Writer
It tells the story of the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann and her life in Berlin, Zurich and Rome, her relationship with Frisch, her trip to Egypt and her radical texts and readings.
Director
It tells the story of the Austrian author Ingeborg Bachmann and her life in Berlin, Zurich and Rome, her relationship with Frisch, her trip to Egypt and her radical texts and readings.
Margarethe von Trotta
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.
Self - Filmmaker
Margarethe von Trotta, one of the few icons of German directing, internationally revered as a star director, celebrates her 80th birthday: her works are among the most important in German cinema of all time.
Self
The story of the legendary star Alida Valli through the unpublished words of her letters and diaries, enriching it with other exclusive materials: photographs, family film in 8mm, new interviews with her sons, relatives, friends and collaborators, and much more archive material.
Herself
Portrays the film star Mario Adorf and his passion for acting, the stage, the cinema, singing and writing. Together with the director Dominik Wessely, the film comes closer to Mario Adorf as a person and highlights important stations of his private life and his international career. When Mario Adorf begins to talk about his life, over 60 years of theatre and film history come to life. A dialogue with him is not only a retrospective, but also an intensive exchange of ideas about film and theatre and his view of the world, love and ageing.
herself
Writer
Un sentido relato de la vida personal y professional del gran cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) que explora su legado cinematográfico, con entrevistas a sus colaboradores más cercanos y a una nueva generación de cineastas.
Herself - Filmmaker
Un sentido relato de la vida personal y professional del gran cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) que explora su legado cinematográfico, con entrevistas a sus colaboradores más cercanos y a una nueva generación de cineastas.
Director
Un sentido relato de la vida personal y professional del gran cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) que explora su legado cinematográfico, con entrevistas a sus colaboradores más cercanos y a una nueva generación de cineastas.
Herself
West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The parents of the director, too: Margarethe von Trotta and his stepfather, Volker Schlöndorff. With extensive archive materials and film clips as well as Margarethe von Trotta's private diaries the film portrays one German family and the society of the time.
Director
Jade y María son dos mujeres muy diferentes. Una es modelo y la otra una intelectual, una prefiere el estilo y la otra la comodidad. Eso sí, las dos viven en Nueva York y comparten ático, a la fuerza. Además, lo único que Jade y Maria tienen en común es su exmarido, Nick. A pesar de tener un comienzo difícil entre ambas, estas dos mujeres acabarán dándose cuenta de que, al fin y al cabo, les unen más cosas de las que pensaban.
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
Writer
Cuando Paul Kromberger y su hija Sophie descubren por Internet la foto de una cantante de ópera estadounidense que es clavada a Evelyn, padre e hija se van a estremecer. Evelyn era la difunta mujer de Paul y la madre de Sophie. Sophie decide viajar a Nueva York para encontrar a la cantante, cuyo nombre es Caterina Fabiani. Tratará de buscar respuestas a este misterioso parecido.
Director
Cuando Paul Kromberger y su hija Sophie descubren por Internet la foto de una cantante de ópera estadounidense que es clavada a Evelyn, padre e hija se van a estremecer. Evelyn era la difunta mujer de Paul y la madre de Sophie. Sophie decide viajar a Nueva York para encontrar a la cantante, cuyo nombre es Caterina Fabiani. Tratará de buscar respuestas a este misterioso parecido.
Sé stessa
Self
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
Herself
Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, destroyed, or continue to be neglected? Verbotene Filme takes a closer look at some of these forbidden films.
Screenplay
Gira en torno a la figura de la filósofa judío-alemana Hannah Arendt, que trabajó como reportera cubriendo el juicio a Adolf Eichmann, el nazi que organizó el genocidio contra los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Gira en torno a la figura de la filósofa judío-alemana Hannah Arendt, que trabajó como reportera cubriendo el juicio a Adolf Eichmann, el nazi que organizó el genocidio contra los judíos. (FILMAFFINITY)
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
Director
Art Direction
Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) fue una monja alemana que, desde niña, tuvo visiones sobrenaturales en las que Dios le pedía que transmitiera sus mensajes. Su fama traspasó los muros del convento. Fue, al parecer, una mujer muy adelantada para su época por sus conocimientos de medicina natural y por sus obras musicales. Se trata de una mujer que marcó un antes y un después en muchos aspectos de la sociedad medieval.
Screenplay
Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) fue una monja alemana que, desde niña, tuvo visiones sobrenaturales en las que Dios le pedía que transmitiera sus mensajes. Su fama traspasó los muros del convento. Fue, al parecer, una mujer muy adelantada para su época por sus conocimientos de medicina natural y por sus obras musicales. Se trata de una mujer que marcó un antes y un después en muchos aspectos de la sociedad medieval.
Director
Hildegard von Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) fue una monja alemana que, desde niña, tuvo visiones sobrenaturales en las que Dios le pedía que transmitiera sus mensajes. Su fama traspasó los muros del convento. Fue, al parecer, una mujer muy adelantada para su época por sus conocimientos de medicina natural y por sus obras musicales. Se trata de una mujer que marcó un antes y un después en muchos aspectos de la sociedad medieval.
Director
Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...
Herself
A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.
Director
A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown woman.
Screenplay
Después de la muerte de su padre, Hannah Weinstein, una periodista neoyorquina de origen judío, decide averiguar qué sucedió en 1943 en Berlín cuando su madre, Ruth, y su abuela fueron separadas por los nazis. Sus investigaciones la llevan a la capital alemana. Allí Lena Fischer le cuenta cómo salvó la vida de Ruth cuando los últimos judíos de la ciudad fueron sitiados por orden de Goebbles en febrero de 1943, momento a partir del cual la pequeña Ruth ya no volvió a ver a su madre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Director
Después de la muerte de su padre, Hannah Weinstein, una periodista neoyorquina de origen judío, decide averiguar qué sucedió en 1943 en Berlín cuando su madre, Ruth, y su abuela fueron separadas por los nazis. Sus investigaciones la llevan a la capital alemana. Allí Lena Fischer le cuenta cómo salvó la vida de Ruth cuando los últimos judíos de la ciudad fueron sitiados por orden de Goebbles en febrero de 1943, momento a partir del cual la pequeña Ruth ya no volvió a ver a su madre. (FILMAFFINITY)
Writer
Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.
Director
Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.
Director
Writer
Director
Writer
Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1961. Sophie y Konrad se han propuesto huir juntos al Berlín occidental. Sophie logra burlar la vigilancia, pero Konrad es sorprendido por un coche militar y no puede escapar. A partir de ese momento, la vida de ambos sigue cursos totalmente distintos. En casi 30 años ellos sólo se ven cuatro veces. Sin embargo, durante la larga noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1989 el muro de Berlín es derribado...
Director
Berlín Oriental, otoño de 1961. Sophie y Konrad se han propuesto huir juntos al Berlín occidental. Sophie logra burlar la vigilancia, pero Konrad es sorprendido por un coche militar y no puede escapar. A partir de ese momento, la vida de ambos sigue cursos totalmente distintos. En casi 30 años ellos sólo se ven cuatro veces. Sin embargo, durante la larga noche del 9 al 10 de noviembre de 1989 el muro de Berlín es derribado...
Self
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring some of its greatest directors.
Director
Marco is a judge investigating a case of arms trafficking, one of the judges to fight against corruption of Italian political life. Carla, his wife, lives dominated by the fear that her husband will be murdered and, unfortunately, her fears are realized. She decides to join a group of widows of judges to break the silence that has always protected the crimes of the Mafia, who always act in collusion with influential public figures. With the help of the group and the notes and documents of her husband, Carla produces a television documentary that endangers the lives of many people.
Writer
La larga amistad entre Martha y Anna se rompe cuando Victor abandona a la primera por la segunda. Martha, desesperada, se va a África en busca de un antiguo amor.
Director
La larga amistad entre Martha y Anna se rompe cuando Victor abandona a la primera por la segunda. Martha, desesperada, se va a África en busca de un antiguo amor.
Self
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Screenplay
An adaptation of a classic "Three Sisters" play by Anton Chekhov.
Director
An adaptation of a classic "Three Sisters" play by Anton Chekhov.
Writer
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 women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is even more love sick and later he meets Luci who gives him an indecent proposal. Thus he flees again...
Director
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 women, in Hamburg he meets Eva, a girl who is even more love sick and later he meets Luci who gives him an indecent proposal. Thus he flees again...
Writer
República de Weimar (1919-1933). Una vez terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), se produjeron en Alemania movimientos populares de protesta, al frente de los cuales se hallaban Rosa Luxemburgo y Karl Liebknecht, que fundaron un partido político revolucionario de carácter comunista: los espartaquistas.
Director
República de Weimar (1919-1933). Una vez terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), se produjeron en Alemania movimientos populares de protesta, al frente de los cuales se hallaban Rosa Luxemburgo y Karl Liebknecht, que fundaron un partido político revolucionario de carácter comunista: los espartaquistas.
Writer
Story of the relationship between two women. Ines, a successful career woman, and Monika, whom Ines takes in after she has attempted suicide.
Jutta
Writer
Ruth, esposa de un célebre pacifista, tiene miedo de la gente. Olga, profesora de literatura y esposa de un exitoso director de teatro, conoce a Ruth durante unas vacaciones, y ambas se hacen amigas. Los hombres hablan, las mujeres escuchan, ignoradas por sus maridos...
Director
Ruth, esposa de un célebre pacifista, tiene miedo de la gente. Olga, profesora de literatura y esposa de un exitoso director de teatro, conoce a Ruth durante unas vacaciones, y ambas se hacen amigas. Los hombres hablan, las mujeres escuchan, ignoradas por sus maridos...
Writer
Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Writer
República Federal Alemana, año 1968. Las hijas de un sacerdote, Marianna y Julianne, dedican su vida a luchar para cambiar la sociedad, reivindicando, por ejemplo, la legalidad del aborto. Sin embargo, eligen caminos muy diferentes para conseguir sus objetivos: Julianne, que es reportera, sigue una vía pacífica a través de la denuncia periodística. Marianna, en cambio, se une a una organización terrorista.
Director
República Federal Alemana, año 1968. Las hijas de un sacerdote, Marianna y Julianne, dedican su vida a luchar para cambiar la sociedad, reivindicando, por ejemplo, la legalidad del aborto. Sin embargo, eligen caminos muy diferentes para conseguir sus objetivos: Julianne, que es reportera, sigue una vía pacífica a través de la denuncia periodística. Marianna, en cambio, se une a una organización terrorista.
Writer
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 pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
Director
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 pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?
N°576
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Self
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Writer
Tres miembros de un pequeño grupo terrorista atracan un banco para solventar los apuros económicos de un colegio infantil. Christa es la única que consigue huir de la policía, pero es perseguida tanto por el atraco como por su condición de terrorista. Pero lo peor es que el colegio no acepta el dinero que les ofrece y sus correligionarios no parecen dispuestos a ayudarla. Inesperadamente, encuentra comprensión y refugio en una joven que tomaron como rehén durante el atraco.
Director
Tres miembros de un pequeño grupo terrorista atracan un banco para solventar los apuros económicos de un colegio infantil. Christa es la única que consigue huir de la policía, pero es perseguida tanto por el atraco como por su condición de terrorista. Pero lo peor es que el colegio no acepta el dinero que les ofrece y sus correligionarios no parecen dispuestos a ayudarla. Inesperadamente, encuentra comprensión y refugio en una joven que tomaron como rehén durante el atraco.
Frau mit Kind
A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Oktoberfest. Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other relatives and some friends start to follow him while he gets some new acquaintances. (IMDB review)
Writer
Latvia, 1919: final de la guerra civil rusa. Una joven aristócrata se enamora de un oficial prusiano sexualmente reprimido. Al ser rechazada, la joven se hunde en la depresión, la promiscuidad y la colaboración revolucionaria. (FILMAFFINITY)
Sophie de Reval
Latvia, 1919: final de la guerra civil rusa. Una joven aristócrata se enamora de un oficial prusiano sexualmente reprimido. Al ser rechazada, la joven se hunde en la depresión, la promiscuidad y la colaboración revolucionaria. (FILMAFFINITY)
Schwimmlehrerin
Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
Adaptation of a story by Henry James.
An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.
Director
Después de pasar la noche con un presunto terrorista, la tranquila y ordenada vida de Katharina Blum queda completamente destruida. Como sospechosa, se convierte en víctima de una cruel campaña difamatoria de la policía y de un despiadado periodista sensacionalista, situación que pone a prueba los límites de su dignidad y de su cordura.
Screenplay
Después de pasar la noche con un presunto terrorista, la tranquila y ordenada vida de Katharina Blum queda completamente destruida. Como sospechosa, se convierte en víctima de una cruel campaña difamatoria de la policía y de un despiadado periodista sensacionalista, situación que pone a prueba los límites de su dignidad y de su cordura.
Paulette
Claude Chabrol film for TV based on the short story An Invitation to the Hunt by Georges Hitchcock. Receiving an unexpected invitation to participate in the annual hunt party given by the local marquis, a common man deludes himself into thinking he’s a valued member of society, gets in debt to live up to his own fantasies, puts on airs, and invents a perfectly untrue—but, to his mind, fitting—past for a man of his new station. Then the cruel game starts.
Katja
Television film.
Ulla Werther
Elisabeth Junker
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
Writer
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
Assistant Director
Doris Vogelsang
Babs
Un equipo de rodaje, y el reparto de la película, incluido Eddie Constantine, está sentado alrededor de un hotel de playa cutre en España esperando al director de la película para empezar el rodaje. Mientras tanto, el director de producción intimida a todo el mundo, y se desarrollan intrigas en el bar del hotel.
Sophie
An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Writer
An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Ute
Maid
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Margarethe
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Gitte
Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.
Sophie
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
Anka
A drama set in Cologne’s revolutionary circles of the late 1960s.
Helga
Melodrama set in Hamburg's red light district.
Zimmermädchen
Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few American film directors establish a body of work. For American women directors, the problem is two-fold. But in Europe, Canada, and some countries of South America, filmmaking is often government subsidized, making it possible for filmmakers to become prolific in their craft.
This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.
Self
The heart of the legs.
