Helmut Zenker (Writer)

Romy Award

Release Date1990-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Grimme Award

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Release Date1964-01-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Kottan ermittelt

Kottan ermittelt is an Austrian television series that was aired by Austrian television ORF between 1976 and 1984. The satirical 19-episode series about a policeman from Vienna now sports cult status. Police major Adolf Kottan was played by three actors who each gave the character a distinct 'flavor'.

Release Date1976-08-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count11

Tohuwabohu

Tohuwabohu is an Austrian television series.

Release Date1990-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count53

Vote Count5

Clinch

Although he spent a relatively short period of his life in Austria, Canadian-born John Cook (1935–2001) remained, in his own words, "Viennese by choice.” Having worked as a commercial photographer in Paris, Cook’s […] first “regular” production was Schwitzkasten, based on a novel by the leftist writer Helmut Zenker. Today, the film is considered one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the New Austrian Cinema: a freewheeling, tender, and strangely humorous portrait of working-class (and out-of-work) lives.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count1

Santa Lucia

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Artischocke

Contemporary love story about the confrontation of French and Austrian culture.

Release Date1981-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Kottan ermittelt: Rien ne va plus

Vienna is shaken by a mysterious series of murders. Except for Major Adolf Kottan, who is suspended. Indefinitely. Kottan's ex-police colleagues, the stiff-legged Paul Schremser and the trigger-happy Alfred Schrammel, take over the investigation and are completely in the dark. Next to each murder victim is a playing card with the inscription "Rien ne va plus". There are seven names on the back. Already three murders in 24 hours....

Release Date2010-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count8

The Uppercrust

This film combines two very different styles: an atmospheric psycho thriller about the ice-cold hired gun (masterfully played by Frank Gorschin), and the bizarre satire of the Austrian TV serial "Kottan ermittelt".

Release Date1981-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count7

Kassbach - Ein Portrait

Viennese vegetable merchant Karl Kassbach becomes a member of a right-wing extremist organization, which plans numerous attacks on democratic institutions and journalists. The film attempts to portray a realistic and detail-oriented study of the mind of the "Kleinbürger", trapped between the fringes of the lower and middle-classes.

Release Date1979-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Springtime in Vienna

Martin Powolny, a down and out actor, calls himself Tiger. He lives in a tree house and practices his characteristic yell. An offer to make a film and an air-travel ticket entice him into the big city of Vienna. The director hopes he can finance the film if Tiger plays the leading role. There is no screen story as yet. Running away from a mean nightclub owner, Tiger is hit by an automobile and lands in a hospital.

Release Date1984-12-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2