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...

6.9

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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,...

6.2

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6.2

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Ester

2002 · Movie · 32 min. · Germany

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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)

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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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Aloha (S)

2016 · Documentary · 25 min. · Germany

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

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Under Snow

2011 · Documentary · 108 min. · Germany

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

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Taiga

1992 · Documentary · 501 min. · Germany

Direction Ulrike Ottinger

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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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