Hanna Schygulla Movies

After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women,...

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give...

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to...

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

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

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...

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

An attempt at a psychological profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who answers the author's questions about his artistic and personal development in...

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.

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

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...

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some...

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."