Cast: Hanna Schygulla

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Synopsis TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man, his parents, the grandma and the rest of a working...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Günter Lamprecht · Karlheinz Braun · Hanna Schygulla · Claus Holm

Synopsis TV Series (1980). 14 episodes. This film is a 15-1/2 hour episodic exploration of the character of Franz Biberkopf, "hero" of Alfred Döblin's acclaimed novel, as well as the Alexanderplatz area of Berlin that he inhabits. Franz is an ex-convict...

Direction Béla Tarr · Ágnes Hranitzky

Cast Lars Rudolph · Peter Fitz · Hanna Schygulla · János Derzsi

Synopsis This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather - without snow. It is twenty degrees below zero. Even in...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Hanna Schygulla · Irm Hermann · Eva Mattes

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Klaus Löwitsch · Ivan Desny · Gisela Uhlen

Synopsis While bombs are fall ing all over the place during World War II , Hermann Braun and Maria get married. One night is all they have before Herrmann has to go to war again. After war has ended - her...

Direction Fatih Akin

Cast Tuncel Kurtiz · Nursel Köse · Patrycia Ziolkowska · Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali's choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter's university studies. Yeter's sudden death distances...

Direction João Jardim · Walter Carvalho

Cast Evgen Bavcar · Raimunda da Conceição Filha · Felipe · Gabriel

Synopsis Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment - from mild nearsightedness to total blindness - discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Writer and Nobel laureate José Saramago, musician Hermeto Pascoal,...

Direction Yorgos Lanthimos

Cast Emma Stone · Mark Ruffalo · Willem Dafoe · Ramy Youssef

Synopsis Bella Baxter is a young girl brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she lacks, Bella escapes with Duncan Wedderburn, a sophisticated...

Direction Marvin J. Chomsky · Lawrence Schiller

Cast Maximilian Schell · Vanessa Redgrave · Omar Sharif · Trevor Howard

Synopsis It tells the story of Peter I, who becomes infected with a love for western culture and travels to Europe for academic studies. Upon his return to Russia, the maverick ruler angers the established nobility by forcing them to adopt...

Direction Delphine Coulin · Muriel Coulin

Cast Mathieu Amalric · Vicky Krieps · Nathalie Richard · Albert Salomon

Synopsis Between 1940 and 1942, at the age of 24, Charlotte Salomon painted more than 1,300 pictures. Thanks to extensive archival work, Salomon recounts in her own words her childhood in Berlin, the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism, up to her...

Direction Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Irm Hermann · Kristin Peterson · Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes playing their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut...

Direction Peter Fleischmann

Cast Martin Sperr · Angela Winkler · Else Quecke · Maria Stadler

Synopsis Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Direction Hans Günther Pflaum

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Kurt Raab · Michael Ballhaus · Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Wolfgang Schenck · Ulli Lommel · Karlheinz Böhm

Synopsis Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition that causes her to accept a proposal of marriage from...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hans Hirschmüller · Irm Hermann · Hanna Schygulla · Gusti Kreisal

Synopsis Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's several "bourgeois films" that depict and critique middle-class society. The film deceptively unfolds like a standard bourgeois melodrama: there is the black sheep son,...

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Hanna Schygulla · Marcello Mastroianni · Harvey Keitel

Synopsis June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital. Determined to satisfy his curiosity, he sets...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Lilith Ungerer · Rudolf Waldemar Brem · Elga Sorbas

Synopsis Jorgos is a young Greek guest worker in Germany, known pejoratively as a “Katzelmacher,” Bavarian slang for “cat screwer,” referring to the supposed sexual habits of foreigners. He rents a room in Elisabeth’s house in the Munich suburbs. She and...

Direction Roberto Rocco

Cast Giuliana de Sio · Ben Gazzara · Massimo Ranieri · Maria Schneider

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Lilith Ungerer · Kurt Raab · Lilo Pempeit · Franz Maron

Synopsis With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Giancarlo Giannini · Mel Ferrer · Karl Heinz von Hassel