Peter Przygodda Filmography

The Palermo Shooting

Crew: Editor

Actors: Campino, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Dennis Hopper, Milla Jovovich, Inga Busch

Synopsis: Die Toten Hosen front-man Campino headlines iconic German filmmaker Wim Wenders' drama about a world-renowned photographer who finds a new life and a new love while being targeted by a tenacious trigger-man. Finn (Campino) is a successful shutterbug who leads a hectic life, gets precious little Read More

Strike

Crew: Editor

Actors: Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra, Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Solarz, Ewa Telega

Synopsis: An ordinary working woman helps to spark a revolution in this historical drama inspired by a true story. Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach) has been working as a welder in the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, since 1950, struggling to support her son since divorcing her husband. Working Read More

Musica Cubana

Crew: Editor

Actors: Pio Leiva, Barbaro Marin, Mayito Rivera, Telmary Diaz, Osdalgia Lesmes

Synopsis: The stories of traditional and modern Cuban music merge in this documentary detailing Buena Vista Social Club star Pio Leiva and Havana taxi driver Bárbaro's efforts to assemble a band featuring some of the most talented young musicians in the Caribbean island country. As the band comes together Read More

Don't Come Knocking

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sam Shepard, Jessica Lange, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley

Synopsis: Director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard, who collaborated on the award-winning film Paris, Texas, once again join forces for this dark drama of a man trying to turn over a new leaf late in life. Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) is a veteran actor who has been a popular Western star since the Read More

3 Days of Rain

Crew: Editor

Actors: Don Meredith, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales, loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov, and set in present-day Cleveland. Thunder (Michael Santoro) is a struggling tile-maker, an artisan whose leaky roof threatens to Read More

Dot.Kill

Crew: Editor

Actors: Armand Assante

Synopsis: A vicious serial killer is broadcasting his brutal slayings live on the Internet for all to see, and the only hope to put an end to his voyeuristic killing spree is a morphine-addicted detective in this thriller from Ghost Story director John Irvin. The technologically savvy madman has struck once Read More

Snowland

Crew: Editor

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

Tattoo

Crew: Editor

Actors: August Diehl, Christian Redl, Nadeshda Brennicke, Ilknur Bahadir, Jasmin Schwiers

Synopsis: A dark and gruesome thriller reminiscent of David Fincher's Seven, this freshman effort from German director Robert Schwentke finds an unmotivated young detective roped into helping a seasoned veteran solve a case in which people are literally skinned for their tattoos and brutally murdered. Read More

Eyesong

Crew: Editor

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Crew: Editor

Actors: Amit Arroz, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Mark Long, Alexandra Staden, Dominic West

Synopsis: Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. Read More

The Legend of Rita

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Noted German director Volker Schlondorff helms this riveting exploration of 1970s West German political terrorism. The film opens with Rita (Bibiana Beglau) reminiscing to her unseen friend Tatjana of her life as a radical. Cut to a flashback of her along with her like-minded colleagues robbing a Read More

Manila

Crew: Editor

Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Michael Degen, Chin Chin Gutierrez, Peter Ruehring

Synopsis: After a rat is discovered on board their airplane, a group of travelers is stranded at the Manila airport. They include the mild-mannered Knut (Peter Ruehring) and his icy wife Regine (Margit Carstensen), who are both history teachers from eastern Germany. Knut befriends the jovial Walther Read More

The Ogre

Crew: Consultant/advisor

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

Palmetto

Crew: Editor

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport

Synopsis: When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the apple. His original plan, to leave Palmetto, is Read More

Die Gebrüder Skladanowsky

Crew: Editor

Actors: Udo Kier, Nadine Büttner, Christophe Merg

Synopsis: This highly idiosyncratic film, seen mostly at film festivals, is intended to be shown in segments broken up by musical interludes. It is a centennial tribute and depiction of the efforts of the brothers Skladanowsky to create and show the first motion pictures, hence, much of it was filmed using Read More

The End of Violence

Crew: Editor

Actors: Frederic Forrest, Udo Kier, Traci Lind, Samuel Fuller, Bill Pullman, Andie MacDowell, Gabriel Byrne

Synopsis: Wim Wenders directed this allegorical drama about the emotional impact of violence in our culture, set against the backdrop of California's entertainment business. Mike Max (Bill Pullman) is a Hollywood producer who has earned a great deal of money and power in the film industry through his Read More

Snakes & Ladders

Crew: Editor

Actors: Pom Boyd, Gina Moxley

Synopsis: The friendship between a pair of buskers is fractured when one of them gets engaged. Prior to that Jean and Kate, who made their living performing comedy routines on the street, were thick as thieves until Jean surprised Kate by telling her that she has accepted the proposal of her musician lover Read More

Beyond the Clouds

Crew: Editor

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

The Deathmaker

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Writer-director Romuald Karmaker made a stunning impact with this riveting and gruesome historical drama based on the case of a 1920s German serial killer. Fritz Haarmann (Gotz George) has finally been caught after years of preying on boys and young men. His methods included sodomizing his Read More

Transatlantis

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this German drama a middle-aged physicist experiences a vision at a class reunion and with the help of a young female student, sets out across the Himalayas to find the lost island of Atlantis. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lisbon Story

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This beautifully photographed German drama is set in Lisbon, a major center for contemporary European culture, and offers insight into the nature of cinema. Sound recordist Phillip Winter is driving to Lisbon to meet his old friend Friedrich Monroe who recently sent him a postcard asking Winter to Read More

Faraway, So Close!

Crew: Editor

Actors: Horst Buchholz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski, Heinz Rühmann, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Lou Reed, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: Wim Wenders revisits his masterpiece Der Himmel Uber Berlin in this film which picks up several years after the original left off. Cassiel (Otto Sander) is an angel who watches over the lives of the people of recently reunified Berlin with Raphaella (Nastassja Kinski). Damiel (Bruno Ganz) Read More

Die Abwesenheit

Crew: Editor

Actors: Alex Descas, Bruno Ganz

Synopsis: In this aimless and meandering film, five separate individuals drop out of their lives in order to drift around Europe with no clear end in mind. Despite the diversity of the individuals beginning these journeys, the film apparently offers no appealing characters, incidents, or insights, as it was Read More

Until the End of the World

Crew: Editor

Actors: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Sam Neill, Max von Sydow, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' sprawling cyberpunk noir epic -- shot in no less than nine different countries -- is set in 1999 and stars Solveig Dommartin as Claire, a young Frenchwoman who comes into contact with a large sum of money stolen during a bank heist; in her travels she picks up a mysterious American Read More

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Crew: Editor

Actors: Stephen Lang, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Hubert Selby's controversial 1964 cult novel Last Exit To Brooklyn is adapted to the big screen by director Ulrich Edel in this drama. The story is set in the early 1950s in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blighted waterfront town of boarded-up storefronts and striking factory workers. Harry Black (Stephen Lang Read More

Wings of Desire

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Otto Sander, Curt Bois

Synopsis: Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their Read More

Linie 1

Crew: Editor

Actors: Ilona Schulz, Dieter Landuris, Thomas Ahrens, Petra Zieser

Synopsis: This musical is combined with a belated (by over four decades) condemnation of Nazi sympathizers. The travelers of a main Berlin subway line are profiled as they go through the daily struggles of life in a hopeless world. A young woman searches in vain for the rock star who promised he would Read More

Witness in the War Zone

Crew: Editor

Actors: Christopher Walken, Hywel Bennett, Marita Marschall, Arnon Zadok

Synopsis: Tumultuous Beirut provides the setting for this political drama that centers on a world-weary, lazy American reporter who has been reluctantly assigned to cover the latest war between the PLO and the Christian Phalangists. He could care less about the conflict and sends in stories stolen from Read More

Alle Geister Kreisen

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Gila Von Weitershausen, Chris Roth

Synopsis: Meant as a commentary on what can go wrong (and right) in filming documentaries in a foreign locale, director Peter Przygodda has almost demonstrated some of his criticisms in the configuration of his own film. When a female director -- a rare entity statistically speaking -- takes her crew to the Read More

King Kongs Faust

Actors: Leonard Lansink, Wolfgang Langsfeld

Synopsis: In an amusing spoof on the world of film aficionados and scholars, novice director Heiner Stadler has come up with a clever story of film intrigue and deception, all in the name of saving face. The chain of events begins with an ambitious film critic sitting in on a screening of a 1920s movie Read More

Flight to Berlin

Crew: Editor

Actors: Tusse Silberg, Paul Freeman, Lisa Kreuzer, Jean-François Stévenin, Ewan Stewart

Synopsis: In this enigmatic thriller, Susannah (Tusse Silberg) is suddenly herded out of an apartment in the middle of the night and brought to a police station for extensive questioning about why she was in a place that belonged to a known criminal. What the police do not know is that Susannah has been Read More

Schwarzfahrer

Crew: Editor

Actors: Rolf Zacher, Iris Berben

Synopsis: When Chris (Rolf Zacher) is behind on his rent and all the other monthly bills as well, his solution is to steal a car and go out for a "joy-ride." Along the way he picks up two new cohorts who are equally bent on trashing the world, and the trio runs into a stroke of luck when they spot an East Read More

Paris, Texas

Crew: Editor

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson

Synopsis: Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he stumbles into a bar and collapses. A German doctor of dubious credentials finds a phone number in Travis' wallet, which belongs to his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Walt is Read More

Trauma

Crew: Editor

Actors: Birgit Doll, Lou Castel, Hanne Wieder, Janna Marangosoff

Synopsis: In this slightly garbled mystery story, Anna (Birgit Doll) works in a Munich detective agency as an assistant to Sam Schwarz (Armin Müller-Stahl) -- an inept private investigator and aspiring author -- and one day she decides to unravel a missing persons case herself. She travels to the Brittany Read More

Der Stand der Dinge

Crew: Editor

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Isabelle Weingarten, Viva

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge) was financed by one of the director's chief mentors, Francis Ford Coppola. This highly autobiographical work concerns a shoestring movie producer and his ragtag crew. Stranded in the outer reaches of Portugal, the director doesn't even have Read More

Born For Diesel

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Ulf Miehe, Wolfgang Langsfeld

Synopsis: This on-the-road documentary records the daily existence of long-haul truck drivers in Brazil, supplying ample vistas of the countryside and ribbons of road unspooling just ahead. Conversations reveal that the drivers -- like their colleagues elsewhere -- complain about their demanding work Read More

Der Mann Auf Der Mauer

Crew: Editor

Actors: Towje Kleiner, Julie Carmen, Karin Baal

Synopsis: Kabe (Marius Mueller-Westernhagen) lives with his wife Andrea (Patricia von Miseroni) in East Germany in an apartment that backs right up to the Berlin Wall. The Wall is only one of many confining aspects of life that drive Kabe nuts -- when he sees these barriers, he just has to cross them. Read More

Lightning Over Water

Crew: Editor

Actors: Nicholas Ray, Wim Wenders

Synopsis: Lightning Over Water is a penetrating documentary of the last days of cult film director Nicholas Ray. The film was lovingly assembled by Wim Wenders, whose idolatry of Ray is obvious in virtually every frame of his own work. Dying slowly of cancer, Ray reflects on a lifetime of accomplishments Read More

Endstation Freiheit

Crew: Editor

Actors: Burkhardt Driest, Rolf Zacher, Katja Rupé, Kurt Raab

Synopsis: The script for this true-life crime film by New German Cinema director Reinhard Hauff was written by the criminal, Burkhard Driest and is based on his autobiography of the same title. Driest also stars in the film as Nick Dellmann, a man who leaves prison after serving eight years and launches Read More

Der Rote Strumpf

Crew: Editor

Actors: Inge Meysel, Peter Bauer, Inge Wolffberg

Synopsis: A friendship between a young nine-year-old girl and an elderly woman interned at a psychiatric hospital forms the pivot around which this entertaining children's film revolves. Strictly for the younger set, the story starts out with little Marie (Julie Tumler) meeting up with Frau Maria (Inge Meysel Read More

Messer im Kopf

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans-Christian Blech, Heinz Honig, Hans Brenner

Synopsis: Despite the film's English title Knife in the Head, Hoffman (Bruno Ganz), a scientist, is shot in the head by the police while he is trying to pick up his wife from a political rally. Upon awakening, Hoffman finds that he has lost all memory of who he is and why the police were after him. At Read More

Die Glaeserne Zelle

Crew: Editor

Actors: Helmut Griem, Brigitte Fossey, Dieter Laser, Walter Kohut

Synopsis: When a school crashes down around the children inside for no apparent reason, architect Phillip Braun (Helmut Griem) is quickly apprehended and tried for having condoned inferior design and construction of the building. He is sentenced to prison. After he has already served his sentence, his Read More

Die Linkshändige Frau

Crew: Editor

Actors: Edith Clever, Markus Muhleisen, Bruno Ganz, Michel Lonsdale, Angela Winkler, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to Read More

The American Friend

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the Read More

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Crew: Editor

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

Kings of the Road

Crew: Editor

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Rudolf Schundler

Synopsis: Those even remotely familiar with the work of German director Wim Wenders should not be surprised that he has a title like Kings of the Road in his resumé. Rüdiger Vogler plays Bruno, an itinerant movie-projector repairman, who tools about the dusty roads along the East-West border of Germany in Read More

Alice in den Städten

Crew: Editor

Actors: Sybille Baier, Mirko, Sam Presti

Synopsis: Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten) was the first of German director Wim Wenders' films to be lensed in part in the United States. Phillip (Rüdiger Vogler) is a roving German reporter who, after a chance encounter with an elusive American woman, reluctantly accepts temporary custody of Read More

Falsche Bewegung

Crew: Editor

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Hanna Schygulla, Hans-Christian Blech, Peter Kern

Synopsis: The Wrong Move and The Wrong Movement were the English-language titles for German director Wim Wenders' Falsche Bewegung. Made for television, the film is an update of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister. Ruediger Vogeler plays aspiring writer Wilhelm Meister, who goes on a long odyssey in the woods in Read More

Requiem für einen Jungraulichen Koenig

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This film is a difficult combination of symbolic tableaux and more ordinary documentary considerations about the life of Ludwig II of Bavaria, known as the "Mad King" of Bavaria. For those unfamiliar with his story, Ludwig II, the last king of Bavaria, sold the kingdom to Germany for a huge sum of Read More

Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe

Crew: Editor

Actors: Senta Berger, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Wim Wenders' The Scarlet Letter (German title: Der scharlachrote Buchstabe) may well be the most fascinating of the many screen versions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 19th-century novel. Though the story is set in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts, the film was lensed in Spain. Senta Berger is Read More

Liebe so schoen wie Liebe

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Entering the world of penniless young people who are at a loss about what to do with their lives, this experimental German film stays with them as they discuss their philosophies of life. One highlight of this film is the pleasant and highly melodic music in the soundtrack. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

Die Angst des Tormannes beim Elfmeter

Crew: Editor

Actors: Arthur Brauss

Synopsis: A loose adaptation of a novelette by author Peter Handke, this early effort from acclaimed director Wim Wenders follows penalized goalie Joseph Bloch (Arthur Brauss) as he makes his way through the city after missing penalty kick and getting suspended from a game. Wandering by a local cinema Read More

Furtwangler's Love

Crew: Editor

Actors: Elisabeth Furtwängler

Synopsis: By any standard, German Wilhelm Furtwängler reigns as one of the most formidable maestro/composers of the 20th century. A prodigious talent who began authoring original compositions by the age of 17, Berlin-born Furtwängler then took his first bows as a conductor at the age of 20. The most Read More