Maria SchraderFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter
Biography:: German actress, screenwriter and director Maria Schrader is closely associated with the work of filmmaker Dani Levy. She made her directing debut collaborating with Levy on Meschugge/Don't (1998). ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Die Vorstadtkrokodile

Actors: Nick Romeo Reimann, Fabian Halbig, Leonie Tepe, Manuel Steitz, Javidan Imani

3/26/09
Love Life

Crew: Director

Actors: Netta Garti, Rade Sherbedgia, Tovah Feldshuh, Stephen Singer

2007
A Life In Suitcases

Actors: JJ Feild, Roger Rees, Raymond J. Barry, Stephen Billington, Valentina Cervi

2005
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
Snowland

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Julia Jentsch, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Mühe, Oliver Stokowski

Synopsis: Following in the footsteps of The Weight of Water and other recent films, Hans W. Geissendorfer's arthouse drama Snowland (AKA Schneeland, 2004) juxtaposes stories set in two different time frames. In contemporary Sweden, Elisabeth (Maria Schrader), a young wife and mother, learns that her husband 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
Emil und die Detektive

Actors: Tobias Retzlaff, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader, Kai Wiesinger

Synopsis: A criminal discovers that stealing from a child isn't as simple -- or as easy to get away with -- as he thought in this comedy-drama for the family. Emil (Tobias Retzlaff) is a 12-year-old boy who lives in Germany with his father after his parents were divorced. Emil's father, a salesman, gets in Read More

2001
Advertising Rules

Actors: Alexander Scheer, Götz George, Chulpan Khamatova, Vadim Glowna, Maria Schrader

Synopsis: A would-be ad man starts talking his way to the top, only to discover he has a shortage of usable ideas in this satiric German comedy. Viktor Vogel (Alexander Scheer) is a college student who decides he's tired of studying advertising and wants to go out and start making a living, even though he Read More

2001
Aimée & Jaguar

Actors: Maria Schrader, Juliane Köhler, Heike Makatsch, Johanna Wokalek, Elisabeth Degen

Synopsis: The opening film of the 49th International Berlin Film Festival in 1999, Aimée & Jaguar drew attention not only for the lesbian love story that it narrates, but equally for the political position of the lovers -- Aimée, the wife of a Nazi officer, and Jaguar, a Jewish journalist. The story is Read More

8/11/00
Die Hochzeithskuh

Actors: Isabella Parkinson, Dani Levy, Maria Schrader

2000
Bin ich Schön?

Actors: Senta Berger, Gottfried John, Otto Sander, Franka Potente, Anica Dobra

Synopsis: One of Germany's most important female directors, Doris Dörrie chose the subject of the universal quest for happiness for the film Bin ich Schön?. Set in Spain and Germany, the film interlaces individual stories of broken hearts and broken dreams with aspirations of new beginnings. On a hot Read More

1998
The Giraffe

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Schrader, Dani Levy, David Strathairn, Nicole Heesters, Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis: Dani Levy directed and co-stars in this German-Austrian political thriller. Lena Katz (Maria Schrader), living in New York, is the granddaughter of Jewish chocolate-factory owner Eliah Goldberg (Lukas Ammann), whose factory in Germany has been recently set on fire by some anti-Semitic thugs. In Read More

1998
Der Unfisch

Synopsis: In this charming fairy tale, a magical whale wreaks havoc in a small Austrian village. It all begins with a traveling showman and his giant stuffed whale. Roberto and his cetaceous companion have been touring the country for years. Just before he arrives at the aforementioned mountain village, he Read More

1997
Stille Nacht

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A Berlin woman endeavors to choose between two lovers on a snowy Christmas Eve in this German drama. Art student Julia has been living with Christian, a policeman, for several years, but has recently embarked on an affair with Frank, a bartender. She is first seen waiting for Frank so she can tell Read More

1996
Burning Life

Synopsis: Thelma & Louise go to Germany in this actioner. The story centers on two wandering women, Anna and Lisa, who encounter each other in a tiny town in eastern Germany when Lisa drops the toy gun she was using to rob a bank with, and Anna retrieves it for her. They soon team up to become Germany's Read More

1995
Flirt

Actors: Bill Sage, Martin Donovan, Parker Posey, Dwight Ewell, Dominik Bender, Geno Lechner, Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: A lover, an ultimatum, a phone call, and a gun: these elements are found in each segment of Hal Hartley's Flirt, an experimental comedy-drama that essentially repeats the same story three times. But while the basic narrative remains the same -- a congenital flirt must decide whether or not to Read More

1995
Neues Deutschland

Actors: Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, Wim Wenders, Joachim Krol, Georg Tryphon

Synopsis: An exploration of the revival of Nazi sentiment in Germany is the theme of the five short films gathered together in this anthology. In the first film, titled "Ohne Mich" (Without Me), the lead character, an aspiring documentary filmmaker named Dani Levy, tries to get some attention for his film Read More

1994
Keiner Liebt Mich

Synopsis: The characters in this German romantic comedy that follows a 30-year old single woman searching for love, have a distinctly Felliniesque quality to them. Fanny Fink desperately wants a man. Her closest male friend is Orfeo, a gay con-man who claims to be a self-taught African witch doctor. For a Read More

1994
Halbe Welt

Actors: Rainer Egger, Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, Mercedes Echerer, Goran Rebic

Synopsis: In a future world not long from now, the sun's rays have become injurious to the health of everyone living on the planet, and mankind has taken to living during the dark hours of the night. Not everyone is content with this, and virtual reality films help those who miss the sun over their Read More

1993
Je M'appelle Victor

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Micheline Presle, Dominique Pinon, Julien Guiomar

Synopsis: No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile (Claudio Bucella) is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his Read More

1993
I Was on Mars

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Schrader, Dani Levy, Antonia Rey, Penny Arcade

Synopsis: Consumed by visions of prosperity and clean, attractive cities, Silva travels to New York City from Poland with all the cash she can scrape together in her purse, speaking not one word of English. Once there, she swiftly falls prey to an aggressive con artist, and sees nothing but the dingy Read More

1992
Robby Kalle Paul

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, Nina Schultz

Synopsis: Robby (Dani Levy) has a girlfriend, Henny (Anja Franke). Returning from a business trip to Japan, he finds that his roommate Kalle (Frank Beilicke) has seduced her in his absence, and that she has moved into their shared apartment. Robby's emotional disarray is too much for the new couple, and Read More

1988