years later his prophecy started to come true.
- F.A.Q. is a film about the fate of the Slovene language in Austria's state of Carinthia, and therefore about the fate of the country's Slovene minority. Its extraordinary aspect is the easy-going, confident and humorous way in which the topic is examined.
- In the Moravian town of Zlin in the 1930's, shoe manufacturer Thomas Bata created the world's only ever ideal industrial town.
- "In Autumn '95, a team of documentarians visits a campaign event put on by the Freedom Party. Members of the audience are asked to express their political views and make suggestions for changes. And duplicates of Qualtinger* spout down-home "truths" and xenophobic cracks about foreigners: We learn that in parks, the benches are always taken, but not by "real Austrians." Finally, an ill-tempered party member by the name of Haider claims that he is "upstanding" above all else.".