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Actors: Heinrich Böll
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Günther Kaufmann, Manfred Zapatka, Heinz Bennent
Synopsis: This two-hour documentary and fiction film was a cooperative writing effort by five different German writers and/or directors, one of the most noted being the 1972 Nobel prize winner Heinrich Böll. Böll was specifically responsible for three fictive episodes at the end of the film that promote an Read More
Crew: Book Author
Synopsis: This made-for-TV film is an Americanized remake of the 1975 German film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (based on the novel by Heinrich Böll). Shorn of most of her movie-star glamour, Marlo Thomas plays Kathryn Beck, whose one-night stand with handsome Ben Cole (Kris Kristofferson) all but ruins Read More
Actors: Caroline Chaniolleau, Lisi Mangold
Synopsis: This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Read More
Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Galabru, Brad Dourif, Fritz Lichtenhahn
Synopsis: The West German/French Group Portrait with Lady (Gluppenbild mit Dame) is based on a bestselling novel by Heinrich Böll. The film is a string of anecdotes, some longer than others, related to the topic of German war guilt. The main plotline involves German woman Romy Schneider's affair with Read More
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
Actors: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger
Synopsis: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum marks the directorial debut for actress Margarethe von Trotta, who co-directed the film with her then-husband Volker Schlöndorff. At a costume party, Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) meets Ludwig Goetten (Jürgen Prochnow ) and spends the night with him. The next Read More
Synopsis: Husband-and-wife filmmakers Straub and Huillet are best known for their avant-garde films, but they did make a few dramas, though the complexity of this one may turn off some viewers. It is the chronicle of the difficult lives of three generations of relatives from a German family who hold a Read More
Actors: Christian Doermer, Vera Tschechowa, Karen Blanguernon
Synopsis: This off-beat yet unexceptional drama by West German director Herbert Vesely takes a few stabs at the assumptions that a financially comfortable life must be the best type of existence. Walter (Christian Doermer) has everything he could desire, including a fiancée, yet he is not content. In an Read More
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