Hanna Schygulla Movies

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were...

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

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...

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and...

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

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

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

Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.

A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back to Germany, to Berlin, having lived for twenty...

A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.