Hanna Schygulla Movies

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with...

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and...

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in...

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of,...