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Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

German actress and chanson singer
December 25, 1943 (80 years old)
All. 2024. Drama by Ameer Fakher Eldin with Sibel Kekilli, Hanna Schygulla, Georges Khabbaz. Going on an island at the end of the North Sea to kill himself, a famous Arab author regains a taste for life through contact with the old woman who takes him in.
Fr. 2022. Drama by François Ozon with Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Khalil Ben Gharbia. Shattered by the departure of his young lover, whom he helped to break into the movie business, a famous director must face, alone, his demons.
Runtime: 90 min.

Everything Went Fine

V.O.: Tout s'est bien passé
Fr. 2021. Drama by François Ozon with Sophie Marceau, André Dussollier, Géraldine Pailhas. A wealthy Parisian industrialist is rendered hemiplegic by a stroke and asks his daughter to help him end his life.
Runtime: 112 min.

The Mystery of Henri Pick

V.O.: Le Mystère Henri Pick
Fr. 2019. Dramatic comedy by Rémi Bezançon with Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz. Disgraced for questioning the identity of the author of a posthumously published bestseller, a literary journalist opens his own investigation alongside the daughter of the deceased.
Runtime: 101 min.

The Prayer

V.O.: La Prière
Fr. 2018. Drama by Cédric Kahn with Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemuhl. A 22-year-old heroin addict has a hard time adapting to life in a mountain commune, run by a Catholic priest, where he was sent to help cure his addiction issues.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 2012. Documentary by Amos Gitaï with Yaël Abecassis, Jeanne Moreau, Hanna Schygulla.
Runtime: 87 min.
Rus. 2011. Fantasy by Alexandre Sokourov with Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinskiy, Isolda Dychauk. A German doctor in debt falls under the thumb of a curious moneylender who, in exchange for his soul, promises him that he will be able to possess the laundress he has fallen in love with.
Runtime: 134 min.
Fr. 2009. Chronicle by Sébastien Grall with Hanna Schygulla, Jérôme Kircher, Annelise Hesme. The story of the Servan-Schreiber family, from the arrival of the Jewish-German matriarch Clara in France in 1879, until her death in 1941.
Runtime: 180 min.

The Edge of Heaven

V.O.: Auf der Anderen Seite
All. 2007. Drama by Fatih Akin with Baki Davrak, Nurgül Yesilçai, Hanna Schygulla. Between Germany and Turkey, the destinies of four women and two men intertwine in a tragic way.
Runtime: 122 min.

Werckmeister Harmonies

V.O.: Werckmeister harmóniák
Hongr. 2000. Drama by Béla Tarr, Agnes Hranitzky with Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla. A naive young man observes an escalation of violence in his small town, since the arrival of a mysterious circus troupe.
Runtime: 145 min.

Léa

V.O.: Lea
All. 1996. Melodrama by Ivan Fila with Lenka Vlasakova, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1993. Mores comedy by Michel Deville with Anémone, André Dussollier, Nicole Garcia. At a summer residence, a woman in search of her first love is welcomed by couples with capricious temperaments.
Runtime: 103 min.

Warszawa: Year 5703

V.O.: Warszawa. Année 5703
Fr. 1992. Psychological drama by Janusz Kijowski with Lambert Wilson, Hanna Schygulla, Julie Delpy. A couple who escaped the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw find refuge in a friend's house, pretending to be brother and sister.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1991. Fantasy by Kenneth Branagh with Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi. In Los Angeles, a private investigator tries to help a young woman with amnesia who is haunted by memories of a past life.
Runtime: 107 min.

Adventure de Catherine C.

V.O.: Aventure de Catherine C.
Fr. 1989. Psychological drama by Pierre Beuchot with Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci. In Vienna in the 1930s, an actress is staying with a rich baroness to whom she narrates her love life.
G.-B. 1987. Mores drama by Simon Langton with Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Sylvia Kristel. Recalling the tumultuous life of a great Venetian seducer of the eighteenth century.
Runtime: 168 min.
U.S. 1986. Biography by Lee Philips with Burt Lancaster, Laura Press, Hanna Schygulla. At the end of his life, a circus magnate recalls the stages of a flamboyant career.
Runtime: 90 min.

Le Futur est femme

V.O.: Il Futuro e donna
It. 1984. Drama by Marco Ferreri with Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Niels Arestrup. A couple's life is turned upside down by the arrival of a young pregnant woman.
Runtime: 103 min.

A Love in Germany

V.O.: Eine Liebe in Deutschland
All. 1983. Mores drama by Andrzej Wajda with Hanna Schygulla, Piotr Lysak, Marie-Christine Barrault. In 1941 in a German village, the dramatic consequences of a grocer's affair with a Polish prisoner of war.
Runtime: 107 min.
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Pierre Boutron with Hanna Schygulla, André Dussollier, Pierre Etaix. A foreigner decides to move in to a bachelor's apartment.

L'Histoire de Pierra

V.O.: Storia di Piera
It. 1983. Mores drama by Marco Ferreri with Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni. The curious relationships of a young woman with her communist father and her libertarian mother.
Runtime: 106 min.

That Night in Varennes

V.O.: La Nuit de Varennes
Fr. 1982. History by Ettore Scola with Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla. In 1791, writer Restif de la Bretonne meets various characters in a stagecoach going to Metz.
Runtime: 150 min.

Friends and Husbands

V.O.: Heller Wahn
All. 1982. Psychological drama by Margarethe von Trotta with Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck. A German academic befriends a fellow citizen whom she saves from suicide.
Runtime: 105 min.
Mex. 1982. Psychological drama by Carlos Saura with Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Carlos Bracho. For the purposes of a book, a journalist investigates a Mexican woman who shot herself in the heart in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1931.
Runtime: 108 min.

Circle of Deceit

V.O.: Die Fälschung
Runtime: 108 min.
Runtime: 116 min.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

V.O.: Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Runtime: 120 min.

False Movement

V.O.: Falsche Bewegung
All. 1975. Psychological drama by Wim Wenders with Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech. A traveler meets an old singer and a mute whom he accompanies to the home of a suicidal industrialist.
Runtime: 103 min.
All. 1974. Mores drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel. The young wife of a baron is repudiated by him after he discovers her affair with a major.
Runtime: 140 min.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

V.O.: Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
All. 1972. Psychological drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann. A fashion designer has a lesbian affair with a model.
Runtime: 127 min.

The Merchant of Four Seasons

V.O.: Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten
All. 1971. Psychological drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hans Hirschmuller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla. A man, who has become a greengrocer at the market, takes to drinking and makes life difficult for his wife.
Runtime: 88 min.

Beware of a Holy Whore

V.O.: Warnung vor einer Heiligen Nutte
Runtime: 103 min.

Hunting Scenes from Bavaria

V.O.: Jagdszenen aus Niederbayern
All. 1969. Social drama by Peter Fleischmann with Martin Sperr, Angela Winkler, Else Quecke. A young peasant is harassed by the inhabitants of his village, who believe him to be homosexual.
Runtime: 86 min.

Love Is Colder Than Death

V.O.: Liebe ist kälter als der Tod
All. 1969. Mores drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla. In Munich, the criminal tribulations of a pimp, his girlfriend and the gangster who lives with them.
Runtime: 85 min.
All. 1969. Drama by Volker Schlöndorff with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Crane, Margarethe von Trotta. The obscure research of a poet who shuns established values.
Runtime: 87 min.
All. 1969. Mores comedy by Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Lilith Ungerer. An immigrant living in a widow's house falls victim to the pettiness of her neighbours.
Runtime: 89 min.

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