Michael Ostrowski
Birthday: Born in 1973-01-03 in Leoben, Austria
Deathday: Alive
Michael Ostrowski is an actor, presenter, writer and director from Leoben in the Austrian state of Styria. He achieved his professional breakthrough in 2004 and has since built a long-running career in film and television. Over the years, he has appeared in numerous productions, establishing himself as a recognisable figure in Austrian media. In addition to acting, Ostrowski has extensive experience as a television presenter. He has hosted major Austrian broadcasts, including the programme marking 100 Years of Radio. For his work on that show, he received the Austrian television award Romy. Alongside his on-screen roles, he also works behind the scenes as a writer and director, contributing to a broad range of television and film projects.
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How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)
Character: Abnor
To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers....
Kommissar Rex
Character: Fredi Lang
After his handler is killed, police dog Rex teams up with recently-divorced inspector Richard Moser to investigate crimes and solve mysteries on the streets of Vienna. And they sometimes get help from their two-legged friend, Inspector Stockinger....
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall
Character: Franzi Deng
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Tatort
Character: Robert
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland....
Schlawiner
Character: Manu
Schlawiner is an Austrian television series....
SOKO Donau
Character: Markus Hager
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series....
SOKO Donau
Character: Joseph Schikaneder
SOKO Donau is an Austrian television series....
Ringlstetter
Character: self
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Labaule & Erben
Character: Tillmann Blomeir
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SOKO Kitzbühel
Character: Harry Filser
SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF and ZDF. It is a spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113. It is set in the renowned Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The production company "beo-Film" has produced the show since 2001. The German abbreviation SOKO stands for Sonderkommission, "special commission", a task force with specific duties....
Kronprinz Rudolf
Character: Graf Károlyi
Drama about the last ten years of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria....
Schnell ermittelt
Character: Mario Wondrak
Angelika Schnell is the head of homicide and living proof that chaos is just another form of order. Nevertheless, she is a brilliant investigator - even if her methods are sometimes quite unconventional: In addition to hard facts, she also allows her distinctive inner voice to apply, which often leads to incomprehensible but very important conclusions......
Abendschau
Character: Self
The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin....
Bavarian Rhapsody
Character:
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Eurovision Song Contest
Character: Self - Host
The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner....
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Slugs
Character: Max
Three loser-type ex-students who earn too little money and don´t get laid as much as they want, try to change that by producing a home made porn movie starring themselves. They loan money from a pimp and begin casting the girls. When filming starts they find out that sex in front of the camera is hard work. Also you should know how to work a video camera. Frustration, relationship problems and cabin fever culminate in a dope induced garden orgy. But is it a film?...
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
Character: Himself
This historical and analytical documentary draws attention to the background of the roots of "New Austrian Cinema" and presents Austria as a film country to be taken seriously. The audience gets to see rare early works by well-known filmmakers as well as shots of landscapes that served as a source of inspiration and locations that have produced important Austrian films since the end of the 19th century....
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Character: Günther
Bavaria's most laid-back cop returns, juggling parenting and working at the family farm with the reopening of a grisly cold case....
Zeit zu beten - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
Frederike Bader, a former policewoman from Berlin, currently living in witness protection in Passau, is supposed to help her ex-boss Jochen Mohn - formerly a witness protector, now head of the Passau CID - in a private matter....
Contact High
Character: Hans Wurst
Gangster boss Carlos orders the dodgy Viennese junkyard owner Harry to bring him a bag from Poland. Harry passes the order on to his "best man" Schorsch. Schorsch, not exactly the brightest, is currently without a driver's license and completely fixated on the 24-hour car race of Le Mans. So he gives the order to Mao and sends in their place the takeaway lessees Hans and Max to Poland. Their journey leads to a seemingly endless drug trip full of extraordinary phenomena....
Slumming
Character: Alex
Two yuppies play mean pranks on those around them until one joke has unexpected consequences....
The Hawk
Character: Mike
The long-lost bon vivant Mike Bittini learns that his brother has fallen into a coma. He returns to his family, sneaks in like a hawk in the chicken coop and mixes things up properly. The uncle comes to help, brings chaos and finds love....
The Unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott
Character: Toni Cantussi
Horst receives the monthly pension from his grandmother. The only problem is, that she is dead. As a local politician wants to congratulate the grandmother to her birthday Horst "borrows" an old lady from a hospital nearby, not recognizing that he just kidnapped actress Elfriede Ott....
Kokowääh 2
Character: Joseph Fichtelhuber
Who said a patchwork family is without problems? Two years after the turbulence of Kokowääh, everyday life turns to everyday chaos…...
Taking It Back
Character: Patrick Angerer
Most of the time, Patrick Angerer enjoys a pretty laid back view of life. So he's not especially impressed by the protest action his workmates are taking against the strict wage targets set by the new management of Falkendorf steel plant. But things suddenly begin to get interesting for Patrick when his ex, Barbara Brossman, still the great love of his life, is sent to Falkendorf as the union's lawyer: as she's brought along her new partner, Patrick has his work cut out trying to convince Babs t...
Zu jung zu sterben - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
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Der Fluss ist sein Grab - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
A man in search of his son: Adil Bahdari comes from Berlin to Passau after a fisherman finds an expensive watch with a dedication on the back on the banks of the Danube. The watch was a gift from Adil Bahdari to his son Ahmed, whom he has not heard from for some time. He hires private detective Ferdinand Zankl to search for his son....
Bad Fucking
Character: Killian Hintersteiner
Because of its name, the small Austrian town of Bad F* is a tourist attraction—until a landslide cuts it off from the rest of the country. Three years later, a murder sets a multitude of devastating developments in motion......
Und Äktschn!
Character: Faltermeier
The big opportunity has come for amateur filmmaker Pospiech: The local bank director has announced a film competition. Pospiech wants to win with a portrait of Hitler the private man - and show it to his rival. Nagy, director of an amateur film club and failed real estate agent, claims to be the greatest film connoisseur in town, just like Pospiech. The battle for the crown can begin....
How do we get out of this?
Character: Peter
Christmas – usually not the favourite holiday of the atheist Wanda, a surgeon and feminist mother of teenage Nina. And most certainly not in times of a pandemic....
Dampfnudelblues
Character: Gerichtsmediziner
After the forcible transfer to his Bavarian home village, an ex-criminal cop investigates the death of a school principal who he thinks had lots to hide....
Same Same But Different
Character: Alex
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben returns home to Germany he discovers that Sreyko is sick and he takes on the responsibility to save her. On the way he discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure....
Love Thing
Character:
Red carpet, spotlights, screaming fans, photo- graphers chasing for the best photo, camera teams waiting for interviews - a premiere is about to take place and everyone’s eagerly awaiting to see Germany‘s biggest film star, Marvin Bosch. But Marvin’s nowhere to be seen after his interview with the bitchy tabloid journalist Bettina Bamberger ended in disaster. On the run from the media, the star lands in a small, independent feminist LGBT+ theater called “3000” of all places, which is on the verg...
Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee
Character: Griechischer Wirt
A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local festival indefinitely while the city council thinks of what can be done to remove the shark. The public becomes restless having their lake closed for so long and come up with a plan to drive the shark from the lake with large quantities of beer....
Buba
Character: Abnor
When a small-town con artist joins the local mafia with his manipulative brother, his obsession with balancing his karma gets hilariously brutal....
Weihnachtsengel küsst man nicht
Character: Fotograf
The pre-Christmas season is anything but contemplative for Lina, model and advertising jingle singer, and her best friend Nettie, who runs an event and partner agency: the two can hardly save themselves from second-class Christmas orders. And it's not for the first time that Lina and Nettie are preparing for lonely holidays. Nettie has long since given up hope of still finding the right one, and Lina's dream man Alex, a married doctor, has not yet separated from his wife....
The Kangaroo Conspiracy
Character: Joe
The cabaret artist Marc-Uwe and the kangaroo are faced with a problem: Lisbeth, the mother of Maria has taken a wrong turn somewhere and is now denying the climate crisis on the Internet. How can she be brought to her senses? The two make a bet with each other: If they don't manage to bring Maria's mother to her senses, they will lose their apartment. So Marc-Uwe and the marsupial embark on a trip to the Conspiracy Convention in Bielefeld and shortly thereafter become part of a tangible conspira...
A Thousand Lines
Character:
Star reporter Lars Bogenius is a respected journalist and knows how to wow his readers and critics with emotional reportage. Emotional, realistic and moving, his style regularly promises to win him the industry's most coveted awards. His publishing house is also grateful to the exceptional journalist, because the paper's numbers are sinking and are being cushioned by Bogenius' reportage, among other things. Everything sounds too good to be true - at least that's the opinion of freelance journali...
Gier nach Gold - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
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Half Brothers
Character: Don Franz
Julian, Yasin and Addi learn from the executor of their deceased mother's will that the three men, who had previously been complete strangers, are brothers. The news hits like a bomb. A German family man with a penchant for tricks, a spoiled, ambitious Turk and a rapping African – the three siblings immediately hate each other and it would all be nice if their paths were to separate again soon....
Help, I Shrunk My Parents
Character: Teacher Coldegol
Felix's school is haunted again, only this time it's not the benevolent spirit of school founder Otto Leonhard and the nuisance he caused, but the once hated and long-since dead Director Hulda Stingbeard. A coincidence causes the former shrunken and skeletonized school principle to rise again, leading to chaos......
Schweinskopf al dente
Character: Pathologe Günther
As he tries to win back his ex-girlfriend, a lethargic Lower Bavarian police officer gets sidetracked by a panicky boss and an escaped psychopath....
Kotsch
Character: Chris
KOTSCH tells the story of four friends called Alf (Christoph Theußl), Boris (Andreas Kiendl), Chris (Michael Ostrowski) and Dalli (Michael Fuith), who grew up together in the small town Fohnsdorf in Styria....
Help, I Shrunk My Teacher
Character: Teacher Mr. Coldegol
Already having a hard time adjusting at his new school, things take a turn for the bizarre for eleven year old Felix when he accidentally shrinks his strict principal to only fifteen centimetres in height!...
Look Who's Back
Character: Mancello
When Adolf Hitler reawakens at the site of his former bunker in present-day Berlin, he is mistaken for a comedian and quickly becomes a media phenomenon....
Konrad und Katharina
Character: Hausmeister
Katharina beats more badly with budget releases and the care of nine-year-old Georg. Konrad knows her from earlier when she was still driving a taxi and she regularly took him and his sick wife to the hospital. Now Konrad's wife is dead and Katharina was abandoned by her husband. When Katharina and Konrad meet again by chance, both feel very attracted to each other and their love happiness is nothing in the way except Konrad's looming blindness. Since they can not raise the money for the operati...
Hotel Rock'n'Roll
Character: Max
Mao inherits her uncle Waberl’s – a former icon of Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll – hotel on the countryside. With the help of her friends Max (a wannabe entertainer with brilliant concepts but lacking structure) and Jerry (a skilled Guitarrero but less skilled chef) they try to put together a hotel band to save Rock’n’Roll as well as their bankrupt hotel....
Zustandswechsel
Character: himself
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Kebab extra scharf!
Character: Prinz Eugen / Dr. Eugen
Johann and Mustafa appear on television to set an example of successful integration. However, the television appearance goes awry because a dispute breaks out in front of the camera. And because Johann hasn't been paying any rent for months, Mustafa wants to throw him out of the house......
The Super Elfkins
Character: Horik (voice)
Helvi's world is turned upside down when she discovers the existence of a technically advanced Elfkin gang that, in stark contrast to Elfie’s own clan, is second to none when it comes to fun and thrill-seeking. Can Helvi’s friendship with Bo, the youngest gang member, reconcile the two Elfkin clans after more than 250 years?...
Animals
Character: Harald
Nick and Anna are off to Switzerland for six months. Nick, a chef, wants to collect recipes of local cuisine and Anna hopes to write a new book. The journey can also be good for their relationship, because Anna suspects that Nick had an affair with other woman. Meanwhile, Mischa will take care of their Viennese apartment....
Bibi & Tina: Perfect Pandemonium
Character: Bauer
It's perfect pandemonium when Bibi and Tina meet a runaway boy with an attitude problem, who turns out to actually be a girl, named Adea. Adea‘s uncle is so narrow-minded and stubborn that even with all her magic spells, Bibi can't manage to get the two to reconcile. Meanwhile, Falkenstein Castle is being renovated, which is driving the Count to his wits' end. Especially since Alex is planning to hold a music festival at Falkenstein and is determined to go through with it over his father's obj...
Tödliche Geheimnisse - Jagd in Kapstadt
Character: Wolfgang Fiedler
Where is Paul Holthaus? The investigative journalist Rommy Kirchhoff, together with his son Max, is looking for the disappeared lobbyist Paul Holthaus, who has negotiated several times in Cape Town on behalf of Lilian Norgren for their agricultural corporation Norgreen Life. Norgren makes it clear to Rommy that the search for the whistleblower is unwanted and puts her and the boy in danger....
Kebab mit Alles
Character: Prinz Eugen
Johann Stanzerl sees himself surrounded. All other business premises in his Viennese district are already in Turkish hands. Only his beloved café "Prinz Eugen", named after the famous general who prevented the Turks from taking Vienna, is still resisting with its regular Austrian customers....
Kill Daddy Good Night
Character: Demonstrant 1
The story and fate of three families: A Jewish family destroyed by the massacres of the Nazis in Lithuania; the family of the culprit, who flew to America and keeps grotesque family cohesion; the family of Ratz, a social democratic family, dissolving itself miserably in today's Vienna. The condemnation of the last century bundled in these three families showing clearly that one could never escape from its own past. Written by themoth-1...
How to Live Your Life
Character: Studienberater
A coming-of-age movie about how hard life is and how great it can be...It's the story about Karl "Charlie" Kolostrum, a young guy who tries to get along with his life but hasn't learned to live as an adult yet....
Party Hard, Die Young
Character: Veranstalter
Julia and her friends, celebrating their high school graduation in Croatia, find themselves the targets of a masked killer who begins picking them off, one by one....
Anna Fucking Molnar
Character: Moderator
The eccentric actress Anna finds herself at the rock bottom of her career and has to realize that her life actually passed her by. The theater premier was a disaster on her account, her ex is already dating a new girl and she definitely exceeded the certain age where it is still okay to get dragged out of the mess by daddy. The house of cards she built so carefully seems to be more fragile than expected. Everything in Annas life begs for a new start to get her back on track. But the only thing c...
I've Never Been to New York
Character: Fred
In the life of TV presenter Lisa, everything revolves around her talk show, celebrities and the ratings. There is just as little room for love as there is for her mother Maria. When the 66-year-old loses her memory after a fall in her apartment and wakes up in the hospital, she can only remember that she has never been to New York and sets off immediately. Lisa goes in search of Maria with her makeup artist Fred. She struck gold on a cruise ship that was just leaving for New York. As stowaways, ...
Sauerkrautkoma
Character: Günther
When a hilariously dull policeman moves in with his best buddy in Munich, he has to deal with scandals, a corpse — and potential marriage....
Cold Feet
Character: Frank Peters
Although he actually just wanted to steal money, the crook Denis finds himself in the position of caretaking for the stroke patient Raimund. When Raimund's granddaughter Charlotte turns up, Denis has enough of it and wants to skip. But because of an huge blizzard, escape is unimaginable....
Nogo
Character:
Three stories about couples who all have a gas station in Austria...
Leberkäsjunkie
Character: Günther
While dealing with a burnt-down house, smelly diapers and brutal lack of sleep, a Lower Bavarian police officer faces his worst adversary: cholesterol....
Die Donau ist tief - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
Private detective Ferdinand Zankl is arrested by the Passau police on suspicion of murder. He is suspected of having killed his ex-girlfriend, an animal shelter manager....
Freund oder Feind - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
A policewoman from Berlin who testified against an Arab clan boss is starting a new life in Passau with her daughter under a new identity and with the support of witness protection. The policewoman, who until recently was a group leader in the Mobile Task Force (MEK), now calls herself Frederike Bader, her daughter Mia Bader. In Passau, she meets private detective Ferdinand Zankl. In a supermarket, she rescues him from a violent confrontation with a shoplifter....
Kaiserschmarrndrama
Character: Günther
A dicey murder investigation. A fuming best friend. A chaotic living situation. Village police officer Franz Eberhofer has a lot on his plate right now....
Sargnagel - Der Film
Character: Self
The novel “Fitness” by anarchic poet Stefanie Sargnagel is to be made into a film. The only condition on the part of film funding: Sargnagel should play herself. Surfacing alongside the author are numerous actors from the Viennese cultural landscape in cameo appearances to satirically dissect the Austrian culture industry and its mechanisms....
Help, I Shrunk My Friends
Character: Teacher Coldegol
Melanie is a new pupil at the Otto Leonhard High School, and Felix takes a real shine to this newbie, much to the annoyance of Ella and Felix’s gang. They believe that Melanie is responsible for a number of small thefts that have been happening at the school since she arrived. Events take a drastic turn when the class goes on a school trip......
A Girl Named Willow
Character: Herr Geier
What could Willow do with an entire forest? That's exactly what she asks herself when she inherits this forest from her aunt Alwina. That's not all, though - Alwina has also left her a small, crooked cabin and, most importantly, her witchcraft. But the question remains: Will Willow even accept this unexpected inheritance, with all the consequences it entails?...
Bis auf den Knochen - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
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Niemand stirbt gern allein - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
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Der rote Wolf - Ein Krimi aus Passau
Character: Ferdinand Zankl
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Almost Brothers
Character: Giesser
Hardly released from prison, the real estate swindler Thomas tries to get rid of his half-brother Roland. Roland has Downs Syndrome and his mother has granted him a lifelong right to live in her house. But Thomas wants to sell it as quickly as possible....
Steckerlfischfiasko
Character: Günther
Franz Eberhofer and Rudi Birkenberger's next case takes them to Niederkaltenkirchen's new golf course. The two detectives promptly get caught up in a full-blown family feud between two folk festival clans....
Eine halbe Stunde ist viel Zeit - Die Hochzeit
Character: Miller
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