Tales from the Vienna Woods
Schell then produced, directed and acted as a supporting character in "End of the Game" (1975), a German crime thriller starring Jon Voight and Jacqueline Bisset. A few years later he co-wrote and directed the Austrian film "Tales from the Vienna Woods" (1979). He had previously (1977) directed a stage production of the original play of that name by Ödön von Horváth at the National Theatre in London.