Acting

Wolfgang Gasser

Born May 31, 1927 · Wolfsberg, Austria

Died May 20, 2007 · aged 79

No biography available.

Known For

Slaughter DaySlaughter Day · 1972
Slaughter Day
7.01972
MovieCrimeDrama
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage against each other. This strategy also poses unsolvable problems for the police until something goes wrong and the house of cards collapses.
Elisabeth - Kaiserin von ÖsterreichElisabeth - Kaiserin von Österreich · 1972
Elisabeth - Kaiserin von Österreich
8.01972
MovieDramaHistory
The InheritorsThe Inheritors · 1983
The Inheritors
6.01983
MovieDramaAction
A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who's an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom's constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there's incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?
ClarissaClarissa · 1998
Clarissa
5.31998
MovieDramaTV Movie
Vienna before the First World War: Clarissa Schuhmeister grows up in the monastery. Strict discipline determines her life until she meets the Frenchman Léonard and falls in love with him. Just when she expects a child from him, the First World War tears the happy couple apart. Out of pragmatism, Clarissa marries Gottfried, a deserter, with whom she makes a painful yet realistic agreement so that he will not be sent back to war. But she never feels love for him because she can not forget Léonard.
My Mother's CourageMy Mother's Courage · 1995
My Mother's Courage
5.71995
MovieDramaHistory
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator’s mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you’d least expect it.
Die Nacht der NächteDie Nacht der Nächte · 1997
Die Nacht der Nächte
7.51997
MovieDrama
EverymanEveryman · 1961
Everyman
8.01961
MovieDrama
Everyman (German: Jedermann) is a 1961 Austrian drama film directed by Gottfried Reinhardt, based on the play written by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The film was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 34th Academy Awards, but was not nominated.
Dinner for TwoDinner for Two · 2004
Dinner for Two
4.72004
MovieComedy
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 them draw the consequences. As "Dinner for Two", they want to conjure up exclusive gourmet menus in posh households for a lot of money - and get into some serious turmoil in the process.

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König Ottokars Glück und EndeKönig Ottokars Glück und Ende · 2006
König Ottokars Glück und Ende
2006
MovieDrama
The cruel King Ottokar of Bohemia, spoiled by fortune and unpredictable, is dead. Now, with the modest Rudolf of Habsburg, peace has finally returned to Austria, for he replaces tyrannical arbitrariness with God-fearing clemency—and the way is clear for a story that lasted 700 years and bears the title: "The Habsburgs in Austria." With this view of Franz Grillparzer's play, many productions have been staged since the premiere of "King Ottokar's Fortune and End" – Rudolf of Habsburg as the gatekeeper to the dawn of a new, better era. It became clear what a great projection screen Grillparzer's play offered. It should really be called "The Habsburgs' rise to power as a development toward the good, the just, the orderly." But it is called "King Ottokar's Fortune and End," and that is what it is about—the fortune and end of a human being and how the one is sometimes directly connected to the other.

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