Udo Samel
7 titles
Filmography
7 results

Rival
(2021)Nine-year-old Roman follows his mother Oksana to Germany where she is working illegally. She is living there with the 62-year-old widower Gert who suffers from diabetes. Gert tries to make friends with the boy, but Roman struggles for his mother's attention. When Oksana suddenly falls ill, Roman is left alone with his rival.

The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch
(2018)Pressured to marry a nice Orthodox Jewish woman, Motti is thrown for a loop when he falls for classmate Laura, who his mother will never approve of.

The Piano Teacher
(2001)Erika is a music teacher in Vienna living a hermetic, love-hate existence with her overbearing mother, escaping only to visit porn cinemas and peepshows. When she meets clean-cut, charismatic student Walter, Erika’s carefully calibrated lifestyle is threatened. Control trades hands between student and teacher, as Erika’s masochistic tendencies are inflicted upon Walter during a torrid affair.

My Best Enemy
(2011)A dark WWII comedy about 2 friends, stolen artwork & an unfortunate case of mistaken identities, as a Jewish man switches places with his Nazi best friend in order to survive.

Goodbye Berlin
(2016)Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip through East Germany in the summer that will forever change their lives.

Knife in the Head
(1978)Bruno Ganz gives a tour-de-force performance as Hoffman, an innocent bystander who survives a gunshot to the head by the police during a raid on a group of revolutionaries.

Domain
(2009)On the threshold of adulthood, 17-year-old Pierre becomes obsessed with his aunt Nadia (Beatrice Dalle, Betty Blue and Trouble Every Day). A flamboyant mathematician whose intellect clashes with her alcoholism and fatalistic view of life, Nadia is on a path to self-destruction. As Pierre discovers his budding sexuality, he attempts to rescue his beloved aunt from herself. DOMAIN is a dark, sexy mediation on the intersection of two lives with very different trajectories. Featuring intelligent discourse and Hitchcockian references, filmmaker John Waters declared “you’ll be left breathless by the sheer elegance of this astonishing workout.”