Screenplay: Heinrich von Kleist

Direction Éric Rohmer

Cast Edith Clever · Bruno Ganz · Peter Lühr · Edda Seippel

Plot 1799, the General Souvarof invades Italy. The Marquise of O… is a young widow. Her father commands a zone in the thick of battle that is soon overcome by the...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Andrea Di Stefano · Barbora Bobulova · Toni Bertorelli · Anita Laurenzi

Plot One night, in the palace's garden, the Prince of Homburg - Commander of the German cavalry during the Thirty Year War against the Swedes - braids a crown of laurel;...

Direction John Badham

Cast John Cusack · John Goodman · Miranda Otto · L.Q. Jones

Plot The Jack Bull tells the story of Myrl Redding, a Wyoming horse trader who clashes with Henry Ballard, a fellow rancher, after Ballard abuses two of Myrl's horses and their...

Direction Arnaud des Pallieres

Cast Mads Mikkelsen · Bruno Ganz · Sergi López · Mélusine Mayance

Plot Set in 16th century, France. Michael Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen), a horse dealer with a contented family life, is wronged by a haughty young aristocrat, he pursues legal redress. But when...

Direction Reinhold Schünzel

Cast Willy Fritsch · Paul Kemp · Käthe Gold · Fita Benkhoff

Plot Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Zeus is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Warner · Anna Karina · Thomas Holtzmann · Michael Gothard

Plot It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as...

Direction Gustav Ucicky · Emil Jannings

Cast Emil Jannings · Friedrich Kayßler · Max Gülstorff · Lina Carstens

Plot The blank verse does not work all that well in subtitles, but the film works even for those who don't understand German. The man who broke the jug, the judge,...

Direction Helma Sanders-Brahms

Cast Heinrich Giskes · Grischa Huber · Hannelore Hoger · Lina Carstens

Plot The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

Direction Carmelo Bene

Cast Carmelo Bene

Plot One of the last TV performances by Carmelo Bene, from Publio Papinio Stazio and Henrich Von Kleist, mixing the myth of the amazon Pentesilea with the invulnerability of the greek...

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast Edith Clever

Plot Life and death, love and war, self and community, are reflected.

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Katy Jurado · Viridiana Alatriste · Gonzalo Vega · Noé Murayama

Direction Gabriele Lavia

Cast Gabriele Lavia · Monica Guerritore · Massimo Foschi · Bianca Galvan

Plot The commanding officer of the cavalry dreams of victory in the battle between his German army and the Swedes in the battle of Ferbellin. On the day of the battle...

Direction George Moorse

Cast Rudolf Fernau · Julie Felix · Titus Gerhardt · Elke Kummer

Plot The Roman merchant Piacchi lost his eleven-year-old son in a plague and now takes in a foundling of the same age, raises him and bequeaths all his possessions to the...

Direction Jean-Pierre Dougnac

Cast Brigitte Fossey · Fernando Rey · Saverio Marconi · Emmanuelle Béart

Direction Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Cast Alice Ottawa · Michael König · Carla Egerer · Peter Moland