Rüdiger Vogler Filmography

Mein Langsames Leben

Actors: Ursina Lardi, Sophie Aigner

Synopsis: A woman faces a variety of emotional crises as she spends the summer interacting in differing ways with friends, family, and lovers in this drama. Valerie (Ursina Lardi) is an author in her early thirties who has just moved to Berlin, while her best friend Sophie (Nina Weniger) will be spending Read More

Leo und Claire

Actors: Michael Degen, Franziska Petri, Suzanne von Borsody, Alexandra Maria Lara, Axel Milberg

Sunshine

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle, Molly Parker

Synopsis: The fortunes of a family of Hungarian Jews are followed over the course of nearly 150 years in this epic historical drama, with leading man Ralph Fiennes playing three different roles. The story begins in the late 18th century, as Aaron and Josefa Sonnenschein (the name means "Sunshine" in German) Read More

Anatomy

Actors: Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch, August Diehl, Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos, Sebastian Blomberg, Holger Speckhahn

Synopsis: A determined medical student uncovers shady goings on during a prestigious summer anatomy course in this German thriller. When Paula Henning (Run Lola Run's Franka Potente) learns that she's been accepted to a highly competitive internship at a Heidelberg research institution, she's ecstatic. The Read More

Criminal Instincts: Love & Murder

Synopsis: Love and Murder is based on Murder at the Mendel, the first of the "Joanne Kilbourn" mysteries written by Gail Bowen. Traumatized by the murder of her husband, former police detective Joanne Kilbourn (Wendy Crewson) resigns from the force to look after her children--and when money gets tight, she Read More

Berlin-Cinema (Titre Provisoire)

Actors: Wim Wenders, Thomas, Jean-Luc Godard, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Samira Gloor-Fadel debuts with this strikingly unorthodox documentary featuring two of cinema's greatest intellectuals (Wim Wenders and Jean Luc Godard) bouncing a flurry of illuminating thoughts and half-formed ideas about time, space, and the nature of cinema. The conversation is never depicted Read More

Tigerstreifenbaby Wartet Auf Tarzan

Actors: Herbert Fritsch, Cora Frost, Valeska Hanel, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: Rudolf Thome directed this German science fiction drama that's slightly reminiscent of Nicolas Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976). Driving to Berlin, Luise (Cora Frost) and Theo (Tilo Werner) give a lift to the enigmatic blond Frank Mackay (Herbert Fritsch), and Luise is immediately attracted Read More

Les Plus Beau Pays du Monde

Actors: Claude Brasseur, Marianne Denicourt, Jean-Claude Adelin, Jacques Bonnaffé, Didier Bezace

Synopsis: The film is based on a true story of a young actor, Robert Hugues Lambert, who was hired to play the role of aviation hero Mermoz in occupied France during WW II. But his career came to a brutal end when his homosexuality was discovered and he was sent to a Nazi camp. The Vichy government's Read More

Die Schuld Der Liebe

Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Rüdiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Gertraud Jesserer

Synopsis: In this Austrian-French-Swiss thriller, upwardly mobile career woman Monika Besse (Sandrine Bonnaire) returns home to Luxembourg in order to join detective Schweiger (Rudiger Vogler) in an investigation into the death of her politician father. The situation leads to an identity crisis as Monika Read More

Les Milles

Actors: Jean-Pierre Marielle, Ticky Holgado, Rüdiger Vogler, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: This French WW II action-adventure is based on a fascinating footnote in history. Set just after the Franco-German armistice was signed in June 1940, it chronicles the courage of a compassionate French officer who defied his superiors and, acting alone, redirected a train full of German refugees Read More

Hasenjagd - Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen

Actors: Elfriede Irrall, Rainer Egger, Oliver Broumis, Kirsten Nehberg

Synopsis: This Austrian film, set in 1945, chronicles the Muhlviertler Rabbit Hunt, an incident involving the escape of 500 Russian inmates from the Mauthausen concentration camp. Of the 500, only 150 survived. The film focuses upon the cruelty and goodness of the towns people, many of whom set to finding Read More

De Sueur et du Sang

Actors: Fabienne Babe, Sam Job, Kader Bouchanef, Jacques Martial, Rüdiger Vogler, Jean-Marc Thibault

Synopsis: A reluctant boxer is the focus of this unique French romance. Maurice dreams of becoming a violinist. But his father, a former boxing champion crippled by his bouts, has other dreams for his pudgy but strong 18 year old son. He wants Maurice to become the next Champ. Concerned about his son's lack Read More

Lisbon Story

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!

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

Chasse Gardee

Actors: Gérard Blain, Tonie Marshall, Rüdiger Vogler, Serge Dupire

Until the End of the World

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

Transit

Actors: Sebastian Koch, Claudia Messner, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: In 1941, those who had remained around too long to completely escape the Nazi blitzkrieg had one small, slim chance to escape persecution. They could travel to Marseilles and attempt to get the servile but still nominally independent government of Vichy France to grant them an exit visa. Then they Read More

Anna Goldin, Letzte Hexe

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Dominique Horwitz

Synopsis: The true story of the last woman to be executed in Switzerland for witchcraft (in the late 18th century) is the subject of this historical drama. Anna Goldin was a maid accused of the crime of witchcraft after the little girl of the family she worked for became ill after Anna was fired. As things Read More

Night Sun

Actors: Julian Sands, Nastassja Kinski, Patricia Millardet, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Massimo Bonetti

Synopsis: In this film, Tolsoy's classic story Father Sergius is translated from 19th century Russia to 19th century Italy. As in the original story, Sergio (Julian Sands) is a nobleman and a military cadet who is posted in a position close to the (in this case Neapolitan) throne. He is about go through Read More

Das Treibhaus

Actors: Christian Doermer, Jörg Hube, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: An author recites from his novel about the economic conditions in Germany before the end of World War II in this boring drama. As the man reads, another actor performs to the spoken words. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Lucky Ravi

Actors: Michel Didym, Assumpta Serna, Rüdiger Vogler, Jean-Pierre Bisson, Alain Cuny

Synopsis: In this slow-paced and chaotic film, Ravi has been bedding a beauty queen who is on the outs with her former lover and has been drinking a lot. They are at a hotel in Provence which a local landowner has a grudge against. Before the hotel came, the main livelihood in the region was fruit-growing. Read More

Madrid

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Verónica Forqué, Luis Ciges

Synopsis: A German television director is sent to Spain to cover the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil war in this plodding drama. He spends most of his time passing time that has nothing to do with his assigned project. Documentary footage of the war is shown and no new insights are given during the Read More

Tarot

Actors: Vera Tschechowa, Hanns Zischler, Rüdiger Vogler, Katharina Bohm, William Berger

Synopsis: Set in a country estate beside the river Alz, the focus on this intellectual German drama, an adaptation of a text by Goethe, is on the complex interaction and conversations between four people involved with the film industry. Edouard is a restless filmmaker who is planning to make a film out of Read More

Martha Dubronski

Actors: Konstantin Wecker

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Ingrid Puganigg, who also plays the title role, Martha Dubronski is a routine psychological drama about the gradual deterioration of Martha and her husband (Peter Wyssbrod) -- she has a severe facial scar, and he is crippled, so each have their own burden right from the Read More

Fratelli

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Mimsy Farmer

Synopsis: The harsh realities of severe schizophrenia are brought forward in this unflinching, downbeat drama by Loredana Dordi on the suffering of two brothers who share an apartment. The schizophrenic brother (Rudiger Vogler) appears to be beyond hope. He moves in circles around the apartment, rubs the Read More

Un Caso Di Incoscienza

Actors: Erland Josephson, Brigitte Fossey, Rüdiger Vogler, John Steiner, Claudio Cassinelli

Synopsis: In this made-for-television detective story set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire is the target of a journalist who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress, and the Read More

Der Havarist

Actors: Burkhardt Driest, Rüdiger Vogler, Hans Michael Rehberg, Edgar Selge

Synopsis: Director Wolf-Eckart Bühler follows up his earlier, lengthy interview with Sterling Hayden in this three-part chronicle of the traumas in the actor's life. Based on Hayden's autobiography Wanderer, Bühler has three different actors deliver segments of the book in a detached way -- focusing on the Read More

The Practice of Love

Actors: Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis: Part thriller and part experimental fantasy, this first feature-length film by director Waltraud Hollinger (aka Valie Export) concerns Judith (Adelheid Arndt), a journalist who becomes embroiled in a murder case through one of her two current lovers. When Judith is sent to investigate the Read More

Melzer

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis: Mauro Melzer (Ruediger Vogler) is an artist whose canvasses are much admired, but who feels his mental stability is wobbly, and so he asks a psychiatric clinic to check him in until he can return to normal. His behavior is, in part, patterned after the famous Swiss writer Robert Walser who was Read More

Logik Des Gefuehls

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Daphne Moore, Grischa Huber

Synopsis: Random encounters, random dialogue, and random thinking characterize one man's journey from the south end of Europe to his home, after his wife has left him shell-shocked by exiting from his life and getting on with hers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Die Bleierne Zeit

Actors: Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade

Synopsis: Also known as Die Bleierne Zeit (The German Sisters), Marianne and Julienne is an extension of themes explored by director Margarethe von Trotta in her earlier Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness. Once more, the principal characters are two well-bred sisters, outwardly polar opposites of one Read More

Kreutzer

Letzte Liebe

Schwestern oder die Balance des Glücks

Actors: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Frueh, Konstantin Wecker, Rainer Delventhal

Synopsis: This West German film is a contemporary tale with gloomy overtones of the 19th Century August Strindberg one-act play The Stronger The sisters of the title are an executive secretary and her younger biology-student sibling. The secretary supports the student, exercising virtually total control Read More

Letze Liebe

Actors: Angela Winkler, Rüdiger Vogler, Therese Affolter

Synopsis: A suicidal psychiatric patient meets a drifter and falls in love with him. They enjoy a brief idyll, until the woman loses her job. At that point, the two of them successfully commit suicide. Many of their meetings, the woman's story, and the story of their love have been recorded by her Read More

L'État Sauvage

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Piccoli, Claude Brasseur, Doura Mane

Synopsis: L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) Read More

Gruppenbild mit Dame

Actors: Romy Schneider, Michel Galabru, Brad Dourif, Fritz Lichtenhahn

Synopsis: The West German/French Group Portrait with Lady (Gluppenbild mit Dame) is based on a bestselling novel by Heinrich Böll. The film is a string of anecdotes, some longer than others, related to the topic of German war guilt. The main plotline involves German woman Romy Schneider's affair with Read More

Alzire Oder Der Neue Kontinent

Actors: François Simon, Roger Jendly, Rüdiger Vogler

Synopsis: A small theater group is trying to put on a production of Voltaire's play Azire, a little-known work, in celebration of the 200th year of his death. They are unable to raise any funding, and the company's efforts are commented on from heaven by Voltaire and his buddy Rousseau. ~ Clarke Fountain Read More

Die Linkshändige Frau

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

Hauptmann Kreutzer

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Jörg Hube, Vitus Zeplichal, Kurt Weinzierl, Claus-Dieter Reents

Kings of the Road

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

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

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

Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe

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

Die Angst des Tormannes beim Elfmeter

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