Ruth Drexel Movies

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young...

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...

A group of aging friends, foes, and former colleagues gather to celebrate and deride the life of 80-year-old actress Francesca on her birthday.

TV-movie based on the trial of Memmingen gynecologist Dr. Horst Theissen, who was sentenced for illegal abortions.

For a long time, Halfried Seelig forced herself not to make use of her special gift for healing. When she does help a sick man one day, the news...

Andy lives with his parents on a small farm in Lower Bavaria. He rides his "Schluchtenflitzer", a moped, to discos with his friends. He meets...

Young forester Sixt is wounded one night. Smuggling in the mountains is the reason. By day, the brothers Benno and Simon Schaidler are respectable...

A high school student who leaves school shortly before graduating begins a relatively "exotic" apprenticeship as a bandager in order to become...

Stalingrad, 1942: just as he is complaining about the "blockheads" who are in control, a German named Herbert gets hit. Fast forward forty years...

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

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.