Birthday:
07-02-1918
Deathday:
02-18-2009 (90 years)
Birthplace:
Unterach am Attersee-Austria
Biography
Franz Marischka was an Austrian director who gained notoriety for his sex comedies in the 1970s.
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose
Act like Mann mit unverdaulichem Fleisch (uncredited)
event1973 star_border 7
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A comedy directed by Franz Marischka.
Hatschipuh
event1987 star_border 5.5
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In the Bavarian village of Schladerbach, the kobold Hatschipuh and his comrades live, of whose existence only Grandpa Reiter is aware. When the building constructor Lederer builds himself a new mansion, the subterranean settlement of the kobolds gets destroyed, and Grandpa Reiter sees himself forced to move them into his barn. But this abode as well is soon threatened: Since the farm is no longer profitable, Father Reiter plans to sell it…
Die Schokoladenschnüffler
event1986 star_border 5
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A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Schulmädchen '84
Act like Meister
event1984 star_border 2
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A comedy directed by Nikolai Müllerschön.
Die liebestollen Lederhosen
Act like Hochwuerden
event1982 star_border 4
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Franz Mooshuber, mayor of a little Bavarian town, receives a letter invitation from the mayor of Cannes, asking him to participate in the annual boat joust tournament. When he and his two buddies return, they don't just bring back the trophy but also a bus full of sexy girls and ambitious plans to turn their village into a wild tourist resort.
Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Guru Jakob
event1983 star_border 2.7
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Jakob Feierabend has a hard time. Everywhere he applies for work, he is rejected. The reason is his last name. He also fails as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. As a salesman he makes a house call and lets himself be nibbled by the green widow Clothilde Rieker. When suddenly the husband comes home, he has to flee, wrapped in an orange bed sheet. In doing so, he is mistaken by a reception committee for the announced guru. From now on he resides as a guru in the castle of Countess Falkenberg. Jakob's friend Tommi turns this delusion into a lively source of money.
Adventures in Vienna
Act like Passkontrolleur am Flughafen
event1952 star_border 8.3
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Taking place over 12 hours on New Years Eve, a concert pianist murders his wife's lover, then frames an innocent man.
Her mit den kleinen Schweinchen
Act like Dr Wiesinger
event1984 star_border 1
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Wolfgang cannot make up his mind whether to choose a pretty young thing without money or a rich widow. Egon his friend advises him to choose the young girl and leads rich and ugly widow Olga to the altar himself. Now he lives in the lap of luxury, but his jealous wife never lets him out of her sight. Wolfgang takes the hen-pecked husband to the "Ball of the Piggies", where Egon promptly succumbs to the charms of an ever so sweet and sexy Piggy, those of his wife. While Olga ransacks the hotel in search of Egon the next morning, the real beneficiaries are Wolfgang and Eva who chalk up the nocturnal happenings to experience.
Du bist die Rose vom Wörthersee
Act like Thomas Führinger
event1951
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A formerly unsuccessful musician comes back to his homeland in Carinthia as a famous composer via Broadway and woos his widowed childhood sweetheart.
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
event1980 star_border 6.6
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When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Act like Self (5 ep.)
event1975 star_border 9
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Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.
Das verrückte Strandhotel
Director (5 ep.)
event1983 star_border 3.3
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Various German tourists arrive at the African vacation hotel "Leisure Lodge". Businessman Harry Weber wants to seduce his secretary Julia undisturbed, but unbeknownst to him, his wife Melanie has also arrived to seduce skier Toni. Weber's business partner, the industrialist Pfefferkorn, also turns up, and Weber's secretary is trying to woo his son Florian. Harry is given the call girl Christine by a friend, but Pfefferkorn is also after her. Hairdresser Agathe is the first to recognize the connections and uses her knowledge for business purposes. Finally, Toni's fiancée Resi arrives and adds to the confusion.
Sunshine Reggae auf Ibiza
Director (5 ep.)
event1983 star_border 3.9
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Karl is a simple farmer who takes a plane to Ibiza to finally meet his idol, pop-singer Linda Lou. Karl has long ago fallen in love with his idol and has written her numerous love letters, But a farmer like Karl is not the kind of man she could be interested in. At the same time however, a famous millionaire, who happens to look just like Karl, is staying on the island
Die Stoßburg
Director (5 ep.)
event1974 star_border 2
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Well, who says that they were chaste and modest, the ladies and damsels of yesteryear? And even the knights themselves. They knew exactly why they had the chastity belt fastened to their ladies' pretty bodies when they themselves went on crusade or had other important official business to attend to. Better safe than sorry - that's what the robber baron Archibald meant in our case, or in this cheerful film case, when he was summoned to help by his bosom friend Sigurd and went to war with his proud host.
What a Mess
Director (5 ep.)
event1982 star_border 2.5
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Eduard von Bittermagen and his friend Professor Pfiff, indulge in an amusing hobby. They take every opportunity to bet on anything. Their latest bet: Bittermagen claims that his nephew Tommi, a young rascal and the Professor's young daughter Julia will become a couple although the two are actually not crazy about each other. Of course, Pfiff bets against it. But then Bittermagen uses a macabre trick. He acts as if his last hour had come and summons Tommi and Julia to his "deathbed". He offers his immense heritage to both of them-if they solve a problem.
To the Sparkling Girls' Inn
Director (5 ep.)
event1979 star_border 4.7
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A broke mayor gets tricked by his niece to open a dance club by having one of them pose as his illegitimate daughter.
Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 2: Zwei Kumpel auf der Alm
Director (5 ep.)
event1974 star_border 4.5
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A sequel directed again by Franz Marischka.
Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne
Director (5 ep.)
event1960 star_border 4.8
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At the cabaret "The Green Spider", a stranger shoot the singer. Since the murder happens during a trumpet solo nobody hears the shot.
So liebt und küsst man in Tirol
Director (5 ep.)
event1961 star_border 2
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A music comedy by Franz Marischka.
Love 'n' Leather Pants
Writer (5 ep.)
event1979 star_border 2
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Rosemarie, called Rosi, and her colleague Uli have worked as waitresses in a strip club in downtown Munich. Now the disused shop has been closed by the police for reasons of custom and decency.
Am Sonntag will mein Süßer mit mir segeln gehn
Director (5 ep.)
event1961 star_border 6.8
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Albert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers.
Zauber der Montur
Screenplay (5 ep.)
event1958 star_border 3.5
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Military farce starring Harald Juhnke and Gunther Philipp.
Three Lederhosen in St. Tropez
Director (5 ep.)
event1980 star_border 2.7
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A comedy about three Bavarian guys who are traveling to Saint Tropez.
Small Town Story
Writer (5 ep.)
event1953 star_border 5.2
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Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during the war. Meeting up with his friend Mike, now manager of the local football club, he discovers that Oldchester are desperate for promotion as they stand to inherit £25,000 from recently deceased supporter Wallace Hammond if they make the Third Division a situation that Hammond's devious nephew finds intolerable...
The Minor's Wife ... Takes Her Pick
Director (5 ep.)
event1972 star_border 3
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Heiner works in a mine, drinks beer, and goes to bed with other women, except from his wife, because of his baby son and the neighbours downstairs. But she does not feel like giving up all the fun for so long.
Let Itch Dude 5: The Dude Won't Let the Itching
Director (5 ep.)
event1975 star_border 2.8
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A fifth part of the series of erotic comedies based on the novels by Hans Henning Claer.
Laß jucken, Kumpel III. Teil - Maloche, Bier + Bett
Director (5 ep.)
event1974 star_border 3.8
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German sex comedy
The Quack and His Fast Daughters
Director (5 ep.)
event1980 star_border 4.8
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Arriving in an alpine village a crook is mistaken for a recently deceased doctor and decides to impersonate him. Three girls stranded in the same village are sheltered by the "doctor" and naked German hilarity inevitably ensues.
Let It All Hang Out
Director (5 ep.)
event1969 star_border 4
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The girlfriend of a beatnik-hippy artist enjoys having her body painted, posing naked for her boyfriend and seducing other men.
Laß laufen, Kumpel
Director (5 ep.)
event1981 star_border 2
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German sex comedy - part 6 in the serie
Abarten der körperlichen Liebe
Director (5 ep.)
event1970 star_border 2
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The film is a collection of fictional (unconnected) episodes depicting and analysing various forms of sexuality that go beyond 'normal' heterosexual relations. The subjects of the four episodes are lesbianism, transvestitism, male homosexuality, and sadomasochism. Some stiff grey-haired academic provides a voice-over and also the analysis between the pieces.
Endstation Rote Laterne
Writer (5 ep.)
event1960
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Unscrupulous girl traders transport unsuspecting blonde girls from a nightclub in Amsterdam to a brothel in Havana. The young journalist Verena Linkmann wants to expose the slave trade, disguises herself as an available dancer.
Mein Freund, der Lipizzaner
Dialogue (5 ep.)
event1994
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Horse lover Paul Scheibner has dedicated himself to an unprofitable art: The young man wants to become a rider at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. When his uncomprehending girlfriend Regina leaves him for a nouveau riche hotelier's son, he finds solace with the animal-loving stud secretary Julia. But then his beloved stallion “Maestoso” suddenly falls ill and is to be sold.
Ein Sommer, den man nie vergißt
Writer (5 ep.)
event1959 star_border 3
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The young Ernst Leuchtenthal is planning to travel to the USA for a year to study. Before he leaves, his father asks him for a meeting. Consul Leuchtenthal wants to get his son a "good" marriage before he disappears overseas. The old man has the very young, attractive Christine von Auffenberg in mind, who runs a breeding farm for chinchillas. This would fit in well with the consul's business, as he earns good money as a fur trader. Ernst is not too keen on marrying a woman his father has chosen for him, especially as he does not love Christine. In the local children's home he meets the light-blonde Marianne, and for him it is like love at first sight.
Laß jucken Kumpel 2 - Das Bullenkloster
Director (5 ep.)
event1973 star_border 3.6
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"Bullenkloster" is the name given to the Ruhr miners' single home. Heinz Lenz has lived there since his divorce from Gisela. When he returned to the mine, he met his buddy Jupp again. Jupp persuades him to enter the ring once again. Only when Trudi promises him something, he agrees, but loses in the big fight. Through Jupp's mediation, he meets Gisela, who picks up their son. At first he only wants to see his son from a distance, but when he sees him he decides to start all over again.
Legacy of the Incas
Writer (5 ep.)
event1965 star_border 5.8
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During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.
Victoria and Her Hussar
Writer (5 ep.)
event1931 star_border 5
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Viktoria is a Hungarian countess who believes her Hussar captain husband was killed in World War I. She marries an American and resettles at the American consulate in Tokyo. Her first husband reappears, alive; and the American generously releases Viktoria from their union.
John Klings Abenteuer
Director (13 ep.)
event1965
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John Kling is the protagonist of a German TV series featuring a secret agent who tackles international missions all over the world. He works as detective for an American secret service, usually teaming up with his colleague and friend Jones Burthe.
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