Lena StolzeFilmography

Born:: Germany
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Lead actress, onscreen from the '80s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Vision

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Alexander Held, Lena Stolze

Synopsis: Margarethe von Trotta, one of the most celebrated female directors in the German cinema, pays homage to another remarkable woman in this screen biography of 12th Century renaissance woman Hildegard von Bingen. Hildegard (Barbara Sukowa) came to live at the Disibodenberg Abbey when she was a Read More

2009
Relative Strangers

Actors: Brenda Fricker, Lena Stolze, Adrian Dunbar, Harriet Owen, Robin Laing

Synopsis: Betrayal proves more tragic than death in this tale of a newly widowed wife and mother who discovers that her late husband had been secretly married to another woman. Maureen Lessing (Academy Award-winner Brenda Fricker) always thought she knew her husband better than anyone else, but when he died Read More

2008
And Along Come Tourists

Actors: Alexander Fehling, Ryszard Ronczewski, Barbara Wysocka, Piotr Rogucki, Rainer Sellien

Synopsis: A young man sent to fulfill his civilian service in Auschwitz discovers the inexorable link between the past and the present in director Robert Thalheim's though provoking drama. As part of his duties, Sven (Alexander Fehling) has been assigned the task of looking after elderly Holocaust survivor Read More

2007
Rosenstrasse

Actors: Katja Riemann, Maria Schrader, Martin Feifel, Jürgen Vogel

Synopsis: German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta directs the war drama Rosenstrasse, based on the plight of "mixed marriages" between Jewish men and non-Jewish women during the Holocaust. In contemporary New York, Jewish matriarch Ruth (Jutta Lampe) practices Orthodox mourning traditions for her late Read More

7/30/04
Die Verhoevens

2004
Northern Star

Actors: Julia Hummer, Nic Romm, Lena Stolze, Peter Kurth, Denis Moschitto

Synopsis: An angry young woman hits the road in search of adventure in this comedy drama from Germany. 18-year-old Anke (Julia Hummer) is a student in a small town in Northern Germany where she feels suffocated at school and is at constant odds with her mother (Lena Stolze). Anke believes that her mother's Read More

2004
Vaeter

Actors: Sebastian Blomberg, Maria Schrader, Ezra Valentin Lenz, Christiane Paul, Ulrich Noethen

Synopsis: A hectic young father's family life takes a turn for the worse in Swiss director Dani Levy's 2002 comedy/drama I'm the Father. Architect Marco Krieger (Sebastian Blomberg) has been working hard on a new project that will be the crowning achievement to his short career and will also make his name Read More

2002
Mein Herz-Niemandem!

Synopsis: This romantic German drama pays tribute to the enduring love affair between the poets Gottfried Benn and Else Lasker-Schueler. The two reached the pinnacle of their careers in the 1920s and were considered important figures in the expressionist movement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1997
The Writing on the Wall

Actors: Bill Paterson, Celia Imrie, Dennis Haysbert, Lena Stolze, Daniel Von Bargen

Synopsis: Previously adapted for German television as Operation Schmetterling, the four-part British miniseries The Writing on the Wall starred Bill Paterson in the central role of Bull. A government agent working on behalf of NATO, Bull found himself up to his neck in conspiracies and double-crosses as he Read More

1996
Brother of Sleep

Actors: André Eisermann, Joseph Vilsmaier, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Angelika Bartsch, Michael Mendl

Synopsis: In this frankly bizarre fantasy story based on a novel by Austrian writer Robert Schneider, Elias Johannes Alder (Andre Eisermann) is born into a filthy, poverty-stricken village in the alps; his mother doesn't much care for him, and he later discovers he's the bastard son of the town's clergyman. Read More

1995
The Nasty Girl

Actors: Lena Stolze, Monika Baumgartner, Michael Gahr, Fred Stillkrauth, Elisabeth Bertram, Robert Giggenbach

Synopsis: Lena Stolze stars as Sonja, a young Bavarian woman whose submission to an essay contest explores her hometown's affiliation with the Third Reich; as she learns more and more of the truth, she is increasingly victimized by her fellow townspeople, who do not want the scars from their past ripped Read More

10/26/90
Maschenka

Actors: Cary Elwes, Irina Brook, Sunnyi Melles, Jonathan Coy, Freddie Jones

Synopsis: The romantic drama Maschenka is a loose adaptation of a novel by Vladimir Nabokov done in a style reminiscent of a Merchant-Ivory production. Ganin (Cary Elwes) is a Russian refugee fleeing the 1917 Revolution who, at his Berlin boardinghouse, recalls his love for the beautiful Maschenka (Irina Brook Read More

1986
Morgen In Alabama

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Lena Stolze, Robert Aldini, Wolfgang Kieling, Kathrin Ackermann

Synopsis: Man under Suspicion begins at a German political assembly reduced to chaos by neo-fascist activists. Someone has to defend the principal instigator in court, and that responsibility falls on the shoulders of Maximillian Schell. Probing into his client's background, Schell uncovers some Read More

1984
Die Schaukel

Actors: Joachim Bernhard, Lena Stolze, Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis: In this period film about the life of an aristocratic family in Munich just before World War I and the end of the aristocracy as such, there are a series of garden parties for the royalty and nobility, Christmas celebrations, an appearance by Eleanora Duse at the local theater, music recitals, and Read More

1983
Fünf letzte Tage

Actors: Irm Hermann, Lena Stolze, Will Spindler, Hans Hirschmuller

Synopsis: Sophie Scholl (Lena Stolze) and her brother were executed by the Nazis in World War II because they were members of a student anti-Nazi organization called the "White Rose." (Lena Stolze reprises her role as Scholl in the 1982 release of Die Weisse Rose.) Writer and director Percy Adlon focuses on Scholl Read More

1982
Die Weisse Rose

Actors: Lena Stolze, Martin Benrath, Wulf Kessler, Oliver Siebert, Ulrich Tukur

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film follows a group of German students in Munich who formed a group called "The White Rose," aimed at informing the German people of the atrocities that were being committed in the Nazi concentration camps. However, when the Gestapo discover what the students have been Read More

1982