16 Films & TV Shows Set In Austria During The 1940s
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A Hidden Life
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sBased on True Events — Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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The Diary of Diana B.
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇷 Croatia The 1940sFirmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in Nazi-occupied Croatia.
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Maikäfer flieg
🇦🇹 Austria The 1940sA movie based on the book by Christine Nöstlinger “Maikäfer, flieg! Mein Vater, das Kriegsende, Cohn und ich”
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The Monuments Men
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1970sIt was the greatest art heist in history — Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?
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Captain America: The First Avenger
New York New Jersey England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 2010sWhen patriots become heroes — During World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, and the leader of an organization that intends to use a mysterious device of untold powers for world domination.
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The Counterfeiters
🇲🇨 Monaco 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe story Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon Sorowitsch, coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
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Seven Years in Tibet
🇮🇳 India Tibet 🇦🇹 Austria The 1940sAt the end of the world his real journey began. — Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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The Second Victory
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Welcome in Vienna
🇦🇹 Austria The 1940sIn the conclusion of Axel Corti's trilogy (following God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore and Santa Fe) Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. But with the advent of the Cold War and continuing anti-semitism, the idealism of both characters is shattered as they find themselves surrounded by cynicism, opportunism, and universal self-deception. This acclaimed, brilliant work is one of the great films of all time.
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Before Winter Comes
🇦🇹 Austria The 1940sComedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of assigning the displaced persons into either the American or Russian zones.
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Where Eagles Dare
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sOne weekend Major Smith, Lieutenant Schaffer, and a beautiful blonde named Mary decided to win World War II. — World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.
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Miracle of the White Stallions
🇦🇹 Austria The 1950s The 1940sIn WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.
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Das Riesenrad
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The Red Danube
🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940sBeautiful Maria...the four lives that touched hers were never the same again! — A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
