Susanne Sachße
Also Known As: Susanne Sachsse
Biography: Susanne Sachße is a German producer, director, screenwriter and actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 03, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Otto; or, Up with Dead People
Overview: A young zombie named Otto appears on a remote highway. He has no idea where he came from or where he is going. After hitching a ride to Berlin and nesting in an abandoned amusement park, he begins to explore the city. Soon he is discovered by underground filmmaker Medea Yarn, who begins to make a documentary about him with the support of her girlfriend, Hella Bent, and her brother Adolf, who operates the camera. Meanwhile, Medea is still trying to finish Up with Dead People, the epic political-porno-zombie movie that she has been working on for years. She convinces its star, Fritz Fritze, to allow the vulnerable Otto to stay in his guest bedroom. When Otto discovers that he has a wallet that contains information about his past, before he was dead, he begins to remember details about his ex-boyfriend, Rudolf. He arranges to meet him at the schoolyard where they met, with devastating results.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-19
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The Raspberry Reich
Overview: Inspired by the Baader-Meinhof gang, a film about modern left Germans adopting the culture of extreme left-wing movements of the 1970s. East German dominatrix Gudrun leads a revolutionary gang of her own in Berlin. She has her men kidnap the son of a rich businessman in order to gain publicity. Claiming that heterosexuality is a social norm created to keep the people down, she forces her male minions to have sex with each other.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-17
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Bandaged
Overview: Since his wife's death, Arthur, a peculiar and severe surgeon, cloisters his teen daughter Lucille inside a strange mansion. Desperate, Lucille tries to commit suicide and ends up with her face completely burned and bandaged. Arthur, with the assistance of his aunt, prepares a weird skin graft in order to give back Lucille a face, a face that resembles his beloved and deceased wife. To take care of her, the father then hires Joan, an attractive nurse with a somber past. Lucille and Joan start a forbidden and passionate love affair.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-19
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Highfalutin
Overview: A bar full of people talking about Volker Spengler. HIGHFALUTIN is an attempt to create such a utopia, a simple "what if."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Fucking Different
Overview: Lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to make a short film about their idea of male gay love and sexuality and, vice versa, gay men were given the task of making a short film about lesbian sexuality and eroticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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Martina
Overview: A woman who orgasms every time she plays tennis invites her neighbor over for a match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-02-12
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Le Petite Tonkinoise
Overview: Experimental queer short film, showing people dancing to the song "La Petite Tonkinoise".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Frau unter Einfluss
Overview: Queer short by Vaginal Davis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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The Other Newest One
Overview: Queer short by Vaginal Davis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Pierrot Lunaire
Overview: Pierrot Lunaire is a Canadian/German film, which premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. Written and directed by Bruce LaBruce as an adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, the film adds a transgender interpretation to the work, starring Susanne Sachsse as a trans man Pierrot.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-09
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The Beginning of Identification, and its End
Overview: Philipp Gufler's latest video installation consists of a performance by the artist and archival film scenes with queer and transgender content. Divided into two projections we see explicit and low-threshold expressions of non-standard sexuality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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The Misandrists
Overview: In Ger(wo)many, when an army of radical females is preparing for a final revolution and a utopian world without men, a young male soldier arrives seeking refuge at the convent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2017-02-13
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Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033
Overview: Inspired by Derek Jarman’s 1978 queer punk film Jubilee, Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 follows Ayn Rand and members of her Collective, including Alan Greenspan, on an acid trip in 1955.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-17
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Looping
Overview: The thirty year old bee is a daredevil, everything seems to work for him. But suddenly a tragic event tears him out of his carelessness. In the explosion of a carbide furnace in operation, a colleague is killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-16
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No Place to Go
Overview: Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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No Place to Go
Overview: Flanders, a famous female author, travels in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin wall into the German capital. She is deeply depressed by the events because she saw the communist state as a very good thing that has now ended. In the joy of these days she finds no one to understand her, so she has to travel back to Munich. After meeting several people, known and unknown, it seems as if there will be no way to go.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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alaska.de
Overview: A female teenager witnesses a murder in a desolate high density housing area on the outskirts of Berlin and is henceforth in danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-09-15
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Angst
Overview: Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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Angst
Overview: Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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Saturn Returns
Overview: Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a young Israeli woman carrying the promise of a better, cleaner way of living. A tribute to Punk underground films turns into a melodrama in "Saturn Returns", mirroring Lucy and Galia's modulating states of mind. Our and their look into each other's life and culture, becomes an investigation of empty facades. The film was constructed by both improvised and pre-scripted scenes, as required by the nature of each scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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The Coat
Overview: A modern story of an actress that is in a theatre. In a place designed for representation, for daily reenactments of human passions, the film is focusing on the cruel awakening of the actress to her true self. More precisely to an “ancient self”. The one most people edit out of their lives: the garbage self.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-04
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The Bad Breast; or, The Strange Case of Theda Lange
Overview: A theatre project developed and directed by Bruce LaBruce. It was inspired by the life and theoretical writings of Melanie Klein, one of the psychoanalytic thinkers who interpreted Freud’s work after his death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-19
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The Advocate for Fagdom
Overview: The Advocate for Fagdom unites the puzzle pieces one by one. Testimonies are combined with rare archive images. Art galeries present movie extracts that are succeeded by images shot on location. And the other way round. Writers, film makers, art galeries owners, actors and actresses, photographers, producers, friends and loved ones all join in a game of interpretation, analysis or simple anecdotes. John Waters, Bruce Benderson, Harmony Korine, Gus Van Sant, Richard Kern, Rick Castro and others deliver their impressions, theories and confessions. Everything blends into the fascinating portrait of a singular person blessed with singular talents. A complex personality at war not with a system but all systems. The portrait of a man constantly moving between his punk attitude and extreme sensibility.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-04
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Ulrike's Brain
Overview: Referencing sixties B-movies like "They Saved Hitler’s Brain" and "The Brain That Would Not Die", Ulrike’s Brain finds Doctor Julia Feifer (Susanne Sachsse) arriving at an academic conference with an organ box. Inside the box: the brain of Ulrike Meinhof, which was saved by the authorities along with the brains of the three other leaders of the RAF after their deaths in Stammheim prison. Doctor Feifer can communicate telepathically with Ulrike’s brain, which is directing her to lead a new feminist revolution. To that end, she is searching for the ideal female body to transplant Ulrike’s brain into. At the same time, her arch-rival, Detlev Schlesinger, an extreme right-wing ideologue, arrives at the conference with the ashes of Michael Kühnen, the former German neo-Nazi leader and infamous homosexual who died of AIDS in 1989. When the two Frankenstein’s monsters of the extreme left and the extreme right meet, chaos ensues.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-11
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The Last City
Overview: An archaeologist and a weapons designer, who knew each other in a previous life as a filmmaker and a psychoanalyst, meet at an excavation site in the Negev desert and begin a conversation about love and war, which they continue in the Israeli city of Be’er Sheva. A series of encounters with alternating actors in different roles ensues, which leads the viewer through the cities of Athens, Berlin, Hong Kong and São Paulo. Among those appearing are: an old artist who meets his younger self; a mother who lives with her two grown-up sons, a priest and a policeman; a Chinese and a Japanese woman; a curator and a cosmologist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-10-21
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girls & boys in history (I-III)
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
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Gefangen im Analkerker
Overview: [Trapped in the Anal Dungeon] A dirty, rotten dump in Berlin. Men have sex with men. Next to overloaded piss urinals hairy hunks pump each other with dicks and fists. Once a stall is occupied, the next best bloke gets a load of piss in his face. This comfort station has a secret: A mean lavatory assistant guards this dungeon. A trap door is the entrance to a basement maze. There is no escape from the dark fucking alleys, only you survive a big load by pumping hard dicks. Lupus also experiences in this vault full of dripping sperm one ass workout after the other to the final climax his big hole really enjoys. Follow us onto the dark alleys into the hot Berlin underground...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-20
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