Hanna SchygullaFilmography

Winter Journey

Actors: Josef Bierbichler, Sibel Kekilli, Hanna Schygulla, Philipp Hochmair, Anna Schudt

Synopsis: When a boorish German entrepreneur falls prey to a notorious, Kenya-based banking scam, his last-ditch effort reclaim his cash by traveling to Africa and confronting the con-artist serve as a noble epilogue to a reckless life in director Hans Steinbichler's dramatic account of one man's downward Read More

Friday or Another Day

Actors: Philippe Nahon, Alain Moraida, Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla

Promised Land

Actors: Rosamund Pike, Diana Despechni, Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud, Alla An

Janela Da Alma

Actors: Evgen Bavcar, Antonio Cicero, Arnaldo Godoy, Walter Lima, Jr., Hermeto Pascoal

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage "the eyes are the windows to the soul" as they explore vision and perception in their 2002 documentary A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul). Beginning with an interview with Brazilian jazz musician Hermeto Pascoal, Carvalho Read More

Fassbinder in Hollywood

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Actors: Irm Hermann, Peer Raben, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: A made-on-HD video documentary about fascinating European filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by the equally notable Rosa von Prauheim, this feature attempts to shed light on his rocky life in a tell-all fashion. The film interviews several artists who worked with Fassbinder, dating back Read More

Werckmeister Harmóniák

Actors: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Janos Derzsi, Djocko Rossitch

Synopsis: Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an Read More

Black Out

Actors: Alkis Kourkoulos, Myrto Alikaki, Cleon Grigoriadis, Hanna Schygulla, Karyofilia Karabeti

Synopsis: After his successful documentary Ram (1989), it took director Menelaos Karamaghiolis a decade to jump to feature films with Black Out, a youth-oriented psychological thriller and a love story. An Air Force pilot is declared missing over the Aegean Sea, but his girlfriend keeps getting mysterious Read More

Waiting for Sunset

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Cliff Robertson, Erland Josephson, Espen Skjønberg, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum's is seen in one of his last performances in this Norwegian drama about four lifelong friends. After Carl (Espen Skjonberg) collapses in an Oslo street, he awakens in the hospital to the grins of his buddies Ernest (Mitchum), Ted (Cliff Robertson), and August (Erland Josephson). The Read More

Chronique

Actors: Patricia Bopp, Jean-Quentin Chatelain, Berengere Mastrangelo, Yvette Theraulaz, Loulou

Synopsis: In this quirky drama, a boudoir row leads a Swiss married couple to split up and take radically different life paths. Lola, the wife is left to care for their two kids. A creative sort, she supports them by opening up a public kissing service -- her clients are comprised of several famous faces Read More

Words

Synopsis: Haunting and deeply personal, this stylized film reflects director Amos Gitai's feelings and response to the 1995 assassination of Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin. Essentially a series of images shot from a moving vehicle in key Israeli and Polish cities, with a focus on the death place of Prime Read More

Lea

Actors: Lenka Vlasakova, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: A woman uses poetry to communicate the emotions she cannot verbalize in this drama. At the age of seven, Lea has already become accustomed to verbal and physical abuse from her father, but when she witnesses the rape and murder of her mother during one of her father's particularly vicious tirades Read More

Die Nacht der Regisseure

Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, Detlev Buck

Synopsis: Utilizing computer-generated effects and creative splicing to place Germany's most famous living directors in a fantasy movie house, filmmaker Edgar Reitz takes an innovative approach toward exploring the history of German cinema. In this magical theater, directors such as Leni Riefenstahl, Detlev Buck Read More

Pakten

A Hundred and One Nights

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet

Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More

Hey Stranger

Actors: Vincent Rouche, Benedicte Loyen, Hanna Schygulla, William Hickey, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: Mystery and romance and political commentary are combined in this drama set in post-Communist Prague. When Orf sees the young and beautiful Sarka whistling and singing upon the rooftops he falls immediately in love. But just as their romance heats up, Orf leaves her to become heir to a large and Read More

Golem: The Petrified Garden

Actors: Jerome Koening, Hanna Schygulla, Samuel Fuller, Mascha Itkina

Synopsis: Instead of simply traveling to eastern Siberia to collect a modern art collection willed to him by a forgotten uncle, Daniel (Jerome Koenig), who runs an art gallery in Paris, decides (for reasons which are never explained) to bring a ten-foot long hand along with him. It is perhaps a portion of a Read More

Aux Petits Bonheurs

Actors: Anémone, Xavier Beauvois, André Dussollier, Nicole Garcia, Sylvie Laporte

Synopsis: Helene (Anemone) is looking for her love of 25 years ago. She is 43 now, was 18 then. She has returned to the last place she saw him, a large house in the country. Once there, she finds Ariane making love to Matthieu. Matthieu is Sabine's husband; Sabine is younger than he is, she wants a child Read More

Andre

Actors: Hanna Schygulla

Mavi Sürgün

Actors: Can Togay, Hanna Schygulla, Ayse Romey, Ozay Fecht, Tatiana Papamoskou

Synopsis: Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, Bodrum. In fact he is considered by some to Read More

Ich Will Nicht Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Karl Heinz Böhm, Ingrid Caven, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The title of this documentary on Rainer Maria Fassbinder is just slightly changed from the title of a film that director made in 1976, entitled Ich Will Doch Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt (I Only Want You to Love Me). The wunderkind of postwar German filmmaking died at age 36 in 1982 after making over Read More

Golem, The Spirit of the Exile

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Samuel Fuller, Mireille Perrier

Synopsis: In modern-day Paris, a cabalist known as the Maharal has created a golem, an artificial being constructed of earth and clay, infused with spirit through the recitation of a special formula. The legendary being he brings to life is known in this instance as "The Spirit of Exile," and the magician's Read More

Warszawa

Actors: Lambert Wilson, Julie Delpy, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: It is 1943, in Warsaw, 5703 in the Jewish calendar, and the final destruction of the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto is imminent. Two young survivors are designated to escape and tell the story of those left behind. They escape, bearing photos and documents, via the sewers into the rest of Warsaw and Read More

Dead Again

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Derek Jacobi, Robin Williams

Synopsis: Set in contemporary Los Angeles as well as the Los Angeles of the 1940s, Dead Again explores a romance between two star-crossed lovers -- and the doomed passion they shared in their last lifetime. Los Angeles detective Mike Church (Kenneth Branagh) comes to the aid of mute, amnesia-victim Grace (Emma Thompson Read More

Aventure de Catherine C.

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Hanna Schygulla, Robin Renucci, André Wilms

Abraham's Gold

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Günther Maria Halmer, Robert Dietl, Maria Singer

Synopsis: 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, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-truck driver, go on a jaunt to Poland to Read More

Miss Arizona

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Dorottya Udvaros, Alessandra Martines, Urbano Barberini

Synopsis: Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband is murdered by right-wing extremists looking for a cache of diamonds. She and her young son escape with Sandor to Italy. By the 1930s, they return to Budapest to run the successful Arizona Club, a posh Read More

Forever, Lulu

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Deborah Harry, Alec Baldwin, Annie Golden, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young German woman named Elaine Hines (Hanna Schygulla) moves to New York City with dreams of becoming a writer. Elaine becomes entangled in a mystery and falls in with a group of gangsters who lead her through a series of crazy adventures. Released on video under the title Crazy Read More

Casanova

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Faye Dunaway, Frank Finlay

Synopsis: Decked out in powdered wig and pasty "dandy" makeup, Richard Chamberlain stars as legendary Venetian lover Giovanni Casanova (1725-1798) in this made-for-television biopic. The teleplay by George Macdonald Fraser (of "Flashman" fame) follows Casanova as his reputation for being catnip to women Read More

El Verano de la Senorita Forbes

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Francisco Gattorno, Alexis Castanares, Victor Cesar Villalobos, Guadalupe Sandoval

Synopsis: The Mexican/Spanish El Verano de La Senora Forbes (Summer of Miss Forbes) features Hanna Schygulla in the leading role. Schygulla plays a German governess, in charge of two Mexican boys while their parents are absent. The kids despise the governess, who is rigid and tyrannical. They go so far as Read More

The Delta Force

Actors: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the Read More

Barnum

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hanna Schygulla, John Roney, Sandor Raski, Patty Maloney

Synopsis: This made-for-television film chronicles the life of 19th-century American showman P. T. Barnum. Using flashbacks (and flash forwards) the earliest efforts of his career are shown, through the formation of the "Greatest Show on Earth" with his partner Bailey, with many interesting things in Read More

Il Futuro è Donna

Actors: Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least. After Anna (Hanna Schygulla) and Gordon (Niels Arestrup) invite Read More

La Storia di Piera

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla). The liberated Eugenia and her spaced-out, husband (Marcello Mastroianni Read More

Heller Wahn

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen, Franz Buchrieser

Synopsis: Hanna Schygulla and Angela Winkler are the stars of the German psychological drama Friends and Husbands. Having both been burned by unhappy relationships with men, Schygulla and Winkler become more and more reliant upon each other. The men in their lives can't come to grips with their strong Read More

Eine Liebe in Deutschland

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Marie-Christine Barrault, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis: Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Read More

La Nuit De Varennes

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

Passion

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Laszlo Szabo

Synopsis: Passion, a major film in Jean-Luc Godard's ongoing investigation of the relations between painting and cinema, uses innovative forms to explore political and economic questions. Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a director shooting a film whose scenes are all reproductions of paintings by Goya, Valasquez Read More

Antonieta

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Hanna Schygulla, Ignacio Tarso, Carlos Bracho, Gonzalo Vega

Synopsis: In this French-Mexican-Spanish film that hops back and forth between the narration's present and its past, viewers watch Antonieta (Isabelle Adjani) as she is involved in the turbulent Mexican political scene in the first decades of the 20th century -- as she goes to Paris and commits suicide in Read More

Circle of Deceit

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila Von Weitershausen, Jean Carmet

Synopsis: Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship with widow Hannah Schygulla affects Ganz Read More

Lili Marleen

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis: German cabaret star Lili Marleen inspired a song that was extremely popular with the German soldiers during WW II. This war drama offers a fictionalized account of her story that begins in 1938 while she performs in a Zurich cabaret. It is her boyfriend, a Swiss Jew who also turns out to be a Read More

Berlin Alexanderplatz

Actors: Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Gottfried John, Barbara Sukowa

Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's sweeping 16-hour-long drama Berlin Alexanderplatz is an adaptation of the novel by Alfred Doblin. Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) is released from prison as the film opens; he had been jailed for four years after killing his girlfriend Ida. Franz becomes involved with Read More

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gottfried John, Gisela Uhlen, Günter Lamprecht, Hark Bohm

Synopsis: The film that elevated German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from domestic approbation to international acclaim, The Marriage of Maria Braun stars the director's on-and-off favorite actress Hanna Schygulla in the title role. During the allied siege of Germany in the last year of the war Read More

Die Dritte Generation

Actors: Margit Carstensen, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler

Synopsis: German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder both directed and photographed The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation). Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides Read More

Ansichten Eines Clowns

Actors: Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Eva-Maria Meineke, Gustav Rudolf Sellner, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Read More

Falsche Bewegung

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans-Christian Blech, Peter Kern

Synopsis: The Wrong Move and The Wrong Movement were the English-language titles for German director Wim Wenders' Falsche Bewegung. Made for television, the film is an update of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Ruediger Vogeler plays aspiring writer Wilhelm Meister, who goes on a long odyssey in the woods in Read More

Effi Briest

Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least characteristic of the German director's films. The titular heroine, played by Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla, is a 17-year-old girl forced into a loveless Read More

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Actors: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: This tale of intermingled love and hate is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and is the 13th of the 33 films he made in his short life. It explores the universal dynamics present in close human relationships, even lesbian ones. Petra Von Kant (Margit Carstensen) is a fashion designer. Some Read More

Wildwechsel

Synopsis: Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the lad to kill her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown Read More

Haus Am Meer

Mathias Kneissl

Rio das Mortes

Actors: Günther Kaufmann, Michael König, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: Aimlessness and misplaced ambition take two friends in unexpected directions in this made-for-TV drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Michel (Michael Konig) and Gunther (Gunther Kauffmann) are two friends who feel trapped in Germany and are trying to decide what to do with their lives; Read More

The Merchant of Four Seasons

Actors: Hans Hirschmuller, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis: Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is about the deterioration of a man's soul. Fruit vendor Hans (Hans Hirschmüller) cannot please his family. His mother harps on his failures. His wife is openly discontent. He must peddle produce to his beloved ex-girlfriend, and he Read More

Jakob Von Gunten

Pioniere in Ingolstadt

Pioneers in Ingolstadt

Actors: Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are Read More

Whity

Actors: Günther Kaufmann, Ron Randell

Synopsis: In his 36-year life, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder made some 40 films. He is perhaps best known to American audiences for his 1978 period drama, The Marriage of Maria Braun. A theme he examined repeatedly in his films was the unreasonable meanness of people, which he shows in a stark Read More

Beware of a Holy Whore

Actors: Lou Castel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Synopsis: This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the critics to have succeeded both technically and as drama. In it, a German film crew sits in their Italian hotel, waiting for the arrival of their director (Lou Castel), their Read More

The Niklashausen Journey

Synopsis: Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder uses a 15th century legend as an allegory to the political situation in late-'60s Germany in The Niklashausen Journey. Combining medieval and contemporary imagery, the story follows Hans Boehm (Michael König), a shepherd who believes the Virgin Mary wants him to Read More

Das Kaffeehaus

Baal

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

Actors: Kurt Raab, Lilith Ungerer, Amadeus Fengler

Synopsis: A technical designer enjoys a comfortable life with his wife and child. He has the approval of his boss and is in good health except for smoking too much according to his doctor. His wife is visited by a girlfriend one Sunday afternoon. The man is bored watching television and grabs a chandelier Read More

Katzelmacher

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas

Synopsis: Jorgos (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) is a Greek immigrant in Germany who encounters the intolerance of the locals against foreign workers. Open hostility turns to violence when he is beaten up by the authoritarian thugs after dating a German woman. Male and female nudity along with hetero and Read More

Jagdszenen Aus Niederbayern

Actors: Martin Sperr, Angela Winkler, Else Quecke

Synopsis: A German bisexual male suffers the indignities of prejudice in a small town. After taking up with the town floozie -- who tries to trap him into marriage and claims he has impregnated her -- the people of the town turn from teasing to cruelty, and the young man decides to leave. When he gives a Read More

Love Is Colder Than Death

Actors: Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Ingrid Caven

Synopsis: An independent criminal's work is admired by organized crime. He is tortured after he refuses the invitation to join the gang but later relents and becomes a member. He continues to be a pimp and a murderer in this disturbing film that appeared at the Berlin Film Festival in 1969. This feature Read More

Gods of the Plague

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer

Synopsis: Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's Fassbinder, however, playing the small role of a buyer of pornography. The main story involves a pair of two-bit hoods who spend most of the film Read More

The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp