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Peter Patzak
Born January 2, 1945 · Vienna, Austria
Died March 11, 2021 · aged 76
Peter Patzak was an Austrian filmmaker known especially for directing the satirical crime series Kottan ermittelt and many other films and TV productions. After studying psychology, art history and painting, he directed his first feature and later adapted literary works and historical stories for screen. In addition to filmmaking, he was also a painter, author and long-time professor of directing …
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Exit... But No Panic · 1980Exit... But No Panic
★ 4.41980
MovieActionCrime
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.
Slaughter Day · 1972Slaughter 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.
Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus · 2010Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus
★ 5.62010
MovieComedyCrime
Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are completely in the dark. Next to each murder victim is a playing card with the inscription "Rien ne va plus". There are seven names on the back. Already three murders in 24 hours....
Shattered Dreams · 1976Shattered Dreams
★ 7.51976
MovieCrimeDrama
A young Viennese policeman can not free himself from his mistress and is also extorted over his illegal arms business.
Midnight Cop · 1988Midnight Cop
★ 4.71988
MovieThrillerAction
Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who embodies a quality of virtue that her boss gave up a long time ago. They have both been assigned to solve a series of gruesome murders that have been taking place in Berlin's drug and prostitution ganglands. The prime suspect is George Miskowski, a pusher who supplies Berlin's brothels and hookers with cocaine and heroin.
Burning Heart · 1995Burning Heart
★ 9.01995
MovieDrama
Follows the life of the famous German politician, writer, and communist activist, Gustav Regler, from his birth in 1898, in the Saar, through the two World Wars and his many travels, until his death in 1963 in India.
Das Babylon Komplott · 1993Das Babylon Komplott
★ 5.51993
MovieDramaThriller
Chris Lang, a journalist from Vienna, can't believe the sinister thing he has uncovered: is a certain Schatz organizing large-scale arms trafficking and supplying components for a superweapon to Iraq? While Chris searches for answers to these questions, it turns out that his brother Thomas seems to be involved in the affair...
Death of a Schoolboy · 1990Death of a Schoolboy
★ 4.01990
MovieHistoryDrama
On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo.
His assassination caused a chain of events that brought about World War I and the downfall of old Europe.
Who is the assassin?
Who is GAVRE PRINCIP, a man that fate brought into the center of world attention.
The subject of the film is not the historical background but rather the psychological makeup of PRINCIP at the age of seventeen.
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1968
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