Movies: Margarethe von Trotta

Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share their thoughts....

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A married former art student decides to start painting again, because her children are out of the house and her husband neglects her. However, that is not easy....

Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is surrounded by terror and threats....

The heart of the legs....

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 extensiv...

A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown woman....

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 la...

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 e...

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic....

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York)....

Winterkind tells a tragic story of the Russian Yelena, who after seven years of captivity learns that her son Boris, born in the camp, has been adopted by a German couple....

Story of the relationship between two women. Ines, a successful career woman, and Monika, whom Ines takes in after she has attempted suicide....

“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 film...

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder....

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Drama about the life of a travelling salesman....

An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina....