Nicolas Brieger Movies
- 1992
In the aftermath of two doctors' divorce, their daughter lives with her mother in Berlin. Her Greek father is not happy with the decision of the courts about his daughter, so he kidnaps her and takes her back to Greece with him. Her mother seeks redress through the international legal system but also finds no satisfaction, so she hires someone to kidnap her back. What the young lady thinks about her two chain-smoking, feuding parents is not deeply explored, but their custody battle leads them back into each other's arms (if only temporarily). ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Barbara Auer, Georges Corraface, (more)
- 1989
The town of Weiszenberg, Austria is thrown into economic turmoil when the local textile plant is closed in 1933. Although a fictionalized and plodding drama, this feature is based on extensive research about the unemployment of the area and the factors that led to the real-life plant closing. The region becomes another casualty of the Great Depression that also serves as a fertile breeding ground for extremist movements fueled by intolerance and aggravated by racism and poverty. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Franziska Walser, Nicolas Brieger, (more)
- 1985
The award-winning Austrian film Welcome in Vienna unfolds a true story that has long been shunted aside by military historians. The film concerns those Austrian and German immigrants who fought with the American forces during World War 2. Specifically, the story deals with Austrian Jew Freddy Wolff (Gabriel Barylli) and German intellectual Adler (Nicholas Brieger). Wolff must contend with the anti-Semitism of his German-American sergeant (Joachim Kemmer), while Adler is ideologically drifting towards communism. The shock of meeting old friends on the "other" side and of finding that their homes no longer exist as they remember them are only some of the additional challenges faced by the two protagonists. Upon its first release, Welcome in Vienna stirred up a small controversy by suggesting that the Austrian people were not merely the helpless victims of Nazi tyranny, but were as responsible as any individual "fifth columnist" in helping Hitler overwhelm the rest of Europe. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gabriel Barylli, Nicolas Brieger, (more)
