Ingrid Caven
Birthday: 1938-08-03
Place of Birth: Saarbrücken, Germany
Biography: Ingrid Caven was born on August 3, 1938 in Saarbrücken, Germany as Ingrid Schmidt. She is best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
Movies
Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves h...
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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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Day of the Idiots
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital....
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In a Year with 13 Moons
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She h...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a ...
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Silent Night
Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend ...
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My Little Loves
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in ...
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Fear of Fear
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic...
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My Favorite Season
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoi...
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The Satin Spider
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress In...
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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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Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the ...
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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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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glos...
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Nea
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shop...
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Die wilden Fünfziger
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann s...
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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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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 Niklashausen Journey
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacke...
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Satan’s Brew
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan Ge...
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Off Season
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and ...
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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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1 Berlin-Harlem
An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, wh...
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The American Soldier
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer....
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Yearning for Sodom
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in bo...
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Tonight or Never
Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 polit...
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La Paloma
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries...
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Joan's Dream
With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visi...
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Today We're Playing Boss
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to ...
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Haytabo
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality dr...
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Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love....
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Time Regained
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded...
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Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things ...
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Martha
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...
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Playing with Fire
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers....
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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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Ingrid Caven at Pigall's
Considered to be lost for a long time, the recently rediscovered recording of Ingrid Caven’s legenda...
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Violanta
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta....
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Sleeping Beauty
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day...
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Devil's Paradise
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he ...
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Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
Ingrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at times,...
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35 Shots of Rum
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her depar...
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Suspiria
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic...
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The Death of Maria Malibran
A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singe...
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Gold Flakes
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in betwe...
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Looping
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying custo...
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The Portuguese Woman
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks mar...
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Adele Spitzeder
The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising ev...
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Weitertanzen
A bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare....
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In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April...
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Malou
Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in Sout...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diag...
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I Only Want You to Love Me
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that ...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting ...
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Deepfrozen
Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Da...
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Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu...
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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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Fassbinder's Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner...
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