Hanna Schygulla Movies

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is...

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which...

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women,...

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over...

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific interest in the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, who...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use...

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for...

Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they all first met 45 years ago, to see his old...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort...

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in...

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Magdalena Hausen was a German photographer who became known for successfully capturing a photograph of the wind. Today, fifteen years after her...

People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity...