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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt, whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

A divided village is what country priest Joseph Mohr finds when he arrives at his new parish: a village cut in half by a river that forms a political and more importantly, a social border. Both sides are engaged in a bitter struggle, with the wealthy merchants on the one side trying to break the monopoly of the poor bargemen on the other. Braced by his strong sense of justice, Mohr fights for the rights of the impoverished bargemen. To give them a little comfort and warmth in their darkest moments, he and his friend Franz Xaver Gruber, the schoolteacher in the village, create a song that has become synonymous with Christmas all over the world: "Silent Night, Holy Night"

At the end of World War II, Hungarian Jews are forced on a death march to the Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen. Only few civilians try to rescue them.

Police inspector Lanz has long been trailing a serial killer who strikes while on vacation and loves to needle him with words "Wish you were here" on a postcard. When the killer turns up in London, Lanz takes up the chase, but before he can nail his suspect, the man falls to his death from a rooftop. The case is closed, Lanz goes on a vacation to Vienna with his lovely wife Karen, not knowing that there is already someone waiting for him...

A man returning to his parents years after having been sent away as a child-laborer tells his lifetime story to his dying father.

Nico has just shot and killed a man by accident. The two friends cover it up but it soon turns out that the victim was a big fish in the drug world. And that he was on his way to hand over important documents to the federal police. The feds want these papers badly; the drug lord wants them even worse. And only Max and Nico can retrieve them. But with Max recruited by the feds and Nico lured by Mafia's money, the two friends are forced to cross swords in a hopeless and deadly situation...