Cast: Alfred Edel

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alfred Edel. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Blind Director

1985 · Documentary · 113 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Jutta Hoffmann · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Hans-Michael Rehberg · Peter Roggisch

Synopsis The last films for cinema by Alexander Kluge. Both tell about a dozen stories which complement one another by creating a context. The Blind Director: A young doctor feels that she is redundant. People hurry around. A family sits in...

7.2

42 votes

7.2

42 votes

The Patriotic Woman

1979 · Movie · 121 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Hannelore Hoger · Alfred Edel · Wolf Hanne · Hans Heckel

Synopsis The Patriot is the kind of symbolic, avant-garde, historical and cultural drama that lends itself to several viewings in order to get at the basis of what, in this case, director Alexander Kluge had in mind. Various aspects of German...

6.7

56 votes

6.7

56 votes

Direction Alexander Kluge · Edgar Reitz

Cast Dagmar Bödderich · Jutta Winkelmann · Alfred Edel · Norbert Kentrup

Synopsis Interweaving a number of disparate fictitious and documentary strands into a nightmarish portrait of life in the Federal Republic, Kluge's fascinating exploration of perception effectively consists of a plethora of short films held together by director's keen eye for striking...

6.7

49 votes

6.7

49 votes

Supermarket

1974 · Movie · 84 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Roland Klick

Cast Charly Wierczejewski · Eva Mattes · Michael Degen · Walter Kohut

Synopsis 18-year old Willi is living on the street - there are no goals in his life. There, he meets several people, helping but also cheating him. When he finally meets Monica, he realizes that there are people out there whose...

6.4

33 votes

6.4

33 votes

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Hannelore Hoger · Sigi Graue · Alfred Edel · Bernd Höltz

Synopsis The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni (Hannelore Hoger), must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic....

6.4

141 votes

6.4

141 votes

Direction Alexander Kluge

Cast Alfred Edel · Helga Skalla · Hark Bohm · Kurt Jürgens

Synopsis Willi endeavours to survive in a world where annihilistic galactic battles rage, by taking a job at the centre of power. But it's the wrong side that he takes in this civil war.

5.4

26 votes

5.4

26 votes

My Father Is Coming

1991 · Movie · 82 min. · Germany

Direction Monika Treut

Cast Alfred Edel · Shelley Kästner · Annie Sprinkle · Michael Massee

Synopsis Vicky works as a waitress and dreams of stardom, but her hopes are continually dashed by disastrous auditions and an unconquerable German accent. Her world threatens to disintegrate when she learns of the impending visit of her father, lured by...

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Direction Christoph Schlingensief

Cast Margit Carstensen · Peter Kern · Sussane Bredehoft · Alfred Edel

Synopsis A social-worker, with the mission to bring a Polish family to their destination (an immigration camp in a little provincial town called Rassau), gets kidnapped just as the family. Chief inspector Koern and his girl-friend start to investigate in this...

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The Experts

1973 · Movie · 98 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Norbert Kückelmann

Cast Mathias Eysen · Gisela Fischer · Roland Wiegenstein · Miriam Mahler

Synopsis This grim German psychological drama unveils the process by which an innocent man can be so damaged by interactions with the criminal justice system that the smallest incident can trigger a murderous fury.

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Direction Pia Frankenberg

Cast Klaus Bueb · Pia Frankenberg · Adelina Almeida · Thomas Struck

Synopsis Martha is a filmmaker. Alfred has been studying architecture forever. When they stumble across each other on the frozen Alster lake in the middle of Hamburg, it is evidence of the compelling force of opposites attracting. And so the love...

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Direction Christoph Schlingensief

Cast Udo Kier · Alfred Edel · Margit Carstensen · Volker Spengler

Synopsis A light, a day, a leader. Five men, four women, dragged out of the darkness by a hand-held spotlight. We see the last hour in the Fiihrer bunker as it really was

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Blackest Heart

1990 · Movie · 63 min. · Germany

Direction Christoph Schlingensief

Cast Karina Fallenstein · Alfred Edel · Udo Kier · Volker Spengler

Synopsis In "German Chainsaw Massacre" people meet up with a household of butchers. They detect low cost meat in the East Germans moving over the old boundary into the West and start turning them into sausage. Clara flees the slaying of...

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1986 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Christoph Schlingensief

Cast Anna Fechter · Reinald Schnell · Helge Schneider · Sergej Gleitmann

Synopsis A young boy is lying in bed screaming for his mother, but mama is away performing military exercises. People flee through dark basements to the thunder of bomber planes and an insistently peppy, upbeat jazz score.

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Mix Wix

1989 · Movie · 83 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Herbert Achternbusch

Cast Herbert Achternbusch · Judit Achternbusch · Alfred Edel · Annamirl Bierbichler

Synopsis Mix Wix is a successful entrepreneur. He did good business with socks and underpants and made a lot of money. Hispanties department is the largest of its kind. But now he's reaching his limits.

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Direction Jochen Richter

Cast Sydne Rome · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Anny Duperey · Alfred Edel

Synopsis Jennifer, Tom and Maria like to have sex together and to rob banks when necessary.

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