今日的奧地利是歐盟成員架構內最富裕的國家之一。奧地利首都維也納連續9年被Mercer評選生活品質排名冠軍，經濟學人最近報導2018年維也納超越墨爾本成為全球最宜居城市的榜首。

奧地利不只有舒適的生活環境，熱絡的文化節慶活動，最好的滑雪聖地，美麗的風景名勝，著名的歷史古蹟，加上美酒佳餚，足以堪稱為觀光客的天堂，尤其工業力量，高度發展的專業服務使之成為新創研究的頂尖國家。

電影在奧地利的文化裡一直扮演著重要的角色，“大都會“， “熱情如火“，“鋼琴教師“

這些著名的影片有何共同點? 也許您猜對了，皆是著名的奧地利導演所執導的，他們分別是弗里茨‧朗,比利‧懷德, 麥可‧漢內克。

Today Austria is one of the richest countries in the world embedded strongly in the framework of the EU.  Vienna, Austria’s capital tops the ranking for the 9th year running in the famous quality of life index by Mercer.  Even more the Economist stated recently: “2018 Vienna overtakes Melbourne as the world’s most live able city”.

But Austria offers more than a comfortable life, it is a cultural hot spot with world famous stages and festivals of all kind all over, it is a tourist’s paradise the whole year round with the best slopes, beautiful landscape and historic cities and it is a feast for food -lovers and wine aficionados. On top of it, it is also an industrial power, has a highly developed service sector and gets top rankings as an innovative research nation.

Cinematography always played an important role in Austria’s cultural scene. “Metropolis”, “ Some like it hot”, “The Piano Teacher”  what do all this famous films have in common?  You guessed it right, all are directed by equally famous Film Directors with Austrian routes Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder and Michael Haneke.