Hanna Schygulla
Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (for which she won the Silver Bear).
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a...
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The Delta Force
as IngridA 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by...
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The Edge of Heaven
as Susanne StaubThe lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a...
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Werckmeister Harmonies
as Tünde EszterA naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the...
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Dead Again
as IngaIn 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a...
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Everything Went Fine
as Swiss LadyWhen her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed...
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Faust
as Moneylender's WifeA doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
as Karin ThimmPetra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
as Maria BraunMaria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in...
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Wrong Move
as ThereseSix days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his...
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Lucky
as LotteThe story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to...
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The Girl of Your Dreams
as Magda GoebbelsA company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a...
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The Mystery of Henri Pick
as Ludmila BlavitskyIn a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor...
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Peter von Kant
as RosemariePeter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to...
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The Night of Varennes
as Countess Sophie de la BordeDuring the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Anna Epp, Hans's sisterHans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family,...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
as HannaThe life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
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Godard's Passion
as HannaWhile shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young...
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The Prayer
as Sister MyriamThomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former...
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One Hundred and One Nights
as Mr. Cinéma's Second Ex-wifeMonsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so...
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Lili Marleen
as WillieThe story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
as HannaTensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director...
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The Story of Piera
as EugeniaPiera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers:...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
as JohannaSmall-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a...
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The Third Generation
as Susanne GastA wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals...
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Janela da Alma
as SelfNineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total...
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Gods of the Plague
as JoannaA man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With...
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Effi Briest
as Effi BriestWhen 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small,...
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A Love in Germany
as Pauline KroppIn May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden...
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
as SelfWomen were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his...
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Promised Land
as Hanna"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through...
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Circle of Deceit
as Ariane NassarGeorg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut...
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Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
as PaulaAbram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's...
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The Future Is Woman
as AnnaIn this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their...
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The Crossing
as Kyona (alt)/Erzählerin (voice)In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their...
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Adventure of Catherine C.
as Fanny HohensteinIn Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician...
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Forever, Lulu
as ElaineWhen Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to...
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Miss Arizona
as MiciStory of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and...
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Godard Cinema
as SelfJean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he...
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Katzelmacher
as MarieA group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment...
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Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
as L'Esprit de l'ExilAn allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this...
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Baal
as LuiseBaal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast...
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Sheer Madness
as OlgaOlga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an...
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The Quiet Love
as Frau MarxTwo very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet...
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Casanova
as Casanova's MotherThe life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but...
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Whity
as Hanna"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in...
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Scénario du film Passion
as SelfGodard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the...
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Rio das Mortes
as HannaMichel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried...
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
as SelfThough he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the...
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Lusitanian Illusion
as Erika Mann (voice)Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving,...
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
as LucyThree sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long...
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The Coffee House
as LisauraAvant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as SelfA documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
as SelfMarco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once...
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
as BertaBerta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.
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Madame Bäurin
as Tante AgatheOn the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly...
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Warsaw: Year 5703
as StephaniaIn the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the...
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
as SelfA documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder,...
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Unless
as DanielleA writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.
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The Blue Exile
as The ActressMavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was...
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The Clown
as MarieBased on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate...
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Antonieta
as AnnaAnna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific...
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Das ABC ist subversiv
as NarratorDocumentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel
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Life's Little Treasures
as LénaThis movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a...
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Avanti
as SuzanneWhat does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that...
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The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
as Self - Quote Reader (voice)The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
as SelfDocumentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT...
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Mathias Kneißl
as Mathilde SchreckInspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from...
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The Night of the Filmmakers
as SelfA meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
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Jail Bait
as ÄrztinBased on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer...
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The Sunset Boys
as Ewa LoehweErnest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where...
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Barnum
as Jenny LindThe amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.
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The Quiet Roar
as EvaMARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left...
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The Niklashausen Journey
as JohannaCan a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather...
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Fassbinder
as SelfA film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly...
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Winter Journey
as Martha "Mucky" BrenningerDespite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious...
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Lea
as Wanda51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has...
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Bremen Freedom
as Luisa MauerA very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture...
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
as Self - Interviewee (uncredited)
Fassbinder’s Women
as SelfAn essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer...
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Jakob von Gunten
as Lisa BenjamentaAdaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.
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New Year's Eve
as Society womanEncouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the...
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The Summer of Miss Forbes
as Mrs. ForbesMrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while...
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Irmi
as NarratorThe story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy...
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Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
as Hilde JaryAn investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the...
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Heiligendamm
as A. van der QualenShort film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
as SelfA documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria...
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Lullaby to my Father
as Narrator (voice)The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture...
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Po-lin. Shards of Memory
as Narrator - German version (voice)Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish...
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Cinémania : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as SelfA documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master...
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End of the Commune?
as Self"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about...
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Hey Stranger
as TaniaAn actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find...
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Angelo Nero
as EloideJack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting...
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Scene of the Crime
as CatharinaTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Kommissar Stolberg
as Marita DennettStolberg is a German detective television series, starring chief inspector Martin Stolberg. The...
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Peter the Great
as Catherine SkevronskayaPeter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian...
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Ad Vitam
as - Participation -In a future where regeneration technology lets humans live indefinitely, a cop and a troubled...
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
as EvaIn late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However,...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day
as Marion AndreasCommissioned to make a working-class family drama for public television, up-and-coming director...
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The Great Runaway
as Frau PieschA miniseries about a pair of teenagers living in a slum at the fringes of Berlin. Alcoholism,...
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