Hanna Schygulla Movies

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.

People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity...

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

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the...

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character,...

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is...

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father...

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see...

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

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

Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole...

Hanna Schygulla, one of the icons of European cinema and herself a refugee child, meets four young men again after seven years who came to Berlin as...

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

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with...

Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty...

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New...