MARGARETHE VON TROTTA

'Margarethe von Trotta' (born February 21, 1942, Berlin) is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement.
Margarethe von Trotta was born in Berlin in 1942. The illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and the painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-direcing short films.
In her early career, von Trotta was an actress, appearing in notable films from directors Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. In 1971, she divorced her first husband to marry Schlöndorff. A few years later, she presented her first feature film.
Von Trotta, often featuring promient female characters, has become the foremost female director working in Germany. Von Trotta and Schlöndorff split in 1991. She remains an important part of German cinema.

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Filmography

★ ''The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum'' (''Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann'') 1975

★ ''Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages'' 1978

★ ''Schwestern oder die Balance des Glücks'' 1979

★ ''Marianne and Juliane'' (''Die Bleierne Zeit'') 1981

★ ''Heller Wahn'' 1983

★ ''Rosa Luxemburg'' 1986

★ ''Felix'' 1987

★ ''Fürchten und Lieben'' 1988

★ ''Das Versprechen'' 1994

★ ''Paura e amore'' 1988

★ ''L'Africana/Die Rückkehr'' 1990

★ ''Il Lungo silenzio/Zeit des Zorns'' 1993

★ ''Winterkind'' 1997 (TV)

★ ''Mit fünfzig küssen Männer anders'' 1998 (TV)

★ ''Dunkle Tage'' 1999 (TV)

★ ''Jahrestage/Aus dem Leben von Gesine Cressphal'' 2000 (mini) TV Series

★ ''Rosenstrasse'' 2003

★ ''Die Andere Frau'' 2004 (TV)

★ ''Ich bin die Andere'' 2006

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★ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database