Lothar LambertFilmography

In Hassliebe Lola

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Gut Drauf, Schlect Dran

Crew: Director, Editor, Musical Direction/Supervision, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dagmar Beiersdorf, Dorothea Moritz, Stephanie Hofmeister, Klaus Redlich, Renate Soleymany

Synopsis: This German sex-farce from acclaimed filmmaker Lothar Lambert, comments upon post-wall Berlin with a series of amusing vignettes. In one scene two staid housewives offer sharp commentary upon the state of famed Kurfurstendamm square. In another, "Tomb Song" a mother and son visit the cemetery Read More

A Fairy For Dessert

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lothar Lambert

Synopsis: Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true. In fact, she has been following events from afar for some Read More

Was Sie Nie Uber Frauen Wissen Wollten

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Doreen Heins, Renate Soleymany, Baduri

Du Elvis, Ich Monroe

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Baduri, Erika Rabau

Synopsis: In this film, the latest of a long string of unusual features by independent producer Lothar Lambert, Tarek (Baduri, a fairly uptight young Arab man, moves into an apartment building in Berlin where everybody in it keeps track of everyone else's business. It's a good thing they're so broad-minded Read More

Verbieten Verboten

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Dagmar Beiersdorf, Dorothea Moritz, Stefan Menche

Synopsis: This black-and-white film was created by the low-budget wonder Lothar Lambert, who manages to produce, write, direct, (and often shoot) his films with the least assistance possible. Here, eight short pieces tell stories exposing people's frailties and foolishness. In one scene, two middle-class Read More

Der Sexte Sinn

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Heinz, Ingolf Gorges, Ulrike Schirm, Ela Behrends, Barbara Morawiecz

Synopsis: This offering from the Berlin Underground by Lothar Lambert and Dagmar Beiersdorf offers a glimpse of their usual originality. The story centers on a young lad who has been browbeaten by his mother for so long that when he finally gets his freedom, he is not very confidant about his sexual Read More

Die Liebeswuste

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulrike S., Dieter Schidor, Dorothea Moritz, Jessica Lanée, Doreen Heins

Synopsis: This is an original underground hodge-podge that mixes the philosophy of Berliner Lothar Lambert's filmmaking with excerpts from his previous film, hacked to ruinous pieces in a processing lab. Ulrike S. stars as a refugee from an asylum who bares it all when accosted by a nosy bourgeois in the Read More

Die Wolfsbraut

Crew: Editor

Actors: Imke Barnstedt, Lothar Lambert, Albert Heins

Synopsis: Sexual preferences simmer and bubble to the fore in this low-budgeter about a TV producer and director who is troubled enough about going over the hill to quit her job for awhile. After she meets an intriguing woman working in a local theater, she feels an unexpected attraction to her. Before Read More

Drama In Blond

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lothar Lambert, Dagmar Beiersdorf, Hans Marquardt, Stefan Menche, Ulrike S.

Synopsis: In another Berlin underground farce from Lothar Lambert, the popular 1970's and '80s director/writer/actor focuses his sights on Gerhard, a buttoned-down bank clerk (played by Lambert) desperately in need of liberation. The poor man is hounded by his sister and a lustful neighbor and seems trapped Read More

Fräulein Berlin

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound/Sound Designer

Actors: Ulrike S., Helke Sander, Norman Jewison, Dorothea Moritz

Synopsis: In this latest of a long string of underground films, Lothar Lambert has chosen to parody himself and the underground film industry, flying Ulrike S. to New York and Toronto for sequences in which she talks to the well-established movie director Norman Jewison (Moonstruck, Agnes of God) about Read More

Paso Doble

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulrike S., Albert Heins, Susanne Stahl

Synopsis: Underground director Lothar Lambert steps up to a slightly more mainstream comedy line in this uneven story about a wacky, middle-class family who go to their Mediterranean coastal home for a yearly summer vacation. The mother (Ulrike S.) is fascinated by an Iranian masseur, and the father becomes Read More

Die Hure und Der Hurensohn

Crew: Cinematographer, Editor

Actors: Dagmar Beiersdorf, Lothar Lambert, Susanne Stahl, Bernd Lubowski

Synopsis: In an unserious look at life on the fringe, this Berlin Underground film by director and writer Dagmar Beiersdorf portrays the flip side of Berlin society: hookers, a transvestite, a down-and-out political exile, and disenfranchised ethnic workers. As dialogue basically happens according to the Read More

Verdammte Stadt

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Sound Recordist

Actors: Ulrike S., Stefan Menche, Lothar Lambert, Dagmar Beiersdorf

Synopsis: The Berlin film underground rises again in this movie written, directed, financed, edited, and shot by Lothar Lambert. One of the main stories is that of a couple looking for sexual adventure through ads in porn magazines and anyone they can pick up - and then the husband decides to become a Read More

Die Alptraumfrau

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulrike S., Dagmar Beiersdorf, Lotti Huber

Synopsis: Lothar Lambert wrote, directed, produced, photographed, and edited this avant-garde film in the primitive "naive" genre, which stars, along with other local Belin talent, Beate Meitner as Ulrike "S." Bern Lubowski is Ulrike's ex-husband, a man who abuses her until she finally leaves him, and Read More

Tiergarten

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dagmar Beiersdorf

Synopsis: Both the technique and the topic of this ribald, touching, unorthodox drama by Lothar Lambert are evocative in their own way. The irrepressible Lambert got on the phone with his individual actors (working "for the fun of it") and met them in the Tiergarten sector of Berlin, in the park. The Read More

Now or Never

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Heidemann, Tally Brown, Dagmar Beiersdorf

Synopsis: Experimental documentary filmmaker Lothar Lambert here chronicles his own search for a gay identity, as he travels one summer among the lads in Central Park, in Harlem and in Brooklyn. He also has some encounters with "underground film stars" (one being Tally Brown) and assorted other folk, in Read More

Nachtvorstellungen

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Dagmar Beiersdorf, Beate Hasenau, Sylvia Heidemann

Synopsis: In an attempt to free himself from the pervasive feminine dominance exerted by his mother and his girlfriend, the hero of this improvisational German movie often leaves home late in the evening to take in the late show at a local cinema. One night, he sees a film there whose star is himself Read More

Puppe Kaputt

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lothar Lambert, Sylvia Heidemann

Synopsis: In this independently produced film, a woman who is having troubles with her egomaniacal boyfriend slowly works up the courage to leave him, Only when she meets a philosophical black African man is she able to make the break and become the person she has longed to be. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

Ex und Hopp

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lothar Lambert, Tilman Hemp, Helga Schnurre

Synopsis: Authenticity gives some value to this otherwise depressing film about a pair of addicts, "Ex" and "Hopp," who have taken their names from an instruction formerly printed on German beer bottles ("ex und hopp" means "empty, and throw away"). Filmed in the Charlottenburg area of West Berlin, which is Read More

Faux Pas de Deux

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Sylvia Heidemann, Beate Hasenau

Synopsis: Having seen better days quite long ago, the aged actress (Sylvia Heidemann) in this film scandalizes nearly everyone when she gleefully takes a very young man, a gardener, as her lover. Despite that, she whoops it up in style. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Sein Kampf

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lothar Lambert, Tilman Hemp, Dietmar Kracht

Synopsis: In what is clearly a satire based on Hitler's book Mein Kampf, Sein Kampf tells the story of a none-too brilliant mother's boy who gets involved in (leftist) politics and becomes a firebrand revolutionary. Though the young man in this story, set in modern-day Berlin, is impotent, he gets a sexual Read More