Margarethe von Trotta

When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90... (imdb)

Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together... (imdb)

East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. (imdb)

Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland... (imdb)

Attractive, contented Yvonne Schumacher (the excellent Barbara Auer) has built a comfortable life with hubby Stefan (Stefan Kurt) since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her world is shaken to the roots when she receives a letter from a woman in prison telling her Stefan was cheating for six years. Yvonne makes the long journey to jail to meet with the writer, Vera Glaubitz (Barbara Sukowa, in her fourth film for von Trotta). (variety.com)

Bridge designer falls in love with a woman that suffers from a personality disorder. When he meets her she's dressed up like a prostitute though she does not take his money, the next day he meets her again and she turns out to be his lawyer and is completely unaware of the night they spent together.

Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terrorist organization. (imdb)

Young Hildegard, being the offspring of a noble family, comes to the Benedictine cloister Disibodenberg at the age of 8. There, she is raised by the nun Jutta of Sponheim and is taught medical science and music. Later, when Hildegard is grown up, she admits to have visions of God. The church leaders are appalled and regard her as a heretic. But Hildegard holds on to her ideas and pushes the construction of i.e. the Rupertsberg nunnery.

Sisters Maria and Anna live together. Maria is a most proficient executive secretary, encouraging Anna to finish her studies and start a career. Anna broods, threatens to quit university, takes pills, and keeps a diary. When Maria's relationship with Maurice, the son of her boss, starts to lead to love, Anna takes a selfish and drastic step that plummets Maria into solitude. (imdb)

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt.

Olga and Ruth become friends. Olga is independent, separated from her husband, living with an immigrant pianist... (imdb)

Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta's film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play. (mubi.com)

The great Barbara Sukowa stars in Margarethe von Trotta's fascinating biography of the influential philosopher and political theorist, whose reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann led to her famous concept of the "banality of evil." (tiff.net)

By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to recognize the image as that of his deceased wife Evelyn, Sophie's mother. Unable to convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a-fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New York to seek out this mysterious stranger... (imdb)

Is the ex of your ex your friend or your foe? That's the question Jade (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal) is confronted with when Maria (Katja Riemann) turns up on the doorstep of her New Yorker penthouse. Nick has just recently dumped Jade for a younger woman - just like he once dumped his ex-wife Maria for the younger Jade. Nick owns this luxury apartment that now both women have a claim to - and they somehow have to come to an arrangement. (filmfestival.cologne)

Internationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman's life and work and explores his film legacy with Bergman's closest collaborators, both in front and behind the camera, as well as a new generation of filmmakers. (imdb)

The relationship between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.