Volker Spengler

Volker Spengler

Birth : 1939-02-16, Bremen, Germany

Death : 2020-02-08

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Volker Spengler

Movies

Off Beat
Hundemann
Traumatised paramedic looks for the woman of his dreams.
Dirty Sky
"Dirty Sky" tells a gruesome tale of our time with a double finale: once the eternally classic love story of Romeo and Juliet in the guise of Bonnie and Clyde substance, as bloody road movie. On the other end with a romantic fantasy. This film also tells of growing up. Our story is told against the backdrop of a dying industrial area on two versions about the love between two lots of chance: the 17-year-old Jenny and 19-year-old Paule, leading her life in series of unfortunate, even tragic circumstances of the death. Or, with alternative conclusion: the 17-year-old Jenny and 19-year-old Paule, which almost leads her life despite unfortunate chain, even tragic circumstances in the sky of love.
Fandango - Members Only
Pedro Isaax
The 120 Days of Bottrop
The Producer
An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking.
The Ogre
Fieldmarshall Hermann Göring
Frenchman Abel Tiffauges is a naive man who lives a simple life working as a mechanic. Falsely accused of being a child abuser, he is recruited as a soldier when World War II begins, but is captured soon and taken to the heart of Nazi Germany.
The German Chainsaw Massacre
Hank
Taking place around the German reunification of 1990, a group of East Germans cross the border to visit West Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic cannibal family who want to turn them into sausages.
100 Years of Adolf Hitler – The Last Hour in the Führerbunker
Fegelein
On 30 April 1945, dictator Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, and prominent members of the Third Reich live out their final hour in the Führerbunker.
Peng! Du bist tot!
Spion
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher.
Veronika Voss
1. Regisseur
In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's relationship escalates in intensity, Veronika begins seriously planning her return to the screen -- only to realize how debilitated she has become through her drug habit.
Today We're Playing Boss
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
Obscene: The Case of Peter Herzl
Peter Herzl
A West German man, mistaken by the police for a left wing terrorist, hides in Vienna with a prostitute and her incestuous teen daughter. They become both a threesome and a happy surrogate family, but nothing lasts forever.
Polnischer Sommer
Ticket of No Return
Transvestit
A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard.
The Third Generation
August
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. International capitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her police commissioner father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.
The Third Generation
Art Direction
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. International capitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her police commissioner father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Train Conductor
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.
In a Year with 13 Moons
Elvira Weishaupt
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Despair
Ardalion
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.
The Stationmaster’s Wife
Mangst
The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
Chinese Roulette
Gabriel Kast
A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.
Satan’s Brew
Ernst Kranz
This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write enough to keep his publisher's royalty advances coming, he seeks out a woman he imagines is a prostitute and interviews her for material. He is also inspired to utter some poetry, which his brassy, outspoken wife identifies as coming from the famous homosexuality-advocating mystical German poet, Stefan George. This inspires Walter to take a closer look at the gay scene, and he quickly becomes a sort of celebrity there.
Hinzelmeier
Krahirius
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Photograph
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Der Kampf um den Reigen
Dritter Zeuge
Die zwei Herren aus Verona
Thurio