Hanna Schygulla Movies

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

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

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers...

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...

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his...

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

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

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some...

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this...

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the...

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is...

Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge.

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