A surprise success for domestic cinema, in artistic value and in public numbers and a politically alert as well as amusing film” (Die Presse).
His films usually highlight a social focus, which he brings to the screen, documentarily or fictionally, by means of accurate narrative structure.
His last feature, “White Cherries” (with Martin Puntigam, Josef Hader, and Maria Hofstätter), was acclaimed as the, up to then, most successful new generation film in Austrian cinema.
His work has received numerous festival invitations (among others, San Francisco, São Paulo, Saarbruecken, Istanbul, Cinéma du réel Paris) and awards.
Leopold Lummerstorfer lives in Vienna, where he also now regularly directs the ORF feature, “Show without a Name”, an individual youth format with most satisfying viewer numbers, also above the 50.