Udo Samel
7 titles
Filmography
7 results

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.

71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
(1995)Haneke's articulate critique of the isolating effects of western society, the media and television in particular, is composed of an intricate series of unrelated scenes, culminating in an apparently motiveless act of violence.

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.

The Seventh Continent
(1989)A European family who plan on escaping to Australia, seem caught up in their daily routine, only troubled by minor incidents. However, behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, they are actually planning something sinister.

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.”