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Margarethe von Trotta is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Assistant Director and Art Direction Allemande born on 21 february 1942 at Berlin (German)

Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta
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Nationality German
Birth 21 february 1942 (82 years) at Berlin (German)
Awards Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres‎, Officier de la Légion d'honneur, Leo-Baeck-Medal

Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director who has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. She boasts an impressive body of work that has won her awards all over the world in the last forty years. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. She responded by making a solo career for herself and becoming "Germany’s foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history." Von Trotta’s work has been compared to Ingmar Bergman’s features from the 1960s and 1970s. She says that it was thanks to Bergman's films that she "‘fell in love’ with the medium and its possibilities for representing inner psychic worlds."

Von Trotta is also regarded as "the world’s leading feminist filmmaker." The predominant aim of her films is to create new representations of women. Unlike some other female filmmakers in Germany, her films are more concerned with "feminine aesthetics" than with an overt exploration of "political action". The connections between women in her work are serious and, it has been suggested, "tortured." Nevertheless, she rejects the suggestion that she makes "women’s films".

Biography

Fille du peintre Alfred Roloff, elle est élevée par sa mère, aristocrate balte, à Düsseldorf. Après avoir réussi l'équivalent du brevet des collèges, elle fait deux ans d'études commerciales dans un lycée technique et travaille ensuite dans un bureau. Elle découvre le cinéma (Ingmar Bergman, la Nouvelle Vague) lors d'un séjour à Paris.

Elle passe son baccalauréat au début des années 1960 et se lance dans des études d'arts plastiques à Düsseldorf. Puis elle s'installe à Munich où elle étudie la philologie des langues germaniques et romanes. Mais une fois de plus elle change de voie pour entrer dans un conservatoire d'art dramatique. En 1964, elle obtient son premier grand rôle à Dinkelsbühl.

En 1964, elle épouse le scénariste Jürgen Moeller, avec lequel elle a un fils, Félix. Ils se séparent en 1970.
Après s'être produite à Stuttgart, elle trouve du travail au Kleines Theater (Petit Théâtre) de Francfort où elle est actrice de 1969 à 1970. Von Trotta devient une actrice demandée dans le milieu des jeunes réalisateurs allemands, Herbert Achternbusch, Reinhard Hauff, et Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Elle fait quatre apparitions dans les films de ce dernier.

En 1971, elle épouse en secondes noces le metteur en scène Volker Schlöndorff, dont elle divorce en 1991. Depuis 1977, elle est passée à la réalisation. Après son divorce, elle s'installe en Italie, puis à Paris où elle réside aujourd'hui.

Elle est élue membre de l'Académie des arts de Berlin en 1984.

Best films

Hannah Arendt (2012)
(Director)

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Filmography of Margarethe von Trotta (26 films)

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Actress

Hands Up!
Hands Up! (1985)
, 1h30
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jerzy Skolimowski, Tadeusz Łomnicki, Bogumił Kobiela, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, David Essex
Roles Self (1981 footage) (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2400753.2400753.2400753.2400753.240075
Dix ans après la fin de leurs études de médecine, cinq jeunes gens se retrouvent à bord d'un train de marchandises. Ils y évoquent leur passé commun, le temps où la Pologne était régentée par le stalinisme intransigeant : à cette époque, ils avaient été chargés d'accoler des panneaux de papier afin d'ériger un immense portrait de Staline pour le défilé du premier mai. Or sur l'affiche, le despote avait été affublé de deux paires d'yeux.
Cinématon
Cinématon (1978)

Directed by Gérard Courant
Genres Documentary
Actors Fernando Arrabal, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Roberto Benigni, Juliet Berto, Sandrine Bonnaire
Roles N°576
Rating60% 3.0328553.0328553.0328553.0328553.032855
Cinématon est une série cinématographique de portraits filmés montrant une personnalité des arts, de la culture ou du spectacle, en un seul gros plan fixe et muet de 3 minutes et demie, dans lesquels elle est libre de faire ce qu'elle veut.
Germany in Autumn, 1h59
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, Alexander Kluge, Alf Brustellin, Edgar Reitz, Bernhard Sinkel, Katja Rupé
Origin German
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about terrorism, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Heinz Bennent, Lilo Pempeit, Katja Rupé, Helmut Griem, Angela Winkler
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.441133.441133.441133.441133.44113
Automne allemand 1977, la Fraction armée rouge (RAF) terrorise la République fédérale d’Allemagne pour libérer ses figures historiques. Deux célébrations de funérailles à deux jours d'intervalle à Stuttgart ponctuent le récit. La première est l'enterrement du patron des patrons, exécuté par les terroristes de la RAF après la nuit de la mort de leurs leaders retrouvés suicidés dans leurs cellules de Stammheim quelques heures après l'annonce de la libération des otages du détournement du Landshut. La seconde est l'enterrement des suicidés de Stammheim sous haute surveillance policière. Dix réalisateurs du nouveau cinéma allemand témoignent de cette accélération des événements en mettant en scène des fictions et courts documentaires historiques pour restituer le climat de terreur quotidienne inspirée par la RAF tout en s'interrogeant sur la pression étatique nécessaire à la traque de terroristes dans un pays démocratique.
Coup de Grâce, 1h37
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes French war films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Matthias Habich, Margarethe von Trotta, Marc Eyraud, Mathieu Carrière, Henry van Lyck
Roles Sophie de Reval
Rating69% 3.490783.490783.490783.490783.49078
In 1919 Latvia, a detachment of German Freikorps soldiers is stationed in a chateau in the town of Kratovice to fight Bolshevik guerrillas. The chateau is the home of the soldier Konrad de Reval and his sister Sophie de Reval. Sophie is attracted to another soldier, a close friend of Konrad's named Erich von Lhomond. However, the reticent Erich rebuffs her advances. In retaliation, Sophie has trysts with other members of the military troop. Erich is noticeably angered by her behavior. Eventually, Sophie learns that Erich and Konrad are lovers. After this discovery, she joins the leftist guerrillas, whom she had been in contact with previously. Erich's soldiers capture her and her comrades. Sophie asks that Erich execute her himself, and he obliges. In a striking single tracking shot, we see Erich casually shoot Sophie in the head before joining in a photo with the other soldiers. As all board a train, the camera pans back to the corpses of the executed.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, 1h46
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger
Rating72% 3.6451953.6451953.6451953.6451953.645195
The title character is an innocent housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation when the man with whom she has just fallen in love turns out to be a radical bank robber. The film, unlike the novel, ends with a scene at Tötges' funeral, with his publisher delivering a hypocritical condemnation of the murder as an infringement on the freedom of the press.
Beware of a Holy Whore, 1h43
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Lou Castel, Marquard Bohm, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta
Roles Babs
Rating65% 3.296053.296053.296053.296053.29605
Beware of a Holy Whore is a satirical meta-film about Fassbinder's previous production, Whity. It opens with a soliloquy (delivered by Werner Schroeter) about the synopsis of a Disney short featuring Goofy, the dog. Goofy cross-dresses in his aunt's clothes to teach a kindergarten class and, after being ridiculed by the class, takes a "poor orphan girl" into his home. The little girl is actually a dwarf gangster, Wee Willy, and he fools Goofy into caring for him by wearing the clothes that Goofy discarded after being ridiculed by the school children. That night Goofy's house is raided by police and Wee Willy is arrested, revealing the "poor orphan girl's" true identity to Goofy. When Willy's true identity is revealed the confused Goofy says, "What a shock that must have been for the poor little girl when she discovered that she is a crook". In both instances—attempting to teach the kindergarten class and caring for Wee Willy—Goofy is beaten by those for whom he only sought to care. This opening soliloquy alludes to the film's underlying themes of violence, self-blindness, and same-sex and bisexual relationships.
The American Soldier, 1h20
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Karl Scheydt, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Hark Bohm, Kurt Raab, Margarethe von Trotta
Roles Maid
Rating64% 3.2476853.2476853.2476853.2476853.247685
À Munich, trois policiers ont enrôlé Ricky, un tueur à gages américain, mais natif de Munich, qui rentre du Vietnam. Ricky doit éliminer plusieurs personnes.
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?, 1h28
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Kurt Raab, Lilo Pempeit, Harry Baer, Hanna Schygulla, Ingrid Caven, Irm Hermann
Rating71% 3.597723.597723.597723.597723.59772
Le film montre la vie quotidienne d'un quadragénaire allemand, dessinateur industriel, et bon mari.
Gods of the Plague, 1h31
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Origin German
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, Gangster films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Harry Baer, Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Ingrid Caven, Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Roles Margarethe
Rating63% 3.193193.193193.193193.193193.19319
After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch surely finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld and also finds that his attentions are meanwhile torn now between two women, Joanna and Margarethe, as well as by Günther, his friend who earlier shot his brother.
Baal
Baal (1970)
, 1h27
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Hanna Schygulla, Claudia Butenuth, Irm Hermann, Günther Kaufmann
Roles Sophie
Rating63% 3.196683.196683.196683.196683.19668
C'est la vie dénuée de sens d'un jeune poète maudit, Baal, brûlant la vie par tous les bouts et la noyant dans le schnaps, cherchant à combler un vide existentiel, il se nourrit de sexe et de poésie.

Director

Hannah Arendt, 1h53
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Origin German
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Philosophie, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Barbara Sukowa, Janet McTeer, Nicholas Woodeson, Julia Jentsch, Axel Milberg, Megan Gay
Rating70% 3.5475453.5475453.5475453.5475453.547545
As the film opens Eichmann has been captured in South America. It is revealed that he escaped there via the "rat line" and with forged papers. Arendt, now a professor in New York, volunteers to write about the trial for The New Yorker and is given the assignment. Observing the trial, she is impressed by how ordinary and mediocre Eichmann appears. She had expected someone scary, a monster, and he does not seem to be that. In a cafe conversation in which the Faust story is raised it is mentioned that Eichmann is not in any way a Mephisto (the devil). Returning to New York, Arendt has massive piles of transcripts to go through. Her husband has a brain aneurysm, almost dying, and causing her further delay. She continues to struggle with how Eichmann rationalized his behavior through platitudes about bureaucratic loyalty, and that he was just doing his job. When her material is finally published, it immediately creates enormous controversy, resulting in angry phone calls and a falling out from her old friend, Hans Jonas.
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, 1h51
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Sunnyi Melles, Lena Stolze, Alexander Held
Rating64% 3.2452453.2452453.2452453.2452453.245245
In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Julianne, Rosa Luxemburg and Rosentrasse) tells the story of Hildegard of Bingen (Barbara Sukowa) the famed 12th century Benedictine nun, Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, physician, poet, naturalist, scientist and ecological activist. Hildegard was a multi-talented, fully grounded, highly intelligent woman who was forced to hide her light. The modern world's first female rebel who re-transmitted her visions to the world for the greater glory of God and mankind. Regine Pernoud has called Hildegard “the inspired conscience of the 12th century,” the “Prophetissa Teutonica” and the “Jewel of Bingen.” Pope John Paul II has called her “a light to her people and for her time, she continues to shine even more brightly today.