Direction: Margarethe von Trotta

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Jutta Lampe · Barbara Sukowa · Rüdiger Vogler · Doris Schade

Synopsis Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Daniel Olbrychski · Otto Sander · Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Angela Winkler · Mario Adorf · Dieter Laser · Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist....

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Axel Milberg · Janet McTeer · Julia Jentsch

Synopsis A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. In the award-winning Hannah Arendt, director Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Angela Winkler · Peter Striebeck · Christine Fersen

Synopsis Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Katja Riemann · Maria Schrader · Martin Feifel · Jürgen Vogel

Synopsis When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta · Felix Moeller · Bettina Böhler

Synopsis A closer look at Bergman's life and work, exploring his film legacy with Bergman's closest collaborators, both in front and behind the camera, as well as a new generation of filmmakers.

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Meret Becker · Corinna Harfouch · Anian Zollner · August Zirner

Synopsis East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Fanny Ardant · Greta Scacchi · Valeria Golino · Sergio Castellitto

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Heino Ferch · Hannah Herzsprung · Gerald Alexander Held

Synopsis The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Katja Riemann · August Diehl · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Barbara Auer

Synopsis Unsuspecting Robert Fabry (August Diehl) checks into a Frankfurt hotel on business and is soon involved in an incident with a slutty, drunken woman (Katja Riemann) dressed in a revealing bright red dress. When she causes a ruckus in the...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Vicky Krieps · Ronald Zehrfeld · Tobias Samuel Resch · Basil Eidenbenz

Synopsis She is Austrian, he Swiss; she is a poet, he a playwright; she is a daredevil yet vulnerable, he is adventurous but a little conservative. When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Matthias Habich · Katja Riemann · Gunnar Möller

Synopsis By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Ingrid Bolsø Berdal · Katja Riemann · Lucie Pohl · Haluk Bilginer

Synopsis The worlds of two different women collide in a New York City loft: model vs. intellectual, style vs. comfort, career woman vs. single mom. Jade and Maria's only common ground is their ex-husband: Nick. The aging Casanova has left his...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Barbara Auer · Stefan Kurt · Huub Stapel

Direction Christel Buschmann · Helke Sander · Helma Sanders-Brahms · Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Ulrich Tukur · Barbara Auer · Eva Mattes · Danuta Lato

Synopsis Within four episodes (“Er am Ende”, “Muss ich aufpassen”, “Eva” and “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” ) are being told adventures of love sick Felix. On Sylt he meets two nymphomaniac women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Barbara Sukowa · Sami Frey · Jan Biczycki

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Tina Engel · Silvia Reize · Katharina Thalbach · Marius Müller-Westernhagen

Synopsis Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Jutta Lampe · Gudrun Gabriel · Jessica Früh · Konstantin Wecker

Synopsis Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice,...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Carla Gravina · Jacques Perrin · Paolo Graziosi · Agnese Nano

Synopsis Doctor Carla Aldrovani lives a life in fear because of her husbands profession as a judge. As he gets murdered she starts her fight against the group of weapon dealers who are responsible.