Director
Ruth Beckermann
74 years · Vienna, Austria · 21 films
The filmmaker and writer was born in Vienna, Austria. Her films include The Paper Bridge and East of War. Her film Those Who Go Those Who Stay won Best Documentary at the 2014 Diagonale in Graz. Two years later, The Dreamed Ones won Beat Feature Film at the same festival. The Waldheim Waltz received several prizes including the Glashütte Original – Documentary Award at the 2018 Berlinale and was also nominated as Austria’s entry for the Oscars. In 2022, MUTZENBACHER screened in the Encounters section of the Berlinale where it won the award for Best Film.
Best known for
The Waldheim Waltz
2018 · Director, Writer
Mutzenbacher
2022 · Self (voice), Director
On DocAlliance Films
The Dreamed Ones
2016 · Director, Producer
On GuideDoc
Toward Jerusalem
1991 · Director, Writer
American Passages
2011 · Director, Screenplay
A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
1999 · Director, Writer
On True Story
Filmography 21
Wax & Gold
2026 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director
Favoriten
2024 · Director, Producer
Strade perdute - Filmmaker 23
2023 · Actor
Mutzenbacher
2022 · Self (voice), Director
On DocAlliance Films
Cinema Austria, the first 112 Years
2020 · Herself
The Waldheim Waltz
2018 · Director, Writer
The Dreamed Ones
2016 · Director, Producer
On GuideDoc
Those Who Go Those Who Stay
2013 · Director, Writer
Jackson/Marker 4am
2012 · Director, Producer
On True Story
American Passages
2011 · Director, Screenplay
Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah
2006 · Director, Writer
On True Story
The Mozart Minute
2006 · Director
On DocAlliance Films
Homemad(e)
2001 · Director, Cinematography
On True Story
A Fleeting Passage to the Orient
1999 · Director, Writer
On True Story
East of War
1996 · Director, Writer
Toward Jerusalem
1991 · Director, Writer
The Paper Bridge
1987 · Director, Writer
Return to Vienna
1983 · Director, Editor
On True Story
The Steel Hammer Out There On the Grass
1981 · Director
Suddenly, A Strike
1978 · Director
On True Story
Arena Squatted
1977 · Director