Ingrid Caven
Also Known As: Ingrid Fassbinder , Ingrid Schmidt, Ingrid Carven
Biography: Ingrid Caven was born on August 3, 1938 in Saarbrücken, Germany as Ingrid Schmidt. She is best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saarbrücken, Germany
Birthday: August 03, 1938
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Gender: Female
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Shadow of Angels
Overview: Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-09-03
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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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Day of the Idiots
Overview: A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-10-31
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In a Year with 13 Moons
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Overview: After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-01
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Silent Night
Overview: Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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My Little Loves
Overview: Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which rapidly changes his perception of friends, work, and women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Fear of Fear
Overview: After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed mental state, befuddling her relatives.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-07-08
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My Favorite Season
Overview: Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites him for Christmas. Memories will resurface and impact both Berthe's destiny and the strange relationship between Emilie and Antoine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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The Satin Spider
Overview: The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Overview: A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-06-11
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Tenderness of the Wolves
Overview: A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, aka the Butcher of Hanover and the Vampire of Hanover.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-07-12
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Rio das Mortes
Overview: Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-02-15
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The Coffee House
Overview: Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-05-18
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Overview: Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century German figures and traditions are stripped of their mythology and interpreted by the Germany of 1972.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-06-22
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Overview: Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-02-16
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Nea
Overview: In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year-old publisher but he drops her for her older sister.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-17
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The Ancestress
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-12-20
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Die wilden Fünfziger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Overview: Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he's refused to join.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-01-16
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Overview: Hans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-10
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The Niklashausen Journey
Overview: Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The "Black Monk" suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Satan’s Brew
Overview: A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Off Season
Overview: The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site’s empty halls and ballrooms.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1992-09-23
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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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1 Berlin-Harlem
Overview: An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he keeps running into racism, which also manifests itself in sexual intimidation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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Yearning for Sodom
Overview: Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that he had AIDS. Despite his deteriorating health, and with the caring support of his friend Hans Hirshmuller, he carried on working. This tape is his last testimony. Awarded with the Adolf Grimme Award and Cinéma du Réel Award
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-21
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Tonight or Never
Overview: Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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La Paloma
Overview: Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband's love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband's old school friend.
Genres: Romance Drama Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-08-28
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Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Joan's Dream
Overview: With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. - MoMA
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Today We're Playing Boss
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-11-27
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Haytabo
Overview: A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
Overview: Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1982-04-23
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Time Regained
Overview: In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Fox and His Friends
Overview: Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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Martha
Overview: After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous husband whom she begins to suspect may be trying to murder her.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Playing with Fire
Overview: A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
Overview: About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-01-27
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Ingrid Caven at Pigall's
Overview: Considered to be lost for a long time, the recently rediscovered recording of Ingrid Caven’s legendary first concert in Paris, at Pigall’s, in 1978. Restored by the director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Frühstück in Rom
Overview: A film critic falls in love.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Violanta
Overview: A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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Sleeping Beauty
Overview: In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleeping Beauty in the kingdom of Kentz and breaking the spell over her. But his father, the king, doesn’t believe in fairy tales, and is completely opposed to Égon’s dream. It’s Maggie Jerkins, an archeologist from Unesco, who will provide Egon with the opportunity to follow his heart.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-18
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Devil's Paradise
Overview: At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes her with him to his island. Her former captors soon find the island as well.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-05-07
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Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
Overview: Ingrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at times, she dispenses with words and simply plays with sounds.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-07
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35 Shots of Rum
Overview: A widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-18
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Suspiria
Overview: Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Company. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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The Death of Maria Malibran
Overview: A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-02
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Gold Flakes
Overview: Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-05-20
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Looping
Overview: A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip show, with her as the main attraction. Her act attracts customers in droves, but it turns out that the girl has her own agenda, and it isn't to help out the carnival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-01-05
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The Portuguese Woman
Overview: North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their honeymoon journey back home, Ketten leaves again for the war. Eleven years elapsed… Rumours are running about the presence of that 'foreigner' in the castle. Some say she's a heretic. Until one day, the Bishop of Trento ends up dying and, with the signature of peace, falls the background of von Ketten's life. Will the Portuguese win, where death seems to be moving in?
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2019-02-28
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Adele Spitzeder
Overview: The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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Weitertanzen
Overview: A bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-03
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Malou
Overview: Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation reflected in the unusual destiny of an individual woman. And that of Hannah, an alert, independent, modern woman, seeking after freedom and her own identity, and trying in present-day Berlin to save her shaky marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Overview: Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter’s films and who collaborated closely with him to create his vision, provides us with an intimate insight into Schroeter’s artistic output during the remaining four years of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2011-04-07
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I Only Want You to Love Me
Overview: Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the principles of exchange or purchase, he abides by these rules and gives generous presents to his family and his wife Erika. But when he is unable to keep up this lifestyle, his story takes a horrendous turn...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-03-23
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Overview: When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence he came to Berlin in the early 1960s and became part of the new German wave. Schmid worked with, among others, Wenders and Fassbinder, for example as an actor in Wender’s The American Friend. He met Ingrid Caven, who was to play a diva in several of his films. This is a documentation of a part of modern European film history and a good analysis of artistry and how it corresponds to the individual behind the camera. A wealth of archival footage brings us close to many directors and actors in Schmid’s circle. If you’ve never seen a Daniel Schmid film, you are sure to want to after watching this portrait of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2010-09-02
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Deepfrozen
Overview: Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Daydreams, contact ads, the firemen's brassband, the weekly visits at his shrink and his buddy Lars' cynical remarks about air guitar and vinyl-records are the highlights of Ronnie's life. Already, as a kid, he suffered from being under the pressure of his power- and manhood-fixed mother. Ronnie's feelings are as deep-frozen as his goods. Until the day, a wonderful being - one of the female kind - strands in the village. The local priest hires the young girl, a groupie with the name of Zoya, as housekeeper and within days, Zoya turns the whole manship of the village mad and horny. Also Ronnie falls for Zoya and, well yes, lucky for once, marries her. However, since the presence of Zoya, strange things have happened in the village. Everybody who tries to search in Zoya's unkown past dies, disappears. Slowly that well-known fear sneaks into Ronnie's body: men's fear of women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Despair
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-20
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