by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story In the Habsburg monarchy, people didn’t just go on vacation, they went on summer retreats. This often week-long relaxation in the countryside, at the lake or by the sea was a specialty of the old Austria. Aristocrats and wealthy bourgeoisie traveled to the...
by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story Almost a century ago, with the fall of the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria’s rule on the upper Adriatic came to an end. What remains is an extensive architectural heritage, magnificent administrative buildings and grand hotels, road and rail links that once connected...
by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story The two filmmakers Björn Kölz and Gernot Stadler have accompanied the Austrian writer Martin Pollack on his travels in many Eastern European countries, in Austria and Slovenia and shot a film portrait of this pioneer of documentary literature. The TV documentary...
by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story The second half of the 19th century was marked by epochal changes, also for the great multi-ethnic empire in the centre of Europe, the Austrian Empire. Above all, the development of a gigantic railway network linking the most remote areas of the Austrian crown...
by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story The documentary by Björn Kölz and Gernot Stadler traces the history of the Southern Railway and the effects of railroad construction in the 19th century and embarks on a journey to Vienna via Semmering, through Styria and finally to the Istrian coast of Opatija,...
