Josef Hader Movies
- 2009
As helmed by Markus Rosenmüller, this German-language period saga unfurls in 1931, and centers around a teenager who tells a seemingly innocent and harmless lie. In truth, the act of deception carries devastating and unforeseen consequences that will cast a dark shadow over the young man's future. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Markus Krojer, Dominik Nowak, (more)
- 2007
Ann-Kristen Reyels bittersweet comedy Hounds tells the tale of Lars, a sixteen-year-old dealing with the fact that his mother has abandoned the family and his father is having an affair. When a new mute girl moves in next door, he has someone who can distract him from the pain he feels at home. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
- 2002
Writer, artist, and stage designer Andrea Maria Dusl makes her directorial debut with the offbeat road movie Blue Moon, appropriately taking place during a month with two full moons. Minor criminal Johnny Pichler (Austrian standup comic Josef Hader) goes on the road with a bag of money and a blonde call girl named Shirley (Ukranian actress Viktoria Malektorovych). After she leaves him at a hotel, Johnny briefly runs into the shady con man Ignaz Springer (East German actor/director Detlev W. Buck). Trying to find Shirley with only an address on a photograph, Johnny ends up in Lviv, Ukraine, and meets brunette cab driver Jana (also Malektorovych), who happens to be Shirley's twin sister. Eventually Johnny is led to the Black Sea and into the city of Odessa. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Josef Hader, Viktoria Malektorovych, (more)
- 2001
A novice immigration officer falls for a woman he's supposed to put behind bars in this low-key romantic comedy. Rudi (Martin Puntigam) is a twenty-something police offer working in a small town in Austria. Rudi would like to advance his career to something a bit more challenging, and his brother-in-law Bucek (Josef Hader) decides to help out by getting him a job working with him in Vienna's immigration bureau. Rudi is eager to please and wants to impress Bucek on the job, but it's what he does on his own time that gets him in trouble. Rudi meets and quickly becomes infatuated with Alena (Sandra Bra), who works at a fast food restaurant. After Rudi's been dating Alena for a while, he discovers that she's from Czechoslovakia and working in Vienna illegally, and Bucek is none too amused to discover his brother-in-law is helping someone violate the laws he's supposed to be upholding. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Martin Puntigram, Josef Hader, (more)
- 2001
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
- Starring:
- Josef Hader, Barbara Rudnik, (more)
