Margarethe von Trotta Movies

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the...

All her life, 80-year-old Margot Brunner (Rosemarie Fendel) has lived with her disabled sister Wilma (Cornelia Froboess) in the apartment of their...

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While...

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

Melodrama set in Hamburg's red light district.

Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.

Non-US directors speak about the idiosyncrasies of filmmaking in their respective countries. Because of the difficulty of financing, very few...

Margarethe von Trotta, one of the few icons of German directing, internationally revered as a star director, celebrates her 80th birthday: her works...

West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The...