Hanna Schygulla Movies

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of,...

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

Hanna Schygulla, one of the icons of European cinema and herself a refugee child, meets four young men again after seven years who came to Berlin as...

A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back to Germany, to Berlin, having lived for twenty...

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in...

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

A cinematic portrait, filmed in Paris and Havana, which includes excerpts from films and theatrical performances by Alicia Bustamante, as well as...

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery...

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.

The story of André, a bohemian and loser of the reunification era, who gets by with small odd jobs in Leipzig. When his adolescent daughter...

Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in the the desert plain between the Andes and the...