Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
In 1978, he worked with the actor-director Maximilian Schell in an Austro/German film production of Ödön von Horváth's play "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald" ("Tales from the Vienna Woods"). The film was shown at the 1979 London Film Festival. In that year, during final rehearsals for his second appearance at the Salzburg Festival, Pohlmann suffered a heart attack, and died the same day in a hotel in Bad Reichenhall. He was 66.