Screenplay: Margarethe von Trotta

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Georg Lehn · Reinhard Hauff · Wolfgang Bächler · Karl-Josef Cramer

Plot In 19th century in Hesse, a group of poor peasants rebel against institutional and economic domination by robbing the tax collection stagecoach. However, the machinery of power implements its countermeasures...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Margarethe von Trotta · Matthias Habich · Rüdiger Kirschstein · Marc Eyraud

Plot A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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 Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill.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...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta · Felix Moeller · Bettina Böhler

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Bruno Ganz · Hanna Schygulla · Jean Carmet · Jerzy Skolimowski

Plot Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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,...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Margarethe von Trotta · Friedhelm Ptok · Martin Lüttge · Ute Ellin

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

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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...