Austrian director David Wagner’s feature debut “Eismayer,” which has its world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week on Sunday, has been picked up for international sales by Paris-based Loco Films. The ...

Dir/scr: David Wagner. Austria. 2022. 86 mins. Charles Eismayer is a walking cliche. A granite-hard military martinet, he barks orders, punishes insubordination and believes that he is transforming ...

Gerhard Liebmann is brilliant as Eismayer, an Austrian drill officer who falls for a recruit in this intelligent, understated film about acceptance The character of Sgt Maj Eismayer is instantly ...

It takes a while for the portentous recurring image in Eismayer (★★★☆☆) — snow falling softly inside a desolate building — to really resonate with the story. But it doesn’t take long at all for the ...

It was over a year ago that we first heard about Eismayer, a gay boot camp drama from Austria that had us standing at attention. From writer-director David Wagner, the film tells the true story of an ...