Marianne SägebrechtFilmography

Born:: August 27, 1945 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Marianne Sägebrecht played a pioneering role in establishing the Rubenesque woman as a leading lady. In physical build so unlike the stereotypical Hollywood starlet, Sägebrecht's luminescent beauty shone through the persona of the full-figured star, in movies such as Sugarbaby (1985) and Bagdad Cafe...Read More

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Spanish Fly

Actors: Daphna Kastner, Toni Canto, Martin Donovan, Danny Huston, Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: Daphna Kastner directed this romantic comedy-drama, set in Spain. Interviewing Madrid men, journalist Zoe (Kastner) intends to expand her magazine article into a book. Her own experiences with men, however, haven't exactly made her an expert, but possibilities arise when she meets straight-talking Read More

12/1/99
Astérix et Obélix contre César

Actors: Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Laetitia Casta, Arielle Dombasle

Synopsis: Asterix and Obelix, the French comic book heroes created by René Goscinny and Albert Underzo (their adventures have sold 280 million copies to date in Europe), are brought to the big screen in their first live-action adventure. Set in 50 B.C., Asterix (Christian Clavier) and Obelix (Gérard Depardieu Read More

2/3/99
The Ogre

Actors: John Malkovich, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Dieter Laser

Synopsis: Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a French POW responsible for kidnapping dozens of young boys for recruitment by the Nazi SS during WW II. The film opens with black-and-white shots of Abel's childhood in Paris. The year is 1925 and Read More

1/8/99
Left Luggage

Actors: Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Read More

1998
Soleil

Actors: Sophia Loren, Philippe Noiret, Roger Hanin, Nicolas Olczyk, Aurelien Wiik

Synopsis: A prominent French surgeon of Jewish heritage (Phillippe Noiret) suffers a massive heart attack in the film's prologue and as his life hangs in the balance, scenes from his life growing up in Algiers flash by. The resulting drama recalls his life and in so doing pays homage to the contributions of Read More

6/11/97
All Men Are Mortal

Synopsis: This European drama is adapted from Simone de Beauvioir's novel of the same name. It is set in post WW II France and tells the story of renowned theatrical actress, Regina, a temperamental diva who feels a great hole in her life until she goes on a provincial tour and meets an enigmatic stranger Read More

1995
Erotique

Actors: Bryan Cranston, Priscilla Barnes, Camilla Soeberg

Synopsis: This unique, erotic film is a compilation of four separate vignettes done by four different artists. The first episode, "Let's Talk about Love," focuses on a phone-sex worker, Rosie, who finds herself attracted to a regular caller. The story focuses upon their conversations and upon the revenge Read More

1994
Mona Must Die

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Sheila Kelley, Debbie Allen

Synopsis: A wife finds herself highly expendable as her husband and his lover continually bungle their attempts at murder in this black comedy. Mona, the wife, is a woman of substance who is forever trying to coerce her husband Eddie, a selfish, shallow creep, into making love to her. He refuses. She goes Read More

1994
Mr. Bluesman

1993
Dust Devil

Actors: Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Zakes Mokae, John Matshikiza, Rufus Swart

Synopsis: In this stylish supernatural horror story, Hitch (Robert Burke), a mysterious loner, wanders the deserts of the African nation of Nambia as he searches for the lost and suicidal. Hitch is wanted by the police in connection with the death a woman whose blood was used in a strange magic ceremony. A Read More

1993
La Vida Lactea

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Marianne Sägebrecht, William Hootkins, May Hatherley, Emma Suarez, Michel McKaine

Synopsis: Reviewers agreed that this cinematic disaster deserves an "A" for effort, at the very least, and also deserves its place on the shelves beside such astonishingly awful films as Plan 9 From Outer Space. In the story, the aged millionaire Barry Reilly (Mickey Rooney) lives on a huge estate in Read More

1993
Rosalie Goes Shopping

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, Willy Harlander, Erika Blumberger

Synopsis: Larger-than-life German actress Marianne Sagebrecht stars as Rosalie Greenspace, a German bride raising a wonderful family in Stuttgart, Arkansas who she delights in providing gift after gift of goodies that are procured by her newly acquired talent of buying via "ze vonderful credit card." The Read More

2/9/90
The War of the Roses

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin

Synopsis: Divorce lawyer Danny De Vito warns his prospective client that the story he's about to tell isn't a pretty one, but the client listens with eager intensity -- as do the folks out there in the movie in the audience. The War of the Roses can best be described as a slapstick tragedy concerning the Read More

12/8/89
Martha Et Moi

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marianne Sägebrecht, Ondrej Vetchý

Synopsis: Emil (Vaclav Chalupa as a teen, Ondrej Vetchy as an adult) has been naughty, and his family is at a loss about what to do with him. He's been dallying with the family maid. They decide to ship him off to spend time with his uncle Ernst Michel Piccoli), who married his family maid. The boy has a Read More

1989
Moon over Parador

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, Jonathan Winters, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Jack Noah (Richard Dreyfuss) is all actor: Self-possessed, obsessive, vulnerable, and an addict for praise, his soul burns with "the craft." Having just finished a grade-Z straight-to-cable crime thriller in the fictional South American country of Parador, he gets the ultimate acting challenge Read More

9/9/88
Bagdad Cafe

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun

Synopsis: This West German film is set in the California Desert. A husband-and-wife pair of Bavarian tourists become stranded when their car breaks down; after a quarrel, the wife, Marianne Sagebrecht, gathers her luggage and stalks off. She stops at the Bagdad Cafe, a fleapit truckstop run by outspoken Read More

4/22/88
Crazy Boys

Actors: Albert Heins, Udo Schenk

Synopsis: In this German comedy, the proprietors of a Hamburg drag queen bar hope to bring in more customers by changing into a male-strip joint for female patrons. The bar manager and her friends begin choosing their handsome dancers. Among the new employees are a judge, a lonely petshop clerk, a student Read More

1987
Irrsee

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: This 83-minute experimental film takes on the possibly damaging aspects of a society that appears to be normal on the surface but can trample its more innocent, naive members without blinking. Novice director Friederike Pezold straps a camera onto her back and walks around the city to record Read More

1985
Sugarbaby

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp

Synopsis: With a storyline that is stretched thin over its 87-minute running time, Zuckerbaby is about an overweight woman (Marianne Sagebrecht) who works in a mortuary, develops a crush on a married subway engineer (Eisi Gulp), and then does something about it. At first, the love-struck woman is content Read More

1985