Nina Proll Movies

The death of a schoolteacher leads to a reunion between a handful of close friends in this drama from writer and director Barbara Albert. Five longtime friends return to the town where they grew up for the first time since they were teenagers in order to pay their respects to a teacher who had a major impact on their lives. However, fate has taken the five women in very different directions since they left school. Carmen (Kathrin Resetarits) has become a working actress, Alex (Ursula Strauss) is a clerk at an unemployment office, Brigitte (Birgit Minichmayr) works as a schoolteacher, Nina (Nina Proll) is out of a job and anticipating the birth a baby is two months, and Nicole (Gabriela Hegedus) has fallen into a life of crime and has been given a furlough from prison to attend the funeral, with her 12-year-old daughter Daphne (Ina Strand) in tow. As the women look back at the possibilities of their youth, they must also consider the circumstances which led them where they are today, and the bonds of friendship which still hold them together despite the physical distance between them. Falling was screened in competition at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Fanny (Nina Proll) is training in Vienna when she meets Yunlong (Wang Zhiwen), a Chinese policeman. The two form an instant connection and, against the wishes of everyone else in her life, Fanny moves to China to be with him. Soon afterward, however, the cultural revolution in China forces the two into hiding to escape persecution by the communists. Yunlong is eventually caught and imprisoned, leaving Fanny alone in a foreign land with no idea what it will take for her to survive. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

After burning his bridges as a detective, a man tries to redeem himself driving an ambulance in this dark comedy from Austria. Brenner (Josef Hader) was once a police detective, but after the local chief of police discovered Brenner was having an affair with his wife, he found himself off the force and in need of a steady job. Despite Brenner's appetite for booze and drugs, he soon finds work as a driver for an ambulance company, where it becomes obvious that he's not that different than his colleagues -- a rough and rowdy bunch who are struggling to outwit another local ambulance service and who make up in daring what they sometimes lack in civility and common sense. When a nurse well known to the drivers is brutally murdered, Brenner decides to put his experience as a detective to work, and with the help of his girlfriend Berti (Simon Schwarz) and fellow driver (and onetime schoolmate) Klara (Barbara Rudnik), Brenner sets out to track down the killer. Komm, Susser Tod is based on a novel by Wolfgang Haas, who also co-wrote the screenplay with director Wolfgang Murnberger and leading man Josef Hader. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

After his debut with the low-budget science fiction film Half World (1993), Austrian director Florian Flicker returned with this road movie, mapping a route to take the viewer from Vienna and civilization to a deserted mountain wilderness near the Austrian-German border. Because teacher Nana (Birgit Doll), an instructor in French and Russian, uses a fake visa to depart her unnamed Soviet homeland for a U.S. destination, she's detained at the Vienna airport. Taking advantage of a distraction caused by another illegal alien, Nana escapes on a tour bus where she meets American tourist Suzie Washington. She later adopts this name during her brief encounters with several lonely men, as she travels across the unfamiliar landscape. Filmed with English and German dialogue and employing a blow-up from 16mm to 35mm, the drama was shown at the 1998 San Sebastian Film Festival (Open Zone) and the 1998 Montreal World Film Festival (Cinema of Today). ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide