Margarethe von Trotta

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1942-02-21 (83 years old)

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Margarethe von Trotta

Biography

Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margarethe von Trotta, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1970

Gods of the Plague

as Margarethe

1976

Coup de Grâce

as Sophie de Reval

1978

Germany in Autumn

as Self (uncredited)

1977

Beer Chase

as Frau mit Kind

1970

Baal

as Sophie

1985

Hands Up!

as Self (1981 footage) (uncredited)

1969

1972

The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

as Doris Vogelsang

1976

The Atlantic Swimmers

as Schwimmlehrerin

1970

Drücker

as Gitte

1972

A Free Woman

as Elisabeth Junker

2014

Forbidden Films

as Herself

1984

Blaubart

as Jutta

1971

1973

Desaster

as Ulla Werther

1974

2018

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

as Self - Filmmaker

1975

Georginas Gründe

as Kate Theory

1978

Cinématon

as N°576

Production

2006

2003

Rosenstrasse

as Director

2003

Rosenstrasse

as Screenplay

1983

Sheer Madness

as Director

1981

1981

1986

Rosa Luxemburg

as Director

1995

The Promise

as Director

1995

The Promise

as Writer

2012

Hannah Arendt

as Director

2012

Hannah Arendt

as Screenplay

1988

Felix

as Director

1988

Felix

as Writer

1988

Love and Fear

as Director

1988

Love and Fear

as Screenplay

1990

1983

Sheer Madness

as Writer

1972

A Free Woman

as Writer

1972

The Morals of Ruth Halbfass

as Assistant Director

1984

1993

The Long Silence

as Director

2015

2015

2010

Sister

as Director

1997

Winter Child

as Director

1986

1999

Dark Days

as Director

1976

2004

The Other Woman

as Director

2017

1990

1997

Winter Child

as Writer

1999

Dark Days

as Writer

1990

1992

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