The man who made Austria scream at their TVs turns 70 — and he's still got that grin.
ORF chief director Michael Kögler met the legend again 30 years after his multi-award-winning documentary “Die Franz Klammer Story”. Never-before-broadcast material from the ORF archives provides deep insights into the career and life of the most successful downhill skier in alpine skiing history.
Direction
Kögler's 30-year reunion adds rare emotional weight.
Editing
Unseen archival footage from ORF's vaults.
Director
Michael Kögler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kögler's 1993 'Die Franz Klammer Story' won multiple awards; this 2023 follow-up uses never-before-seen ORF archive material discovered during digitization.
Klammer's 1976 Olympic gold in Innsbruck stopped Austria — literally. The country emptied streets as 2.5 million watched live, still the most-watched broadcast in Austrian history.
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