Gottfried John

Proof of Life -- When an American engineer working in South America is kidnapped, his wife enlists a special agent to help free him. Complications arise when the agent falls in love with her.

Ogre -- A group of traveling teenagers stumble upon a small, ageless village that has made an ancient pact with the Ogre on the mountain: an annual human offering in exchange for status quo.

As seen on the Sci-Fi channel, OGRE follows a group of traveling teenagers who stumble upon a small, ageless village. Here they find a paradise of immortality – the residents are free from disease and have an abundance of harvest. However, they soon discover that everlasting life had its price. The town made an ancient pact with the Ogre on the mountain: an annual human offering in exchange for status quo. The teenagers find themselves trapped as the villagers desperately seek their next sacrifice.

Executive produced by Terry Gilliam, "The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes" is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature film from the Quay Brothers. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina (Amira Casar, "Catherine Breillat's Anatomy of Hell") is mysteriously 'killed' and abducted by the malevolent Dr. Droz (Gottfried John, "Fassbinder's The Marriage of Maria Braun"). Felisberto (CŽsar Sarachu, "The Quay's Institute Benjamenta"), an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to Droz's secluded villa to service his strange musical automatons. Little by little Felisberto learns of the doctor's plans to stage a 'diabolical opera' and of Malvina's fate. He secretly conspires to rescue her, only to become trapped himself in the web of Droz's perverse universe.