Documentary about the role of Austrians in war crimes committed against Serbian population during WW2.

At the very beginning of our journey we visit the gloomy estate Manderley from the well known Hitchcock classic REBECCA, before meeting the eccentric ADDAMS FAMILY in their dilapidated Viktorian Mansion. Subsequently, we get to know Ernest Menville, an undertaker, who shall help to renew the battered bodies of his immortal ex-wifes in DEATH BECOMES HER. Our eerie tour then leads us to Disney's PHANTOM MANOR, the settlement of Cuesta Verde, in which a POLTERGEIST walks abroad, and the fabulous world of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. In the film set of PERFUME - THE STORY OF A MURDERER we will be bewitched by a perfect perfume and later on we find ourself in Paris, to reveal the enigmatic DA VINCI CODE. We then witness the curious transformation of BENJAMIN BUTTON, finally ending in the midst of THE OMEN, where the fallen angel casts a spell over us. In the second part of our concert we honor our these year’s laureate for the MAX STEINER FILM MUSIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2015, James Newton Howard.

The location of the Bohemian Forest at the former Iron Curtain and the political influences involved, had the result that both forms of country side are united here: natural landscape on the one hand and the ancient cultivated landscape on the other.

The Synchronous grid of Continental Europe provides the highest level of service security world wide. Nevertheless, experts are voicing their concerns over risks that could push the european grid over the edge. The exit from nuclear- and fossil fuel energy, rising consumption, climate change and an increasingly liberalized electricity market are, next to cyber attacks, serious threats that need to be addressed. Do we need to prepare for severe power outages and blackouts?

A musical hunt for lost Beethoven manuscripts. Shown during the intermission of 2020 New Year's Day Concert from Vienna.

There were many reasons to be in a good mood in 2014! David Newman and the multiple Oscar and Grammy winning Film-Song specialist Randy Newman presented thecolorful world of film comedy! This year the »MAX STEINER FILM MUSIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD« was awarded to RANDY NEWMAN. The famous nephew of the ninefold Oscar-winner Alfred Newman is one of the most successful film scorers of our time. He is especially renowned and well beloved for his numerous film songs that brought him two OSCARS, 20 nominations for the Academy Award and eight nominations for the GOLDEN GLOBES. He is also winner of six GRAMMYS and three EMMYS as well as honorary member of the »Rock and Roll Hall of Fame« (since 2013).

Hollywood in Vienna« invited to an unforgettable musical journey to the fantastic vastness of space and time and honored the versatile Hollywood composer Alexandre Desplat. The music of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY lead us to outer space and made us experience its infinite dimension.

INTERSTELLAR, between the stars, we entered the infamous, global STAR WARS and were rescued by STAR TREK's spaceship »Enterprise«, leading us to faraway musical galaxies, where no man has gone, before.

We got in CONTACT with extraterrestrials, GRAVITY pulled us back to earth and, finally, we fulfilled E.T.'s wish, to phone home. Within the second part of the concert, we honored the Oscar-, Golden Globe and Grammy winner Alexandre Desplat. His atmospheric melodies for HARRY POTTER, TWILIGHT, THE KING’S SPEECH, THE IMITATION GAME And THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL amongst others let us virtually float through the universe.

A team of the All African Television network, wanders into the darkest regions of the Eastern Alps. They observe the habits and rituals of the natives and make not one, but two ethnological major break-through discoveries.

Using extensive quotes from several Freudian works still banned by the Soviet censorship at the time the film interprets the pivotal points of European history of the past century from a psychoanalytical point of view.

Documentary about young people in a small town in Austria.

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism. Both men emerged from the turmoil of the Habsburg Empire in its closing days with the idea of analyzing language and purging it with critical intent, believing that in the analysis and purification of language lies the greatest hope that we have. They never met and might never have fully understood one another, because while the nature of their genius they found themselves alone breaking new ground of the very frontiers of their respective disciplines. But their work springs from the same soil and shares a common ethical purpose, so that their ideas and methods echo and illuminate those of each other to a remarkable degree.

The documentary traces the development of the phenomenon of alpinism and questions the motives of the early pioneers, who set themselves a monument with their mountaineering achievements.

»And the Oscar goes to…« This year »Hollywood in Vienna« will be setting out on a glamorous journey through eight decades of film music; the red carpet will be rolled out for some of the great Oscar-winning films & compositions, performed by the ORF RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VIENNA and conducted by Boston Pops music director KEITH LOCKHART in one of the most beautiful concert halls in the world. Following a sparkling opening with HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD, our program includes legendary songs from THE WIZARD OF OZ, alongside orchestral music from cult films such as CASABLANCA, JAWS, OUT OF AFRICA, SCHINDLER’S LIST, as well as recent Oscar-winners, such as SHAPE OF WATER and BLACK PANTHER, adding up to an unforgettable concert experience in a festive setting reflecting the magic of Hollywood.