Gerald Kargl born 1953 in Villach, Austria, is a writer and director, famous for the psycho-thriller "Angst" (1983). Kargl started experimenting with the film camera when he was 14. This resulted in a large number of short films. Between 1976 and 1982 he founded and organized the Austrian film festival, *** Österreichischen Filmtage. At the same time he was founder and editor of the Austrian film magazine Filmschrift. Between 1984 and 1994 Gerald Kargl worked on **** than 100 commercials and promotional films as writer, director and producer, receiving **** than 30 national and international awards, Cannes and Clio Awards among others. 1996 he founded and produced the Hotel-TV **** Lights and sold the ******* in 2002. Since 1994 to date he wrote, directed and produced **** than 20 documentaries and educational films. "Angst" is based on an actual case of triple-murder, the "Kniesek case", where Werner Kniesek killed three people in St. Pölten, Austria, out of pure lust in 1980. "Angst" is a collaborative effort of writer/director Gerald Kargl and his co-writer-cameraman Zbigniew Rybczynski, and the composer Klaus Schulze, from the "Krautrock"-group Tangerine Dream.