Vadim Glowna Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter

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House of the Sleeping Beauties

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Vadim Glowna, Angela Winkler, Maximilian Schell, Birol Ünel, Mona Glass

Synopsis: Director Vadim Glowna explores such complicated issues as loneliness, guilt, remembrance, mourning, sex, death, and dying in this adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's novel concerning a most unusual bordello catering to a most unlikely clientele. Edmond is a lonely man in his late sixties. On the Read More

11/14/08
Four Minutes

Actors: Monika Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig, Richy Mueller, Jasmin Tabatabai

Synopsis: An embittered, 80-year-old piano teacher working in a women's prison takes on the most challenging student in her enduring career in director Chris Kraus' low-key musical drama. For years, Miss Krueger (Monica Bleibtreu) has been teaching classical piano to some of the most hardened female Read More

4/18/08
Agnes and His Brothers

Actors: Martin Weiss, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Katja Riemann, Tom Schilling

Synopsis: The Tschirn brothers have their share of problems. Middle brother Hans-Jörg (Moritz Bleibtreu of Run Lola Run) is a librarian who neglects his duties in order to ogle every attractive woman that enters his workplace. His clumsy efforts to make conversation with them go nowhere. He takes his Read More

1/12/06
Der Alte Affe Angst

Actors: André Hennicke, Marie Baumer, Vadim Glowna, Hilde Van Mieghem, Hermann Beyer

Synopsis: Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his Read More

2003
Endstation: Tanke

Actors: Tamara Simunovic, Florian Panzner, Oliver Brocker, Vadim Glowna, Horst-Günter Marx

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
Baader

Actors: Frank Giering, Laura Tonke, Vadim Glowna, Birge Schade, Jana Pallaske

Synopsis: Directed by Christopher Roth, this biopic chronicles the rise of '70s West German terrorist Andreas Baader from his beginnings as a small-time car thief to his stint as the leader of the Marxist revolutionary Red Army Faction. Baader opens in 1972, as an unexpected traffic stop signifies the end Read More

2001
Kalt Ist Der Abendhauch

Actors: Heinz Bennent, Gisela Trowe, August Diehl, Ingo Naujoks

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel of celebrated German writer Ingrid Noll, Kalt ist der Abendhauch bounces back and forth over a span of 50 years to tell the darkly comic tale of a destructive love affair between two people. When the film opens, octogenarian Charlotte (Gisela Trowe) has just received a Read More

2000
Les Miserables

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich, Virginie Ledoyen, Christian Clavier, Enrico Lo Verso

Synopsis: Victor Hugo's classic story of one man's struggle to redeem himself -- and another man's efforts to bring him down -- is brought to the screen again (there have been at least 18 previous screen adaptations) in this epic-scale television production with a distinguished international cast. Jean Read More

2000
Die Unberührbare

Actors: Hannelore Elsner, Vadim Glowna, Jasmin Tabatabai, Lars Rudolph, Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: Oskar Roehler directs this bleak look at a down-and-out writer's alcohol-drenched final days. Though the central character is named Hanna Flander, the film basically tells the real-life story of noted author Gisela Elsner, who threw herself out of a fourth story window in 1992. Elsner is also the Read More

1999
Die Nacht der Regisseure

Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, Detlev Buck

Synopsis: Utilizing computer-generated effects and creative splicing to place Germany's most famous living directors in a fantasy movie house, filmmaker Edgar Reitz takes an innovative approach toward exploring the history of German cinema. In this magical theater, directors such as Leni Riefenstahl, Detlev Buck Read More

1995
Der Brocken

Crew: Director

Actors: Rolf Zacher, Muriel Baumeister, Ben Becker

Synopsis: Protected from the intrigues of con-men by the overwhelming blanket of the former regime in East Germany, at first it seems that Ada Fenske, the elderly widow living on a farm near a soon-to-be abandoned Russian island military base is fair game. The (West) German military intelligence services Read More

1992
Tandem

1991
La Main

1990
Jours Tranquils a Clichy

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Nigel Havers, Barbara de Rossi, Isolde Barth

Synopsis: Henry Miller's novels were almost entirely autobiographical, and concerned not only his environment and friends, but also recorded his many sexual exploits - which he apparently viewed with something like spiritual awe. Despite his sexual obsessions, his novels are respected worldwide for their Read More

1989
Georg Elser - Einer aus Deutschland

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Brian Dennehy, Rebecca Miller, Nigel le Vaillant

Synopsis: Actor Klaus Maria Brandauer makes his directorial debut with The Seven Minutes (released in Germany as Georg Elser-Einer aus Deutschland. Brandauer also stars, playing a solid citizen of 1939 Berlin. Though loyal to the Fatherland, he despises Hitler and the Nazis. A few weeks after the start of Read More

1989
Gdzieskolwiek Jest, Jeslis Jest...

Actors: Julian Sands, Renée Soutendijk, Maciej Robakiewicz, Tadeusz Bradecki, Joachim Krol

Synopsis: This Polish political melodrama examines the days leading up to the German invasion of Poland and centers upon two newlyweds. The husband is Uruguayan and comes from German-English parents. The woman is British. They have come to Poland to do some family business and end up visiting a good Read More

1988
Er - Sie - Es

1988
Drei D

1988
Des Teufels Paradies

Crew: Director

1987
Devil's Paradise

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Waterston, Suzanna Hamilton, Mario Adorf, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: Escher (Jurgen Prochnow) wanders through the South Sea islands after his partner Quinn (Tony Doyle) is murdered in this drama taken from a novel by Joseph Conrad. When he checks into the Grand Pacific Hotel, Escher encounters a variety of memorable guests. Included are the perverted Mr. Jones (Sam Waterston Read More

1987
Ein Fliehendes Pferd

Actors: Vadim Glowna, Rosel Zech, Dietmar Mues, Marita Marschall

Synopsis: Already a popular serial in a magazine, a widely-read book, and a drama adapted for both the stage and radio, this story about two school friends running away from their dreams is now brought to the screen by Peter Beauvais. As two men reach adulthood, Helmut (Vadim Glowna) eventually works his Read More

1986
Tschechow In Meinem Leben

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Vera Tschechowa, Oleg N. Yefremov

Synopsis: This documentary on the Russian writer Anton Chekhov was released in honor of the 125th year since his birth and was written and directed by Vadim Glowna, whose wife Vera Tschechowa is a great-grandniece of Chekhov's. Both Glowna and Tschechowa traveled to the former USSR to film interviews with Read More

1985
A Year of the Quiet Sun

Actors: Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson, Hanna Skarzanka, Ewa Dalkowska, Daniel Webb

Synopsis: The Polish Year of the Quiet Sun is set in the years following World War II. In a small Polish town, a United Nations war-crimes investigation is taking place. While the courtroom battle rages on, American soldier Scott Wilson takes advantage of a few precious r-and-r opportunities. He falls in Read More

1984
Blaubart

Actors: Vadim Glowna, Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Synopsis: In this made-for-television courtroom drama, a modern Bluebeard with multiple lovers has been charged with the murder of one of them, a prostitute. He pleads not guilty, and then one witness after the other gives so much evidence out of sequence that it is a probable cause for swearing off jury Read More

1984
Ediths Tagebuch

Actors: Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna

Synopsis: Edith runs a left-wing journal and when her marriage starts to fall apart (her husband is unfaithful), she can find no solace in her son who is more of a problem than an asset. On top of heading toward a divorce and being unable to handle her son's asocial tendencies, her neurotic uncle moves in Read More

1983
Feine Gesellschaft, Beschraenkte Haftung

Actors: Elisabeth Bergner, Lilli Palmer, Heinz Schubert, Hardy Kruger, Wolf Roth

Synopsis: The action in this comedy is set within a 24-hour period, as unusual events unfold in the lives of two elderly sisters, Else (Elisabeth Bergner) and Hilde (Lilli Palmer). The sisters were living together in the family mansion in Hamburg when Else got tired of that life and hit the streets to make Read More

1982
Daimler-Benz Limuzyna

Actors: Vadim Glowna, Michal Bajor, Piotr Bajor, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Maja Komorowska

Synopsis: Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan, not that far from the western border with Germany. Michal (Michal Bajor) is the sensitive, artistic brother who likes literature, Andrzej (Piotr Bajor) is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they Read More

1982
Dies Rigorose Leben

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ángela Molina, Vera Tschechowa, Viveca Lindfors, Elfriede Kuzmany

Synopsis: Mayhem and tangled love knots in the Southwest U.S. desert are the scourge of a group of stranded German immigrants living in a few mobile homes at the crossroads of two desert highways. Joe loves Rosa, and kills someone she had slept with because he thought their union was consentual (a rape) Read More

1982
Desperado City

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Beate Finckh, Vera Tschechowa, Karin Baal, Vadim Glowna

Synopsis: Skoda (Siemen Ruehaak) is the son of a wealthy, overbearing banker and rather than put up with his father to keep a privileged lifestyle, he has chosen to ditch the relationship and drive a taxi for a living. The film follows Skoda on his nightly rides through the city, and though different Read More

1981
La Mort En Direct

Actors: Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton, Therese Liotard, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the Read More

1980
Geschichten Aus Dem Wiener Wald

Actors: Birgit Doll, Helmut Qualtinger, Jane Tilden, Adrienne Gessner

Synopsis: Marianne (Birgit Doll) is driven from her father's home when she is impregnated by Alfred (Hanno Poeschi), a vagabond loafer who abandons her after he has his fun. She goes to Vienna and takes a job in a strip club to provide for herself and her baby. Her father discovers his daughter's tawdry Read More

1979
Der Schneider Von Ulm

Actors: Vadim Glowna, Harald Kuhlmann, Dieter Schidor, Rudolf Wessely

Synopsis: Albrech Berblinger (Tilo Prückner) is an inventive young man who is working as an apprentice tailor in 18th-century Ulm. He discovers how to make a sailplane which will enable him to fly. As his discovery coincides with France's bloody revolution, this causes him to become a pawn in the political Read More

1979
Deutschland im Herbst

Actors: Caroline Chaniolleau, Lisi Mangold

Synopsis: This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Read More

1978
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

1977
Der Hauptdarsteller

Actors: Mario Adorf, Vadim Glowna, Hans Brenner, Rolf Zacher

Synopsis: Essentially, Der Hauptdarstellar tells the story of Pepe, a lower-class boy (Michael Schweiger) who is exploited by an experimental filmmaker for his own purposes, giving him the idea that his appearance in a leading role in a film will substantially change his agonizing life into something more Read More

1977
Cuore Di Cane

Actors: Max von Sydow, Eleonora Giorgi, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Based on the story by Mikhail Bulgakov, this Italian film tells the story of Preobrazhensky (Max Von Sydow), a surgeon, who is a professor of medicine in Moscow. Because he occupies a "big" 5-room apartment, after the Russian revolution is thoroughly in place, he is visited by the housing Read More

1/23/76
Police Python 357

Actors: Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, François Perier, Stefania Sandrelli, Mathieu Carrière

Synopsis: A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot (Yves Montand) is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia (Stefania Sandrelli). Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Read More

1976
Cross of Iron

Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch

Synopsis: A quote from Bertolt Brecht ends this bitter and angry war film by Sam Peckinpah: "Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again." Peckinpah's intense and belligerently non-commercial work, (based on the Read More

1976
Ermittlungen Gegen Unbekannt

1974
Opfer

1970
Horror

1969
Tramp Oder Der Einzige und Unvergleichliche Lenny Jacobsen

1968
Verbrechen Mit Vorbedacht

1967

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