Direction: Ulrike Ottinger
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Ulrike Ottinger. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Portrait of a Female Drunkard. Ticket of No Return
1979 · Movie · 108 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Tabea Blumenschein · Lutze · Magdalena Montezuma · Orpha Termin
Plot She, a woman of exquisite beauty, of classical dignity and harmonious Raphaelesque proportions, a woman, created like no other to be Medea, Madonna, Beatrice, Iphigenia, Aspasia, decided one sunny winter...
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6.9
43 votes
Freak Orlando
1981 · Movie · 126 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Delphine Seyrig · Albert Heins · Claudio Pantoja
Plot In the form of a "small theater of the world", a history of the world from its beginnings to our day, including the errors, the incompetence, the thirst for power,...
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
1986 · Movie · 89 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Chantal Akerman · Maxi Cohen · Valie Export · Laurence Gavron
Cast Michael Dick · Evelyne Didi · Irm Hermann · Gabi Herz
Plot Is the perfect introduction for those new to the world of women’s filmmaking and an interesting study in styles for those already familiar with the work of these seven innovative...
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Laocoon & Sons
1975 · Documentary · 48 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Tabea Blumenschein · Ulrike Ottinger
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Usinimage (S)
1987 · Documentary · 11 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Plot A montage of documented industrial architecture and cityscapes of Berlin and scenes from Ulrike Ottingers Berlin Trilogy: Ticket of No Return, Freak Orlando, Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the...
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Paris Calligrammes
2020 · Documentary · 129 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Plot From a topographic perspective, Ulrike Ottinger’s cinema is mostly located between Berlin and remote places in the Far East or the Far North. In Paris Calligrammes, she explores the landscape...
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The Specimen (S)
2002 · Movie · 19 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Hanns Zischler · Raymond Wolff · Thorsten Heide · Heidi von Plato
Plot "And in this cabinet" the head of the museum says, "you will find something very unique; in fact unique and one-of-its-kind in all the USSR: the specimen of a philistine...
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Prater
2007 · Documentary · 104 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Plot People, monsters, sensations. The beguiling images in Ulrike Ottinger’s Prater transform this mythical Viennese attraction into a cinematic experience. A captivating succession of intention and coincidence, an amusement ride through...
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Südostpassage
2002 · Documentary · 363 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Eva Ebner · Boris Raev · Raymond Wolff
Plot Ulrike Ottinger travels through the decaying empires of Southeast Europe.
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Countdown
1990 · Documentary · 188 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Plot This documentary focuses on the ten days after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the two Germanies when the monetary union in June 199o was scheduled...
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Twelve Chairs
2004 · Movie · 198 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Georgi Deliyev · Gennadiy Skarga · Svetlana Dyagilyeva · Boris Raev
Plot On her death bed, an old Russian aristocrat entrusts her son-in-law with a strictly guarded secret. Namely, that she had hidden all of her valuable jewelry in one of the...
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Exile Shanghai
1997 · Documentary · 275 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Plot Fascinating and rich with dry humour; EXIL SHANGHAI is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost Jewish world of Shanghai, the most fabulous city of the Far...
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Joan of Arc of Mongolia
1989 · Movie · 165 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Delphine Seyrig · Inés Sastre · Gillian Scalici · Irm Hermann
Plot Joan of Arc of Mongolia, in addition to having a fairly lugubrious, awkward title, is an extremely leisurely film. This is a film so unhurried that the plot strand that...
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Chamisso's Shadow
2016 · Documentary · 720 min. · Germany
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Hanns Zischler · Burghart Klaußner · Thomas Thieme · Ulrike Ottinger
Plot It starts with "Peter Schlemihl's Miraculous Story", which tells of a man travelling the world in seven-league boots. Adelbert von Chamisso wrote the tale before setting off to Russia on...
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Berlinfieber - Wolf Vostell (S)
1973 · Documentary · 12 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Wolf Vostell
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The Enchantment of the Blue Sailors
1975 · Movie · 54 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Tabea Blumenschein · Ulrike Ottinger
Cast Tabea Blumenschein · Wally Busch · Valeska Gert · Rolf Gärtner
Plot The surrogate of synthetic sensuality takes form and seduces the sailors in the guise of a Hawaiian girl. In ritual punctuation, she distributes deaths which seemingly only the hardy siren...
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