 "The Counterfeiters", nominated on behalf of Austrian cinema, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 80th Academy Awards on 24 February 2008.In 2013, he directed the 90-minute non-fiction drama "Das radikal Böse" which by means of authentic letters and interviewing psychology, military, and history experts seeks to explain the mentality of 'ordinary' members of Einsatzgruppen and Wehrmacht soldiers that carried out the Holocaust, mainly based upon Christopher Browning's 1992 book "Ordinary Men" which assigns the efficiency of the German killing machinery to social mechanisms of conformism and peer pressure rather than racial hatred.He is currently working on the vampire horror film "The Last Voyage of the Demeter", which is based on Bram Stoker's Dracula tale, and the psychological thriller "Braincopy".