Rainer Egger

AKA:
0.4783

1960-01-01

Innsbruck, Austria

Biography

Crew Roles

The Suffering of Mr. Karpf - the Birthday
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {52}

2017-06-24 4.8

Do You Sometimes Feel Burned Out and Empty?

Luisa works as a couples therapist and has a loveless relationship with her husband Richard, but at the same time she is having an affair with Richard's boss Leopold. As everything slowly threatens to ...
Genre :Comedy

Brother Christophe (Vienna)

1998-11-13 7.353

The Red Violin

300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Music, Romance

Alfons Weigl

2009-04-30 4

Detektiv wider Willen

After a stroke of fate, star lawyer Mark Degen completely turns his life around. The workaholic, who only took on lucrative cases, becomes a courageous lawyer with social commitment. When his daughter ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Crime

Roger

2000-01-27 7

Paul Is Dead

A youth discovers Paul McCartney died and the public had never been informed of this fact. ...
Genre :

Zick Zack

2022-04-14 6

Tales of Franz

Franz is by far the smallest in the class, has blond ringlets and gets a high-pitched squeaky voice when he gets upset. Luckily, two best friends help: Gabi and Eberhard. When Franz discovers Hank Hab ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Fantasy

Sekretär

1997-09-20 4.6

The Unfish

Sophie "inherits" her uncle's preserved whale and finds out that whoever sleeps in the whale's belly with her will be granted one wish, causing chaos and hatred in the village. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dubious Man

2012-12-06 4

Die Libelle und das Nashorn

Ada Hänselmann presents her debut novel. However, the numerous guests are only interested in the 82-year-old legendary actor Nino Winter and his autobiography. The two meet again in the evening at the ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Herzog

1993-11-03 4.1

Half the World

The sun blazes down from the sky with destructive power; exposing oneself to its light means death. People have transposed everyday existence to the night. In the metropolis of HALF WORLD a culture ba ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

Samhaber

2004-11-10 6.5

Welcome Home

Another one of those stories we hear almost every day: refugees are picked up on Austria's border after a dramatic chase. And then nothing more is heard of them. The problem is apparently resolved in ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Oberst

2019-11-25 0

Der Fall der Gerti B.

Three friends from Floridsdorf – separated by 40 years and with lives that couldn't be more different – ​​meet on an evening that will change their future destinies forever. ...
Genre :Comedy

Albin

1989-04-13 5.7

Waller's Last Trip

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he walks the route for one last time and starts to reme ...
Genre :Drama

Herr Karpf

2009-02-06 0

The Suffering of Mr. Karpf - the Birthday

It is Mr Karpf's birthday and he waits by the phone, but nobody calls. He concludes that there must therefore be something wrong with the phone. ...
Genre :Comedy

Franz Berger

2016-06-09 5

Hanna's Sleeping Dogs

When Johanna's blind grandmother Ruth tells her the secret about their Jewish past, the “sleeping dogs” of the family history awake. ...
Genre :Drama

Stumpf

2022-07-30 4.9

A Retribution

In the late 1960s, when the young Jewish businessman’s son Victor Dessauer fails to secure just punishment for the Nazi concentration camp commandant who tortured his parents, he resolves to take the ...
Genre :Drama

German Cemetery Caretaker

2016-09-07 7.357

Frantz

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers. ...
Genre :History, Drama, Romance

Felix

1986-01-01 0

PARADISE LTD.

Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the living quarters. They all have definite ideas about life ...
Genre :Comedy

Emil Barkhausen

2016-02-15 6.7

Alone in Berlin

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been kille ...
Genre :War, Thriller, Drama

Roman

1990-01-01 0

Shalom, general

The reality the conscientious objector Roman is confrontend with at an old-age home is something he has previously been spared: suffering, frailty, death. He has to take care of "General" Kulat, an ol ...
Genre :Drama

Buchhalter

2018-01-12 4.7

Life Guidance

The film is set in the near future, in a world of perfect capitalism. Society is sustained by a class of top achievers; meanwhile, so-called minimum recipients live under sedation in Fortresses of Sle ...
Genre :Science Fiction

2003-05-18 4

Struggle

The story of a Polish mother who is exploited as a cheap worker in Austria, and of an Austrian realtor, who fits the typical cliché of a stubborn, sexually frustrated and ugly midlife man. ...
Genre :

Anwalt Knöppl

2015-09-10 4.5

Jack

Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Christian

2016-01-20 0

Unmensch

"I'm not a bad person, really. I buy fair trade vegetables and hate HC Strache." Excerpt from the play Jasper is rehearsing with his theater group. The young actor is inspired and wants to increase th ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

2011-01-21 0

Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben

In April 1945, as Jewish prisoners on a death march from Hungary reach an abandoned barn near an Austrian village, their SS guards vanish, leaving them starving, freezing and helpless while villagers ...
Genre :Drama

Steinyo Pichler

1988-12-31 0

In Achtzig Tagen um die Welt

Genre :

1993-01-01 0

Wüstenherzen

The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child. ...
Genre :

1996-11-15 0

Kino im Kopf

Ever had an idea for a film? Ever actually visualised this film in your mind? Or even sketched out scenes and camera angles? Plenty of film buffs have. Michael Glawogger invited 12 people to talk abou ...
Genre :

Fredl Karner

1994-10-23 5.6

Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen

This film is based on the actual events referred to as the "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" (Hare-hunt in the Mühlviertel) which occurred in February 1945 around the Mauthausen concentration camp. 500 Soviet ...
Genre :History, War, Drama

2018-08-11 0

Snowman

Antonia is stuck in her everyday life. She oversleeps, procrastinates and searches the internet for a happy life. Spontaneously, she decides to give structure to her existence and asks her fling for a ...
Genre :Drama

Felix Bild

1982-10-23 0

Phoenix on the Corner

Felix, a young projectionist, daydreams himself out of the loneliness of his projection booth and into a fantastic universe in which the characters in the films become his own. His dreams, wishes and ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

2024-04-05 5.5

Tiefwassertaucher unterm Dach

Annie Breuer, a single mother in her mid-thirties, lives with her two children, Lena and Tino, on the top floor of an old apartment building in Vienna's suburbs. She sometimes doubts whether she can h ...
Genre :Drama

Lehrer Zickzack

2023-09-07 5.5

New Tales of Franz

In the second part of the successful children's book adaptation, Franz, Gabi and Eberhard go on a turbulent hunt for criminals during the summer holidays – and uncover a completely different secret in ...
Genre :Family, Adventure

Anton Seiler

2010-10-07 5.8

Lautlose Morde

A woman admitted in a mental health centre in order to overcome the death of her son decides to finish with her life. Her situation worries her husband and also her roomate, who is admitted in the cen ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Pharmacist

2025-07-03 7

Mädchen Mädchen!

The trio of friends around Inken, Vicky and Lena are confronted with their first sexual experiences and pure emotional chaos. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Berger

2025-07-17 5.2

Karli & Marie

Karli likes to pose as a battle-hardened army veteran, but in reality he is a vending machine cracker. Marie, once the beauty queen of Mingkofen, has little to expect from life since the death of her ...
Genre :Comedy

2026-04-17 0

Rose

In the turmoil of the Thirty-Years' War, a mysterious soldier appears in a secluded Protestant village claiming to be heir to a long-abandoned manor. His quest for recognition and acceptance are compl ...
Genre :Drama

2006-03-22 6.5

Agathe kann’s nicht lassen

Agathe kann’s nicht lassen was an Austrian and German detective comedy television series which ran between 2005 and 2007. It was based upon Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. ...
Genre :Crime

Dr. Bruns

1971-06-27 6.26

Polizeiruf 110

Polizeiruf 110 is a long-running German language detective television series. The first episode was broadcast 27 June 1971 in the German Democratic Republic, and after the dissolution of Fernsehen der ...
Genre :Crime

Wolfgang Bergmann

1994-11-10 7.2

Inspector Rex

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama

Ivo Wallner

1994-11-10 7.2

Inspector Rex

After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama

2015-01-29 6.8

Der Bozen Krimi

German detective Sonja Schwarz decides against the offer to take over as head of the homicide division in Frankfurt. She moves with her husband Thomas to his hometown of Bolzano in South Tyrol. Howeve ...
Genre :Crime

Sterntaler

1998-10-05 0

Die Neue - Eine Frau mit Kaliber

Die Neue – Eine Frau mit Kaliber is a German television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Willi Berger

2005-10-11 4.6

Vienna Crime Squad

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Werner Tesak

2005-10-11 4.6

Vienna Crime Squad

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Siegmund Reihle

2002-01-08 6.5

For Heaven's Sake

Sister Hanna is a spirited, witty, resolute, warm-hearted, and - attractive nun. With her wit and street cred, she takes charge of Kaltenthal Cloister, transforming it into a popular refuge for all th ...
Genre :Comedy, Family, Drama, Crime, Documentary

Josef Schratt

2001-11-15 3.833

SOKO Kitzbühel

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 prod ...
Genre :Crime

Florian Meier

2009-04-21 3.909

Schnell ermittelt

Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconvention ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Direktor Lainer

2013-10-03 0

Paul Kemp - Alles kein Problem

Genre :Drama

Dr. Buxbaum

2018-11-06 6

Meiberger: Chasing Minds

Through the eyes of psychologist Thomas Meiberger, we examine the mental, social and psychological factors of how and why criminal acts are committed. Even in cases that seem unsolvable, Meiberger is ...
Genre :Crime

Charlie Ringhofer

2000-12-21 6.5

Trautmann

Trautmann is an Austrian television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Wolfgang Feistinger

1970-11-29 6.154

Scene of the Crime

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Swit ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Johannes Jackler

2005-10-11 4.6

Vienna Crime Squad

SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series. ...
Genre :Crime

Herr Weinberg

2017-01-26 7.9

jerks.

Best buddies Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim can't help to embarrass themselves from time to time. The troublemakers they are they love to test the limits of ethics and political correctness. ...
Genre :Comedy