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Utopia with Milk and Sugar – Café Tamar Blindtext dritte Zeile möglichUtopie mit Milch und Zucker – Café Tamar Blindtext, Maximum: mit dritter Zeile

Although a suicide or rocket attack could change their lives at any moment, many Israelis have adopted a relaxed way of dealing with these existential threats. They discuss them over a coffee in the famous Café Tamar in Tel Aviv. Among the regulars we find Rafi Kishon, the son of Ephraim Kishon and graphic artist David Tartakover. A portrait of everyday life in a part of the world deeply marked by fate and steeped in history.

Duration: 30 min. TV | VOD | DVD | TE

Directed by Christian Buckard and Daniel Guthmann

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Afghanistan – The Lost Mines of the PharaohsAfghanistan – Die blauen Steine der Pharaonen

Afghanistan – one of the most remote and dangerous countries in the world. Yet for the last 20 years, through the turmoil of Russian invasion, retaliation, civil war and religious jihad, an American has traveled through Afghanistan in search of fabulous precious stones. This film is the story of this man and his achievements. It follows his journey to the mines he has rediscovered and helped reinvigorate. The lapis lazuli mine is the oldest on the planet. Over 6000 years ago, the precious blue stone was dug by hand and traded to Egypt of the pharaohs.

Duration: 50 min. tV | VOD | DVD | tE

Directed by Paul Reddish

Produced by Free Spirit Films and epo-film for ORF in association with Docstar, ZDF and bm:bwk

Available for UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and German speaking Switzerland;

other Territories distributed by Ampersand

32. Roshid International Film Festival: 3rd place

EV FV 810031

Alien Insect – The Praying Mantis Das Alieninsekt – Die Gottesanbeterin

Worldwide there are 2.000 species of praying mantis. This film explores the world of these “real aliens”. In unprecedented images it shows how manti-ses live, reproduce and die. But biological processes are not the film’s only focus. It features the largest and rarest representatives of the mantis fami-ly, several of which have never been filmed before.


Directed by Kurt Mündl

Produced by Power of Earth Productions for ORF in association with Discovery Channel,

Docstar and ZDF

Available for UK, Canada, Ireland and German speaking Switzerland; other Territories

distributed by Ampersand

Albert 2002: Prize for the best scientific film; IWFF 2002: Merit Award for Educational

Value and for Use of Graphics & Animations

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Almendro – Tree of LifeAlmendro – Baum des Lebens

The Almendro must be the most impressive of all the jungle giants in Costa Rica’s rainforest. From root to top, this unique tree offers habitats, shelter and nourishment to an incredible number of creatures. Whenever an Al-mendro goes down, almost the entire community goes down with it, de-monstrating the fragility of interdependent systems. A dramatic example of this principle is the Great Green Macaw. Wherever the tree disappears, the parrot no longer is found.


Directed by Barbara Puskás

A co-production by ORF and epo-film in association with bm:bwk

Available worldwide

Int. Wildlife Film FestivaL 2004: Honorable Mention for Natural Sound;

Green Vision 2004: Prize for Beauty and Humanism

EV FV JV 810064

Alpine Lakes – Quiet Beauty Alpenseen – Stille Schönheit

Springs, streams, ponds, lakes and rivers have forged our landscape over thousands of years. The film retraces the water’s journey – from the glacier down into the valley, through the mountains to its source, illustrating the beauty of natural, smaller lakes in Austria with their fascinating world of flora and fauna and tells the story of enchanted cliffs, a spectacular under-water world, dragons, ancient species of fish, as well as of speleologists and modern science.


Directed by Waltraud Paschinger and Erich Pröll

A co-production by ORF, Erich Pröll Film and Österreichische Bundesforste AG

in association with Upper Austria and BMLFUW

Available worldwide

U.S. Int. Film and Video Festival 2004: Certificate for Creative Excellence

Valvert 2004: Finalist

EV FV SV 810071


Alpine Meltdown5 Grad Plus

The climate is changing, global temperature is rising. The impacts are already apparent, especially in the mountains but also in the lowlands. The perma-frost zone is shifting higher up and the masses of snowmelt whooshing from the glaciers to the valleys are already increasing incessantly. Rivers are going to rise up to powerful floods and dwindle down to extremely low waters the next second. “Alpine Meltdown” takes us to a future world, pre-senting changes that have already occurred and pursuing the question how the alpine landscapes are going to look like at the end of the 21st century.


Directed by Waltraud Paschinger

A co-production by ORF, Posch-TV and BMUKK in association with Land Steiermark and ZAMG

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The Alps – Realm of the Golden EagleDie Alpen – Im Reich des Steinadlers

1.200 kilometers long, massive chains of rock form the most famous moun-tain range of the world. There between stretching in a wide arch lies a fasci-nating world. After more than 5 years of production and copious use of time lapse cameras, aerials and special film equipment, a completely new pic-ture of the alpine world has emerged with summits reaching for the stars and quiet secrets.

Duration: 3 x 50 min. tV | VOD | DVD | tE

Directed by Michael Schlamberger

Produced by ScienceVision film production for ORF in association with

Discovery Channel, ZDF, Docstar, Canal+ and RTV Slovenija



IWFF 2001: Merit Award for Photography; Wildlife Vaasa 2002: Best Photography Award;

Telenatura 2002: Best film; Frapna 2002: Grand Prix Nature; Int. festival of mountaineering

and adventure films 2004: mountain and nature prize

EV FV 810068

Ancient AmazonUr-Amazonas – Fluss aus der Wüste

Through an expedition to seek proof in support of the theory that one hund-red and thirty million years ago the original source of the Amazon was loca-ted in the Ounianga Kébir lake district in the modern Sahara, this fascina-ting film, using the latest graphic and animation techniques, looks at the natural history, geology and archaeology of a rarely filmed region of the Sahara bordering Lake Chad.


Directed by Herbert Habersack and Sepp Friedhuber

Produced by epo-film for ORF in association with ZDF, Docstar and bm:bwk



Romy 2001 for the best director

Telescience 2001: Finalist ; Kalamata Int. Documentary Film Festival 2001: Finalist

EV FV 811944


Ants – Nature’s Secret PowerAmeisen – Die heimliche Weltmacht

They wage wars and administer medicines; they are farmers and graziers. They live in a world of coded communications and lightning chains of com-mand, secret poison mixtures and prodigious strength. They have inhabi-ted our planet for millions of years. And yet no living creature seems more alien to us. UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hölldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these social insects. Bert Hölldobler, Professor at the University of Würz-burg, threw open the doors of his laboratory for the first time to make this documentary. With the latest high definition technology, Wolfgang Thaler has shot some of the most spectacular images of these fascinating creatu-res ever shown, pairing cutting edge technology with his wide experience of macro filming.


Directed by Wolfgang Thaler

A co-production by Adi Mayer Film and ORF in association with Docstar, WDR and bm:bwk



Golden Eagle Award 2006: Best Program; Vaasa Film Festival 2006: Best Science for

Nature Film; HD Festival for Digital Film 2006: 1st Prize; Science Film Festival Bangkok 2006:

Ecology Award; Certamen Unicaja de Cine 2006: Best Documentary; Jackson Hole 2005:

Special Jury Price; U.S. Internationals 2005: Gold Camera Award; IWFF 2005: Best Program,

Best Educational Value; Naturvision 2005: Best International Contribution, Best Camera

Gold Panda Award 2005: Best Director, Best Long Documentary; Japan Wildlife Festival 2005:

Frontiership Award; Amazonas Film Festival 2005: Best Wildlife Documentary Award;

Puchalski 2005: Grand Prix; Ekofilm 2005: Scientific Award of the Town Cesky

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Appalachia – The Endless ForestWilde Appalachen – Die Berge der Cherokee

The Appalachians form a vast mountain chain, stretching along the Eastern side of the USA, from Georgia in the south to Maine in the north. Along much of their length they are clothed in rich but little known woodland, se-cret worlds of rivers and waterfalls, caves and forest glades inhabited by bears and deer, raccoons and possums as well as dozens of other, lesser known creatures. These are the most diverse temperate forests on Earth. Human history here is just as rich as the natural history. Long before Colum-bus landed in North America, Cherokee Indians moved into these forests, european settlers followed, forming their own unique culture. Over the course of a year, the film looks at these extraordinary forests through the eyes of some of the people living there.


Directed by Steve Nicholls and Alfred Vendl

Produced by AV-Dokumenta and Burning Gold Productions Ltd for ORF in association

with Off The Fence and WDR

Available for UK, USA, Canada, German speaking Switzerland, Luxembourg and

Liechtenstein; other Territories distributed by OFF THE FENCE

U.S. Internationals 2006: Silver Screen Award

Golden Eagle Award 2006: Best Program

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Arlberg – The Hidden ParadiseArlberg – Das verborgene Paradies

Snow masses pile up in abundance on the deep snow-covered slopes. The wind has created bizarre snowdrifts on the steep mountain ridges, and further below, the Swiss pine carry the weight of this sparkling splendor. The Arlberg is the embodiment of an idyllic winter and the cradle of alpine skiing. However, this famous ski resort that connects Tyrol with Vorarlberg, offers a lot more than expected. A bit of untouched nature has been preser-ved in the hardly accessible valleys and the cliffy massifs.

In the deepest of winters, far away from the slopes and ski routes, avalan-ches thunder into the valley, however they bring with them neither destruc-tion nor death. On the contrary, the winter is the toughest time for ibexes and chamois. Now the meager fodder is buried deep under the snow and the animals can only find nutrition there where avalanches have cleared the slopes from snow. The winterly splendor is only one facet - the famous face of Arlberg, its true fascination, remains hidden under the snow almost half a year long.


Directed by Heinz Leger

A co-production by epo-film, ORF, BR, bm:ukk, supported by Austrian Television Fund

Available worldwide except for Germany

HD EV 812865

Baja – The Other CaliforniaBaja California – Das andere Kalifornien

Baja California stretches 750 miles southwards from its famous neighbour, the State of California. On either side of this narrow strip of land lie the rich waters of the Pacific and the Sea of Cortez. The peninsula, for the most part, is desert. Stark but beautiful, its raw landscape, naked rocks and giant cac-tus contrast with the crystal blue waters of the sea that surrounds it. Isola-ted from other deserts Baja and the Sea of Cortez are home to weird plants and unique creatures that evolved here coping with this most extreme of places. This is a rare opportunity to see the Boojum, for example, that looks more like a 10 meter high upside down parsnip than a true plant, the blue-footed boobies that each year perform their comical courtship or Lizards that eat flies so salty they would kill them, had they not enlarged nostrils with salt glands.



Produced by Free Spirit Films/epo film for ORF in co-production with DDE in association

with WDR and NDR Naturfilm


Golden Eagle Award 2006: Best Program; U.S. International Film and Video

Festival 2006: 3rd place for Creative Excellence; Menigoute Festival 2006: Prix du Jury

EV FV 810169


The Black MountainGlockner – Der schwarze Berg

Mount Grossglockner towers above the Tauern massif like a sentinel over an Alpine paradise of nature. Georg Riha portrays the Austrian Alps’ highest summit using state-of-the-art techniques. The camera accompanies moun-tain goats to the edge of a precipice and hovers above regions man has never entered whereas cable-car rides reveal the true nature of glaciers and waterfalls.


Directed by Georg Riha

Produced by Brains & Pictures for ORF in association with WDR and bm:bwk

Available worldwide

Moscow Int. Festival of Mountaineering and Adventure Films 2002: Best film in

its category; Festival Internationale Montagna “Citta di Trento” 2001: Best camera award;

Int. Mountain Film Festival Tegernssee 2003: best depiction of the landscape

EV FV SV 811699

The Big PictureDer große Horizont

Life on earth captured through satellite technology – a unique picture from space that offers an extraordinary and different view of our planet. Our space detectives create precise satellite pictures and spot potential prob-lems. Floods and fires can be tracked daily and movements of ocean cur-rents and snow cover can be followed throughout the season. “Big Picture” opens the skies to let us peak as an outsider into a palette of discoveries on earth.

Duration: 50 min. tV | VOD | DVD | TE


Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF and National Geographiv in association

with Fremantel Media

Available for German speaking Territories, United Kingdom, Ireland, USA and English

speaking Canada in 2010; other Territories distributed by Fremantle

Cine Filmfestival Washington: Golden Eagle Award

HD EV 812627

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Blue Danube, Black SeaBlaue Donau, Schwarzes Meer

The delta of the River Danube remains one of Europe’s best-kept secrets. This is Europe untamed, a wild place that has defied the hand of man for over a century and in spite of ecological problems in surrounding areas it still seems to be ecologically intact being the largest area of reeds in the world and home to a huge array of animals.



Produced by Free Spirit Film for ORF in co-production with BBC, ZDF and WWF

Available for USA, Central and South America, Canada, German speaking Switzerland,

Hungary and Bosnia; other Territories distributed by BBCW

Green Wave – European Environment Festival 2006: Special Mention

for artistic documentary storyline about a unique ecosystem

Lodz 2003: Prize for the best sound; IWWF 2001: Merit Award for Underwater Photography;

Envirofilm 2001: Prize of the Ministers of environment of the Visegrad group countries;

Sondrio 2001: Student Jury Award

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Bohemia – A Year in the WetlandsBöhmen – Land der 100 Teiche

In Bohemia, at the very heart of Europe, south of the Golden City of Prague and guarded by medieval castles, lies a hidden mosaic of lakes and gently flowing rivers, of misty forests and mysterious peat bogs. This important wetland, shaped both by nature and centuries of influence by man, is a magnet for huge flocks of birds and home to an amazing diversity of plant and animal life. In spring there is an explosion of life as the trees are weig-hed down with nests of cormorants, egrets, herons and storks. With the arrival of winter the landscape becomes silent and desolate. Otters are hunting fish under the ice of frozen lakes while White-tailed Eagles soar over gaps in the ice, targeting fish and birds. Since his early childhood wild-life cinematographer Jiri Petr has spent much of his time in this wildlife paradise. Together with him, we will explore this remarkable habitat and observe the changing faces of nature during the course of one year that inspired many artists and writers alike.


Directed by Jiri Petr and Michael Schlamberger

A co-production by ORF, BR and ScienceVision

Available worldwide except for Czech Republic and Germany

ECO 2010 FESTIVAL, Macedonia: Best Editing Award; Sichuan TV Festival: Grand Prize for

Nature; Green Screen – Internationales Naturefilmfestival: Best Sound Design; TOURFILM

Festival, Czech Republic: Special Prize – Prize of Czech Tourism; TECHFILM Festival: Prize for

best work of Art; Matsula Festival: Winner/category ”Nature“; Document Art Internationales

Filmfestival: Best Camera; Ekofilmfestival, Czech Republic: Best Camera; Sondrio Festival:

Lombardy Region Award; WILDLIFE VAASA FESTIVAL: Ostrobotnia Australis Special Award, 1st;10th Japan WildLife Film Festival: Special Jury Award

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Bohemian Forest – Wilderness in the Heart of Europe Böhmerwald – Wildnis im Herzen Europas

The Bohemian Forest is a region in the heart of Europe still having the last remnants of the original European prime forest. The location of the Bohemi-an Forest at the former Iron Curtain had the result that both forms of coun-try side are united here: ancient cultivated landscape on the one hand and natural landscape on the other. The film shows the progression of the seasons and the life of the farmers in this wilderness.


Directed by Alfred Vendl

Produced by Wega Film for ORF in association with WDR, bm:bwk and Upper Austria

Available worldwide

Ekofilm 2001: Finalist

EV FV SV 810237

Borderland – Nature DividedGrenzland – Die geteilte Natur

When the “Iron Curtain” between former Czechoslovakia and Austria fell around 20 years ago it did not only represent release for human beings. The border’s dissolution was also an epiphany for the flora and fauna of the two neighbouring countries. Although the same basic environmental conditions prevailed, development was at times completely different. The long term treatment, usage and exploitation of the environment, dictated as it was by differing political and economic concerns, meant that certain plants and wild animals in one region could spread unhindered while just a few kilo-metres away, on the other side of the barbed-wire fence, they remained totally unknown or had long been exterminated.

The common history of both countries and their unique “Natural Islands” of moors, marshland and disused border country in the “Dead Zone”, as well as the search for rare animal species which found refuge there, forms the focus of this Universum voyage of discovery.



A co-production by ORF and Power of Earth Productions

Available worldwide

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Carinthia – Land of WaterKärnten – Leben am Wasser

Carinthia has many farmers, craftsmen and fishermen who depend on wa-ter for their living. Curt Faudon paints a portrait of these people who live out their lives in the heart of a grandiose and multi-faceted natural lands-cape that, in spite of tourism, has remained nearly unaltered for the ferry-men in the Rosental Valley and the raftsmen on Lake Weissensee are still plying their trade on the waters of Carinthia.


Directed by Curt Faudon

A co-production by ORF and Faudon Movies in association with WDR

Available worldwide except for USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and

Germany

HD EV SV 811138

The Carnic Alps – Nature’s Treasure TroveDie Karnischen Alpen – Ein Gebirge voller Kostbarkeiten

Austria’s southern region boasts a mountain range that seems to consist of nothing but borders: the Carnic Alps. This is where cultures, languages and lifestyles meet, where Mother Nature provides a glimpse of the history of our planet Earth and where a soft breeze from the sea hits the cold Alpine wall. It is a place of close encounter of three languages: Slovenian, German and Italian.

Apart from the geographical border position, it is the steep mountain cliffs, the narrow valleys and the diversity of these borders that have shaped people’s mentality. At a distance of approximately 60 miles from the sea, the impact on the weather is obvious. When the clouds come pushing to the North from the Adriatic Sea, they eventually hit the main ridge of the Carnic Alps, which forces them to stop for a rest and shed rain. Finally, the geological history of Mother Earth has formed its own boundaries here bet-ween the earth’s ages.


Directed by Manfred Christ

A co-production by Cosmos Factory, ORF and bm:bwk in association with

the Carinthian Tourist Board

Available worldwide

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Carnuntum – Metropolis in the Land of the BarbariansCarnuntum – Weltstadt im Land der Barbaren

According to accounts by the Roman historian Paterculus, in the year 6 A.D. a Roman army under Tiberius put up its winter camp in the Celtic Noricum. The exact site was called Carnuntum, and it was the moment of birth of a legendary Roman metropolis upon the Danube “in the land of the Barbari-ans”, built as a bastion against invaders from the North.

Two thousand years later, this lavish documentary drama by multi-award winning producer Kurt Mündl portrays the history of and life in ancient Carnuntum.



A co-production by ORF, Power of Earth Productions, bm:bwk and Lower Austria

Available worldwide

HD EV FV 810268

The Carpathians – Life in Dracula’s ForestsKarpaten – Leben in Draculas Wäldern

The Carpathian mountains, Europe’s largest and mightiest natural bulwark, are coming to life again. When the shepherd Vasile wanders the forests of Count Dracula, his path leads him across superb cultural landscapes for-med by the struggle with Mother Nature, shaped by ancient myths and cus-toms. There he meets Delia, a contemporary young girl with a strong desire for the “old life”.

Eight months later in winter, when the harsh life of the wandering shepherd comes to a brief standstill, the circle closes. Vasile marries Delia, and out there in the ice and snow, the shepherds wrap up warm again in their white furs.


Directed by Kurt Mayer

A co-production by ORF, NDR and Kurt Mayer Film in association with RTR and FFW


18th International Mountain and Adventure Film Festival, Austria 2006:

Gold Alpine Camera Award

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Central Park Central Park

The fast-paced year in the life of a New Yorker versus the slowly changing seasons of Central Park – this documentary accompanies people of the city into their working world, into their homes and into their daily trips to the Park. At every time of day and year, a myriad of people of different back-grounds come to the Park, be it a construction worker or a famous actor. The ever enchanting grass, trees and visitors of Central Park create a fee-ling of magic around the green. Central Park – a unique and calm natural paradise amidst the busy streets of New York City.

Living in New York since more than fifteen years, Curt Faudon has a deep connection to this entrusted space. This documentary portrays the power-ful intermezzo of seasons at Central Park and follows some people with very special ties to the park.



A co-production by ORF and Faudon Movies in association with WDR and NDR

Available worldwide except for USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand

and Germany

CINE Golden Eagle Competition 2006: Golden Eagle Award for best Program

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City of Steel, City of LifeLinz lebt!

Linz, the capital of the Province of Upper Austria, serves as European Capi-tal of Culture in 2009. In recent years, Linz has blossomed into a model European city that places its technology- and knowledge-based urban in-dustrial centre at equal footing to its manifold cultural events. Against this dynamic backdrop, Linz has similarly managed to demonstrate respect to nature by including ecological factors on all levels of urban planning. Linz 09 – the city in which industry, culture and nature melt into one.

This film takes the viewer on an adventure trip of a special kind by following the everyday lives of wild animals that have chosen, of all places in the world, Linz as their habitat. It ventures through the Old Town with quiet paws and then takes you by nosedive to the old tower of the cathedral or in agile leaps through the botanical gardens. Linz is presented through an ex-traordinary angle – whether sniffed out by dogs and cats, seen by falcon or fish or experienced by bumble bees or foxes.


Directed by Erich Pröll

A co-production by ORF, Linz 09, Land Oberösterreich and Linz AG

Available worldwide

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The Climate Change BugDie Exoten kommen

For some time now the question of whether or not climate change is taking place has been more or less settled. The issue that remains largely unans-wered however is: how will we cope with climate change and what effect will it have on our flora and fauna. Already there are signs that serious eco-logical and biological changes are taking place, not only far away in exotic regions of the world, but also right on our own doorstep, here in Europe.

This documentary seeks to explain broadly which animals and plants are most likely to spread across Central Europe and shows what we could ex-pect running into in a few years’ time. One kind of tick, for example, which originally comes from Africa and causes malaria-like symptoms, is beco-ming more and more common. And this is not the only “exotic” species that are increasingly surviving the milder winters and proliferating, confronting us with a slow-going, almost hidden change in European wildlife.



A co-production by ORF, Power of Earth and BMWF

Available worldwide

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Cuba – Wild Island of the CaribbeanKuba – Juwel der Karibik

Cuba is the largest and yet least known island in the Caribbean. Over half the plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth and over 80 % of the reptiles and amphibians are uniquely Cuban. The film reveals the unk-nown wonders of the largest and most unspoilt of the Caribbean islands and provides a fresh perspective on Cuba.



Produced by Free Spirit Films for ORF in co-production with DDE, Thirteen/WNET New York

and NDR Naturfilm/Studio Hamburg

Available worldwide except for Germany and USA

Golden Eagle Award 2005: Best Program; International Wildlife Film Festival

Albert France 2006: Best Sound

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Death at Dawn – The Emperor’s Last BattleshipTod im Morgengrauen – Das letzte Schlachtschiff des Kaisers

Premuda, June 10th, 1918 6:05 am: The Szent Istvan is sinking. The most modern battleship of the K.u.K. fleet has been hit by two torpedoes on its maiden voyage.

A camera team aboard the Tegetthoff was sent out to film the first deploy-ment of the new battleship. The planned scenes of celebration would instead become a one of a kind documentation of a horrific event. Their original footage forms the basis of this documentary, which recreates and analyses the tragedy. Historical reenactments, filmed on historic ships in Rostock and Athens, help define the atmosphere of the film.

Using 3D animation and a diving expedition to the wreck of the Szent Istvan off the coast of Croatia, the filmmakers attempt to resolve the last myste-ries of the ship’s destruction.


Directed by Maria Magdalena Koller

A co-production by Interspot Film and Vidicom together with ARTE, ORF, ZDF and

BMUKK in cooperation with DocLab and MTV

Available worldwide except for Germany, France, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland

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The Dragons of the CanariesDrachen der Kanaren

Kurt Mündls sensational documentary covers its subject from ancient seafaring myths and legends that related stories of the „Dragons of the Ca-nary Islands“ as early as 2,000 years ago, up to the current state of research on these unique reptiles. Spectacular shots also illustrate the trying jour-neys undertaken by Oskar Simony at the end of the 19th century. The first giant lizard specimen captured by Oskar Simony in 1889 for the scientific world is still at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. But Mündl‘s film also demonstrates that animal species do not always benefit from being disco-vered: Only a few decades after Simony‘s sensational discovery the giant lizard of El Hierro was considered lost or extinct. Too many scientists and collectors had helped themselves to material from the small population.

The first-ever filmings realised by Kurt Mündl and his team also include a filming of the hatching of a giant lizard from start to finish. In addition to biological details on these lizards Mündl‘s film includes dramatic re-enactments of Oskar Simony‘s expeditions and the life of the „Guanches“, the Canarian aborigines, who hunted lizards to eat them. Animations of top quality are another asset of this film



Produced by Power of Earth Productions for ORF in association with NDR and bm:bwk


Menigoute Festival 2004: Finalist

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Drakensberg – Africa’s Dragon Mountains Im Bann der Drachenberge

A dragon hatched from the volcanic furnaces of Gondwanaland. Ancient al-most beyond comprehension, yet a living thing. And vast, stretching across a subcontinent, its spine arching above the clouds …

No lucky dragon, this. Starvation festers beneath the shimmering green of its skin. But to the creatures that live along its flanks, it can be a bountiful provider as well as a remorseless destroyer. Today we call it the Drakens-berg, or “Dragon Mountain”. “Drakensberg” is a dynamic documentary journey through the life of this ever-astonishing mountain. It is also a story of animal survival in a landscape of overwhelming, pitiless power.


Directed by Lynne und Philip Richardson

Produced by ORF and Africa Wildlife Films in co-production with Thirteen/WNET, WDR

and BBC in association with Fremantle Media

Available for German speaking Territories, Ireland and English speaking Canada,

other Territories distributed by Fremantle

CINE Golden Eagle Competition, Washington 2009: CINE Golden Eagle Award;

Waga Brothers International Festival of Nature Films, Goniadz/Poland

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Drava – River of Peace, River of War Drau – Ein Fluss zwischen Krieg und Frieden

The Drava is one of the last big, partially untamed lowland rivers of central Europe. Whereas in Austria the river is forced into a narrow concrete corset after a few kilometers, the lower reaches of the Drava at the border bet-ween Hungary and Croatia is practically untouched. For years it was cut off from the outside world by the Iron Curtain. At that time only soldiers were permitted to enter the border area. This allowed the areas along the Drava to keep its incredible variety of plant and animal life. Here black storks breed in the solitude of the forest, kingfishers and sea eagles fish in the branches of the Drava and innumerable bank swallows make their nests in the steep slopes rising from the river.

Further downstream, the idyll found an abrupt end during the war at the beginning of the 1990s between the Serbs and Croats. The Kopacki Rit, the flood plains where the Drava flows into the Danube, was right at the figh-ting front. During those years the Kopacki Rit Natural Park lost a great deal of its original natural wealth.

Nature’s process of regeneration, however, will take place during the co-ming decades without human intervention.


Directed by Karl Königsberger

Produced by Goess Film and Media for ORF

Available worldwide

IWfF 2001: Merit Award for Footage

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First on Mount EverestErster auf dem Everest

In 1953 Edmund Hillary was the first person to conquer Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain. That is what the history books tell us. However the German researcher, Jochen Hemm-leb, casts doubt on this belief. Just below the summit of Mount Everest he and his team disco-vered the well-preserved body of George Mallo-ry, who in 1924 had made an assault on the peak with his climbing partner Andrew Irvine. Did Mal-lory stand on the summit 30 years before Hillary? To find an answer to this question, in 2010 we follow Jochen Hemmleb on a further risky search expedition on the roof of the world. Using crimi-nological methods Hemmleb and his team hope also to find the body of Mallory’s partner, An-drew Irvine. In 1924 Irvine had a small camera with him, whose contents may provide proof as to who was actually the first person to reach Everest’s summit.

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Directed by Gerald Salmina

A co-production by ORF, ARTE, WDR, PRE-TV, Taglicht Media

and Monaco Film, supported by Austrian Television Fund

and Vienna Film Fund

Available worldwide except for Germany and France

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Flight of the Bald IbisFlug des Waldrapp

Bald ibises migrated back and forth between Central Europe and Northern Africa, before they were pushed over the brink by hunting and habitat de-struction. Today, the birds have no memory of the old seasonal migration routes. Two Austrian ornithologists therefore fl y the route using ultralight planes to guide a fl ock of birds to their winter quarters in the Maremma swamps along the west coast of Tuscany, Italy.



Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF in association with BR and ARTE


Int. Ornithological Film Festival 2004: fi nalist

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The Fire of Life: Power of Destruction – Source of CreationFeuer – Kräftespiel der Natur

Since the beginning of time the natural force of fi re has formed and infl u-enced life on Earth. This documentary shows you the fascinating magic of fi re. It takes you to the greatest fi re landscapes on our planet, showing the sophisticated and unbelievable strategies plants, animals and native inha-bitants have developed in order to use the fl ames to their advantage. It gi-ves you an inside view of scientists experimenting with huge infernoes in order to learn about modern fi re management. This fi lm draws a new image, not about lethal and destructive fl ames, but about this fascinating, lifegi-ving source.


Directed by Manfred Christ and Harald Pokieser

Produced by Telcast International & Cosmos Factory in association with ORF and ZDF

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Flight of the Stork Flug der Störche

Every spring, there is a unique annual gathering just a few miles from Austria’s capital Vienna: Some sixty pairs of white storks come here to mate and breed. This film accompanies these white storks on their seaso-nal journeys between Central Europe and their African winter quarters. In-novative camera technology offers thrilling and surprising insights into the bird’s lives, from their egg-shell cradle to their long flight back to Africa in late summer.



A co-production by ORF, IN-Film and WDR in association with bm:bwk


Menigoute Festival 2005: 3rd place; IWFF 2006: Honourable Mention for Use of Music;

Festival du Film de l’Oiseau et de la nature 2006: Finalist

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The Four AlpsDie Vier Alpen

The European Alps are the most famous mountains on Earth. However, the-re are three other mountain ranges that owe their names to the first Euro-pean Explorers, one in the Northern and two in the Southern Hemisphere. The European and Japanese Alps are almost identical worlds yet the Austra-lian and the Southern Alps of New Zealand couldn’t be more different.

This film is a fast-paced roller coaster ride from the top to down-under.


Directed by Michael Schlamberger and Jeremy Hoggarth

A co-production by ORF and WDR in association with ABC and NHNZ

Available worldwide except for Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Asia

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From Drought to DelugeExtrem! – Zwischen Dürre und Sintflut

In the 21st century, the average rainfall will increase and likewise its inten-sity. Many parts of Earth will therefore drown in rain and snow, whilst other parts will dry out. What should we expect? How should we deal with these new conditions? How to adapt to it? One answer can be found there where humankind has already gotten used to exceptionally high rainfalls, there where there is never a drop of rainfall, and there where rain and snowfall reach world records. The French island, La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean offers almost certainly a guarantee for torrential rainfall. When it comes to world records, La Réunion is by far the champion. The big legend amidst the places with the most rain is the city Cherrapunjee in Eastern India. Cherra-punjee is proud to call itself the wettest place on Earth. Here one has to get acclimated to five months of continuous rainfall. According to the most re-cent measurements, the amount of downpour is even increasing. On the other extreme there is the Atacama desert in Chile. It is considered the driest desert on Earth. Allegedly, some places have not even seen rainfall for four thousand years.


Directed by Udo Maurer and Manfred Christ

Produced by ORF in association with Fremantle Media


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From Valley Deep to Mountain HighExtrem! – Von höchsten Höhen bis unters Meer

In the near future, some of the settlement areas will become uninha bitable, and new land will need to be tapped into because of climate change. Are there any limitations to realizing the impossible? The third part of filmma-ker Udo Maurer’s voyage through the world’s extremes compares life at sea level with the highest mountains of the world. From the lagoons and palm beaches of the South Sea Islands whose highest peak is often only some few meters high to the highlands of Ethiopia at four thousand metres. From the shores of Dead Sea, located at 408 meters below sea level, to the 5400 meter high La Rinconada, the gold miner city, in the Peruvian Andes. La Rinconada is not like any other place, it is the highest inhabited place on Earth. If someone dares to go that long stretch, it is only for one reason: to become rich. In fact, there is gold in La Rinconada – and that attracts adven-turers from all over the world.






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From Freezer to FurnaceHeißkalt – Die extremsten Orte der Welt

This is a journey to the hottest and coldest places on earth, where people go about their everyday lives under extreme conditions – and even enjoy it. The Northern Pole of Cold, where the northern hemisphere’s lowest air tem-perature of minus 71.2 degrees Celsius has been recorded, lies in north-east Siberia. The village of Oymyakon is the coldest inhabited place on earth – a real “natural freezer”. Thousands of miles away lies America’s answer to the record-holding Russian village: Furnace Creek, headquarters of Death Valley National Park. In 1913, 56.7 degrees Celsius were measu-red here. But the world’s official hottest place is the city of Al’Aziziyah in Libya, a gateway to the Sahara desert, just 25 miles from Tripoli and the Mediterranean Sea. It holds the world record of 58 degrees Celsius – in the shade! Another infamous blast furnace is the Danakil Depression in the bor-derland between Eritrea and Ethiopia – one of the most forbidding deserts on earth, a vsolcanic wasteland almost 150 meters below sea level, which boasts the highest measured annual average temperature: 34.6 degrees Celsius.






IWFF International Wildlife Film Festival & Media Center, Missoula: Honorable Mention for

Creative Approach + Critical Message; US International Film and Video Festival: Silver Screen

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Genghis Khan – Rider of the ApocalypseDschingis Khan – Reiter der Apokalypse

Genghis Khan, ruthless leader of the Mongols and sovereign over the vas-test empire ever ruled by a single man, was both god and devil – not just in the Middle Ages, but for centuries to come. Luxurious historical reconstruc-tions, cleverly enhanced with state-of-the-art CGI and compositing tech-niques, make up the fl esh of this program. The bone will be serious, yet exciting science – not only archaeology at scenic ancient sites but also the tracing of living modern remnants of the ancient Mongol culture.



Produced by Interspot Film for ORF in co-production with ZDF and DDE

Available worldwide except for Germany and UK

Eugene International Film Festival 2007: Production Excellence Award

Int. Film and Video Festival, Oregon 2007: Among the top fi ve fi lms in

Cinematography category; Golden Eagle Award 2005: Best Program;

U.s. internationals 2005: silver screen award; FIDOC 2006: Grand Prix du Public

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Fu Long – Little Panda, Happy Dragon Fu Long – Der kleine Panda

Entire Austria was buzzing with excitement as for the fi rst time ever in the history of European zoos a panda baby was conceived naturally and born in good health. In advance to this moment of happiness, a Chinese delegation called the little bear Fu Long – “Happy Dragon”.

ORF’s Natural History Unit accompanied the panda baby throughout the fi rst moments of its young life. Witness Fu Long’s clumsy attempts at wal-king, playing around in the adjoining garden and canoodling with his mo-ther Yang Yang. This documentary offers not only sensational exclusive shots of the newly born baby in its birth box, being taken care of by its mo-ther and the little panda’s visits to the veterinarian to assure healthy deve-lopment but also tries to uncover the secret life of one of the most endan-gered species in the world.

Fu Long is growing fast and getting cuter and lovelier every day. Have a look and join the “panda-mania” that crossed Austria’s borders spreading into whole Europe in no time.



Produced by Interspot Film for ORF

Available worldwide

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Gene Pool of the AlpsGenpool der Alpen

The Alpine Zoo in Innsbruck is unique in many ways. Situated at 750 metres above sea level, it is regarded as Europe’s highest-altitude zoo. It covers approximately 4 hectares and, with 150 different species, is home to the world’s most complete collection of alpine animals. This makes it purely a themed zoo, where only animals from the alpine area are kept and dis-played – there are no lions, elephants or giraffes here. The film concentra-tes above all on the zoo’s dedicated and highly specialised breeding and resettlement projects. Absolute rarities that worldwide are only kept in the Tyrolean alpine zoo are also presented. The documentary shows in an en-tertaining way how fascinating Austria’s nature, its exploration and preser-vation are.



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Greece – Garden of the GodsGriechenland – Der Garten der Götter

Greece, the Ancient Empire, is the residence of the Gods from Artemis to Zeus. A sanctuary of impressive temples, ruins, mystical places of worship and home to a rich fauna and flora. Steeped in legends, this countryside provides the backdrop for the unique natural history of the birthplace of the Olympic Games.

This unconventional documentary moves to and fro between the world of ideas and natural facts and takes us through the realm of the Gods where hardly known animals live in a breathtaking landscape. Schlamberger com-bines the magnificent visual imagery of nature-film with a journey into the world of ancient Greek ideology, inviting us on an entertaining stroll through the “Garden of the Gods”.



A co-production by ScienceVision and ORF in association with Off the Fence and WDR

Available only for USA, Canada, UK, German speaking Switzerland, Luxembourg and

Liechtenstein; other Territories distributed by OFF THE FENCE

6th International Meeting of Archaeological Film of the Mediterranean Area, Greece 2006:

Special Award; IWFF, Montana 2006: Honorable Mention for Creative Storytelling

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The Great RiftRift Valley – Der große Graben

Emerging 35 million years ago as a mysterious rift along the surface of the Earth a 6000 kilometres long fault line between eastern Africa and the Ara-bian Peninsula has created not only a unique geological phenomenon but also landscapes of immense beauty.

Today, among the coral reefs of the Red Sea, the rain forests of Rwanda, and the steppes of the Serengeti and Masai Mara the crown jewels of crea-tion – whale sharks and stingrays, mountain gorillas and forest elephants, rhinos, giraffes and lions – can be found.

This 3-part documentary takes us on a breathtaking journey along several of the most beautiful landscapes on Earth using latest HD filming tech-niques combined with CGI as well as newly developed flight devices that provide us with magnificently enhanced vistas and astounding insights into our planet’s treasury.

A famous Land – Part 1:The savannahs and jungles, the lakes and volcanoes of Tanzania and Kenya are like film sets, the source of western myths about Africa and a magnet for tourists. Yet most of these regions remained untouched and are still full of mysteries and wilderness. Visit the paradise of animals beyond hotels and lodges that is as untamed as the fire-spewing volcano which created it millions of years ago.


Directed by Harald Pokieser

A co-production by ORF, ARTE, Studio Hamburg Produktion, NDR, WDR, Cosmos Factory and

National Geographic Channel

Available worldwide except for Germany, France and USA

Cine Golden Eagle Competition: Golden Eagle Award (part 1); Naturvision Filmfestival:

1st price (part 1); Vertical – The Moscow International Festival of Mountain and Adventure

Films 2010: Winner (part 3)

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Between Paradise and Hell – Part 2:After crossing the Rub al-Khali desert in Arabia we dive into the paradise of the Red Sea visiting the magic gardens of collar reefs and its inhabitants only to continue our journey to the salt flats of Dallol and the mighty Erta’Ale volcano in northern Ethopia where the oldest hominids were found.

Empire of the Clouds – Part 3:In this final part we travel from the dry east to the fertile mountain ranges of Uganda only to be introduced to the majestic mountain range of Kiliman-jaro with Africa’s highest peaks. Its volcanoes stand as solitary giants among grasslands and together with Lake Nakuru they make up one of the most remarkable natural parks in the world.

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Green Islands in a Sea of Stone Grüne Inseln im steinernen Meer

Spared by the ice-age, overlooked by an expanding civilisation for hund-reds of years, saved at the last minute from a total sell out to tourism – that is the still little known Carinthian “Nockberge” region. Austria’s oldest landscape is a green island surrounded by young, dramatic peaks. The windswept heights have been cattle pastures from time immemorial, and over the centuries a wonderful harmony has developed between wildlife and cattle. Wild nature and the ancient culture of mountain farming distin-guish the character of the Nockberge Nationalpark.


Directed by Klaus Feichtenberger

A co-production by ORF, ScienceVision and Nationalpark Nockberge

Available worldwide

Wildscreen 1998: Finalist

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Hallstatt – Living Between Rock and Lake Hallstatt – Ein Leben zwischen Fels und See

The Austrian region of Hallstatt-Dachstein features breathtaking lands-capes, crystal clear lakes and a deep historic relevance: During the Hallstatt era, 2500 years ago, the celtics built an empire on the ancient salt-mines of the region. Using the latest CGI techniques, dramatic reenactments and outstanding nature photography director Wolfgang Thaler lets this fascina-ting region come to life.



A co-production by Adi Mayer Film and ORF in association with Salinen Austria

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High Tatras – A Wilderness Frozen in Time Zauberberge – Die Wildnis der Hohen Tatra

The High Tatras are considered a National Park in Slovakia. It has more than three hundred peaks, many higher than 2500 meters, romantic valleys with no access roads, crystal-clear streams and forests inhabited by wolves, be-ars and lynxes. Observing the nature of the High Tatras means to look into the past, to go back to a world when ploughs were pulled by horses and trees were cut with handsaws and axes, to go back to the times of European wilderness, when predators still roamed the forests.


Directed by Harald Pokieser and Pavel Barabas

A co-production by ORF, WDR/NDR and Cosmos Factory


SondrioFestival – International Documentary Film Festival, Italy 2008: First Prize &

Audience Award; IWFF International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula 2008: Merit Award for

Cinematography; International Festival of Mountain Films 2007: People Choice Award

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Hans Hass – The Man Who Discovered the SeaHans Hass – Der Mann, der das Meer entdeckte

For hundreds of thousands of divers and underwater specialists through-out the world the name Hans Hass is synonymous with everything that takes places under the ocean waves. Hans Hass is the godfather of under-water cinematography and with his photos and films he showed the won-ders of the sea to the people above – long before Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He developed diving devices like the first hand-held underwater camera and was the first man ever to move free and weightless with a breathing ap paratus in the ocean – a fish among fishes. This documentary includes original footage from the historically unique archive of Hans Hass, whose films reached worldwide attention and won numerous prizes. Let Hans Hass take you on a journey with his yacht “Xarifa” and experience once again the great moments of mankind, when the ocean lost its terror and turned into the magic world which is so familiar to us today.



A co-production by ORF and Telcast International

Produced by Cosmos Factory

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Iceland – Realm of the GodsIsland – Burg der Götter

This documentary takes us to a magical country where the forces of nature sculpt the landscape before our eyes and fire the imagination of its inhabi-tants. Nowhere else in the world are there as many myths and legends. Nowhere else do people believe so firmly in elves. And nowhere else have such unforgettable cultural treasures been made than in this environment, where even rock formations seem to come to life. Witness stunning gla-ciers, majestic waterfalls, geothermal spas and fire spitting volcanoes as the elements try to overcome each other in an ongoing struggle to shape this unique environment.


Directed by Harald Pokieser and Manfred Christ

A co-production by Greenlight Media AG, Filmproduktion Gogol Lobmayr and ORF,

produced by Cosmos Factory

Available worldwide except for Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine

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The Ice Trap – The Tegetthoff‘s Arctic OdysseyDie Eisfalle – Die arktische Odyssee der Tegetthoff

The “Franz Josef Land” archipelago was discovered in 1873 by an Austrian polar expedition. This 90-minute special illustrates the achievements and sacrifices of the ship’s 24 crew members from Istria, Dalmatia, Italy, Hungary, Bohemia and Austria. Trapped in the ice, the Tegetthoff drifted northward, farther north than any human being had ever ventured before. Captain Carl Weyprecht’s decision to abandon the doomed ship and begin the long trek over the pack-ice back through Siberia led to one of the most spectacular achievements of a team in international polar history.


Directed by Helmut Voitl

Produced by ORF

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Inn-Side StoryInn – Fluss der Abenteuer

A cascade of water pouring from glaciers and a lake in the high mountains, a water fall tumbling from high up into the valley, a chain of lakes at the base of 10,000-foot peaks, rocky chasms dis-gorging the torrent, drawn-out gravel banks and mudflats, undercut banks and river bends, and extensive riparian forests at the river’s lower reaches: the Inn has many faces to show and an interesting tale to tell. It is the longest tributary of the Danube in Central Europe, flowing through Switzerland, Austria and Bavaria along its 520 kilometer course.

The variety in landscape is reflected in the diver-sity of the flora and fauna along the river: gray-ling and trout swarm in its headwaters, little ringed plovers breed on the gravel banks, dragonflies, frogs and rare water plants populate the oxbows, owls and bats raise their young in the bluffs. Along the river’s lower stretches live beavers, ot-ters, night herons, sheldrakes, goosanders and dozens of other bird species.


Directed by Franz Hafner

A co-production by ORF, Interspot Film, BMUKK, BR, SF in

association with Vienna Film Fund, Austrian Television Fund,

Cine Tirol, Landesregierung Tirol and Landesregierung

Oberösterreich

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It is the river’s indestructible power and dyna-mism, however, which is most impressive: in spi-te of many hydropower plants and dams lining its path, the river still carries more than a million tons of suspended solids a month downstream before it empties its load into the Danube.

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The Incredible Hulik and His BeaversHulik und die Biber

Biologist Tomas Hulik spent more than 300 days and nights in the wild rive-rine forest along the river March, separating Slovakia and Austria. After that, Rachel, the matron of this beaver territory, allowed him to watch the daily routine and dramatic adventures of her family of five at close range. In more than 200 shooting days, an ORF camera team accompanied Tomas to gather scenes never before filmed in the wild.



Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF in association with Docstar

Available for UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and German speaking Territories; other Territories


Lodz 2003: Honorable Mention; Envirofilm 2003: Prize of the General Director of the

Slovak Environmental Agency

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The Iron ForestWilder Wald im Land des Eisens

The Limestone Alps National Park is a mosaic of forests of different ages. The wild, romantic waterways are important habitats for many water in-sects and a paradise for the water ouzel and the gray wagtail. Another rarity shown in this film is a brood of black storks that do not actually nest in the national park but frequently catch trout in the park’s brooks and streams.



A co-production by ScienceVision, ORF and Nationalpark Kalkalpen

Available worldwide

International Film- und Videofestival 1999: 1st Place, Gold Camera Award;

10th Int. Festival of Animal Documentaries 2000: Prix de la Connaissance et de la

Protection de la Faune Européenne

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Jackals – Out of AfricaSchakale unter uns

In some cultures, jackals were pursued and condemned as pests that fed on parasite-infested carcasses. In others, such as Ancient Egypt, they were divinely celebrated. This documentary accompanies a young scientist, who is drawn to these mythical mammals, and takes us on a journey to explore golden jackals, from Egypt to the barren hills of Greece. Other showplaces are the reeds of the Hungarian Kis Balaton, the Romanian Danube delta, the Austrian alpine pastures and the forests of Croatia, where the jackals share their living space with wolves and bears.


Directed by Istvan Nadaskay and Waltraud Paschinger

A co-production by ORF, IN-Film and WDR in association with bm:bwk


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The Isle Die Insel

Vienna’s Danube Island, a river island artificially created some 20 years ago, has become a recreational retreat for tens of thousands of city dwel-lers. To tourists, it is an attraction praised in every traveller’s guide. No-one associates the island with wildlife and wilderness, and yet, unnoticed by most visitors, a secret army of wild animals has conquered the island and turned it into their own hunting and breeding grounds.


Directed by Manfred Corinne

Produced by media wien for ORF in association with the City of Vienna and bm:bwk

Available worldwide

Lodz 2003: Honorable Mention; Green Vision 2003: Prize of the Youth Jury

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Kailash – Towards the Sacred MountainKailash – Zum heiligsten Berg der Welt

In a remote west Tibetan corner, one of the highest-lying and most solitary territories of our planet, a pyramid rises that is made solely of crags and ice: Mount Kailash, the holy mountain. For more than a thousand years, pilg-rims have been going on a long and laborious journey, following an ancient ritual of rounding the sacred peak, in order to draw on the miraculous pow-ers of the Kailash. The documentary is a cinematic expedition on the tracks of Sven Hedin, Heinrich Harrer and Herbert Tichy, who where all spellbound by the Kailash and its sacred power.


Directed by Hans-Peter Stauber

A co-production by ORF and Interspot Film

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Kamp – A River for all SensesKamp – Ein Fluss für alle Sinne

Far from being a long, let alone a wide river, the waters of the Kamp river feed one of the most fascinating valley landscapes of Lower Austria. From its source to its estuary, which empties into the Danube, the river descends about 745 metres in altitude. A river course like the Kamp’s is a life corridor whose banks line increasingly rare wetlands, marshes, meadows, gallery forests, embankments, jungle-type shrubs and alluvial forests. While small sections of the river course were made a nature preserve, one whole sec-tion of the river was designated to become a “cultural park”. The region is shaped by its long-standing cultural tradition, the perfect soil for wine-gro-wing, and an ever more strongly positioned gentle tourism industry.



A co-production by ORF, AV-Dokumenta, bm:bwk and Lower Austria

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Lake Constance – Europe’s Deepest BlueBodensee – Smaragd im Herzen Europas

Europe’s third-largest lake set between Austria, Switzerland and Germany mirrors an imposing snow-capped Alpine panorama, yet its enormous mass of water creates a mild Mediterranean climate inviting a rich diversity of plant and animal life. In some parts, the steepness of its fjord-like shores has kept away human settlements. Here and along the inland delta of the river Rhine, wild nature dominates the scenic landscape.



A co-production by ORF, Wega Film and bm:bwk in association with WDR

Available worldwide except for Switzerland and Germany

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The Karst – Life Between Heaven and HellMenschen im Karst – Leben zwischen Himmel und Hölle

A scraggy land of harsh beauty but full of deception as well. This film explo-res the hidden charms of the stony cliffs along the Gulf of Trieste, the original home of the white horses from Lipica and portrays the inhabitants of this Karst region, who are simple people, deeply affected by the vicissitudes of European history and the hardships of life. The Karst plateau, perforated like a sponge absorbing everything that flows through it, provides humans and nature a life amid water wind and stone. Wild rivers roar through the dome-like caves of its underworld, giving an impression similar to Dante’s Inferno. Niko Luin and his wife Kathrina, like many other farmers in the re-gion are avid explorers of the caves. Together with the Universum-team they explore this bizarre underworld on this fascinating and sometimes pe-rilous journey into the underground, which during some years can swallow entire bodies of water like Lake Cerknica.



A co-production by ORF, NDR, bm:ukk and Kurt Mayer Film

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Lake Wörthersee – Where Man and Nature MeetDer Wörthersee – Bühne für Tier und Mensch

Lake Wörther in the Austrian state of Carinthia is not only one of the most beautiful lakes in Austria, but also, in the truest sense of the phrase an

“internationally famous stretch of water”. For over 100 years the lake has been the “stage” for world famous composers, architects and Hollywood stars.

Austria’s first airline came into being on Lake Wörther, and the lake’s ship-ping is legendary.

But away from the hustle and bustle, the scenically charming lake with its islands and peninsulas is an uncharted natural jewel that has been decla-red a „natura 2000“ area.

For the first time this HD production provides a glimpse behind the scenes at the secrets of Lake Wörther.



A co-production by ORF and Power of Earth in association with Land Kärnten and Austrian

Television Fund

Available worldwide

HD 813000

Land of Crystal WatersTraun – Ein Fluss wie ein Kristall

This film shows the rich water wildlife in Alpine rivers and lakes from both the fisherman’s and the fishes’ perspective. It’s a portrait of a complete river system, following the water’s journey from glaciers through cave systems and canyons through mountain streams, crystal-clear lakes and, finally, down one of Austria’s most beautiful and swift rivers, the Traun, all the way to the wooded wetlands where it finally calms before flowing into the Danu-be. Used for shipping lumber and salt already centuries ago, the river has always encouraged a special union of man and nature. The film takes the viewers on a journey above and under water, showing one of the continent’s most attractive mountain landscapes from the perspective of an Alpine river, its wild inhabitants and its human visitors.


Directed by Erich Pröll and Klaus Feichtenberger

A co-production by ORF, WDR and Erich Pröll Film in association with Upper Austria

and OÖ Landesfischereiverband


Nature Vision, Germany 2008: Best Camera; The International Underwater Film Festival,

Belgrade 2008: Special Award

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Land of a Thousand VineyardsWeinviertel – Weites Land

Italy, California and South Africa are not the only places famous for their wines. Right in the heart of Europe, Austria can also look back over a past suffused with music and wine, both of which remain inseparably linked to this day. It is the vastness of Austria’s “Weinviertel” or wine growing region that captivates visitors. No other region of Austria suggests this feeling of endless landscape quite so vividly. A soft, hilly landscape, blessed with a warm climate, that is cultivated by humans but has maintained much of its original character – a quiet landscape with a considerable history and hid-den treasures. And the Weinviertel hasn’t been given its name for nothing

– wine growing defines the land in all its forms and has always been the di-stinguishing feature for the inhabitants of this unique region.



A co-production by ORF, AV-Dokumenta, bm:ukk and Land Niederösterreich

Available worldwide

HD EV 812315

Land of the Falling Lakes Plitvice – Im Land der fallenden Seen

The Plitvice Lakes National Park, the oldest national park in Europe, is loca-ted in Croatia’s Dinaric Mountains where the olm, lynx, black stork, and Ural owl live together in an enchanted world of thunderous waterfalls, cas-cading lakes, and subterranean caverns. The film follows the course of the water taking its wondrous paths through the limestone.



Produced by ScienceVision for ORF in co-production with DDE, Thirteen/WNET, WDR and

bm:bwk


Erasmus Euro Media Award 2007: Special Award for Technology & Design; Festival du

Film de l’Oiseau 2007 : Nature Prize; Pine Film Festival 2006: Best Nature Documentary U.S.

Int. Film and Video Festival 2004: Gold Camera Award Naturvision 2004: Best int. film;

Ekofilm 2004: Award of the Town Cesky; sondrio 2004: Audience Jury Award; Shanghai TV

Festival 2004: Magnolia Award for best photography

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Laos WonderlandLaos Wunderland

Southeast Asia at its best. 85% of the country is untouched nature, wides-pread forests, steep mountains and wide river valleys, but also cool high plateaus and savannahs. The primeval forests support a fauna like so-mething out of a fairy tale, with elephants, tigers, leopards, and some of the rarest animal species on the planet. Species never seen by humans are discovered at regular intervals. In recent decades, the few large mammals to be described for the first time were all found in Indochina and experts assume that most of them are at home in Laos: wild oxen such as the saola and kuprey or the truong son munjak. No outsider has ever seen a living specimen of the latter; its existence is only known indirectly, through skele-tons, horns and bag that are occasionally found in remote villages. And there is the Mekong, one of the last untamed rivers on Earth. Fed by hund-reds of tributaries, it is one of the richest freshwater systems on the planet, comparable only with the Congo or Amazon. This is where the Mekong cat-fish lives. At 3 meters long and weighing in at 300 kilograms, this monster must be the largest freshwater fish on earth.



A co-production by Cosmos Factory, ORF, WDR/NDR and DDE


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Let it snow!Leise rieselt der Schnee

“Snow is snow is snow” one might be tempted to say. Yet people in the Arctic have hundred of different names for snow while other cultures have never seen it. Nor is snowfall the same as snowfall. In this extraordinary documentary we are going to witness very different kinds and situations of snowing: from howling blizzards to the gentlest and loveliest of weather events, from huge handkerchiefs quietly falling to the needle-sharp attack of hard, heavy grains.

Snow – what is it really? How is it created – naturally and artificially? Thanks to CGI and new camera techniques we can actually see this process for the first time and listen to the incredible, inaudible music of snowfall, of myri-ads of tiny crystals touching and rolling and settling. Each snowflake is unique and bears more secrets than we could imagine. Did you know that different kinds of music influence the crystallization process and the shape of snowflakes? And have you ever imagined that we would be able to pro-duce artificial snow that melts at 30 degrees Celsius? With this in mind: just let it snow!


Directed by Barbara Fally-Puskás and Klaus T. Steindl

A co-production by ORF, ARTE and Epo-film in association with bm:ukk, supported by

Cinestyria


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Libyan Sahara – Water from the DesertLibysche Sahara – Wasser aus der Wüste

“Bahr Belá Má”, “Waterless Sea”, as the Sahara is called by the Bedouins. But deep beneath the dune fields and stone deserts expands an immeasu-rable reservoir of water resources. Using enormous technical resources, the Libyans have begun to extract fossil reserves of groundwater. Following oil, water is now arousing a new wave of euphoria. In the present desert climate, reserves are only being partially replaced and what has collected over a period of millions of years may be used up in only a few decades.



Produced by ScienceVision for ORF

Available worldwide

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Liguria – Life between Heaven and SeaLigurien – Leben zwischen Himmel und Meer

Between Cinque Terre and San Remo, high above the Gulf of Genoa, this filmed journey portrays the beauty of the Ligurian landscape and tells of the lives of people settled along the idyllic “Alta Via dei Monti Liguri” – a hiking trail stretching between heaven and sea. For centuries, the daily lives of the people have been shaped by the simplicity of the special, by myths, and gloriously crazy festivals taking place in many a season of the year.



A co-production by ORF, SR, RAI Bozen and epo-film/Wien and Movieman

Productions/München

Available worldwide except for Germany and Alto Adige

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Lightning ReloadedBlitzgewitter – Himmel unter Strom

Spiral clouds of steel blue and ink black, bolts of lighting stretching for miles casting a spider’s web across the sky, eerie rumblings and thunder strikes freezing one’s blood, accompanied by rain, storms and hail: Thunderstorms are light shows literally off the planet.

These tremendous forces of nature are beautiful and frightening alike … and more than just heavy weather. Recent research data indicate that heavy storms and lightning in Africa are generating the notorious Atlantic hurricanes which hit the Carib-bean and the US coast every summer. The bolts are even connected to climate change and obvi-ously influence earth’s magnetic field. However, up to the present day we don’t know exactly were these lightning strikes come from and how they are created.

These topics are all part of this documentary that will focus on the current state of lightning and thunder storm research using latest digital video technology. It will trace the myth of ball lightning and go into detail of a lightning strike’s anatomy as well as provide answers to sprites, lightning bolts that explode into the depth of space.



A co-production by ORF, Cosmos Factory, National Geopraphic

Channel, National Geographic Channels International and ZDF


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Limits of LightGrenzen des Lichts

We recognise our world primarily through the sense of vision yet the light we use to see is only a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum that surrounds us and impacts on our lives. From X-rays to microwaves, from ultraviolet to infra red, we’ll explore the world of colour, both seen and un-seen; we’ll fi nd out what colour really is, how our colour vision works and compare it to that of other creatures, some who see less colour than us – and some who see more. We’ll explore insects that can see into the ultravi-olet, snakes that sense invisible infra-red radiation to hunt their prey, and birds whose colour vision is far more sensitive than ours.

Following the multiple award-winning ‘Limits of Perception’ and ‘Time Li-mits’, this is the third and fi nal part of the trilogy that explores beyond the limits of our everyday perceptions. In a thrilling one hour, this journey through the whole spectrum explores strange worlds. It is a journey through a world we never dreamed existed.


Directed by Alfred Vendl and Steve Nicholls

Produced by AV-Dokumenta for ORF in association with BMUKK and ORF-Enterprise

Available worldwide

HD EV Q4/11 812720

See also:“Limits of

Perception”

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Limits of PerceptionGrenzen der Wahrnehmung

This is a journey form the smallest manmade hole – by removing just one single atom – to the edge of the universe. Man has fi nally succeeded in making the ancient dream of Greek philosophers come true – to “see” an atom. In another direction we also seem to have unlimited sight: the

“Hubble Telescope” grants us a glimpse of the remotest galaxies. This docu-mentary assesses the limits of human perception, taking us on a journey through time from the quasars, millions of light-years away from earth, via the wonders of our populated world to the depths of human genotype and the structure of a single atom. “Limits of Perception” promises a fi lmic jour-ney of exploration from micro- into macrocosm.



Produced by AV-Dokumenta for ORF in association with Docstar, Telepool and bm:bwk

Available for UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and German speaking Switzerland; other

Territories distributed by Ampersand

U.S. Int. Film and Video Festival 2002: Gold Camera Award

EV FV JV 810859

See also:“Limits of Light”

Page 42“Time Limits”

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Link with the LynxMilos und die Luchse

With large tufted ears, a short tail and a trusting look, one could almost believe that lynxes are just big cats. In their hearts, however, they are wild and untamed. They are the tigers of Europe.This is the story of a hard ear-ned friendship. On the one side is Milos Majda, a quiet, nature loving ranger at the Mala Fatra national park in Slovakia. On the other side are two small lynxes, fresh from the zoo. With Milos’ help, it’s hoped the lynxes will return to the home of their ancestors in the forests of Mala Fatra in the heart of Slovakia. For two years Milos Majda and the biologist and animal fi lmmaker Tomas Hulik follow the journey of the lynx siblings from their warm nursery inside a cabin back into the wilderness.


Directed by Tomas Hulik

A co-production by ORF, Cosmos Factory, NDR and RTV Slovenija

Available worldwide except for Germany and Slovenia

HD EV 812739


Little MonstersKleine Monster

They are mean and minuscule, creepy and crawly, winged and weird. Yet they are endlessly fascina-ting. Renowned macro specialist Kurt Mündl explores the world of insects, spiders and other little monsters in a completely new and immersive way. Completely shot in 3D-HD this documentary reveals the most vivid moments in the lives of nature’s small scale sensations and how they in-teract with humans and other big animals.



A co-production by ORF and Power of Earth in association

with ORF-Enterprise

Available worldwide

HD 2D 3D EV Q4/11 812998

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Living for the QueenBienen – Ein Leben für die Königin

The film documents the life of a bee colony for the duration of a year. Part of the colony emigrates and becomes a “wild” colony giving an intimate view of the artistically designed beehive and the bee’s cleverly organised social life: dividing labour, collecting nectar and warding off enemies. The special feature of this production is the very natural effect of the close-ups that give the viewer the feeling of being within the colony, even for rare events. Without having seen it, who could imagine the queen’s “wedding flight” during which the virgin ruler of the colony mates with a drone, a male bee … all this taking place flying at high speed.


Directed by Wolfgang Thaler and Herbert Habersack

A co-production by Adi Mayer Film, ORF and bm:bwk in association with WDR

Available worldwide

Jackson Hole 1999: Finalist; Banff 1999: Best Environmental Film

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The Living CathedralDer lebende Dom

The most astonishing natural area in Austria is St. Stephens Cathedral in Vienna. Between the roof tiles, at stone gargoyles and in many a damp cre-vice, the 850 year-old cathedral reveals itself as a botanical and zoological garden. For the film on the biology of St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna the film team burst the normal boundaries of technology. They had robots weighing tons and mounted with cameras that swivel three dimensionally move through the interior of the cathedral. With a little camera cableway installed between the base and the peak of the cathedral, cameras crossed the line of flight of the peregrine falcons.

Duration: 50 min. + Making of 30 min. tV | VOD | DVD | tE


Produced by Riha in association with ORF and bm:bwk Medienservice

Available worldwide

Grand Prix International du Documentaire de Création 1998: Mention Spéciale

Japan Wildlife Festival 1999: Natural Harmony Award

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The Living GraveyardEs lebe der Zentralfriedhof

The Viennese Central Cemetery is the biggest and, historically, most signifi-cant cemetery in Europe. It is not only the resting place for innumerable politicians and great musicians such as Beethoven and Johann Strauss, it is also a wildly romantic jungle, a habitat for countless animals. This unusual setting for a nature documentary is introduced from the animal’s point of view giving an insight info. The hamster guides us through the world below the gravestones, the hawk reveals the activity from the air. Human visitors, funeral processions and tourists are all shown from an animal perspective giving an insight into a fascinating habitat in a vast sea of graves.


Directed by Manfred Corrine

Produced by media wien for ORF in co-production with WDR, NDR and MA 22


Baikal International Festival of Documentary 2007: Grand Prize

iWFF 2006: Honourable Mention for Creative Storytelling

Menigoute Festival, 2006: 2nd Prix du Jury accompagné du Trophée Leica

Telenatura Universidad de Navarra 2006: Award for best script, best direction, best editing

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Madeira – Emerald in the AtlanticMadeira – Smaragd im Atlantik

Madeira is considered as “the green emerald” in the Atlantic ocean. The island’s mountains are overgrown with million-years-old primeval forests. The Laurisilva forest, the largest of its kind in Europe, covers an area of 22,000 hectares and has been proclaimed to be UNESCO World Natural He-ritage in 1999. The majority of all plant and animal species that occur on Madeira are global endemics. In his film, multi-award winner Kurt Mündl tells the story of discovery and colonization of the archipelago and shows endangered nature and traditional culture in extraordinary pictures: From whales to Europe’s smallest bird, from traditional sugar cane processing to the centuries-old craft of basket-making.



A co-production by ORF, Power of Earth, NDR and bm:bwk in association with RTR

Available worldwide except for Germany, USA, Canada and Japan

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The Magic Trees of AssamAssam – Im Land der Bienenbäume

The film, set in the ravishing scenery of north east India, combines a journey and a great mystery with electrifying footage of the world’s most aggressi-ve insect. The giant honey bees have a reputation for attacking en masse and every year local people are badly stung and die. Yet an Austrian scien-tist is trying to discover the secrets of these enigmatic killer bees.



Produced by epo-film for ORF in association with Docstar,

National Geographic Television and ZDF



Banff 1999: Best Film on Mountain Environment; Téléscience 2000: Grand Prix;

Wildscreen 2000: Finalist; FIFI 2001: Grand Prix du Jury

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Magic of the MountainsIm Bann der Berge

This is the story of a land, where forces of nature are at play – beyond all things that a human can ever dominate or be able to conquer. The birth of Tyrol was one of collisions, where previous far apart continents were conjoi-ned, wedged together and piled up on top of each other. The result is a steep world of diversity on the smallest area: depending on the depth of a valley or the height of a mountain ridge, depending on its direction and position at the edge or in the middle of the Alps, depending on whether its slope is steep or flat, there is a spot in Tyrol that is icy or mild, lush or paltry, dry or full of water. This film presents the fascinating world of the high mountains with all their diverse flora and fauna and the living conditions throughout the seasons.


Directed by Otmar Penker

Produced by ARGEntur in association with Tiroler Jägerverband

Available worldwide

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The Mariazell Region – Mysterious World of Mountains Mariazeller Land

In spring 2007, the basilica of Mariazell has regained its old splendor. Situ-ated amidst the wildly romantic, mysterious alpine environment of the Öt-scher mountain in the border region between the provinces of Styria and Lower Austria, the small village is the destination of numerous pilgrims from far and wide.

The film traces the old legends about demons, weather witches and dark forces and portrays the natural environment of this unique mountain world around the pilgrimage site of Mariazell.



A co-production by ORF, WDR, bm:bwk, Lower Austria, Cine Styria and AV-Dokumenta


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Messengers of the GodsDie Boten der Götter

For the first time this film shows exactly how butterflies live and how they develop through their different phases. The documentary travels the entire world and includes numerous first film recordings and rare species. These include the flesh-eating caterpillar from Hawaii and Malaysia’s unique blood-sucking moth. This “Vampire” is even able to transmit AIDS.



Produced by Power of Earth Productions

Available worldwide

HD EV 812843


Mountains in the SunSonnenberge – Von der Rax zur Buckligen Welt

The landscape of southern Lower Austria is characterised by the last undu-lations of the Alps. This film takes a cinematic journey through these so-called “sunny mountains”, showing their diverse nature and cultures in a comprehensive portrait of the region and its inhabitants. Some farmers in the region breed “alpine salmon”, while others have developed a sideline - using traditional methods to extract the resin from black pine trees, which can then be used to produce cosmetics, turpentine and even resin for the strings of musical instruments. The area between the Rax and Buckliger Welt is popular with the Viennese. Almost on their doorstep, the region is a paradise for extreme sports junkies, nature lovers, culture fans and to tho-se looking for rest and recuperation. Foreign tourists also discovered this magnificent landscape many years ago. Experience this scenic treasure in the heart of Europe with its breathtaking panoramas, unique animal and plant life and tradition-conscious inhabitants.


Directed by Barbara PuskásA co-production by ORF, bm:bwk, Lower Austria, Gebietsverband NÖ-Süd and epo film

Available worldwide

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Mountains of MysteryEisenwurzen – Geheimnisvolles Land

Forming part of the northern limestone Alps, the “Eisenwurzen” nature park boasts a varied, rich landscape dominated by dramatic mountain chains and mighty, steep-faced individual mountains with high-rising cliffs. The white-water rivers and creeks which have eroded the rock of the preci-pitous mountainsides and ravines are a constant temptation to daring young people, offering fascinating training opportunities to kayakers and canoers of all skill levels. The Eisenwurzen and neighboring regions stand for harmony between ancient culture and craftsmanship on the one hand, and bizarre, overwhelming natural landscapes on the other. The Eisenwur-zen region reflects a close union of Mother Nature, historical tradition, ex-ploratory urge and love of adventure.


Directed by Waltraud Paschinger and Michael Schlamberger

A co-production by ORF, ScienceVision, bm:bwk in association with Cine Styria

Available only for the German speaking Territory

Vertical – The Moscow International Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films, 2008:

Winner in the Category “Mountain and Wild Nature”

Mountain Film Festival Tegernsee 2007: Best Program 810616

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Mount St. Helens – Life from ZeroMount St. Helens – Der Vulkan lebt

In 1980 Mount St. Helens exploded in one of the most powerful eruptions on American soil in modern times. Everything living was buried beneath 300 feet of avalanche debris, covered with steaming mud, topped with a superheated layer of frothy rock. It seemed as though Mount St. Helens might remain wasteland forever. Will nature be able to re-colonise this lost territory? Finding the answers has become the life-long quest of one man – biologist Charlie Crisafulli who has spent almost 30 years on the site. This is the story of nature‘s astonishing comeback to Mount St. Helens – a story of life from zero. For the fi rst time exclusively he will provide an insight into this amazing resurrection. Original natural history sequences using macro-photography capture the fi rst moments of rebirth. Aerial views and archive footage of the crater and the surrounding landscape as well as underwater fi lming combined with state-of-the-art CGI will visualize the ecological mi-racle. “Life from Zero” tells a unique story of determination and perseveran-ce – of nature struggling for survival and one man sacrifi cing all to witness that miracle of nature’s return unfolding.


Directed by Jörg Daniel Hissen

A co-production by Interspot, NOVA/WGBH Boston, ZDF/ARTE, bm:ukk and ORF in association

with Fremantle Media

Available for German speaking Territories, United Kingdom, Ireland and English speaking

Canada; other Territories distributed by Fremantle

US Int. Film & Video Festival 2010: Gold Camera Award; Telenatura Univ. de Navarra, Spain:

fi nalist fi lm; SondrioFestival Int. Documentary Film Festival, Italy: Unicaja Film Competition,

Spain: Biomedical Award; Green Screen – Internationales Naturefi lmfestival: Best Movie

HD EV 812544

Mystery of the Fairy CirclesDas Geheimnis der Feenkreise

When it rains substantially in the Namib, a thick carpet of grass covers the sand and stony desert. But this green down is punctuated by bare circular patches, which appear as though drawn by a compass. And there’s not just one or two of them but thousands. Observed from the air the scene could be titled: ‘Red dots on green ground’. These mysterious sand circles appear at around 60 to 120 kilometres inland from the coast from South Africa to Angola, at an altitude of between 500 and 1000 metres. They are bordered by a ring of tall, thick grass, which stands out from the surrounding sparse vegetation. What is so special about these bald patches, which have been given the mysterious name “fairy circles”? Are they caused by particular mineral compounds in the ground? Did poisonous plants once grow there that have contaminated the subsoil? Are they the work of termites? Or is it the impact of meteorites that is responsible? This documentary reveals the stunning secret of the fairy circles.


Directed by Barbara Fally-Puskás

A co-production by ORF and EPO Film in association with ORF-Enterprise

Available worldwide

HD EV 812997

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Myths of the AlpsMythen der Alpen

Since ancient times the High Alps have been a region of extremes: bizarre landscapes, powerful acts of nature and deprivation for both people and animals. In these regions, myths and sagas were especially powerful. Peo-ple tried to deal with those forces of nature by explaining them with arcane tales and worshipping powerful gods to calm their fearful minds. Energy fields, stone altars for sacrifices, healing spring waters – they all have a mysterious code that continues to live on in the traditions and rituals of the communities living in remote villages far beyond civilization. This docu-mentary traces these myths to produce a journey through time to the places our ancestors once worshipped, visiting some of the most beautiful mountain regions in the heart of Europe.



A co-production by ORF, bm:ukk, ARTE and Wega Film

Available worldwide except for France and Germany

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Namaqualand – Africa’s Desert GardenNamaqualand – Der Blumengarten Afrikas

Namaqualand – the setting for an annual wildlife fairytale. Every year in the narrow window between the cold wet winter and scorchingly-hot, dry summer, flowers of all description bloom in carpets of colors unimaginable, insects of equal diversity pollinate and predate, and everything form meerkats to ostriches breed. This film chronicles the magical transformation of a lands-cape – from the fantasy of fields of flowers to the harsh realities of a desert, and back again and uses a gang of meerkats and a group of ostriches as main characters who develop during the seasonal changes.


Directed by Lynne & Philip Richardson

A co-production by ORF, Africa Wild Life Films, DDE and BBC

in association with WDR and NDR

Available worldwide except for UK and Germany

Telenatura 2005: best photography; IWFF 2006: Merit award for natural sound;

Naturvision 2006: Best Camera; Menigoute Festival 2006: 3rd Prix Paysages,

3rd Prix du credit Agricole

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Produced by MR Film for ORF in co-production with ARTE


PrimeTime Emmy ® Award 2008 for Best Cinemato-

graphy; New York Festival Television, Programming & Promo-

tion, 2008: Finalist Certifi cates for Eps.1-3; Jackson Hole

2007: Award Winner – Limited Series; CINE Golden Eagle

Competition 2007: Golden Eagle Award; Beijing Internatio-

nal Scientifi c Film Festival 2007: Gold Prize; US Internatio-

nals 2007: Certifi cate for Creative Excellence for Ep. 1; Nature

Vision 2007: “Science Award” for Ep. 1; CAID International

Science Film Festival 2007: Awards for visual excellence &

Preference of the Audience for Ep. 1, Eps 2+3 selected

Wildlife Asia Film Festival 2007: Eps. 1+2, Finalists for

Breaking Boundaries and Technical Brilliance; Baikal

International Festival of Documentary 2007: Best Popular

Science Film (Ep.1); Ekotopfi lm, Slovakia 2007: Prize for

Popular-Science & Technology (Ep. 1)

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Nature Tech – How Engineers Are Inspired by Nature’s Top DesignsDas Genie der Natur

Why are blossoms never dirty and can we also make our cars that way? Why can geckos walk on the ceiling and can we use their tricks to create better adhesives? Why is the spider’s web toug-her than steel? Exciting new developments in computer technology, chemistry and physics are now enabling us to understand Nature’s designs better than ever before. Scientists are not simply trying to copy nature – they are taking hints, ext-racting principles and applying winning designs of evolution in a new, human context.

“The Magic of Motion” covers Nature’s winning high speed, long range and all-terrain motion de-signs such as Germany’s recent tuna-fi sh sonic jet.

“The Material World” deals with the amazing chemistry, physics and statics of natural materi-als and their transfer to buildings, tools and tech-nical appliances of the future.

“Energy is the Key” focuses on Nature’s energy production and conservation methods and spe-culates on future solutions to one of the most pressing problems of today’s humanity.

Visually, this series is an attractive, fast-paced mix of stunning natural history shots, computer-assisted design and CGI graphics of futuristic in-ventions, ultra-modern, spacy architecture and high tech as well as scenes of the world’s leading designers and engineers at work, all created by the team that made “Limits of Perception”.

See also:“Nature TechReloaded”

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Napoli DogsBartolo, der Streuner

“Napoli Dogs” is a soap opera set in the charming harbor side of Naples. More resembling a feature film than a documentary we follow the fate of a pack of street dogs as they struggle for survival. Love affairs and gang raids guaranteed! Seven dogs, utterly diverse characters with diverse looks, are the inner circle of a notorious four-legged street gang, the Napoli Dogs. They are known all around Naples and feared by many. When it comes to staking out their territory, they can be very tough. The perseverance of the scruffy males makes owners of pretty, well-groomed lady dogs shudder. Helplessly, restaurant chefs watch their compassionate guests feed their prime cut steaks to the clever gang.

The film tells the story of runaway domestic dogs braving the city jungle, of their amazing survival strategies and of the rituals reconfirming the bonds between the members of the pack.



A co-production by epo-film, ORF, Boréales and D4 communication & videoprogramming

Available worldwide except for Germany, France and Italy

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Night of the SalamanderDie Nacht der Salamander

The film reveals all the miracles and curiosities in the salamander world that, until now, were only known to a few experts in the field. In technical terms, the film team went to some lengths: Thermal image cameras show that salamanders are as cold as the night they inhabit, night vision cameras allow the viewer to watch them in the dark, magnetic resonance tomogra-phy and x-ray images show us the inside of their bodies.



Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF in association with Docstar



Envirofilm 2002: Prize for the catchy description of salamander

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Of Graves and Robbers – The Sell-Out of Peruvian HistoryDie Grabräuber von Peru

The arid sand deserts of Peru have been preserving mummies and burial artefacts over many millennia. Recent excavations such as the royal burial chambers of Sipán and the 220 mummies found at the Lake of Condors produced a scientific sensation comparable only to the discovery of the Egyptian tombs.

Starting out from these finds, the movie goes in hot pursuit of what hap-pens at and around the excavation sites of Peru. On the one hand there‘s Peruvian archaeologist Sonia Guillen, who has dedicated her life to the pro-per scientific investigation of her country‘s heritage. Her efforts are fre-quently frustrated by grave looters: entire villages make their living by dig-ging up ancient burying places to get at artefacts which earn the huaceros a few dollars but which bring enormous wealth to international smuggling networks.

Quite often it is the grave robbers who put scientists on the tracks of new discoveries – yet every devastated site is another irredeemable loss of our heritage. The documentary illuminates the criminal entanglements of the international antique market and follows the famous FBI art cops in recon-structing the spectacular robbery of one of the most


Directed by Walter Kienreich

A co-production by Interspot Film, ORF and Medienservice

Available worldwide

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O2 – The Molecule that Made Our WorldDer Atem der Erde

Using latest CGI combined with live-action reconstructions, this film follows the journey of a molecule of oxygen, an adventure that takes place over a span of thousands of millions of years. The story begins with the photosyn-thesis of a bacteria – and in doing so it produces the molecule of oxygen gas. The way of the oxygen unfolds and at times it is torn apart and beco-mes part of other molecules. It is involved in the conflagrations that accom-panied the death of the dinosaurs after the great asteroid im pact, then travels through a human body to combine with haemoglobin in the blood and to take part in chemical reactions in individual cells. For a while the oxygen even spends some time as ozone, protecting earth from deadly ra-diation but then connects to a carbon dioxide molecule to help warming earth and bring about unknown consequences of climate change. Following this fascinating story, the film explores key moments in the history of earth and science in an unusual and visual way. “O-Two” is an intriguing and ambitious journey through biology, chemistry and physics.



A co-production by ORF, BBC, AV-Dokumenta, Burning Gold and bm:ukk in association with

Fremantle Media

Available for German speaking Territories, United Kingdom, Ireland, USA and English speak-

ing Canada, other Territories distributed by Fremantle

Jackson Hole: Best Earth Sciences Program

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Ol’ Man River – Mighty MississippiOl’ Man River – Mächtiger Mississippi

There is no river on earth where so many dreams were dreamt, where so many dreams came true or fell apart, where the dividing line between life and death is as thin as on the Mississippi – North America’s great river.

The Mississippi is the world’s third largest river. From the Canadian border to New Orleans, from Helena in the Rocky Mountains to Pittsburgh, it drains 31 US states and two Canadian provinces. Since the first human beings set foot on the North-American subcontinent, the face of the river has changed dramatically.

This epic film shows the great American river in cinematically beautiful ima-ges and emotions. Moving cameras show the endlessness of the land, the impenetrable wilderness and, in stark contrast, the shining steel facades of modern metropolises. The film also reveals a fascinating world inhabited by rare plant and animal wildlife with a distinctly exotic touch. At the same time, it invites us on a journey through history. In several episodes, with the aid of CGI we travel into the past from characteristic sites.

Duration: 2 x 50 min. / 1 x 90 min. tV | VOD | DVD | tE

Directed by Steve Nicholls and Michael Schlamberger

Produced by ScienceVision for ORF in co-production with ARTE and ZDF


Romy Television Festival, Vienna 2008: Best Camera; Vertical – The Moscow International

Festival of Mountain and Adventure Films, 2008: Jury Special Price for “Best Director’s Work”;

Water, Sea and the Oceans Festival 2007: Best Fresh Water Film; Sichuan TV Festival 2007:

Best Long Documentary

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Organic FarmingDer Bauer und das liebe Vieh

Europe’s countryside is largely shaped by agriculture and by highly specia-lized, efficient farms. However, in the seventies of the past century, a coun-ter-movement set in: ecological management became a new topic on the agenda.

The film features an organic farm as it traverses the different cycles of the year, its main protagonists being farm animals and pets as well as wild game that regularly visit its surrounding meadows and fields. The film portrays the behavior and peculiarities of the farm’s cows, pigs, goats, chickens and ducks. Rather than presenting any new livestock species or inaccessible corners of the land, this documentary introduces the viewers into a well known world, that still is full of secrets.



A co-production by ORF, bm:bwk and epo film in association with Umweltbüro

Niederöster reich

Available worldwide

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The Otter’s TrailAuf der Spur des Otters

During the mid-80s, zoologists still regarded the European otter as a spe-cies on the verge of extinction. What they did not take into consideration was the fact that the shy aquatic animals are extremely adaptable. Using their intelligence and cleverness, they have been able to re-conquer parts of Europe during the last few years, including their old homeland, Austria.However, their settlements in Austria are small islands and the correspon-dingly small populations are still very much endangered. The documentary tracks down the otter in the Austrian Waldviertel and southern Styria and leads to the extensive areas of ponds in the neighboring Czech Republic and Hungary, which have become a true otter paradise, thanks to devoted nature conservationists.


Directed by Sabine Holzer and Karl Königsberger

Produced by Istvan Nadaskay Filmproduktion for ORF in association with ZDF

Available worldwide

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Pastures in the SkyAlmsommer

A dairymaid in Styria, a sheep farmer in Eastern Tyrol and a shepard in Vor-arlberg offer insight into a life that is characterised through beautiful scenery as well as through a culture immensely rich in traditions. Not only does the spectacular cattle drive up to the Lechtaler Alps, when 450 ani-mals have to make it across a ridge 2500 meters above sea level, impress the spectator. In addition to that, it is the newfound appreciation of the alp as a vacationing place that captures the attention. For example, the rustic huts of Oberstalleralm in Eastern Tyrol are completely booked throughout the year 2007, despite the fact that there are no professional feel good-animators on hand but the main attractions are comprised of a simple wood stove, running water and fresh milk. Maria Magdalena Koller shows life as it is on the Alp, one of the most traditional ways of living in Austria – unfolding within the breathtakingly impressive theatre of the Austrian mountains.


Directed by Maria Magdalena Koller

A co-production by Interspot and ORF in association with the bmlfuw, Land Vorarlberg and

the Austrian National Tourist Office

Available worldwide

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Pielach – The Enchanted ValleyPielach – Im Garten der Voralpen

The Pielach, with a length of 67.5 km, is a little known river at the foothills of the Alps, though biologically speaking, flowing through hidden natural treasures, it is one of Austria’s most valuable running waters. While the valley of the Pielach was settled by mammoth hunters as early as the anci-ent Stone Age, Celts and Romans left their traces later.

The river is one of the last spawning waters of Huchen, a relative of the trout. Measuring up to two meters, the Huchen feels very much at home in the tranquil Pielach.



A co-production by ORF, Power of Earth Productions, bm:bwk and Lower Austria

Available worldwide

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Poisoned!Vergiftet!

This film takes a look at the various ways poisons have been used throug-hout history, using dramatic reconstructions of some of the most infamous poisonings. But the film doesn’t stop there. Using advanced computer ani-mation, we travel inside the bodies of a victim of the Borgias, as well as Cleopatra, Hannibal, Socrates, Emperor Leopold and a host of other unfor-tunate victims, to witness from the inside how they died.

The film follows humanity’s macabre search over thousands of years for the perfect poison. A poisoner needs a poison that is tasteless and colorless, and therefore won’t be noticed by the victim. It needs to work in low doses, so a poisoner doesn’t have to feed his victim large quantities. And it needs to be reliably and quickly lethal. Finally, it needs to be undetectable after the event, so the poisoner leaves no trail of guilt. In fact, for preference it should mimic the symptoms of a disease, so no-one even suspects poiso-ning. Not surprisingly, such a perfect poison is not easy to find or make, and the search has occupied some of humanity’s finest minds.



Produced by AV-Dokumenta for ORF in co-production with DDE and ZDF in association

with bm:bwk


cine golden eagle 2005: golden eagle award;

new york film festival 2006: finalist certificate tv programming & promotion

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Power of the RainbowDie Macht des Regenbogens

The beauty of nature’s colors only becomes fully visible in sunlight, whether it is the splendid miracle of the rainbow or its various different forms in nature; none of the colors is a coincidence – not the green of the leaves, nor the red of blood or the deep black of space. The film gives an overview of the fascinating world of color in all its different manifestations; a journey from inorganic nature to plants, animals and to people. In the light of the sun all colors are contained. How is this possible? In wildlife and nature colors are messages: flowers, for instance, show insects the way to the nec-tar and thus to the stamens that load them with pollen and animals use colors as bait, as camouflage or to ward off enemies. Why does this com-munication works? This documentary tries to explain these questions with all new technology and breathtaking images.



A co-production by ORF, Medienservice and BMUK produced by AV-Dokumenta

Available worldwide

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The Prater – The Green StadiumDer Prater – Eine wilde Geschichte

On the paths and alleys where once the exclusive aristocratic hunting soci-ety gathered for light entertainment, today bikers and joggers meet. In the thicket of the meadows, badgers, foxes and deer are wandering around while, by the waters, Mandarin ducks are mating. They were imported for hunting purposes from China more than a hundred years ago and since then have established their place in the landscape. The Danube’s bayous are not only a paradise for waterfowl of all sorts but also a haven for bea-vers, who chop down tree after tree. Life flourishes in the meadows of the Prater, Vienna’s green lung. The 6.000.000 m2 big area of the Prater is full of “animal” surprises and it is exactly here where the 2008 UEFA European Championship will take place. This film portrays the diverse animal life in and around the stadium and will be Available to international partners in time before the opening of the Euro 2008.



A co-production by ORF, WDR and MRC Film


Cine Golden Eagle Competition, Washington 2008: Golden Eagle Award;

CineEco – Festival Int. De Cinema e Video de Ambiente, Portugal 2008: Polis Award

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Prince of the AlpsPrinz der Alpen

September in the Alps. Summer has long fled the mountain meadows. In the high valleys, the morning mists carry a scent of peat and the sheer cliffs reflect the echo of mighty voices. The mightiest stags assemble their harems and defend them against rivals. Who will be the mothers and who the fa-thers of the next generation? This stunning documentary portrays the biggest species in Central Europe with beautiful vistas of untouched nature depic-ting the dangers of life a young calf has to face as hunters like bears and wolves as well as an overbearing human presence intrude into their habitat.


Directed by Otmar Penker and Klaus Feichtenberger

A co-production by ORF, ÖBF, ÖLJV, Kärnten Werbung and Die ARGEntur Filmproduktion

Available worldwide

Festival du Film Nature de Namur, Belgium 2008: Best Picture; Matsulu Nature Film

Festival, 2008: 1st Prize; Green Screen International Film Festival, Eckenförde 2008:

Heinz Sielmann Prize; International Mountain Film Festival, Tegernsee 2008: BestDocumentary

in the Category Natural Space, Landscape and Environment; International Ornithological Film

Festival, Menigoute Festival 2008: Prix Special de la Haute Definition and Prix Paysage

Telenatura Universidad de Navarra, Spain 2008: Best Film, Best Script, Best Direction

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Puszta – Land of Salt and SandPuszta – Im Schatten der Wanderdünen

Less than an hour’s drive south of Hungary’s capital Budapest, Central Europe’s last and only wandering sand dunes surprise the traveller. They are in continuous motion, shaping a landscape one would only expect in Africa. The Puszta is home to a unique wildlife community including wolves, steppe polecats, flocks of great bustards and scores of other exotic birds.


Directed by Waltraud Paschinger and Istvan Nadaskay

A co-production by ORF and IN-Film in association with bm:bwk and MTV RT

Available worldwide except for Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belarus,

Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Sondrio 2003: Gold Plaque and The Audience Special Award; Lodz 2003: Special Prize by

the Marshall of the Lodz district IWFF 2003: Merit Award for Cinematography; Albert 2004:

Award (Knowledge and Protection of the Animal World)

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Restless Peaks – The Birth of the AlpsDie Entstehung der Alpen

The history of the development of the most powerful mountain range in Europe that attracts more than 45 million tourists every year was not well researched until fairly recently. Using lavish computer animation, this pro-duction relates the astonishing genesis of the Alps – the slow, gigantic transformation from an ancient land-locked sea into one of the most majestic mountainous regions of the earth.



Produced by Telemotion for ORF and BMUK

Available worldwide

Int. Mountain Festival Graz 1998: Golden Camera; Trentino Mountain Festival 1998:

Special Prize

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Radioactive WolvesRadioaktive Wölfe

There have been massive increases in large carni-vores in the nuclear wasteland and Chernobyl has re-emerged as a complete ecosystem and one of Europe’s largest wildlife sanctuaries and yet it’s radioactive. Where humans can’t live, nature is rebounding and somewhere in this vast nuclear wilderness, there are packs of radioactive wolves, living in an archaic structure that has vanished from other parts of Europe.

Before 1986, the zone was heavily farmed and populated, and wolves were scarce. In less than 25 years there are an estimated 300+ wolves ma-king the most of this deceptively beautiful lands-cape. But are these wolves mutants? Have they been affected by nuclear contamination after the ’86 explosion which released 100 times more ra-dio-nuclides than Hiroshima and Nagasaki com-bined?

Biologist Christoph Promberger embarks on a journey to investigate the fate of the wolves and other animals in the contaminated wild lands. To-gether with local radio-ecologists they will trap and collar Chernobyl wolves for the first time and follow their progress through a land littered with plutonium, caesium and strontium.

The scientists must protect themselves from the radioactive dust and contamination, as working with an invisible enemy requires extremely care ful preparations.

Donning protective suits, camouflage gear, Gei-ger counters and respirators they brave the wil-derness where humans were forced out after 25,000 years of continuous habitation, where now the wolf, albeit radioactive, is king.


Directed by Klaus Feichtenberger

A co-production by ORF, WNET, NDR and epo film


Festival in Xanty-Mansijsk, Russia; 1st Price;

nominated as a finalist in the Wildlife Habitat category for

the 2011 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival

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Return of the Bald IbisWaldrapp – Ein Vogel im Aufwind

Four years ago a group of zoologists ventured out to indulge into a truly crazy adventure. Their ambition: to show a fl ock of bald ibises, birds that have been pushed over the brink by hunting and habitat destruction and only survived in zoos, how to fl y to their winter quarters on their original seasonal migration routes. They accompanied the animals with lightweight airplanes from Austria to Italy – a chaotic event full of mishaps and some successes. But now it appears as though their dreams are about to come true: the comeback of a bird that went extinct in Europe in the Middle Ages. In the previous year two bald ibises managed to fl y back to Austria without guidance. Now, for the fi fth time, human foster parents – 16 people from 4 nations – will once again lead the way for young ibises in completely novel paraplanes covering a distance of 900 kilometres within three weeks. This documentary takes us on a thrilling and humorous adventure introducing us to a very special family consisting of birds and humans.



Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF in association with BR and bm:ukk


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River without FrontiersFluss ohne Grenzen – Auenwildnis an der March

The Morava river with its forests is one of the most beautiful and ecologi-cally valuable riverscapes featuring the richest biodiversity in all of Central Europe. Like a green ribbon, the riverine forests of the Morava – together with those of the Danube and the Dyje – link the Alps with the Carpathians, forming a bridge between Eastern and Central Europe. The infl uence of the Pannonian climate with its hot and dry summers combines with the slowly receding high waters to form a mosaic of extremely different habitats: moist meadows lie close to sand dunes, riverine forests alternate with dry primeval oak forests. This enormous diversity of habitats creates a refuge for animal and plant species, a specifi c composition that cannot be found in any other place.



A co-production by ORF and Interspot Film in association with WDR, NDR Naturfi lm and bm:ukk


HD EV 812180

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See also:“Flight of the

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Rose – Queen of FlowersRose – Königin der Blumen

Throughout the world, roses speak an unmistakeable language. They have touched and seduced mankind for thousands of years, while their names and varieties reflect contemporary history. One of the most famous varieties – the Gloria Dei or Peace Rose – has elevated the rose to a symbol of world-peace. Being the most successful garden rose of all time this documentary retraces a large portion of the history of rose cultivation in Europe by its means. All of these manmade varieties also have wild rose ancestors – life giving, thorny monsters, which charm us once a year with their luxuriant flowers and perfect beauties.

The film presents the biological features of roses and explains why they are capable of producing such an abundance of varieties. How are humans and animals affected by the composition of the scent of roses? Why do some white garden roses develop red spots when it rains? And why do red spi-ders fall in love with the bikini rose? Besides these interesting facts the environmental significance of roses are also explored, both at home in our gardens and for animals in the wild.



A co-production by ORF and epo film

Available worldwide

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The Roaring MountainsWildes Wasser, blanker Fels – Nationalpark Gesäuse

Nowhere in the Alpine mountains are water, forest and rocks as precipitous, rock faces as vertical as in the Gesäuse National Park, Europe’s largest canyon. “Gesäuse” is a name derived from the rushing noise of the water, the soughing wind that echoes up to the peaks of the north faces of this unique region – home to the myth of the mountain. When the sun rises and ushers in a magnificent day, the Gesäuse projects a perfect image of a mountain. However, in bad weather, the Gesäuse’s walls reflect a scary phenomenon as the speed of the inflowing airmass multiplies. Adverse weather conditions can thus convert the Gesäuse into inferno. Michael Schlamberger, Austria’s most renowned nature filmmaker internationally, listened to the rushing whitewater of the river Enns and conquered the sheer rock walls, chasing eagles and chamois in passing.



A co-production by ORF, ScienceVision, Gesäuse Nationalpark, WDR and NDR


Moscow Int. Film Festival 2007: Winner in the category “Mountain & Wild Nature”;

Orobie Film Festival, Italy, 2007: 1st Prize in the category “International Productions“;

IWFF Montana 2006: Merit Award for Aerial Photography

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A Rugged Life in the MountainsLebensraum Berg

The Lechtal valley and the mountains towering above it have retained their virgin beauty like no other Alpine region of comparable size. However, daily life and work is often a struggle to survive, and natural catastrophes, such as mudslides, flooding from mountain torrents and avalanches often endanger this natural habitat with its picturesque landscape. This film de-picts the people who live in this rugged environment and reveals how life in the Lechtal valley shapes its inhabitants and influences their struggle against nature.


Directed by Hans-Peter Stauber

A co-production by ORF and Interspot Film in association with BMLUF

Available worldwide

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Saga of the White-tailed EagleDer Flug des Seeadlers

The sea eagle was once widespread throughout almost all of Europe and graced the coats of arms of many different countries. During the 19th and 20th centuries it was driven to the brink of extinction by hunting, the incre-ased use of pesticides and the destruction of its habitat. This touching animal drama recounts the true life story of one individual bird, observed over the course of a year. Beginning with its birth in a lowland forest in Central Euro-pe the film team follows the eagle’s first outing with its brothers and sisters and subsequent distant migrations to places as far away as Scandinavia. Finally it chronicles its dramatic lead poisoning, recovery and resettlement in a nature reserve.

Duration: 50 min. tV | VOD | DVD | tEE

Directed by Istvan Nadaskay

A co-production by ORF, IN-Film and BMUKK

Available worldwide

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Sahara – The English Patient’s DesertSahara – Das versunkene Paradies

Even today, the Sahara is full of miracles. Until way into the 20th century, vast areas remained unexplored. In the early thirties, the Austrian-Hungari-an adventurer Ladislaus E. Almásy who later gained world-wide fame as the historical figure on whom the Hollywood movie “The English Patient” was based on, had undertaken several expeditions to various blank spots on the Sahara’s map. Highly awarded film-maker Michael Schlamberger has followed Almásy’s tracks to reveal the most amazing chapter of the world’s biggest desert.

The desert explorer had stumbled upon one of the trickiest riddles of clima-te history. The world’s largest desert must once have been a lush Garden of Eden – a daring thought that raised great controversy with Almásy’s peers. Following his footsteps, Schlamberger searched for evidence from the most thrilling chapter in the Sahara’s natural history.



A co-production by ORF and ScienceVision in association with Docstar and ZDF

Available for UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and German speaking Switzerland; other Territories


IWFF 2003: Finalist Award – Merit Award for Cinematography; Enviro 2003: Prize of the

General Director of the Slovak Television; U.S. Int. Film and Video Festival 2003: Certificate for

Creative Excellence; Moscow Int. Film Festival 2004: Winner in the category “Mountain Nature”

Documentary film festival new york 2004: best in scientific exploration, best photography;

telenatura 2004: 3rd prize for best film and best direction

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Salt – Tears of the EarthSalz – Auf den Spuren des weissen Kristalls

There are millions of solutions to the problems of survival but there is only one substance that has awakened all organisms to life: salt. No creature can live without this magic mineral – and no living organism can produce it on its own. Amoebas, algae or humans – all life-forms are completely at the mercy of this simple chemical compound. In all bodies of water on earth, there is salt in abundance, and animals and humans have always been able to extract the valuable crystals from water – directly through their organs or with the aid of evaporation in salt lagoons. But on dry land, the white gold needed to be laboriously mined - sometimes at danger to life and limb. Enormous power and lavish wealth developed in the few privileged areas where salt production flourished.

In its narrative structure the aim of the film is to link the historical aspects of salt production at various locations. The three principal aspects – nature

– man – civilization – are intertwined to form the main thread of the film.



A co-production by Adi Mayer Film, ORF and bm:bwk

Available worldwide

New York Festival 2001: Finalist; Ekofilm 2002: Best Screenplay Award

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SandstonesIm Land der Sandsteintürme

This documentary is an exploration of our mysterious affinity with nature. It explores our fascination with ancient myths when mankind seemed to have a much greater connection to the environment. With thousands of bizarre sculptures and with a tremendous play of light and form, places like Bryce Canyon or the Goblin Valley have always played an important part in the lives of the indigenous inhabitants. The viewer is going to witness not only a mystical, bizarre world of canyons, the breathtaking beauty of unspoiled nature, but also its myths and secrets. This documentary also gives voice to the original inhabitants of the region (Navajo and Hopi Native Americans), who vividly describe the enormous role that the rock formations play in their lives. For them, the mystery of sandstones goes back before the sha-dow of civilization that covered their beloved homeland.


Directed by Gogol Lobmayr

A co-production by Greenlight Media AG and Gogol Lobmayr in association with

Wall to Wall Television Ltd.

Available worldwide except for Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine

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Schönbrunn – Well of BeautySchönbrunn – Quelle der Schönheit

Georg Riha applies unusual perspectives to the “Schönbrunn” theme. A transformation the like of which the viewer has never seen unfolds before his eyes. Schönbrunn in the protean succession of the seasons, of light and shadow, day and night is presented by Sir Peter Ustinov who leads the viewer through Schönbrunn palace with its marvellous garden and the Schön-brunn Zoo.

Duration: 50 min. + Making of 25 min. tV | VOD | DVD | tE


A co-production by ORF, ARTE, BA-CA, bm:bwk and Riha Brains & Pictures

Available worldwide except for France and Germany

Techfilm 2003: Prize of the Mayor of Hradec Králové; Ekofilm 2003: Award for best

Photography; U.S. Int. Film and Video Festival 2003: Gold Camera Award

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Sea of Creepy MonstersDie See der kleinen Monster

The Lembeh strait in the northern part of the Idonesian island of Sulawesi is a unique hotspot of marine biodiversity. Countless amazing creatures thrive in the underwater landscape surrounding Lembeh island. During four years a wildlife filmmaker couple spent many months in the region captu-ring hundreds of hours of behavior, lots of it never filmed before. Among other unique behavior the filmmakers were able to shoot an Anglerfish swallowing a Lionfish, a scene resembling Godzilla gulping down Dracula. Elegant seahorses, thumb-splitting Mantis shrimp, and deadly mini-octo-puses are just some of the remarkable creatures traditional underwater films tend to overlook. As most of the underwater drama is hidden from plain sight only the ground-breaking macro photography in this film can reveal the awe and beauty of life in the Reef of Little Monsters.



A co-production by ORF and Cosmos Factory

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Secrets of the AdriaticGeheimnisvolle Adria

For a long time, the Adriatic Sea used to be Central Europe’s only link to the orient. This small sea became a symbol of entry to the vast, exotic world, allowing the city of Venice to call itself “Queen of the Seven Seas”. Cultural riches are embedded on the Adriatic’s coast against an unparalleled natu-ral backdrop. On the northern coasts of the Adriatic stretches one of Europe’s largest wetlands, which is not only a paradise for migratory birds and waders, but also the northernmost colony of flamingoes.

This film follows the trail of the highly endangered griffon vultures whose last colonies are to be found on just a few islands and some rocky cliffs of the Dalmatian coast. It reveals a range of animals that even the most tena-cious of Adriatic holidaymakers rarely see, including sand vipers, mongooses and Greek tortoises in the olive groves.



A co-production by ScienceVision, ORF, BR and Docstar



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Secrets of the Flooded Forest – Danube National ParkWildnis am Strom – Nationalpark Donauauen

After beginning in Vienna, the Danube riverbank forests extend to the gates of Bratislava, linking the two capitals like a green ribbon, forming a unique wildlife habitat in the heart of Europe. A few years ago a 36 kilometer sec-tion was turned into a national park that now protects the last undeveloped stretch of the Danube river and also the last riparian zone of its size in Cen-tral Europe. In the forests along the Danube the water‘s power is able to influence plant and animal habitats again, shift bodies of water, create gra-vel banks. Everything here is in motion and subject to constant change. Growth and destruction, birth and death are integral to this landscape, and constitute a vital factor for its great diversity of habitats and species.

The variety created as a result is outstanding, as is the sheer numbers of flora and fauna that live here: White-tailed eagles breed in the woods, mud-minnows and pond turtles populate the old arms of the river, beavers build their dams on the banks, and red deer raise their young in the underbrush. The Danube National Park: a hidden wilderness full of beauty and drama, and a refuge for an astounding variety of flora and fauna.



A co-production by ORF and Interspot Film

Available worldwide

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The Secret World of TermitesDie geheime Welt der Termiten

They cannot tolerate sunlight; some of them are even blind. However they are one of the world’s most ingenious builders: Termites. They build high-risers without any technical devices that are, compared to the Empire State Building in New York, 25 times higher. They are the only animals that have managed to build an air-conditioning system without electricity. Their nests are architectural masterpieces that rise up to eight meters from the ground and dispose brood chambers for larvae, corridors for transportation, fungal gardens for nutrition and even emergency exits for hostile attacks.

The team behind award winning documentaries such as “Bees – A Life for the Queen” and “Ants – Nature’s Secret Power” takes us along a journey into another world. Visit the skilfully built termite mounds and experience dramatic and exciting stories in the life of a termite-colony via state-of-the-art macro fi lming technology. Visit termites all over the world and accompa-ny a bunch of insects on their “illegal” trip from a tropical forest to US soil.



Produced by Mayr’s Filmbüro for ORF in association with ORF-Enterprise and

Discovery Channel


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Shadow HuntersSchattenjäger

Scorpions are among the oldest land-living creatures. They have existed for 400 million years. This spectacular film sets out in search of the most high-ly poisonous of the species on every continent. It also shows how people may die from a scorpion sting.

This documentary by the macro-specialist, Dr. Kurt Mündl, has already won more than 20 awards worldwide, as well as receiving an Emmy nomination.



Produced by Power of Earth Productions

Available worldwide

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SilveradoDer Silberberg

Two places and one mountain in the Austrian province of Tyrol changed the world. They took humankind from the depth of the Middle Ages to modern times. They helped the Habsburgs and the German commercial traders in attaining power and wealth. Here is where 80 percent of the world’s silver supply was mined. Where an instrument of payment was established, the

“Taler”, which would later become the world-renowned “Dollar”. At their peak, these places were the biggest metropolis of the Habsburg Empire – just after Vienna. Today they have sunken into a long sleep: The cities of Schwaz and Hall in Tyrol and the Falkenstein – the “Silver Mountain”.

This film revives the historic lives of these cities by experiencing the day-to-day lives of the miners and meeting Paracelsus, who treated the miners here back in 1533 and worked on his books about their mountain sickness. Also the Nazi’s secret project “Stichling” is uncovered with great detail. To remain unhindered by air attacks, the world’s first operational turbojet fighter aircraft, the “Messerschmitt Me 262”, was built by transforming one of the biggest halls of the ore mine of Schwaz into a production hall. For the first time ever, for this production access is granted to this hall getting to the very bottom of its history.



A co-production by ORF, Cinecraft and MRC

Available worldwide

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So Long, Fu LongSo Long, Fu Long

The 2007 birth of a baby panda in Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo caused a fl ur-ry of excitement. Fu Long, the “happy dragon”, was the fi rst baby panda ever to be naturally conceived and born in Europe. From the beginning the black and white bundle of fur was the darling of onlookers and visitors to the zoo. Director Heinz Leger documented this sensation and followed the little one’s development from his very fi rst day. In November 2009 the time fi nally came for the adolescent panda to leave Vienna. This fi lm looks back on the highlights of the past two years, how Fu Long practised getting into his transport crate, and accompanies him on his journey to China. Upon arrival, initially Fu Long will live with other young pandas in a small commu-nity of bachelors before hopefully producing his own offspring in a few ye-ars time and so contributing to the preservation of his species.



Produced by Interspot Film for ORF in association with Tiergarten Schönbrunn

Available worldwide 812547

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Sky HuntersLibellen – die Himmelsjäger

They hover over ponds and pools and inhabit the banks of rivers and streams. With their dazzling metallic colours and unique ways of fl ying they are truly jewels of the air. This fi lm presents dragonfl ies as they have never been seen before. Fascinating close up shots take us into the world of these insects, which have lived on earth since the age of the dinosaurs. Spectacu-lar super slow motion shots and elaborate computer animation uncover, for the fi rst time, how dragonfl ies capture their prey at lightning speed while fl ying and how they mate in the air. Underwater photography reveals the development of the predatory dragonfl y larvae while time lapse sequences show the emergence of the fully grown insect. However these amazingly colourful fl ying acrobats are in danger. The dragonfl y’s preferred habitat in and around water is rapidly diminishing, which, in Europe alone, has pu-shed around 80 species to the brink of extinction.



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Styria – Life in the Heart of Austria’s Wine CountrySteiermark – Leben im Weinland

This is a film about the people living in Styria’s wine-growing region and how their daily lives are continually challenged by their natural environment. The internationally acclaimed director Curt Faudon paints a rich picture of daily life in the southern Styrian hills, letting his eye wander as far south as Croatia’s Istrian coast – a region which was once the centre of wine produc-tion, agriculture and fishing in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.



A co-production by ORF and Faudon Movies

Available worldwide except for USA, Canada, UK, Ireland and Australia

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Strange Encounters of the Third KindDas geheimnisvolle Leben der Pilze

They are everywhere – and have been since time immemorial: in the air, in the water and on the land. From the very beginning they have been part and parcel of life. Yet many aspects of these organisms remain inexplicable, even to modern science. Despite their obvious multiplicity, we classify them all in one collective term: fungi. Some 100,000 species have been identified to date worldwide. But the actual number will probably be far higher, because virtually every expedition to tropical countries brings new species to light. Some fungus specialists estimate that there might be around 1.5 million species of fungus on our planet.

In this film multi-award winner director Kurt Mündl follows their tracks all over the world.


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The Tiger and the MonkDer Tiger und der Mönch

Wat Pa Luangta Bua is a monastery of meditation, situated far away from any civilization, about 200 kilometers west of Bangkok, and here, silence, peace and harmony reign. Every afternoon, a daily ritual is observed – non-chalant Buddhist monks take their ten 3-5 year old tigers out on a leash for a walk through the bordering region of Burma. They dote upon their tigers, feed them and celebrate them as their most sacred animal. The monks treat grown-up animals with reverence and respect although they cuddle and play with the cubs. The tigers were once the “aristocrats” of the jungle of South East Asia but today, this undisputed ruler of the animal kingdom is one of the most endangered species in the world. Three of the eight subspe-cies are already extinct, a fate that could also overcome the others. Only an estimated 500 to 2000 tigers of Indochina still inhabit the intact jungle regi-ons of South China, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Vietnam. This documentary portrays the harmonious relationship between predators and humans without disregarding the monk’s maxim that “a tiger will always be a tiger, even if it feeds from the hand. It will always be a wild animal”.



Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF in co-production with Thirteen/WNET New York, Canal+ and BR


Waga Brothers International Festival of Nature Films, Goniadz 2008: Award for Caring;

Attitude to Nature; International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula 2007: Honorable Mention for

Conservation Education; Nature Vision 2007: Best story & Audience Award; Green Wave

Festival 2007: Gran Prix; Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2007: Highly Commended Diplomas;

CineEco, Portugal 2007: Prize for Anthropological Conservation

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Sudan – The Nubian CaravansSudan – Die nubischen Karawanen

They are faster than race horses, more stubborn than donkeys and tougher than any other creature tamed by man. Since time immemorial, camels have determined the lifestyle of the various nomadic tribes in Sudan. This documentary introduces us to the tribes of the Hadendowas and Rashidis and takes a look on their life together with their camels, their breeding and training. The most important events every spring are big festivities with sword fights and a camel race for hundreds of miles. Thousands of men sometimes ride for days to come and compete with their animals. It shows us unadulterated nomadic tribes who have lived by their traditions in the same way for centuries. With and from their animals – the camels.



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Teaming Up With WolvesMit Wölfen unter einer Decke

What is the difference between the domestic dog and the wolf if both of them have been raised under the same conditions? What skills got lost and which were gained in the process of domestication? How far are wolves prepared to co-operate with humans, and do they accept domestic dogs as co-operation partners? To get answers to these questions, researchers Friederike Range, Zsofia Viranyi and Professor Kurt Kotrschal have taken up the task – for the first time ever in canid research – to raise a pack of wolves by hand. The Wolf Science Center currently holds three one-year old timber wolves and six pups. In the beginning the animals need extensive attention. The intimate rapport with humans and wolves primarily happens through feeding with the bottle and close body contact at night. It is not yet possib-le to say which task dogs can do better or worse than wolves, if any. Only one thing is clear: wolves act more independent from humans. The film fol-lows the four American pups for a full year and records their upbringing, their progress in the daily work, their social development and their behavi-or in the various testing centers.



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The Tale of the Hare and the SunDie Legende vom Hasen und der Sonne

The film tells of the life of hares, their enormous fertility, their interaction with predators and their spread over all continents, from the desert to the Arctic ice observing snowshoe hares at –25°C in Canada’s Yukon Territory, field hares in the east of Austria, and their near relatives, the rabbits of Spain’s Extremadura.


Directed by Waltraud Paschinger and Franz Hafner

Produced by Interspot Film and Hares Productions Inc. for ORF in association with Docstar,

National Geographic Channel and WDR



Jackson Hole 2003: Finalist; Agrofilm 2003: Grand Prix of the Festival; U.S. Int. Film and

Video Festival 2004: Gold Camera Award; Documentary film festival new york 2004: special

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Tales from the Vienna WoodsGeschichten aus dem Wienerwald

Vienna is the world’s only metropolis with a large, continuous forest area in its immediate vicinity – the Vienna Woods, an area blessed with an unex-pected wealth of animal and plant life.

A team of natural history film-makers will pursue the wild boar, stalk the stags and crawl with the ants to portray the living Vienna Woods over the period of one year.



A production of Cosmos Factory for ORF in association with The City of Vienna and WDR


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Tasmania – Paradise at the End of the World Tasmanien – Insel am Ende der Welt

Tasmania makes an impression with its unique landscape, architecture and scenery. Its largely unknown wilderness has always attracted adventurers and scientists. One of these courageous men was the Austrian botanist, Gustav Weindorfer. His adventurous expedition lead him to Cradle Moun-tain. He was deeply moved by this spectacular world of mountains and gave his utmost to bring that wonderful experience to others. Today the Cradle Mountain National Park allows visitors from all over the world to indulge in this breathtaking landscape.



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Time LimitsDie Grenzen der Zeit

We perceive time in terms of seconds – the length of a heartbeat. We can’t even imagine events that unfold over several days and years or be aware of elementary particles that fl ash into existence for less than a billionth of a second without high-tech camera equipment and exceptional fi lming tech-niques. “Time Limits” uses a combination of dramatic computer animation, amazing real time images and the latest scientifi c advances to give a totally new view of our world and our universe. Specially developed motion-control time-lapse photography will bring to life the slow motion world of plants and the beautiful play of day and night. As the journey continues we expe-rience shorter timescales to fi nd elements that exist for less than a millionth of a second diving into a world of its own. Experience events in a completely new visual way and join the team that made “Limits of Perception” such a success on a fascinating journey to the limits of time.



A co-production by ORF, ARTE, BR and bm:bwk, produced by AV-Dokumenta and Alfred Vendl

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Montana Cine International, Missoula 2008: Merit Award for Special Effects & Use of

Grafi cs, Merit Award for Educational Value

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Tough at the Top Geheimnisse des Eisgebirges

The Hohe Tauern mountain range is a high Alpine wilderness harboring natural treasures. The film shows a series of barely known, extremely shy or rare animals of the high mountains of Upper Austria. It took 2 years to complete the complicated shooting during which the camera team had to cope with harsh conditions to capture an intimate look into the secretive life of these shyest of mountain creatures.


Directed by Michael Schlamberger and Norbert Winding

A co-production by ScienceVision, ORF and Hohe Tauern National Park

Available worldwide

IWFF 1997: Merit Award for Photography

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Treasure of the AlpsDer Schatz der Hohen Tauern

When the first humans advanced into the Alps, they encountered dense, primeval forests. Over the centuries, they cleared the woodlands, created fields and pastures, and built their villages higher and higher in the moun-tains. These early farmers were followed by many wild animals that found a new habitat in the changed landscape: wood grouse occupied the forest glades, rock partridges filled the mountain meadows, and red deer popula-ted the alpine pastures. For some wild animals that had been sparse in the ancient forests – like the black grouse, marmots, and the common adder – human intervention created significant extensions to their habitats.

„Treasure of the Alps“ is a rare portrait of the co-existence of alpine wildlife and humans – a story that began thousands of years ago, and still continues in the Hohe Tauern National Park today.



A co-production by Interspot Film and ORF in association with Nationalpark Hohe Tauern, BR

and lebensministerium.at


Cine Golden Eagle Competition, Washington 2008: Golden Eagle Award; International

Environmental Film Festival Green Vision, Russia 2008: Award for the Optimistic View on

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The Treasury – Vienna’s Natural History MuseumMuseum des Lebens – Das Wiener Naturhistorische

For the world famous newspaper, the “Sunday Times”, an English team of museum specialists determined the ten best museums of this world – Austria’s Natural History Museum of Vienna was within the top ten. Without a doubt, it holds a unique position within the museums of the world.Vienna’s Natural History Museum is a collection of natural treasures – from meteorites to stone age artefacts, from dinosaur bones to fossils trapped in amber. But how did these jewels find their way into this temple of know-ledge? Every piece has its own story which leads out of the museum into the remotest corners of the world – and beyond. For the first time, this documentary will unfold the history of this traditional Viennese museum as well as explore the museum’s contribution to science across the world.



A co-production by ORF, Power of Earth Productions, BMBWK, Natural History Museum Vienna

Available worldwide

International Environmental Film Festival Green Vision, Russia 2008: Award for the

Optimistic View on Future

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Trees of Tempting FruitMostviertel – Das Viertel der Verführung

The Mostviertel, Austria‘s pear country, stretches from the river Danube to the Alps, right in the heart of Austria. Pear trees are scattered across the landscape and produce 200 different kinds of pears. Their naturally tart fruits have been used for centuries to extract the delicious pear cider (per-ry). As production has grown over time, „Most“, the Austrian name for cider, has given the charming region its name.

From a geographical point of view, pear country is spared the climatic ext-remes of other Alpine regions in Austria and has thus become one of Europe‘s remaining sanctuaries for a variety of rare, altogether 3000 diffe-rent - including some endangered – species: the little owl, the European otter, the hoopoe, or the curlew.



Produced by Zeggl Film for ORF

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NaturVision Grand Prix 2002; IWFF 2002: Best Photography 2nd Place; Envirofilm 2002:

Main Prize for the Best script; Wildscreen 2002: Finalist; Valvert 2002: Best film;

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Typhoon Island – TaiwanGrüne Insel im Taifun

The spectacular island of Taiwan has long been buffeted by violent elemen-tal forces, and a recent hurricane of human development has rocked it to its core. But at the eye of this dual storm, in the island’s mysterious mountain heart, a huge variety of unique and little-known wildlife has survived. That may come as a surprise to many, since this is no lost wilderness, but one of the most densely populated places on earth: Taiwan, with over 20 million people inhabiting an area just 200 by 80 miles.


Directed by Nick Upton and Michael Schlamberger

Produced by ScienceVision for ORF in co-production with BBC in association with WDR and

PTS Taiwan

Available only for USA, Canada, German speaking Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein;

other Territories distributed by BBCW

naturvision 2004: youth jury award; albert 2004: finalist

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Tyrol – Life in the MountainsTirol – Leben im Bergland

The mountain farmers in the valleys of Tyrol and East Tyrol have been pro-foundly shaped by the environment they live in. Internationally acclaimed director Curt Faudon presents a portrait of the rugged and rough life these people live as they go about their work and celebrate their festivities and embarks on a search for the ancient ties that exist between nature and man.



A co-production by ORF and Faudon Movies in association with Cine Tirol

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Umbria – From Wreck to ReefUmbria – Vom Wrack zum Riff

On June 10, 1940, the Umbria, an Italian man-of-war, was scuttled in the Red Sea near Port Sudan. Tons of ammunition, 300.000 bombs and air mi-nes, military trucks, motorcycles and silver coins sank to the bottom of the sea. In 1949, Austria’s underwater pioneer Hans Hass explored the wreck and documented the beginning growth of corals. 30 years later he returned, filming and photographing the same positions again for comparison. The metamorphosis from wreck to reef was already on its way.

60 years after the Umbria sank, Erich Proell, another living legend of under-water filming, visited the wreck that had meanwhile turned into a veritable reef. Six decades after the Umbria sank almost the entire wreck has been taken over by marine creatures. The dark holds, still stacked with bombs and other war materials, have been colonised by armies of tube worms and a colourful array of sponges that can survive without sunlight. Erich Proell has documented some of the bizarre scenes of this submarine landscape: vintage motor cars, trucks, railway carriages standing upright in the sand, all overgrown with corals.



Produced by Erich Pröll Film for ORF in association with Docstar and ZDF

Available for UK, USA, Canada, Ireland and German speaking Switzerland; other Territories


Telescience 2001: Finalist; IWFF 2002: Merit Award for Underwater Photography; U.S. Int.

Film and Video Festival 2002: Silver Screen Award

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The Valley at the BorderDas Tal an der Grenze

The border between Austria and the Czech Republic runs along the middle of the Thaya River. Up to the fall of the Iron Curtain, the isolation of the youngest Austrian national park allowed a great diversity of quite rare animal and plant species to survive. Highlights of this production are underwater shots of spawning brook trout, a battle between stag-beetles and the mating of a female praying mantis – complete with the well-known outcome.



A co-production by ORF and BMUK in association with BMU produced by Lotus Film

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The Valley of the RavensDas Tal der Raben

At the edge of the Dead Mountains lies an enchanting, sparsely populated area – the inner Alm Valley. Especially in winter up to 120 half-grown ra-vens gather in the area around the wild animal park to steal food. This is the biggest permanent settlement of ravens in all of central Europe. They are blacker than night and smarter than parrots: ravens are capable of asto-nishing mental feats. How well does their bird’s brain really work? This do-cumentary probes deep into the raven’s soul and follows his awkward flight around the entire globe.

The film tells about the life and activities of the ravens. It tells about the observation of the Corpus Christi holiday and the magical „Echo Blowing“ at Alm lake, about bringing the cattle down from the high lying pastures and about the hunt. About the idyllic research institute with all its residents

– the students, the geese, chickens, dogs and sheep – and about Cumber-land Wild Animal Park that inconspicuously and harmoniously hugs the shore of the Alm.



Produced by Cosmos Factory for ORF and WDR

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The Vampire PrincessDie Vampirprinzessin

An aristocratic demon hunting for fresh human blood, who strikes unsus-pecting mortals at night – everyone knows the grim story of Count Dracula. A legend from medieval Romania or interpreted by a writer of horror stories? Now scientists can reveal the truth: The vampire story as we know isn’t modelled on a medieval count from Transylvania but on the fate of a Bohe-mian princess from the early 18th century. Behind the walls of the dark and giant castle of Czech Krumlov lived a beautiful princess. She suffered from an allergy to light and could only leave her living quarters secretly at night. As a terrible fear of vampires swept central Europe at that time the people of the small village went into hysterics and committed a horrible crime. 250 years later a team of archeologists finds a skeleton of a woman buried in Czech Krumlov according to vampire rituals at: the head of the skeleton had been separated and laid between the bones of the legs, the thorax run through with a wooden implement. This documentary traces the origins of all the vampire myths by uncovering a gruesome murder.


Directed by Klaus Steindl and Andreas Sulzer

A co-production by ORF, ARTE, ZDF, Smithsonian, BMUKK and Pro Omnia in association with

Cine Styria and the City of Linz

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NY Festival: Award; U.S. Int. Film & Video Festival 2010:

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It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are puzz-ling – and written in a language that even the best cryptographers have been unable to deco-de. No wonder then, that this script even has a part in Dan Brown’s latest bestseller, “The Lost Symbol”. The Voynich Manuscript has captivated academics and occultists in equal measure since its discovery 100 years ago. The decoders of the Japanese Purple Code, physicists with high-per-formance modern computers and polymath his-torians have all tried their luck. But to date nobody has been able to decipher the book’s contents. “The Voynich Mystery” follows a completely new lead in the hunt for the author’s identity and un-covers the secret of the mysterious manuscript using the methods of materials science. To the pres ent day many historians believe the ma-nuscript to be a fake, allegedly circulated by the New York antique book dealer, Wilfrid Voynich, in 1912 so that he could offer it to wealthy ma-nuscript collectors. Voynich did not, however, succeed in selling the mysterious manuscript to a collector during his lifetime. After his death, it eventually found its way into the collection of the University of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The manuscript’s age, origin and contents remai-ned unknown. For almost a century, the numerous illustrations in particular have given rise to the most adventurous speculation and astounding theories. The secret lettering itself is also still a source of great mystery.

But now a new investigative approach has shed new light into the maze of conflicting theories and ideas. At the home of the Voynich Ma-nuscript, the University of Yale, the mysterious text has been looked at again using the methods of material science.

The Voynich Code – The World’s Most Mysterious ManuscriptDas Voynich-Rätsel – Die geheimste Handschrift der Welt


Vienna’s Forests – Jewels of GreenWiener Wälder – Grüne Juwele

Vienna’s forests make a visual impact on the city’s scenery – being a source of life and sanctuary at the same time: They are omnipresent and an enor-mous asset, taken for granted by many. Perhaps no other European capital boasts so many acres of forest per inhabitant. There are the well-known Vienna woods in the West and North, the national park of the Danube wetlands to the East, and numerous groves and green corridors right amidst built-up urban space.

Georg Riha’s film makes forests in their enormous diversity an experience in its own right, spotting forest wildlife in dens and observing nature as the seasons go by. Based on superb filming equipment such as the track-based overhead Camcat system and the exceptional CamTL35 fast-motion camera, the film shows visual montages alternating between idyllic impressions and unusual camera perspectives and views.



Produced by Riha Film for ORF in association with MA 49-Forstamt und Landwirtschaftsbetrieb

der Stadt Wien

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Vienna’s WaterWiener Wasser

The city of Vienna is world famous for its position on the River Danube. Eve-ry day Vienna’s residents consume around 370,000 cubic metres of water, which is not uncommon for a city of over a million people. However the fact that not a single drop comes from the great river is amazing. All of the water that is drunk or cooked with, that flows through showers, sinks and foun-tains into the city’s drains and wastewater treatment plants comes from the alps. Vienna’s exclusive water factory lies in the eastern limestone alps. The Rax-Schneeberg region in Lower Austria and the Styrian Hoschschwab are the natural reservoirs from which water has flowed to Vienna for almost 150 years. It follows the natural inclines from the mountains along two pipelines into the federal capital, where it collects in large reservoirs and is distributed via a network that is approximately 3000 km long.

The film shows the routes that this diverted mountain stream takes through the city and how the precious liquid transforms both itself and the city; it explains why Vienna General Hospital is the city’s greatest water consumer, accompanies dirty water through one of the most modern wastewater treatment plants in the world and observes its wondrous transformation on its way to the Danube.

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Wild MongoliaDie Magie der Mongolei

One of the most stunning, untouched landscapes on earth is found in the heartland of Asia: stretching from the impenetrable forests of Siberia in the North to the Chinese wall in the South. And here, a huge variety of rare animal species are found under its deep blue sky. The rocky territory in the mountains of the North is shared by powerful Argali sheep and ibex. The Southwest of Mongolia is home to the Mongolian Wild Horse, the ancestor of our domestic horse. In the interior of the Gobi desert, wild camels wander from oasis to oasis. The East of the country holds the biggest area of grass-land in Asia. In the early springtime, it hosts huge numbers of Mongolian gazelles and wolves. “Wild Mongolia” is a unique revelation of untouched nature and amazing landscapes.



Produced by Interspot Film for ORF in association with WDR


IWFF 2007: Human-Wildlife Interactions & Cinematography Awards; Sondrio Int.

Documentary Film Festival 2007: Audience Jury Award; MENIGOUTE FESTIVAL 2007: Second

Prize; International Festival of Mountain Films 2007: Best Photography; Matsalu Nature Film

Festival 2007: Highly Commended Diplomas; Torello Mountain Film Festival, Spain, 2007:

Silver Prize of the jury; CineEco, Portugal 2007: Prize for Natural Environment;

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Waldviertel – The Enchantment of a Rugged LandWaldviertel – Vom Zauber des rauen Landes

Against the backdrop of the changing seasons, award winning director Kurt Mündl paints a portrait of the rugged beauty of the Waldviertel region whe-re sun, wind, rain and snow have played a large role in shaping the people and nature, conferring on the countryside a certain mystical charm. Mündl has captured this magic in impressive and moving cinematography – in the high moors, the Kamp Valley, in the hills and dales of the northern Wald-viertel.



A co-production by ORF, Land Niederösterreich, bm:bwk and Power of Earth TV & Film

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The Wild and the WestWild ist der Weste(r)n

In the mountains of Colorado lies the source of a river that has long become a myth. Known as the Rio Bravo or Ferocious River in Mexico and as Rio Grande in the USA, this 2000 miles long band of water has been a river of fate for both countries, a natural link and a hotly disputed border. The land of the Rio Bravo has been immortalised in the most famous Western movies ever shown on screen. Some of the heroes, villains and symbolic figures in these Western sagas have been wild animals: the lone wolf, the howling cowardly coyote, the foreboding vulture, the deadly rattler, all staged in a scenery, much bigger than life. This film is the portrait of an American and global myth and its modern reality introducing vast lands and wild animals.



A co-production by ORF and Discovery Channel in association with WDR and NDR,

produced by Cosmos Factory

Available worldwide except for USA, Latin America, Germany

U.S. international film and video festival 2006: Gold camera award; IWFF 2006: golden

panda award for innovation; Beijing International Scientific Film Festival 2007: Silver Prize;

Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2007: Best Director; Wildlife Asia Film Festival 2007: Winner for

Breaking Boundaries; GREEN SCREEN 2007: Best Camera;

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Wasteland WarriorsWiener Gstettn – Wildnis in der Großstadt

Surrounded by barren cities, sterile concrete or over maintained, uniform patches of green, more and more animals are losing their last places of ret-reat. The city continues to grow inexorably but, where humans fail to impo-se their order, nature sprouts and crawls out of the tiny cracks in the as-phalt and concrete and re-conquers its territory. Disused land is often the last place of retreat for wild animals in the city. More than two thousand species of plants can be found in Vienna alone, as well as half of all Austrian breeding birds and two thirds of the country’s mammals. Many disused are-as in Vienna are home to a host of threatened species like, for example, crested larks, nightingales, praying mantisses or fire-bellied toads. Count-less mammals, birds, insects and amphibians are making their homes here once again. The city’s wilderness is characterised by their comings and go-ings, their struggle to survive and their quest to find increasingly scarce resources and habitats.


Directed by Thomas Rilk

A co-production by ORF, Rilk Film and bm:ukk, supported by the City of Vienna

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Wild NairobiWildes Nairobi

With a population of around 3 million, Nairobi is one of the largest cities in Africa. However the metropolis is surrounded by wilderness which extends into the city itself. Just a few metres from the airport lies the Nairobi national park, with its vast savannah and mysterious inhabitants. Beside the motor-way, lions, hyenas, giraffes and rhinoceros wander through grassland, separated only by a wire fence, while in the city centre hundreds of mara-bous breed in the tree lined streets. Hordes of apes terrorise people wal-king in the city’s parks and croco diles and hippos swim in the reservoirs of the city’s sewerage treatment plant. This is a journey of discovery through a city full of contradictions and teeming with nature, technology and wild-ness, in which humans and animals live together as neighbours.



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The Wild BalkansWilder Balkan

Wolves hunt their prey in the valleys between high-ranging dunes, bears and lynxes wander through dense primeval forest, and the big lakes are a magnet for hundreds of bird species. That is the so-called “Balkan”. Today the “Balkans” stand for a Europe that hardly exists elsewhere.The moun-tains of Montenegro harbour one of Europe’s last primeval forests with trees over 400 years of age. In the difficultly accessible hinterland we find the Tara National Park with the deepest gorge in the Karst Mountains – the 1.300 meters deep Tara gorge. Nearby Lake Skadar is home for 270 species of birds; no other lake in Europe can claim such diversity. Europe’s last coastal forest area can be found in Albania and in Bulgaria and Romania huge bat colonies live in the cave-dotted mountains. In Serbia one can cross the “European Sahara”, a desert covering a surface of 30.000 hecta-res. This documentary takes us on the journey through untouched wilder-ness in a region that has disreputably been called a powder keg and where conflicts have drawn attention away from its hidden treasures.



A co-production by ORF, BR, ARTE and ScienceVision


Wildlife VAASA Festival: Natural History Films 2nd Price; Doc. Art Int. Filmfestival: Best Camera;

Int. Mount. Film Festival, Domzale, Slov.: Special Jury Mention; U.S. Int. Film & Video Festival ’10:

Certificate for Creative Excellence; Jahorina Festival ’09: Gold Gentiane in the category Ecology;

Kendal Mountain Film Festival, UK ’09: Best Mountain Environment Film; Telenatura Univ. de

Navarra, Spain ’09: Best Script; International Festival of Mountain Films Poprad, Horsky Film,

Slovakia ’09: The prize for Nature Filming; Silver Lake Tourfilm Festival ’09: White Acacia Award

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Year of the HedgehogDas Jahr des Igels

It’s springtime, the air is tepid, the skylarks chirp, and spring flowers cover the meadows and the forest grounds. Out of a pile of leaves a fluttery, sniff-ling snout tip appears: it’s a hedgehog awakening from its winter sleep heading into the light of a new year, having only two things in mind: food and finding a partner. This documentary accompanies for a year one of the most popular yet still unknown animals of our landscape. The hedgehog is not only part of the oldest mammal species on our planet, newest findings disclose that it will stay among us for many years to come. Neither the mas-sive destruction of natural habitats nor the horrendous road kill can seri-ously endanger its population.

Award-winning wildlife filmmaker Kurt Mündl will present never before seen details and behavioural patterns of the spiky fellow. With special ca-mera techniques he is in pursuit of the most interesting questions. What does a hedgehog really eat and drink? What do their newborns look like and do they have quills? Is a hedgehog immune against snake-venom and why has it been a symbol of luck over the last centuries?



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Yucatan – In the Kingdom of the Jaguar GodYucatan – Im Reich des Jaguargottes

The Central American peninsula of Yucatán is famous for its fascinating wildlife and exotic flora and fauna. In this exciting report, extreme diver and pilot Herbert Nitsch meets remarkable scientists and daring adventurers who take him along on subterranean diving expeditions and jungle trips. He uncovers mysterious relics of the long lost Maya culture and follows the traditional rituals of today’s indigenous population. In Belize, Guatemala and Mexico he explores the last jaguar and howler monkey reserves and tests his capacity and courage in deep meandering caves and torrential rapids.


Directed by Michael Gregor

A co-production by ORF, BR and Satel in association with RTR


International Underwater Film Festival 2006: 2nd place for Quality TV

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Zugspitze – Gem of the AlpsZugspitze – Berg der Kontraste

The Zugspitze massif at the German-Austrian border is an alpine region of fantastic contrasts. Highmoor, lakes, waterfalls, mountain peaks and ski slopes together form a magnificent natural scenery. Away from mass tou-rism, and meeting people whose life still revolves around the regional flora and fauna, the film traces remote, unspoilt reserves of the Zugspitze region.


Directed by Wolfgang Thaler und Peter Thomsen

A co-production by ORF, WDR, NDR and bm:bwk in association with RTR and Cine Tyrol


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ZambeziSambesi – Der donnernde Fluss

It’s one of the least known rivers on earth – yet it flows for nearly 2.600 kilometers and belongs to six countries. The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and along its course and its many changing moods it is a haven and a resource for wild animals and humans alike. This film tells the story of the Zambezi, from its source in the uplands of Zambia through to the vast delta in Mozambique where it empties into the Indian Ocean. Along its course the river changes its mood many times – sometimes placid and flowing out into vast open floodplains. Then it changes to raging torrents tearing through narrow rock gorges, before once again slowing, becoming deceptively placid before thundering into the mighty Victoria Falls – known to the local people as Mosi oa Tunya, the smoke that thunders. The Zambezi is a source of life to a vast array of wild creatures along its ever changing course. There are hippopotamus that live along the floodplains and depend upon the river for life at the height of the dry season when the flow ebbs away. Herds of ele-phants come to the river to drink and bathe in its cooling waters. There are the hunters, the crocodiles and hyenas, the wild dogs and the prides of lions. And there are the hunted, the flighty impala and the graceful kudu as well as other species of antelope, and the herds of buffalo and wildebeest that feed on the grasslands and depend on the flowing water for life.

Filmed throughout the changing seasons we follow the Zambezi from its headwaters through the gorges and waterfalls, along its floodplains as they fill with water and then dry out again with the seasons, until at last it flows out into the Indian Ocean. The story of the Zambezi is one of constant change, of life and death – it is the story of Africa itself.



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Carving into HistoryTore zur Unterwelt

An ancient chart hidden inside a cannonball electrifies an international re-search team in Styria, southeastern Austria. The map shows an extensive, long-forgotten underground tunnel system. No one knows what it’s for, why it’s there or who charted it. This archaeological “Cold Case” is about to turn red hot! Researchers dig, drill, scan and crawl through the narrow pas-sages, recording and interpreting this vast underground puzzle with the latest scientific and experimental techniques. Locals contribute extra knowledge to the investigation. Experts compare their results against in-ternational findings: are these tunnels part of a mysterious Europe-wide phenomenon of ancient underground chambers? Evidence of an unknown megalithic civilization in Central Europe? What do the Styrian menhirs and pierced stones mean? Are there connections with stone structures in the Orkney Islands, or those in Ireland, France, Spain, Malta and the Caucasus? Cryptic information from nearby Romania has caught the scientists’ atten-tion, too. These expeditions underground need physical courage, daring and the meticulous attention to detail of a criminal investigation. This unique archaeological site leads us into an underground Europe whose age, purpose, structure and meaning are only just being uncovered.

What we are about to learn may change our understanding of parts of hu-man history forever.


Directed by Ully Aris and Wilfried Reichel

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The Beauty and the Beast – The True StoryDie Schöne und das Biest – Die wahre Geschichte

From his birth in 1556 on Tenerife Petrus Gonsalvus suffered from a rare disease now called „hypertrichosis“ or „Ambras syndrome”: His body in-cluding his face was completely covered with hair leading people to believe he was a talking ape. From early childhood on he was held in the parks of Fontainebleau providing amusement to the court of King Henry II of France. A pretty young woman was bribed into marriage with Gonsalvus. They had several children some of which inherited their father’s rare disease. They were taken away and sold or donated to other courts in Europe. Petrus himself was passed around as a celebrity among the nobilities of France, Austria and Italy. Eventually Gonsalvus and his wife found their peace and settled down in Italy near Lake Bolsena. Their touching fate reflects one of the most powerful stories ever written. “The Beauty and the Beast” – the archetypal tale of how ignorance and cruelty can only be overcome by love. A new docu-drama from the producers of the Vampire Princess.


Directed by Klaus Steindl

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Climbing with the Stars – AustriaLand der Berge

Dark green, wooded mountainsides, bizarre rock formations and the blin-ding white of eternal snow and ice: nine Austrian federal states, nine moun-tains, nine summits. This documentary attains the heights. Stunning cine-flex views of Austria‘s Alps alternate with images of climbers rising through spectacular landscapes. And it‘s more. Austrian celebrities from all walks of life do what celebrities should do – celebrate: the mountains‘ magic, their challenge, their peace, their exhilaration and inspiration - and sometimes their terror. Simultaneously, two of the world‘s best mountain climbers, a man and a woman, set out to conquer all nine peaks in nine days. It has never been done before. The view from the sky reveals the different world each mountain is the centre of (even the state of Vienna‘s, only 300 meters high!). Each is a unique ecosystem separated by bands of altitude. Those who know the mountains best - mountain innkeepers, rescue teams, dairy maids - toss in a grain of realism . . . Austria‘s peaks from zero to zenith and back again, with thrills, emotion, achievement and invigorating energy.



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Climbing with the Stars – The World!Land der Berge

The ultimate iconic challenge format. To some, they are a legend. To others, a magnetic but unattainable goal. And to a few, a life‘s mission. The „Seven Summits“, the highest mountain peaks on each of the world‘s seven conti-nents, are all this – vision, dream, and challenge – and more. Our journey takes us across the globe from Africa‘s Mount Kilimanjaro (5.895m) – with possibly the last images of its melting glaciers - to Alaska‘s bitterly cold Mount McKinley (6.195 m), to the world‘s highest mountain, Mount Everest (8.848 m) at the border between Nepal and China. Each highest peak in each continent. Accompanied by seasoned alpine cameramen, prominent mountaineers conquer these fascinating mountains and peaks. Each climb is a challenge, a race against the clock. We join them in their daring adven-tures with a series of intimate films, not just about scaling the mountains but the people and mountains themselves, stunning in their majesty and diversity: lush mountainsides, jagged peaks and ridges, and dazzling white glacier slopes. It can be a race to be first, or a test of strategy and of charac-ter. It doesn‘t have to be global. If there‘s a hill in your country – it can happen there too! The competition itself can be national or international wherever it happens. The mountaineers can be top professionals alone, or partnered by celebrities – social climbers! It can be a fundraising event for charity. It can support a week of television, with documentary specials, re-gular updates, live newsflashes and web reports. Whatever your country‘s needs, we‘ve done it and we can show you how.



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Extreme – Light and DarkExtrem – Licht und Schatten

Humans prefer moderation – neither too hot nor too cold, neither too light nor too dark. But Earth doesn‘t cater to our preferences. Our planet offers an abundance of extreme conditions, and people everywhere have had to learn to adapt to their surroundings.

“EXTREME! – Light and Dark“ is a journey to the brightest and darkest inha-bited areas of the world: places where a cloud hardly ever crosses the sky; or months pass without a single ray of sunlight reaching the ground. How does so much light, or so little, affect the mindset and emotional well-being of the people who live with it? How do they protect themselves? And how do they take advantage of their situation? Yuma in Arizona just recently lost the title “world’s brightest town” to Agadem, a tiny oasis in the Sahara Desert; while the Italian village of Viganella has winter sunshine even in its alpine ravine – ever since the mayor attached parabolic reflectors to the mountaintops!

Following previous “EXTREME!”s: “Valley Deep – Mountain High”, “Drought to Deluge” and “Freezer to Furnace”, this new episode brings to life the brightest and most shadowed places on Earth in spectacular images.


Directed by Manfred Christ and Udo Maurer

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Danube – Europe’s AmazonasDonau – Die Lebensader Europas

Romantic river banks and unspoilt nature – wherever the Danube flows these types of landscapes dominate. This comprehensive cinematic portrait of Europe’s second longest river presents numerous scenes of heavenly beauty along the banks of the Danube, as well as the tension between humans and nature and civilisation and wilderness. Dams and power stations alternate with sections of natural wilderness along this mighty river, which flows through metropolises such as Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest and untou-ched natural landscapes like the Danube national park and the Kopac̆ki Rit.

Further south, between the Carpathian mountain range in Romania and the Serbian Ore mountains, the river passes through the so called Iron Gate, 137 kilometres of gorges that are among the largest in Europe. The final opening of the Danube into the Black Sea couldn’t be more spectacular. The mighty river expires in a unique labyrinth of water, mud and reeds – the Danube delta. It is the last remaining major river delta in Europe and the largest reed bed on earth, used by huge colonies of pelicans, cormorants, sea eagles and spoonbills to nest and breed.



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Hunting BuddiesJagdkumpane

No animal reflects human social changes as much as the dog. For millennia, dogs have served as mankind‘s hunting buddies, vital companions in our struggle for survival. But today‘s increasingly civilized world forces modern dogs to abandon their first instincts, serving as replacement children or partners for alienated urbanites, diagnosing cancer, or sniffing for drugs. We have forgotten what it actually means to be a dog, a hunter. “Hunting Buddies” looks back at this part of our cultural history, and asks what we have given up and gained as our relationship with dogs has changed.

Starring five different hunting dogs, we follow them in real life situations seen from the dogs‘ perspective. Each episode is associated with a specific period in hunting history, when each dog breed was supremely adapted to the tasks and skills required.

“Hunting Buddies” takes a closer look at dog and man, nature and culture – a cinematic cross-over appealing not just to hunters and dog lovers but to anyone interested in the history and development of humankind.


Directed by Ute Gebhardt

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First in EuropeDie ersten Europäer

Who were the people who settled in Europe and cleared the land for cultivation? What pushed them to the north? And how did the first great European powers come into existence and why were they destroyed again?

“First in Europe”, a three part series, takes a journey through time to visit our forefathers. It immerses itself in people’s lives from around 5000 years BC until 1000 AD. Using countless small jigsaw pieces that archaeologists from across Europe have uncovered, it is possible to build up an image of those times that explains the history of Europe in astonishing fashion. Each episode follows a protagonist from their respective eras on their life’s mis-sion. The first episode accompanies a young man who has been sent out into the world to re-establish contact with his forefathers. Episode 2 accom-panies a son who has been forced to leave his parents’ home to find new, fertile land, and episode three tells the story of one of history’s first merce-naries. The past is brought back to life by these three protagonists and gi-ven a face. Whilst they are fictitious, it is quite possible that their lives and fates could have played out this way or similarly for somebody.


Directed by Klaus Steindl

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Miaow at MiramareDie Katzen von Miramare

Miramare Castle’s history begins 150 years ago aboard the small sailing ship Madonna della Salute. A terrible storm is raging and her crew and pas-sengers – including Maximilian von Habsburg, new Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian Imperial Navy, and Ariadne, the ships’s cat – seek refuge in the Gulf of Sistano near Trieste. By the time the clouds lift Maximilian has alrea-dy chosen this delightful location for his future dream castle – Miramare. It will be his sanctuary in a turbulent life, ending in his tragic execution as Emperor of a distant land. More than just a historic building, Miramare is a legend of love, sorrow, creation and beauty that has endured through the years. Owners, guests and visitors have come and gone. But the cats were and are always there. They have lived and raised their families here for centuries, thriving in one of Europe’s most exquisite and diverse botanical gardens. And who better to relate the castle’s history, its legends and fascinating secrets than Ariadne’s descendant Max, king of cats and true ruler of Miramare?


Directed by Volker Grohskopf

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Kings of The Masai MaraDie Könige der Masai Mara

This is the unusual portrait of two hunters, the cheetah and hyena. It is a dramatic story around the competition for prey and territories and the fight for survival. The setting is the legendary Masai Mara in Kenya and our head-quarters is a research camp. For years the biologist Kay Holekamp from the Michigan State University and her team have studied the behaviour of hyenas.

We travel with Kay and her young fellows into the territory where a clan of hyenas roam. We show from the sky and from the ground how hyenas snatch prey away from the cheetah, and even how they attack the spotted cats. We see how differently both of them hunt: while the cheetah relies on the most part on its staggering fast sprints, hyenas approach it in a more tactical manner and are hunting in groups.

The two rivals have a common archenemy: the lion. The big cats deliberate-ly kill hyenas and young cheetahs whenever there is an occasion. The film shows why that happens and questions whether there really is a number one, a King of the Masai Mara.




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Nature Tech ReloadedNature Tech Reloaded

The Emmy and Jackson Hole Winners are back! For four billion years Nature has been solving engineering challenges. Over the last twenty years, hu-mans have begun to realize how much we still have to learn from the master of design. In 2006, the three-episode series „Nature Tech“ drew the world‘s attention to the fi eld of Biomimetics: using Nature‘s blueprints for human engineering challenges. „Nature Tech“, directed by Alfred Vendl and Steve Nicholls, won both an Emmy and the Award for Best Limited Series at the 2007 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. Now, „Nature Tech Reloaded“ builds on this success with two further one-hour episodes.

So Episode 1, „Creating Resources“, presents wind farms patterned after schools of fi sh, dolphin-inspired long-distance communication, and fresh water collectors based on beetles and trees. Sometimes engineers copy nature as closely as possible and to the original purpose. Sometimes we adapt what we learn to meet new challenges and reach new goals. Either way, „Nature Tech Reloaded“ reveals both the beauty of nature and the genius of science – with the thrill of innovation and ongoing discovery.

Episode 2, „Saving Resources“, focuses on lessons of effi ciency. Bullet trains reshaped to take advantage of the silent perfection of a kingfi sher‘s dive, water purifi cation based on algae from coral reefs, computers based on the architecture of the brain – these are just a few of the nature-based innovations „Nature Tech Reloaded“ uncovers. But saving resources is only the start, if we are to survive as our world grows smaller and the human population larger.


Directed by Alfred Vendl and Steve Nicholls

Produced by MR Film

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A Partner for GeorgeEine Frau für Lonesome George

The last battle for the tortoises‘ survival has begun. And in one case, it has come down to a single individual: “Lonesome George”, the sole known li-ving example of the Pinta Island Tortoise in the Galapagos. In 1972, a group of scientists found him living in solitude on this remote island. They have been looking for a suitable wife for “Lonesome George” ever since. But un-fortunately George has turned out to be picky. And now he’s more than 100 years old! Tortoises and turtles have inhabited the Earth for 220 million years, making their homes in every habitat: oceans, rivers, lakes, deserts and rain forests. Yet this contemporary of the dinosaurs that successfully survived every challenge is now itself threatened by extinction.

More than 300 different tortoise and turtle species still exist worldwide. These astounding animals live much longer than humans and survive for months without food. When they dig their burrows, they equip their homes with tortoise air-conditioning.

“A Partner for George” features tortoises and turtles in nature and in mytho-logy – and celebrates the courage, skill and imagination of researchers deter-mined to track down mates for these threatened or almost extinct species.



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Namibia – Diamonds are Natures’ Best FriendsNamibia –Tierparadies im Sperrgebiet

The Sperrgebiet, which means “a forbidden area”, is one of the most pro-tected areas in the world and located in the southern Namib Desert, lying alongside the Atlantic Ocean from Oranjemund along the Orange River to Luederitz. For thousands of years, the Orange River carried diamonds from inland to the coast and into the sea. The first of these diamonds were found at Kolmanskop, 30 kilometres east of Luederitz, in 1908. A diamond rush followed and to control mining activity, the German colonial government of the time proclaimed the coast down to the mouth of the Orange/Gariep, including a buffer zone reaching 100 kilometres inland, as “Sperrgebiet” (restricted area). Because diamond mining is confined to the coast, the rest of the area remains practically untouched. In February 2009 the Sperrge-biet became Namibia’s newest National Park preserving biodiversity riches unrivalled elsewhere in Africa. Under strong restrictions parts thereof are now accessible to the public for the first time in over a hundred years.


Directed by Franz Leopold Schmelzer

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Pitoti – Home Movies of the AncientsPitoti –Kino aus Stein

These home movies are the fi lms with the longest production schedule in history: 4,200 years. That‘s how long it is since the Camuni, in their steep alpine valley in northern Italy, left 150,000 rock engravings depicting their everyday experience, with duels, dances, maps of their village, and scenes of home life, farming and play – before the Roman legions invaded and de-stroyed everything in 15 BC. No other prehistoric European society left us such a complete yet mystifying record of its existence.

Now archaeologist Christopher Chippindale and the experts of Cambridge‘s “Prehistoric Picture Project” are piecing together the evidence. And they have to get up early and stay late, because only when the sun is low in the sky do these drawings – gouged, scraped and pecked into the bare undula-ting rock – come alive in dramatic relief, vivid movement – and lashings of humor. Now prizewinning director Frederick Baker (“Shadowing the Third Man”) is completing the fi lm he believes the Camuni themselves would have made if they had had the technology: animating the scenes together into a unique self-portrait of this ancient culture. (Produced in 3D and 2D)


Directed by Frederick Baker

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Planet SparrowPlanet der Spatzen

Ben is a sparrow in the South in Cairo. Bushy and tousled, he fl its between crowded stalls to build his nest. He’s one of fi ve heroes of “Planet Spar-row“. Their adventures cover the world, traveling westward with the sun from Egypt to Austria, New York, Shanghai and Moscow. At each destinati-on we observe the life and world of the oldest species to live in harmony with humankind – without ever becoming domesticated!

Small and gray-brown, sparrows may seem dull, but this fi rst impression is deceptive. They sing as prettily as canaries and are extremely clever, dipping bread and rice grains into water to soften them and learning to open milk cans by watching other birds. Their insect-hunting skills are brea-thtaking; the camera pursues these artists of fl ight through narrow alleys, revealing their spectacular aerial maneuvers.

“Planet Sparrow” also shows how their 10,000 year coexistence with hu-mans hasn‘t always been harmonious. In the middle ages a “sparrow tax” forced every citizen to deliver 12 dead sparrows a year to prove they were protecting the harvest from their predations. “Planet Sparrow” is a docu-mentary about these fl ying survival artists, their neighbors and adversaries, all photographed from the perspective of the birds!


Directed by Judith Doppler and Kurt Mayer

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Power of PlayDie Macht des Spiels

Games are vital for the development of all mammals – and even some birds. Games train animals in the complex skills of hunting and fighting, as well as honing their sensory coordination and physical fitness. The more complex the organism, the more complex the games, until they are crucial to the well-being of an entire community – while at the same the individual‘s sub-jective world comes more and more into ‘play’.

This documentary by prizewinning film-maker Waltraud Paschinger (“Alpi-ne Meltdown”, “The Hare and the Sun“) takes a good look at play among animals and among human children and adults. It then segues to online computer games like “World of Warcraft”, with 12 million players worldwi-de controlling their avatars. What are the effects of playing in artificial sur-roundings? Has this changed the meaning of “Play” forever?

“Power of Play” addresses these questions by referring to the animal king-dom – since humans don‘t have a monopoly on role-play. In the mock fights of young rats, lions or foxes, the hunters and the hunted frequently change places.



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Realm of the HoopoeDer Wiedehopf wieder am Wagram

Across Europe Hoopoes are struggling. But amidst the orchards and vi-neyards of the Wagram region near Vienna they are thriving. This documen-tary shows how the small bird with the spectacular crown feathers made a comeback in the heart of Europe and how it’s dealing with its neighbors: Stone martens, Owls and Green lizards. Cultural landscapes like the Wa-gram offer countless opportunities for wild animals to find new niches. Ke-strels and Barn owls use the church tower to breed and Bee-eaters live in the same layers of loess vintners grow their grapes on.


Directed by Hubert Kretschmer

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The Remedy ManDie Reise des Medizinmanns

Robert Müntz is on a mission: to find the world’s most powerful remedies. Müntz has collected the most deadly plants and animals known to man – except for one: the Bushmaster, South America’s most feared snake. But is he chasing an illusion?

Adventurer and pharmacist Robert Müntz travels through jungles, deserts and mountain ranges, on water, on land and by air in his gyrocopter on a quest for unusual medicines. And yet, even if he ‘s successful, he will still, in some sense, return empty-handed. Because even the strongest poisons are no longer traceable in the homeopathic remedies for which he supplies the ingredients. What does it mean to be in search, ultimately, of nothing?

This exciting and dangerous quest for nature’s treasures and healing pro-perties visits unknown, unusual regions, people, cultures and traditions.

“Remedy Man” explores the power of nature and natural medicine which the natives with whom he eats, sleeps, hunts and celebrates, experience every day


Directed by Fritz Kalteis

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The Senses – Making Sense of the World Around Us

“The Senses” is a landmark, innovative series that combines the newest filming technology with the latest scientific research to reveal just how our senses work together to allow us to understand and affect the world around us. Using exquisite and intriguing visuals, the series will discover how the human senses work, but, in doing so, we will explore how other creatures sense their world, and how they compare to our own perceptions.

Part 1

The simplest way to sense our world is to contact it directly – to touch it, or be touched by it.

Touch is the most fundamental of the senses – a touch tells us that something is very close to us. Our sense of touch is in our skin, with different sensors for pressure and temperature.

Part 2

To sense the world without having to touch it – sensing from a distance – is often safer than di-rect contact. Reacting to changes in light and dark, to sunlight, soon became a sense of its own, and as patches of skin became sensitive to light, vision came into being.

The complexity of the eye is often used as evi-dence for a divine creator yet vision has evolved several times and it’s thought that the develop-ment of vision was the stimulus for the Cambrian explosion of diversity.

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The third program explores how the senses work together and how the brain processes the data it receives to create new information.

Occasionally, senses can interfere with each other. Franz Liszt, the greatest composer and performer of the piano used an unusual neurolo-gical condition – synaesthesia. He saw music in colour – his musical gift was partly visual. He shows how the brain can re-map information from different senses.


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Shangri-La – The Valley of Eternal YouthShangri-La – Das Tal der ewigen Jugend

There is a virgin paradise guarded by the „Eight-thousanders“ right in the much-embattled „northern territories“ of Pakistan. According to a myth, people there turn older than in any other place in the world.

The film takes you through the wild mountainous scenery of northern Pa-kistan. It conjoins fascinating landscape observations of snow leopards in the wild with deep insights into the traditions of the Hunzakuts, mountain inhabitants who get “as old as the hills”. A blooming land-scape with para-disiacal apricot groves, grapevines, and fruit orchards between hostile deserts and insurmountable canyons, in which markhors graze, the impres-sive animals of the Karakorum. The narrative context draws from the touching journey of Ali, the Hunza mountain farmer, who travels with both his kids, Nazir and Aima, to the notorious Shandur Pass where every year the toughest polo match in the world takes place. Like many boys of his age, Ali’s son Nazir dreams of becoming a famous polo player one day. They are traveling on Asia’s most dangerous route for one month. The journey will take us through the territory of the mysterious Hunza people, of whom a majority belongs to the Ismaili religious community. They practice a tolerant, blitheful form of Islam, which is also open to older, pre-islamic traditions.


Directed by Kurt Mayer and Judith Doppler

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Schladming – Gateway to the AlpsSchladming – Tor zu den Alpen

These steep rock walls and deep ravines were made to be climbed, lush al-pine meadows were made for summer strolls and steep ski slopes for the more daring: Schladming in northern Austria is a unique European destination where man and beast alike can live in harmony with the bounty and the challenge of the highest peaks. But this is anything but a ‚natural‘ landscape. This land has been cultivated and punctured for centuries: treasures were mined from its depths and its alpine meadows were populated with domestic animals. Yet in the shadow of the Dachstein mountains, in the Enns valley, red deer, wood-grouse, gol-den eagles and Eurasian lynx stake out their territories as they have for thousands of years. The Low Tauern moors, too, offer a stunning diversity of animal and plant life. The tension between intensive management by twenty-first century city dwellers and Schladming‘s ancient surroundings rises to a peak with 2013‘s world ski-ing championships. That confrontation is at the heart of this film. While historic archive underpins the story of Dachstein‘s notorious South Face and the legendary Planai, one of the first great ski slopes, superb nature photography captures the animal life that is the replaceable soul of this much-visited region.


Directed by Franz Hafner and Gernot Lecher

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Travels with my Owl Tagebuch einer Eule

A wise old barn owl narrates its life as seen through its own eyes, from its hatching to its own grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The story takes place in a romantic setting: the attic and garden of an old mansion, inhabited by numerous wildlife species. The attic is the habitat not only of dormice, but also of marten, doves and spiders. Every now and then, even the owner’s grandson would pass by …



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Ships of the DesertWüstenschiffe

Camels are masters of the art of survival. They can go for up to ten months without a drop of water, then drink 200 litres in only 15 minutes, and even digest seawater. Domesticated as beasts of burden they laid the founda-tions of ancient long-distance trade. Legendary salt and incense caravans 2,000 strong regularly crossed the most hostile landscapes in the world.

Today, camels are still the most important source of milk, meat, leather, wool, fertilizer – and fuel – in large parts of Africa and Asia, and for the Be-douins of Arabia. Because of this, Bedouins call the camel Al-Ata Allah, the gift of God. Bedouins believe that mankind knows ninety-nine names of Allah - but the camel alone knows the hundredth! Now medical researchers are exploring the miraculous properties of camels’ milk – apparently effec-tive against Alzheimer’s, cancer and even Aids! The film shows animals in the wild, defying the deadly conditions of the desert, and males battling brutally for control of the harem group; while the specially bred racing ca-mels are worth up to $ 3 m each.

Ships of the Desert follows the ancient routes of the camel-caravans across Arabia, Africa and Asia, telling fascinating camel-stories along the way, from ancient times to the present in this 5,000-year epic of coexistence between animal and humankind.


Directed by Georg Misch

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Woodland WarriorsDer wilde Wald der Kaiserin

A palace in a private woodland park, right next to the city of Vienna. 25 square miles of lonely beauty designed for a tragic Queen. The Lainzer Park was a gift to Elisabeth Empress of Austria, from her husband more than a century ago – her sanctuary from the suffocating protocol of Court. Today visitors are restricted to the official paths of a walled wonderland that is both fully wild and fully protected, a landscape untouched by the age of industry.

In the midst of the forest is a garden whose four-hundred-year old oaks have trunks more than four meters round. The crowns of the trees host more than 1,000 insect species, including a hundred different kinds of but-terflies.

In the spirit of Thomas Rilk’s last film “Wasteland Warriors”, set in Vienna’s building sites and scrublands, this hidden ecosystem reveals a macro-world of astonishing variety, beauty and colour in the trees and on the ground, as well as following the free-roaming deer and wild hogs, living so close to the busy center of Vienna.


Directed by Thomas Rilk

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Afghanistan – The Lost Mines of the Pharaohs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Alien Insect – The Praying Mantis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Almendro – Tree of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Alpine Lakes – Quiet Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Alpine Meltdown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8The Alps – Realm of the Golden Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Ancient Amazon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Ants – Nature’s Secret Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Appalachia – The Endless Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Arlberg – The Hidden Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Baja – The Other California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11The Beauty and the Beast – The True Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92The Black Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12The Big Picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Blue Danube, Black Sea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Bohemia – A Year in the Wetlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Bohemian Forest – Wilderness in the Heart of Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Borderland – Nature Divided. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Carinthia – Land of Water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15The Carnic Alps – Nature’s Treasure Trove. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Carnuntum – Metropolis in the Land of the Barbarians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16The Carpathians – Life in Dracula’s Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Carving into History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Central Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17City of Steel, City of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17The Climate Change Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Climbing with the Stars – Austria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Climbing with the Stars – The World! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Cuba – Wild Island of the Caribbean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Danube – Europe’s Amazonas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Death at Dawn – The Emperor’s Last Battleship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19The Dragons of the Canaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Drakensberg – Africa’s Dragon Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Drava – River of Peace, River of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Extreme – Light and Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94First On Mount Everest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21The Fire of Life: Power of Destruction – Source of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22First in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Flight of the Bald Ibis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Flight of the Stork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23The Four Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23From Drought to Deluge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24From Freezer to Furnace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25From Valley Deep to Mountain High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25Fu Long – Little Panda, Happy Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Genghis Khan – Rider of the Apocalypse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Gene Pool of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Greece – Garden of the Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28The Great Rift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Green Islands in a Sea of Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Hallstatt – Living Between Rock and Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Hans Hass – The Man Who Discovered the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30High Tatras – A Wilderness Frozen in Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30Hunting Buddies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Iceland – Realm of the Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31The Ice Trap – The Tegetthoff’s Arctic Odyssey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Inn-Side Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32The Incredible Hulik and His Beavers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33The Iron Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33The Isle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Jackals – Out of Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Kailash – Towards the Sacred Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Kamp – A River for all Senses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35The Karst – Life Between Heaven and Hell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Kings Of The Masai Mara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Lake Constance – Europe’s Deepest Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36Lake Wörthersee – Where Man And Nature Meet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Land of Crystal Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Land of the Falling Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Land of a Thousand Vineyards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Laos Wonderland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Let it snow! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Libyan Sahara – Water from the Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Liguria – Life between Heaven and Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40Lightning Reloaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Limits of Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42Limits of Perception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Link with the Lynx . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Little Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44The Living Cathedral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Living for the Queen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46The Living Graveyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Madeira – Emerald in the Atlantic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47The Magic Trees of Assam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Magic of the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48The Mariazell Region – Mysterious World of Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Messengers of the Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49Miaow at Miramare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Mountains in the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Mountains of Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Mount St. Helens – Life from Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Mystery of the Fairy Circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Myths of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Namaqualand – Africa’s Desert Garden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Namibia – Diamonds are Nature’s Best Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Nature Tech – How Engineers Are Inspired by Nature’s Top Designs . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Nature Tech Reloaded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97Napoli Dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54


Night of the Salamander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54O-Two – The Molecule that Made Our World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Of Graves and Robbers – The Sell-Out of Peruvian History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Ol’ Man River – Mighty Mississippi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Organic Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57The Otter’s Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57A Partner for George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Pastures in the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Pielach – The Enchanted Valley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Pitoti – Home Movies of the Ancients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Planet Sparrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Poisoned! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Power of Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Power of the Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59The Prater – The Green Stadium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Prince of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Puszta – Land of Salt and Sand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Restless Peaks – The Birth of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61Radioactive Wolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Realm of the Hoopoe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101The Remedy Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Return of the Bald Ibis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63River without Frontiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Rose – Queen of Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64The Roaring Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64A Rugged Life in the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Saga of the White-tailed Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Sahara – The English Patient’s Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Salt – Tears of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Sandstones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67Schladming – Gateway to the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Schönbrunn – Well of Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67Sea of Creepy Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Secrets of the Adriatic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Shangri-La – The Valley of Eternal Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Secret of the flooded Forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69The Secret World of Termites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Shadow Hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Ships of the Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Silverado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71Sky Hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72So Long, Fu Long . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Strange Encounters of the Third Kind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Styria – Life in the Heart of Austria’s Wine Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73The Senses – Making Sense of the World Around Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Sudan – The Nubian Caravans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74The Tiger and the Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Teaming Up With Wolves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Tale of the Hare and the Sun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Tales from the Vienna Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Tasmania – Paradise at the End of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Time Limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Tough at the Top. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Travels with my Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105Treasure of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78The Treasury – Vienna’s Natural History Museum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Trees of Tempting Fruit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Typhoon Island – Taiwan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Tyrol – Life in the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Umbria – From Wreck to Reef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81The Valley at the Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81The Valley of the Ravens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82The Vampire Princess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82The Voynich Code – The World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Vienna’s Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Vienna’s Forests – Jewels of Green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Waldviertel – The Enchantment of a Rugged Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Wild Mongolia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85The Wild and the West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Wasteland Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Wild Nairobi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87The Wild Balkans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Woodland Warriors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106Year of the Hedgehog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Yucatan – In the Kingdom of the Jaguar God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Zugspitze – Gem of the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Zambezi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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