Barbara AuerFilmography

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Effi Briest

Actors: Julia Jentsch, Sebastian Koch, Misel Maticevic, Juliane Köhler

Synopsis: Theodor Fontane's seminal, tragic 1894 novel Effi Briest received numerous screen adaptations up through the early 21st century, including (most prominently) a 1974 feature from Rainer Werner Fassbinder that emerged as one of the hallmarks of the New German Cinema. The 2009 version emerged at the Read More

2/12/09
Yella

Actors: Nina Hoss, Devid Striesow, Hinnerk Schönemann, Burghart Klaußner, Barbara Auer

Synopsis: A young businesswoman gets in touch with her taste for cutthroat corporate tactics by slowly seducing her inner demons in The State I Am In writer/director Christian Petzold's free-flowing dramatic thriller. Immediately accosted by her ex-husband, Ben (Hinnerk Schönemann), upon returning to her Read More

5/16/08
At Any Second

Actors: Sebastian Koch, Mina Tander, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Ronald Zehrfeld, Jenny Schily

Synopsis: A vulnerable doctor discovers that fate can push you in a new direction at the drop of a hat when he succumbs to the advances of a strong, self-assured woman in this soul-searching drama from cinematographer-turned-director Jan Fehse. Dr. Fricke has grown accustomed to caring for others; his Read More

2008
I Am the Other Woman

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katja Riemann, August Diehl, Barbara Auer, Karin Dor

Synopsis: Deadly secrets begin to seethe when the irresistable allure of a mysterious woman in red draws a weak-willed architect into a fateful one-night stand in director Margarethe von Trotta's entry into the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
The Other Boy

Actors: Andrea Sawatzki, Barbara Auer, Peter Lohmeyer, Christian Berkel, Wili Gerk

Synopsis: Volker Einrauch's The Other Boy concerns two teenage boys who, due to the very different demeanors, often clash. When an unforeseen shock from the world affects them each, they discover their differences might actually make them good friends. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Sergeant Pepper

Actors: Neil Lennart Thomas

Synopsis: A young boy immersed in a fantasy world of his own crosses paths with a real-live talking terrier -- who just happens to be the inheritor of a palatial estate -- in this family-oriented fantasy from Mostly Martha director Sandra Nettelbeck. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

2004
Die Innere Sicherheit

Actors: Julia Hummer, Barbara Auer, Richy Müller, Günther Maria Halmer

Synopsis: In many ways the German equivalent of Running on Empty, Die Innere Sicherheit takes a dramatic look at the difficulties faced by the child of fugitives. Teenaged Jeanne (Julia Hummer) has lived in hiding all her life as the daughter of ex-terrorists. Her family lives in Portugal and plans to Read More

2000
Solo Fur Klarinette

Actors: Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Tim Bergmann, Barbara Auer, Tobias Schenke

Synopsis: A burnt-out Berlin cop investigating his 652nd case slowly loses the ability to discern the differences between the grim realities of the job and a decaying personal life as his mental instability grows progressively worse. His latest case is particularly nasty and puzzling, but Detective Bernie Read More

1998
Die Brennende Schnecke

Synopsis: In this grim German drama, a troubled 14-year-old boy's pent-up rage and frustration leads him to involvement with a bad crowd and gets him caught up in an inescapable spiral of increasingly self-destructive and deadly violence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
Madregilda

Actors: José M. Sacristán, Juan Echanove, Barbara Auer, Kamel Cherif, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Spain, having suffered a civil war in the 1930s, was a neutral country during World War II. Generalissimo Francisco Franco (Juan Echanove) was the sole ruler of what was then deliberately fashioned into a puritanical society. In this satire, the hypocrisy of Madrid society in that period is Read More

1993
Brandnacht

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Barbara Auer, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Peter Keller has come back to his native village in Switzerland from Berlin to investigate a murder. It seems that an old army buddy of his is the accused. As he pokes around, it becomes clear that his having roots there cuts no ice with the locals: they all seem to have something to hide and Read More

1992
Probefahrt Ins Paradies

Actors: Barbara Auer, Christiane Horbiger, Mathias Gnädinger, Axel Milberg

Synopsis: As controversial films go, this is a rather easygoing examination of the excesses practiced and believed in by the devoutly religious. Few of the issues raised are likely to electrify anyone not brought up as a Roman Catholic. In the story, a tourist bus is carrying a crowd of pilgrims (whose Read More

1992
Meine Tochter Gehort Mir

Actors: Barbara Auer, Georges Corraface, Nicolas Brieger

Synopsis: In the aftermath of two doctors' divorce, their daughter lives with her mother in Berlin. Her Greek father is not happy with the decision of the courts about his daughter, so he kidnaps her and takes her back to Greece with him. Her mother seeks redress through the international legal system but Read More

1992
The Laughter of Maca Daracs

Actors: Barbara Auer, Nikolaus Paryla, Helmut Berger

Synopsis: Maca Daracs (Barbara Auer) is a gypsy woman working in Austria, and she has a problem: she doesn't have any legal right to be working there. Furthermore, the police have already tagged her as someone to check up on really soon. If she can't come up with a husband to make it possible for her to Read More

1991
Cafe Europa

Actors: Barbara Auer, Jacques Breuer, August Zirner

Synopsis: In this technically outstanding made-for-television police drama, a pair of feuding policemen only have their mutual disagreements to keep them going, because their careers are going nowhere. Then they stop in at a run-down restaurant and discover indications of a widespread protection racket. Read More

1990
Eine Wahnsinnsehe

Actors: Barbara Auer, Thomas Heinze, Heinrich Schafmeister

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie focuses on the exploits of a late-middle-aged woman who has always been an activist in some movement or other. Perhaps at one time her husband participated in the activism with her, but he evidently lost interest sometime around the beginning the women's movement and Read More

1990
Herzlich Willkommen

Actors: Uwe Bohm, Barbara Auer, David Bohm, Hark Bohm, Anna Thalbach

Synopsis: Friedrich (Uwe Bohm) manages to escape from East Germany to the West in the 1950s. On his arrival, he is greeted with the words Herzlich Willkommen, or "cordial, heartfelt welcome." However, once he finds employment, what he experiences is anything but a cordial welcome at his new job, where he is Read More

1990
Verfolgte Wege

Actors: Peter Cieslinski, Barbara Auer, Tilo Prückner

Synopsis: Hermann (Peter Cieslinski) was traumatized by the war and its violence, and in 1946 he is released from a hospital to work at a small rural railway station. There he slowly emerges from his dazed condition and takes notice of the world around him, including a woman named Marie (Barbara Auer), whom Read More

1989
Felix

Actors: Ulrich Tukur, Eva Mattes, Barbara Auer, Annette Uhlen, Danuta Lato

Synopsis: Felix is a four-headed look at a one-headed male chauvinist. Ulrich Tukur plays Felix, an unreconstructed "love 'em and leave 'em" type who feels persecuted when women demand that he make a commitment. Felix's escapades are depicted in four separate sequences, each handled by a top female Read More

1988
Die Macht Der Gefuehle

Actors: Hannelore Hoger, Alexandra Kluge, Klaus Wennemann

Synopsis: In this intellectual perspective of what emotion is and does, director Alexander Kluge has divided the topic into 12 parts with titles such as "The Change," "Act Five" or "The Shot" and then proceeded to formulate a film treatise that does not exclude political figures or activities in West Read More

1983