Hanna Schygulla Movies

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

In a small German town, a 14-year-old girl's relationship with an older man draws scrutiny and leads to legal consequences, reflecting the...

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

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

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father...

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".

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...

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

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

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...

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

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

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

Notes on the movie Passion

Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole...

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.