by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story How was a castle built in the Middle Ages? With what tools, what technology?Answers to these exciting questions can be found in Friesach in Austria’s southernmost province of Carinthia. Construction work on the “Siegfriedstein Castle” in...
by GSFilmAdmin | Feb 4, 2025 | Productions
Story “There is no book so instructive, whose pictures are so beautiful, as the simple contemplation of nature” – Ludwig Salvator.Ludwig Salvator, Archduke of Austria and Prince of Tuscany, traveled and explored the Mediterranean for decades with his...
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...
