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Udo Samel has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
Last Days
2005
Drama

Chronicles three years of a middle-class family seemingly caught up in their daily routines, troubled only by minor incidents. Behind their apparent calm and repetitive existence, however, they're planning something much more sinister.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer

Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoît Magimel

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Michael Haneke · With Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl

Maik, a fourteen-year-old teenager, sets out on a road trip during summertime with Tschick, a new classmate, in a stolen car. The two share life changing experiences during the eventful journey.
Dir. Fatih Akin · With Tristan Göbel, Anand Batbileg, Mercedes Müller

The young Orthodox Jew, Motti Wolkenbruch, finds himself at a turning point. His beloved mother wants him to get married and presents one marriage candidate after the other. Unfortunately none of the woman pleases him, because they all look just like her. The situation gets even more complicated, when Motti secretly falls in love with the non-Jewish girl Laura, a so-called Shiksa.
Dir. Michael Steiner · With Noémie Schmidt, Joel Basman, Sunnyi Melles
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