Ingrid Caven
Ingrid Caven was born on August 3, 1938 in Saarbrücken, Germany as Ingrid Schmidt. She is best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
Suspiria
as Miss VendegastYoung American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned...
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In a Year with 13 Moons
as Zora la rougeElvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love....
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Playing with Fire
as The servant of the brothelA banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
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Despair
as Hotel ManagerBerlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate...
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Time Regained
as The Russian PrincessIn early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
as Zweite ProstituierteSmall-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a...
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My Favorite Season
as La femme du barElderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
as Hans's great loveHans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family,...
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Fox and His Friends
as Singer in BarFox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
as NeighborThe life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
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Martha
as IlseAfter the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange,...
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My Little Loves
as MotherDaniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
as DoraA German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between...
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Satan’s Brew
as LisaA famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of...
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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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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as CorinnaAfter a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to...
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35 Shots of Rum
as Joséphine's German AuntA widower and her daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her...
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Shadow of Angels
as Lily BrestBeautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She...
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Fear of Fear
as EddaAfter having her second child, a German housewife suffers from post-partum depression before...
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Gods of the Plague
as Magdalene FullerA man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With...
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Devil's Paradise
as MadameAt the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland,...
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Day of the Idiots
as Dr. LauraA woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
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Nea
as AnneIn Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year old Sibylle Ashby...
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The American Soldier
as SingerRicky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
as SelfDocumentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
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The Portuguese Woman
as PassageiraNorth of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks...
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Rio das Mortes
as Hannas KolleginMichel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried...
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I Only Want You to Love Me
as Sewing machine saleswomanThe story of the young man Peter, who grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental...
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Off Season
as LilaThe formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied...
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Malou
as MalouTwo life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in...
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The Coffee House
as PlacidaAvant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee...
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The Niklashausen Journey
as Schreiendes MädchenCan a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather...
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Adele Spitzeder
as uncreditedThe true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by...
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La Paloma
as Viola Schlumpf, aka 'La Paloma'Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and...
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Sleeping Beauty
as La méchante féeIn the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
as SelfWerner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was...
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1 Berlin-Harlem
as uncreditedAn African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white)...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
as SelfWhen director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular...
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
as Lola MontezReflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions,...
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Looping
as LissyA small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying...
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Silent Night
as SängerinSensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his...
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Joan's Dream
as uncreditedWith the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the...
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Haytabo
as (uncredited)A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.
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Goldflocken
as uncreditedWerner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in...
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The Death of Maria Malibran
as uncreditedA series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera...
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Tonight or Never
as ArtistSatire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968...
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Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
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Violanta
as AlmaA young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
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Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
as SelfIngrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at...
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The Satin Spider
as La directriceThe setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic...
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Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
as uncreditedRita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love.
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Weitertanzen
as Maja MertensA bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare.
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Yearning for Sodom
as SelfMade during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked...
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World on a Wire
as Secretary UschiCybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual...
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