Ingrid Caven Movies

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

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...

Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century...

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his (white) girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man....

The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a...

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

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

A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.

Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

A bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare.

Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.

Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love.

Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with...

Ingrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at times, she dispenses with words and simply plays with...

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

A film critic falls in love.