Hanna Schygulla Movies

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

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut...

To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an...

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

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their...

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...

Two women–a literature professor and a painter–start to rely upon their friendship as an alternative to their unhappy relationships with...

Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face...

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of,...

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is...

A documentary about the director Fassbinder but edited as if it were a film of the master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and...

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...

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.