Hanna Schygulla
Birthday: 1943-12-25
Place of Birth: Chorzów, Polska
Biography: Hanna Schygulla (born 25 December 1943) is a German actress and chanson singer. She is generally considered the most prominent German actress of the New German Cinema. Over 12 years, Hanna Schygulla appeared in 23 Fassbinder movies (including his first feature film), the most-acclaimed being The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) (for which she won the Silver Bear).
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Lili Marleen
The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Je...
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The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
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Effi Briest
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated...
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Gods of the Plague
A man is released from prison and finds society on the outside less than appealing. With several wom...
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A Love in Germany
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that ...
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Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultim...
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistre...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son....
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau...
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The Edge of Heaven
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...
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Wrong Move
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother ...
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Hanna Schygulla – quel que soit le songe
A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back ...
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Werckmeister Harmonies
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of...
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Katzelmacher
A group of young slackers spend most of their time hanging out in front of a Munich apartment buildi...
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Dead Again
In 1949, composer Roman Strauss is executed for the murder of his wife. In 1990s Los Angeles, a dete...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st...
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Godard's Passion
While shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young factory ...
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Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady...
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Sheer Madness
Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative...
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The Night of Varennes
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - th...
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Antonieta
Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific intere...
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Ophelia
Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory ...
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The Delta Force
A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Leba...
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Janela da Alma
Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total bli...
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Circle of Deceit
To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights betw...
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Promised Land
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt ...
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Peter von Kant
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistr...
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The Future Is Woman
In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, an...
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The Story of Piera
Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both he...
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The Quiet Love
Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet myste...
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Winter Journey
Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental il...
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Life's Little Treasures
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few ...
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One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...
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Faust
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionall...
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Whity
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American Southwest in 187...
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Cinémania: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, w...
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The Niklashausen Journey
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacke...
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The Third Generation
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently be...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long track...
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Poor Things
Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind...
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Hunting Scenes from Bavaria
Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion ...
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The Night of the Filmmakers
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers....
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Warsaw: Year 5703
In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities...
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Life, Love & Celluloid
Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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Pioneers in Ingolstadt
Berta, a naive young maid, searches for love when the army engineers come to town to build a bridge....
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The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me
An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's question...
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Bremen Freedom
A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in ...
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The Blue Exile
Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was con...
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Rio das Mortes
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasu...
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The Coffee House
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffeehouse and...
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The Clown
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictme...
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Alicia Bustamante
A cinematic portrait, filmed in Paris and Havana, which includes excerpts from films and theatrical ...
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The Quiet Roar
MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with a...
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age ...
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Grüße von Rosita aus Peru
Rosita Hernandez, a nine-year-old Indio girl, tells about the everyday life of her family living in ...
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Yunan
Munir travels to a remote island to contemplate a drastic action. He is haunted by a cryptic parable...
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970....
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Jail Bait
Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Wern...
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Mathias Kneißl
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria...
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The Sunset Boys
Ernest, Ted and August fulfill their friend Carl's dying wish and take him to Heidelberg, where they...
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The Girl of Your Dreams
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film...
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Baal
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast a...
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Golem: The Petrified Garden
Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris w...
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Madame Bäurin
On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly annou...
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Abraham's Gold
In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when...
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Golem, the Spirit of Exile
An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film ...
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Hey Stranger
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find thems...
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Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed...
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New Year's Eve
A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzl...
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Lea
51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not ...
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Casanova
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because ...
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Godard Cinema
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established hi...
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Forever, Lulu
When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a...
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Magdalena Hausen: Frozen in Time
Magdalena Hausen was a German photographer who became known for successfully capturing a photograph ...
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The Crossing
In a small town plunged into darkness, two children, Kyona and Adriel, are separated from their pare...
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Jakob von Gunten
Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school....
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The Summer of Miss Forbes
Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their pa...
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Barnum
The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum....
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Fassbinder's Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner...
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Unless
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets....
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Avanti
What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her m...
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Adventure of Catherine C.
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre I...
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including ...
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Lucky
The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to ope...
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Once Upon a Time… The Marriage of Maria Braun
A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun"...
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The Prayer
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former add...
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Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion
Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS...
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Angelo Nero
Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of t...
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Miss Arizona
Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during W...
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Po-lin. Shards of Memory
Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and...
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his icon...
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The Mystery of Henri Pick
In a bizarre Breton library that collects rejected, never published manuscripts, a young editor disc...
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Irmi
The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and...
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End of the Commune?
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a m...
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Scénario du film Passion
Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story ...
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supe...
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Everything Went Fine
When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in h...
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Lusitanian Illusion
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur...
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The Wonderful Journey of Selma Lagerlöf
The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a ...
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Lullaby to my Father
The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents ...
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Der große Zusammenbruch
The story of André, a bohemian and loser of the reunification era, who gets by with small odd jobs i...
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Denkste Puppe
Hanna Schygulla, one of the icons of European cinema and herself a refugee child, meets four young m...
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