Michael Rast

Anna plans to escape her stifling provincial life, but a ghostly encounter causes a delay. A poignant tale of departure, set in the Styrian countryside and with strong ties to the genre tropes of the uncanny and the grotesque.

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Harold May, an excellent Jewish-American tap dancer, on tour in Europe with his company, receives an offer from a German that is difficult to pass up: a large sum to put on a show in Berlin. The German does not know that Harold is of Jewish origins; the year is 1937 and, once they arrive in Germany, the company discovers that he will have to perform in the presence of Adolf Hitler.

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Journalist Carla is supposed to interview her estranged mother, a successful penny dreadful novelist. Suddenly she finds herself in a picturesque mountain village as Alpine baker Lilia LeClerk - a character from a novel.

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Viktor is the local champion of the Autodrome Championship of the future. When a new competitor enters the racing field, twelve-year-old mechanic Iva makes it clear to him that everything is at stake for him.

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Something terrible happens at a Croatian wedding in the municipality of Stinatz: the bride disappears without a trace after “stealing the bride“. None of those present can explain what could have happened to her.

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The Maynards and their children lead an almost perfect billionaire family life. Amon is a passionate hunter, but doesn’t shoot animals, as the family's wealth allows them to live totally free from consequences.

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Because they got into a fight with party animal and mayoral candidate Benny Jagschitz, Flo Kienzl was thrown out of the police and Eddi Kovac went to jail. Now Eddi is on probation, just about to start a new life, when Flo stands on the mat: worn out, clever and with a really good reason.

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Hostage-taking in a maximum security prison. Three felons bring three friends with homemade bombs under their control. A police officer who happens to be on duty conducts the negotiation with the highly narcissistic head of the hostage-takers, who are ready for anything.

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A woman ends up stranded at a gas station one night, where the manager and his friends are having a beer. It seems she didn't show up by chance, and a crazy night unfolds.

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Until now, spoiled Vicky has always got through life by relying on the name of her father, who is an influential winegrower. After losing her job at an advertising agency and no longer receiving any money from her father, she desperately looks for a new goal. She wants to set up a women's curling team in Eisenstadt and win against the Kitzbühel state champions so that Eisenstadt becomes the venue for the Women's Curling World Championships.

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The summer of 376 AD. The Gothic female warrior Elja is forced to give in to the marauding Huns and to seek shelter for herself and her clan in the Roman empire. Once at the border they must wait for orders and provisions from the Roman authorities. Elja tries to understand the Roman plans in spite of the language barrier.

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An unhappily in-love car mechanic living in a small village finds himself at a crossroads; the apparent senselessness of life saddens him, and his only friend, the local butcher, is not much help.

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Frederick Schopner, a young management consultant, has been invited to participate in a special kind of team-building event. He and his colleagues will be chased across an outdoor obstacle course while being assessed on leadership qualities and their capacity for teamwork via video surveillance. Special highlight: the company has hired two over-the-hill actors to kidnap the consultants with unloaded weapons, keep them hostage, and to demand a high ransom from the company. A realistic role play with fun factor! But things don't go according to plan: the actors find the make-believe scenario so convincing that they decide to put the plan into action for real, using real weapons. Meanwhile, Human Resources manager Vanessa is observing what's happening via video surveillance and has to find a way to keep the hostage situation from escalating…

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The spin-off to the original series 'In aller Freundschaft' focuses on the young doctors in a fictional clinic in Erfurt. In this emotional drama series, hospital staffers and patients navigate life's challenges.

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Young police chief Sandra Mohr returns to her hometown of Graz with a bad feeling. Together with her new boss, Sascha Bergmann, she is tasked with solving the death of a journalist who was planning to write an article on abuse of office and nepotism.

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This is a family story that covers thirty years in the life of the Freytag family (narrated by the grandson, Robert). When his grandfather returns from Russia in 1949, he becomes part of the German "economic miracle" by producing garden gnomes. Klaus, Robert's father, wants to become a writer. He marries Gisela who almost immediately gets pregnant with Robert - but the marriage doesn't work. Both parents abandon the child, and Robert goes on living with both pairs of grand parents. While his father belongs to the 1968 generation that rebels against their fathers he falls in love with the neighbor's's daughter Laura.

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MEK 8 works behind the scenes and always comes into play when conventional police units are overwhelmed.

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On a frosty spring day, the police in Sweden make a gruesome discovery. In a small village, 19 people have been brutally murdered. The police suspect the work of a madman. When Judge Brigitta Roslin hears about the crime, she immediately realizes that her parents are among the victims. What’s more, all of the victims were distantly related to her.

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Diana, looking job, gets an interview for a nanny motherless children. Arriving at the house discovers that the father is a man who knows and with whom there is a strong attraction.

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Der Kriminalist is a German television series produced by Monaco Film Hamburg, subsidiary of Odeon Film. Directors during the first season were Sherry Hormann and Torsten C. Fischer, during the second: Thomas Jahn, Jobst Oetzmann and Torsten C. Fischer.

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In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh column, Friedrich encounters hazing, cruelty, death, and the Nazi code. His friendship with Albrecht, the ascetic son of the area's governor, is central to this education.

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Viktor, a methodical hit man, probably on his last job, has no plan for his retirement. He does not kill Nina, a woman sleeping beside his latest mark; then he follows her and rescues her from an attempted suicide. Nina is attracted to him, but also wants to know who he is. Her pursuit of his identity crosses the investigation of Lang, a brilliant police investigator who tries to inhabit the minds of the victims and the killer. Viktor's employer also wants to kill Viktor and his contact, an aging arms dealer and family friend. Does Viktor have a future?

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A team of inspectors investigates murders in and around the small Upper Bavarian town of Rosenheim, and they still have plenty of time to see idyllic landscapes and luxurious pre-alpine villas and enjoy sumptuous Bavarian fare with beer.

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SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties.

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Dolce Vita & Co is an Austrian television series.

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In an idyllic town, one bloody crime joins the next: six women fall victim to a ruthless murderer. The alleged perpetrator was arrested at the scene right next to the last victim, but he managed to escape. Policewoman Leah Sanders takes up the persecution. The chase leads into the mountains up to a hut. A sudden accident causes far-reaching consequences. A warning shot from Leah's pistol triggers an avalanche. She spills the policewoman together with the suspect in the hut. But there are already two other people in this weekend home.

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Karl and Paula work as specialist divers in Vienna, while their former friend Fred runs a diving school in Croatia. While surveying Vienna's underground, Karl and Paula come across a system of catacombs in which they discover valuable burial objects and a mummified corpse with numerous tattoos. When Karl has an accident during his explorations, Fred is asked for help by Paula. Neither of them suspect what they will soon be involved in.

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Siska is a German television series created by Herbert Reinecker and Helmut Ringelmann and broadcast since October 30, 1998 on the network ZDF. In France, the series was broadcast on France 3 and rebroadcast on 13th Street. It is a police drama and follows the adventures of Peter Siska and later Victor Siska. Anyway it wasn't the best surname for a policeman because in some languages word "Siska" has extremely close meaning to "Boob" or "Tit". So you'll never see this series on, for example, Russian television. Croatian Radiotelevision has however shown the series, despite 'Siska' having the same meaning in the Croatian language

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Küstenwache is a German television series that tells the fictionalized adventures of a unit of Federal Coast Guard officers off the German coast of the Baltic Sea.

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A long-running German television series about a two-man team of highway police, originally set in Berlin and later in North Rhine-Westphalia.

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