Regina ZieglerFilmography

Erotic Tales

Crew: Producer

Actors: Silvina Buchbauer, Lasha Bakradze, Tobias Oertel, Bob Rafelson, Fabienne Babe

Synopsis: Erotic Tales offers three short films with strong sexual content. Dito Tsintsadze's An Erotic Tale is about a writer attempting to pick up a still-attached woman. Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces is about a struggling filmmaker who is hired to make a Nazi-themed pornographic film. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Read More

3 Erotic Tales

Crew: Producer

Actors: Victor Argo, Austin Pendleton, Valerie Geffner, Ivan Trojan, Tomas Pavelka

Erotic Tales 4

Crew: Producer

Actors: Franziska Petri, Iya Parulava

Synopsis: As its title suggests, 3 Erotic Tales is just that -- a trio of sexy shorts tossed off by a group of European filmmakers. Produced by Regina Ziegler, the omnibus begins with Bernd Heiber's "The Night Nurse," in which a cop standing guard over a convalescing criminal entertains torrid Florence Read More

Kimono

Crew: Producer

Actors: Miho Nikaido

Synopsis: Adding to his list of less-than-feature-length experimental films, director Hal Hartley offers up this mildly erotic, non-narrative fantasy starring his wife, Miho Nikaido. Presumably abandoned by her husband-to-be after an argument, Nikaido's nameless character wanders through a lush forest in Read More

Solo Fur Klarinette

Crew: Producer

Actors: Götz George, Corinna Harfouch, Tim Bergmann, Barbara Auer, Tobias Schenke

Synopsis: A burnt-out Berlin cop investigating his 652nd case slowly loses the ability to discern the differences between the grim realities of the job and a decaying personal life as his mental instability grows progressively worse. His latest case is particularly nasty and puzzling, but Detective Bernie Read More

Die Himmelspforte

Crew: Executive Producer

Meine Tochter Gehort Mir

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Auer, Georges Corraface, Nicolas Brieger

Synopsis: In the aftermath of two doctors' divorce, their daughter lives with her mother in Berlin. Her Greek father is not happy with the decision of the courts about his daughter, so he kidnaps her and takes her back to Greece with him. Her mother seeks redress through the international legal system but Read More

Antigone

Crew: Producer

Korczak

Crew: Producer

Actors: Wojciech Pszoniak, Ewa Dalkowska, Piotr Kozlowski, Marzena Trybala, Wojciech Klata

Synopsis: The life of Polish pediatrician Janusz Korczak (Wojtek Pszoniak) is the subject of Andrzej Wajda'a docudrama. Also known as an author who wrote primarily for young readers, Korczak's name became legend as a result of the Jewish orphanage he established in Warsaw. When the invasion of the Nazis in Read More

Rosa Luxemburg

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander, Adelheid Arndt, Jurgen Holtz

Synopsis: In this informative and measured docudrama, director Margarethe von Trotta (who inherited the project from the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder) relates the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg. Von Trotta based her film on historical research and some of the more than 2,000 letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote Read More

Die Reise

Crew: Producer

Actors: Markus Boysen, Corinna Kirchhoff, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Gero Preen, Christa Berndl

Synopsis: The German/Swiss The Journey (originally Die Reiss) is an objective look at neo-Fascist terrorism. Markus Boysen plays a member of a terrorist gang who breaks away from the movement. He also "kidnaps" his son from the gang's commune, rather than have the boy raised to be a terrorist himself. In Read More

Klassenfeind

Crew: Producer

Actors: Greger Hansen, Stefan Reck, Jean-Paul Raths, Ernst Stoetzner

Synopsis: The tense drama Klassenfeind takes place inside one classroom, as the students express themselves with growing degrees of animosity and polarization, until the schoolroom itself suffers as much damage at their hands as they have suffered internally. The issues that cause trouble among the students Read More

Kamikaze '89

Crew: Producer

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert, Arnold Marquis, Richy Mueller

Synopsis: Famed filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars as a futuristic cop who must sniff out a bomb stashed somewhere in a 30-story Berlin office building. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Nach Mitternacht

Crew: Producer

Actors: Desiree Nosbusch, Nicole Heesters, Hermann Lause

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Irmgard Keun written in 1937, this film is a satire on the up-and-coming Germans of that time who desired to make the leap from comfortably well-off to rich and/or powerful. The bawdy cabarets and omnipresent swastikas and military police form a backdrop for these social Read More

Malou

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Grischa Huber, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: In this drama, a young wife leaves her German home to discover the identity of her mysterious late mother who married a Jewish German during WW II. Her mother was French, and soon after she married her aristocratic husband, Hitler came to power, causing the couple to flee to Argentina. Later he Read More

Panische Zeiten

Crew: Producer

Actors: Udo Lindenberg, Leata Galloway, Walter Kohut, Vera Tschechowa

Synopsis: Several hilarious scenes are interspersed throughout this comedy featuring director and singer Udo Lindenberg as a pop singer who is kidnapped by a government agent. The agent hates his music -- he thinks it will lead the nation down the road to depravity. A detective (Lindenberg again) is soon on Read More

Fabian

Crew: Producer

Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Hermann Lause, Brigitte Mira

Synopsis: The destructive nature of a rising Nazi menace is the subtext in this drama about a young man in Germany in the late '20s. While he enjoys a certain immunity from hard times because of a rich friend and female companionship, he is not blind. He sees mounting injustices in the society around him Read More

Gross und Klein

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edith Clever, Gerhard Bienert, Tina Engel, Johanna Hofer

Synopsis: Gross und Klein is a respectable four-hour drama based on a play by Botho Strauss about a woman, Lotte (Edith Clever), and her relationships with a wide range of characters in Saarbruecken. Lotte interacts with liberal artists and a conservative elite, and along the way, the sorrows and joys of Read More

Monarch

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This documentary follows a former salesman who now makes his living as a gambler, his personal preference being slot machines. Spending no more than an hour at each machine, he is able to make $600 from each before moving on to the next one. He has a personal tailor who reinforces the linings of Read More

Das Traumhaus

Crew: Producer

Actors: Horst Frank, Judy Winter, Jochen Schroeder, Leslie Malton

Synopsis: When four young people move into a run-down villa in West Berlin, their attempts at converting it into an environmentally friendly place with a garden and a few farm animals just begin to bear fruit when the city notifies them that the whole place is to be razed - a modern housing complex is going Read More

Willi und Die Kameraden

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dorothea Moritz, Horst Pinnow, Peter Schiff

Synopsis: A modern German neo-Nazi mechanic takes advantage of Willi, a discontented school dropout with a passion for model World War Two tanks. Not only does he get Willi and others like him to come on the group's youth outings, but he gets a lot of free labor from them as well. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

Trilogie Des Wiedersehens

Crew: Producer

Actors: Libgart Schwartz, Gerd Wameling

Synopsis: In a provincial town in West Germany, the director of the local art society is preparing to put on an exhibit of paintings. The patrons of the society are all upstanding local businessmen and members of the middle class, of not very refined tastes, but they are all a-dither about the painting in Read More

Chapeau Claque

Crew: Production Manager

Actors: Ulrich Schamoni, Anna Henkel, Alix Buchen, Karl Dall

Synopsis: After his father's top-hat manufacturing company goes bankrupt, the young industrialist in this movie moves into the family's old, abandoned mansion and lives off of his wits and whatever little savings remain. A number of other disaffected and fugitive friends live with him. Extremely averse to Read More