Margarethe von Trotta

Gian Luigi Rondi - Vita, cinema, passione

Giorgio Treves

Gian Luigi Rondi, Pupi Avati

Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women

Ally Acker

Jodie Foster, Ally Acker

Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.

Alida

Mimmo Verdesca

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Piero Tosi

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became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.

Das Vergnügen, anständig zu sein

Hans Lietzau

Rolf Boysen, Lucie Mannheim

Winterkind

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Susanna Simon, Benjamin Kaatz

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.

Jahrestage

Margarethe von Trotta

Suzanne von Borsody, Matthias Habich

Die Atlantikschwimmer

Herbert Achternbusch

Herbert Achternbusch, Josef Bierbichler

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

Die Schwester

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Rosemarie Fendel, Cornelia Froboess

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 Margot meets artist Gregor (Matthias Habich), she finally gets the courage to tell her sister that she wants to enjoy her life and get out of the house. But Wilma does not agree with this.

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta

Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Die bleierne Zeit

Margarethe von Trotta

Jutta Lampe, Барбара Сукова

Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.

Calling the Shots

Janis Cole, Holly Dale

Karen Arthur, Lizzie Borden

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

Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks

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Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel

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 Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. No longer able to connect with Maurice, Maria does establish a relationship with Miriam, a typist at her office who becomes a surrogate younger sister. But Maria is intrusive as well as helpful. Can this or any relationship work out for this talented woman whose past seems to choke her soul?

Unter uns

Margarethe von Trotta

Andrea Sawatzki, Jörg Schüttauf

The former owner of a craftsman’s business, Wolfgang Kunert, who has been unemployed for a long time, is waiting at the job agency. When it is his turn after four hours of waiting and Heidi Ganz, the agent responsible for him, cannot offer him any work and points out his misconduct in general, he loses his nerves. He pulls out a gun and takes Mrs. Ganz hostage.

Hannah Arendt

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Барбара Сукова, Axel Milberg

HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.

Das Andechser Gefühl

Herbert Achternbusch

Herbert Achternbusch, Margarethe von Trotta

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neglected, the teaching duties he has shirked, and his doomed efforts at winning tenure from school officials. Only a dream from the past-the memory of a former liaison with a film star with whom he shared "the Andechs feeling, a feeling that we are not alone" - provides sustenance. Despite an unexpected series of events, longing in Achternbusch's world ultimately remains stronger than fulfilment and thirst better than beer.

Die andere Frau

Margarethe von Trotta

Барбара Сукова, Barbara Auer

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