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Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta

German film director
February 21, 1942 (82 years old)

Ingeborg Bachmann: Journey into the Desert

V.O.: Ingeborg Bachmann: Reise in die Wüste
Suis. 2023. Biography by Margarethe von Trotta with Vicky Krieps, Ronald Zehrfeld, Tobias Resch. In the late 1950s, the tormented love affair of the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann with the Swiss playwright Max Frisch.
Runtime: 110 min.
All. 2018. Documentary by Margarethe von Trotta. A portrait of Ingmar Bergman, based on the testimonies of those who worked with or known this great master of Swedish and world cinema.
Runtime: 99 min.
All. 2012. History by Margarethe von Trotta with Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer. In 1961, the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt arouses controversy when she develops her theory on ""The Banality of Evil"" during the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
Runtime: 113 min.

Vision

V.O.: Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen
All. 2009. Biography by Margarethe von Trotta with Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung. The life and work of the German Hildegard of Bingen, a Benedictine nun from the 12th century, who was throughout her life the object of mystical visions.
Runtime: 110 min.
All. 2003. Drama by Margarethe von Trotta with Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Jürgen Vogel. When her husband dies, a New York woman returns to practicing her Jewish religion for the first time since a tragic childhood event in Berlin in 1943.
Runtime: 136 min.

The Promise

V.O.: Das Versprechen
All. 1994. Sentimental drama by Margarethe von Trotta with Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner.
Runtime: 93 min.

Le Long Silence

V.O.: Il Lungo Silenzio
It. 1993. Political drama by Margarethe von Trotta with Carla Gravina, Jacques Perrin, Alida Valli. A gynecologist, married to a judge who is handling a serious corruption case, lives in an atmosphere of constant paranoia.
Runtime: 93 min.

Trois Soeurs

V.O.: Paura e amore
It. 1988. Dramatic comedy by Margarethe von Trotta with Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino. The romantic impulses and disappointments of three sisters living in northern Italy.
Runtime: 112 min.
All. 1987. Mores comedy by Helma Sanders-Brahms, Helke Sander, Margarethe von Trotta, Christel Buschmann with Ulrich Tukur, Eva Mattes, Annette Uhlen. After his girlfriend leaves, a young man meets women who also have sentimental problems.
Runtime: 86 min.
All. 1985. Biography by Margarethe von Trotta with Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander. The eventful and difficult life of the famous socialist doctrinaire of the early twentieth century.
Runtime: 121 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.

Marianne and Juliane

V.O.: Die Bleierne Zeit
Runtime: 106 min.

Sisters or the Balance of Happiness

V.O.: Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks
All. 1979. Psychological drama by Margarethe von Trotta with Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Früh.
Runtime: 95 min.

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

V.O.: Das Zweite Erwachen der Christina Klages
All. 1978. Psychological drama by Margarethe von Trotta with Tina Engel, Silvia Reize, Marius Muller-Westernhagen. To save the daycare center where she works from bankruptcy, a woman undertakes a bank robbery with two friends.
Runtime: 93 min.

Coup de grâce

V.O.: Der Fangschuß
All. 1976. Psychological drama by Volker Schlöndorff with Mathias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Rüdiger Kirschstein. In 1919, in Latvia, a young woman in love with an officer who rejects her comes to make a pact with Bolshevik rebels.
Runtime: 95 min.

A Free Woman

V.O.: Strohfeuer
All. 1972. Psychological drama by Volker Schlöndorff with Margarethe von Trotta, Friedhelm Ptok, Martin Luttge. A young divorced woman is forced to remarry in order to obtain custody of her child.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

V.O.: Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
All. 1971. Social drama by Volker Schlöndorff with Georg Lehn, Reinhard Hauff, Harry Owen. In a Hessian village in 1821, seven peasants decide to steal taxes and leave for the Americas.
Runtime: 94 min.

Beware of a Holy Whore

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

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