Margarethe von Trotta
Also Known As: Маргарета фон Тротта
Biography: Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margarethe von Trotta, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: February 21, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Female
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Gods of the Plague
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-24
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Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-02
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Beware of a Holy Whore
Overview: Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Screenwriters on Screenwriting
Overview: This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Foreign Directors on Directing
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Overview: After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-10
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Sheer Madness
Overview: 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 dreams in black and white, sometimes of her suicide. Olga lectures on a 19th-century writer, von Günderrode, a suicide after the breakup of her intense friendship with Bettina Brentano. Ruth's husband Franz encourages the women's friendship, then, as Olga draws Ruth out and the friendship deepens, he becomes jealous. After the women travel to Egypt, Franz has a tirade. Ruth seems crushed between her husband and her friend, and how she responds is the film's climax.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Overview: The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-06-28
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Coup de Grâce
Overview: A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-21
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Germany in Autumn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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The American Soldier
Overview: Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-09
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Margarethe von Trotta: A Women's Director
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-02-19
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Beer Chase
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Night of the Filmmakers
Overview: A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-02-12
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Baal
Overview: Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-07
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Von Sex bis Simmel
Overview: A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-04
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Hands Up!
Overview: The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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Brandstifter
Overview: Anka, a student active in the extra-parliamentary opposition, has had enough of inconsequential discussions. As she no longer believes that she can change the world with words alone, she plans a militant action: as a protest against the Vietnam War, she plants a bomb in a Cologne department store to force the public into a debate.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-05-12
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The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-04-12
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The Atlantic Swimmers
Overview: Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-02-27
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Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-10-17
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Drücker
Overview: Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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A Free Woman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Forbidden Films
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-03-06
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-09-01
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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-14
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The Heart and the Legs
Overview: The heart of the legs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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Blaubart
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-10-27
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Tränen trocknet der Wind
Overview: Melodrama set in Hamburg's red light district.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1967-10-13
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Spielst Du mit schrägen Vögeln
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-04-16
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An Invitation to the Hunt
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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Paul Esbeck
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Das Andechser Gefühl
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-04-18
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-18
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Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Overview: A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-07-12
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Desaster
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Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-03-19
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Stayover in Tirol
Overview: An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-08
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Georginas Gründe
Overview: Adaptation of a story by Henry James.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-04-27
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It Could Have Been Worse - Mario Adorf
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-02-10
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Nuits transparentes
Overview: Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-05-24
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Cinématon
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Rosa Luxemburg: Der Preis der Freiheit
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-15
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Overview: A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-05-17
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Calling the Shots
Overview: Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-08
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-10
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-23
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
Overview: “Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.” Those who have worked with her say that what she does is true artistry. Barbara Sukowa, a star of Fassbinder’s films, an icon, and a role model. Who says there are hardly any interesting roles for women beyond forty? New challenges continually come her way. A few years past normal retirement age, she is launching into a remarkable new chapter. Sukowa – Spielen wie ein Kind (Barbara Sukowa – playful like a child) chronicles the path of an internationally successful actress to this day.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-10-23
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