Margarethe von Trotta Movies

A married former art student decides to start painting again, because her children are out of the house and her husband neglects her. However, that...

A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved...

All her life, 80-year-old Margot Brunner (Rosemarie Fendel) has lived with her disabled sister Wilma (Cornelia Froboess) in the apartment of their...

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

Munich Heinz and Herbert wants to escape the torturous confines of their home by swimming across the Atlantic.

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the...

West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The...

Winterkind tells a tragic story of the Russian Yelena, who after seven years of captivity learns that her son Boris, born in the camp, has been...

Portrays the film star Mario Adorf and his passion for acting, the stage, the cinema, singing and writing. Together with the director Dominik...

Drama about the life of a travelling salesman.

An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.

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

A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown...

Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to...

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna...

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and...

Anka, a student active in the extra-parliamentary opposition, has had enough of inconsequential discussions. As she no longer believes that she can...

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While...

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