Movies: Margarethe von Trotta

  • 2018
    Searching for Ingmar Bergman

    Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)

    Searching for Ingmar Bergman

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    A meaningful account of the personal and professional life of the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) that explores his film legacy, with interviews with his closest collaborators and a new generation of filmmakers....

    Searching for Ingmar Bergman
  • 2016
    Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses

    Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses (2016)

    Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses

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    Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ott...

    Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
  • 1981
    Circle of Deceit

    Circle of Deceit (1981)

    Circle of Deceit

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    Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians....

    Circle of Deceit
  • 1971
    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

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    An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry ...

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
  • 1970
    Baal

    Baal (1970)

    Baal

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    Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality....

    Baal
  • 2022
    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

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    From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist....

    Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
  • 1983
    Sheer Madness

    Sheer Madness (1983)

    Sheer Madness

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    Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist, and teaching feminist literature. Ruth is withdrawn, a painter, possibly mentally ill. Ruth dreams in black and white, sometimes of her s...

    Sheer Madness
  • 1988
    Calling the Shots

    Calling the Shots (1988)

    Calling the Shots

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

    Calling the Shots
  • 2014
    Forbidden Films

    Forbidden Films (2014)

    Forbidden Films

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    Between 1933 and 1945 roughly 1200 films were made in Germany, of which 300 were banned by the Allied forces. Today, around 40 films, called "Vorbehaltsfilme", are locked away from the public with an uncertain future. Should they be re-released, dest...

    Forbidden Films
  • 2015
    The Misplaced World

    The Misplaced World (2015)

    The Misplaced World

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    By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curi...

    The Misplaced World
  • 1979
    Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

    Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)

    Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness

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    Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with...

    Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness
  • 1989
    The Heart and the Legs

    The Heart and the Legs (1989)

    The Heart and the Legs

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    The heart of the legs....

    The Heart and the Legs
  • 1993
    The Long Silence

    The Long Silence (1993)

    The Long Silence

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    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 Long Silence
  • 1999
    Dark Days

    Dark Days (1999)

    Dark Days

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    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...

    Dark Days
  • 2024
    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces (2024)

    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

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    A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism....

    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
  • 1978
    The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

    The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)

    The Second Awakening of Christa Klages

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    Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder the money and give it to the kindergarten. He refuses. They t...

    The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
  • 2021
    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words (2021)

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words

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    A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diarie...

    Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
  • 2010
    Sister

    Sister (2010)

    Sister

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    All her life, 80-year-old Margot Brunner (Rosemarie Fendel) has lived with her disabled sister Wilma (Cornelia Froboess) in the apartment of their deceased mother. The grove Wilma seizes every opportunity she gets to be a nuisance to her sister. When...

    Sister
  • 1984
    Unerreichbare Nähe

    Unerreichbare Nähe (1984)

    Unerreichbare Nähe

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

    Unerreichbare Nähe
  • 1972
    A Free Woman

    A Free Woman (1972)

    A Free Woman

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    A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women....

    A Free Woman