Cast: Ingrid Caven

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


Violanta

1978 · Movie · 95 min. · Switzerland

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Lucía Bosé · Maria Schneider · Lou Castel · Ingrid Caven

Synopsis Violanta rules a lush peasant village peacefully, but has herself a violent past which she keeps secret. When the secret threatens to emerge, she takes poison.

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Shadow of Angels

1976 · Movie · 101 min. · Switzerland

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Ingrid Caven · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Annemarie Düringer · Adrian Hoven

Synopsis Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so...

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Direction Vadim Glowna

Cast Jürgen Prochnow · Sam Waterston · Suzanna Hamilton · Mario Adorf

Synopsis At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors...

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Nea: A Young Emmanuelle

1976 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Nelly Kaplan

Cast Sami Frey · Ann Zacharias · Françoise Brion · Micheline Presle

Synopsis Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a...

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Deepfrozen

2006 · Movie · 92 min. · Luxembourg

Direction Andy Bausch

Cast Peter Lohmeyer · Lale Yavas · Thierry van Werveke · Marco Lorenzini

Synopsis Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Daydreams, contact ads, the firemen's brassband, the weekly visits at his shrink and his buddy Lars' cynical remarks about air guitar and...

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The Satin Spider

1986 · Movie · 82 min. · France

Direction Jacques Baratier

Cast Catherine Jourdan · Ingrid Caven · Alexandra Scicluna · Michel Albertini

Synopsis A sultry French boarding school for girls, in the early twenties. The young pupil Lucienne evades but returns with a weird police inspector who should protect her. Against what or whom? Solange, the psychic unstable gym teacher? Or the voyeuristic...

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Direction Robert Fischer

Cast Andrea Ferréol · Michael Ballhaus · Tom Stoppard · Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis A documentary looking back at Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1978 movie 'Despair'.

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Off Season

1992 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Sami Frey · Carlos Devesa · Ingrid Caven · Dieter Meier

Synopsis "If Stanley Kubrick set nightmares in the Overlook Hotel, Daniel Schmid has only the happiest magical memories to animate his grand hotel nestled in the Swiss Alpes. Hors Saison is an unabashed cinematic circus populated by a Fellini-like cast of...

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Heute nacht oder nie

1972 · Movie · 78 min. · Switzerland

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Ingrid Caven · Voli Geiler · Peter Chatel · Igor Josza

Synopsis A satire on 19th-century class relations that’s also a veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places. A troupe of...

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Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense

2010 · Documentary · 83 min. · Switzerland

Direction Pascal Hofmann · Benny Jaberg

Cast Daniel Schmid · Renato Berta · Ingrid Caven · Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg’s film is a mysterious kaleidoscope of people and places; in it, the filmmakers take their audience on a sprawling cinematic journey through the life and work of one of Swiss cinema’s most extraordinary artists. As...

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La Paloma

1974 · Movie · 110 min. · Switzerland

Direction Daniel Schmid

Cast Ingrid Caven · Peter Kern · Peter Chatel · Béatrice Stoll

Synopsis This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be...

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Looping

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Walter Bockmayer · Rolf Bührmann

Cast Hans Christian Blech · Shelley Winters · Ingrid Caven · Sydne Rome

Synopsis A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are aging, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up...

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Fassbinder's Women

2000 · Documentary · 90 min. · Germany

Direction Rosa von Praunheim

Cast Irm Hermann · Peer Raben · Ursula Strätz · Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis Includes several interviews with the women who formed part of the professional and personal lives of the German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Silent Night

1995 · Movie · 83 min. · Switzerland

Direction Dani Levy

Cast Maria Schrader · Jürgen Vogel · Mark Schlichter · Ingrid Caven

Synopsis Dusk is falling. It is the beginning of Christmas Eve. Julia, an art student in her late twenties, is at home by herself. She has been living together with the policeman Christian for several years. However, their relationship seems to...

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The Coffeehouse (TV)

1970 · Movie · 105 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Margit Carstensen · Ingrid Caven · Hanna Schygulla · Kurt Raab

Synopsis People meet and chat at Ridolfo’s Coffeehouse. The conversations are mostly about money. But they are of course also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity, and respectability. But all this has its price. The TV adaptation of the play –...

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