Hanna Schygulla Movies

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

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...

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.

Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.

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...

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of...

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

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

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

Documentary directed by Hans Rolf Strobel

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character,...

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a...

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by American studio...

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

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t...

Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face...