Margarethe von Trotta Movies

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women, Jo...

Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiti...

This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.

Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few American...

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

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with the men in th...

Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to p...

A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidna...

Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.

Margarethe von Trotta, one of the few icons of German directing, internationally revered as a star director, celebrates her 80th birthday: her works a...

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the Okto...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

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

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Anka, a student active in the extra-parliamentary opposition, has had enough of inconsequential discussions. As she no longer believes that she can ch...

Ruth is the wife of well-heeled corsetry manufacturer Erich Halbfass. As business booms, Erich lives frivolously and their daughter Aglaia attends sch...

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