Eva Mattes
This article is about an actress, for the artist with the same name, see Eva and Franco Mattes Eva Mattes (b. 14 December 1954, Tegernsee, Germany) is a German-Austrian actress. Mattes appeared in four films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Wildwechsel, Effi Briest and In a Year of 13 Moons) and A Man Called Eva (1984), as a bearded film director based on the then recently deceased Fassbinder. She is also known for her appearances in two films of Werner Herzog, a former partner, with whom she had a daughter, Hanna, in 1980. Eva Mattes also appeared in "Germany, Pale Mother," and in Enemy At The Gates as the mother of Sasha Fillipov. Eva Mattes is well known in German-speaking countries for her role as Klara Blum in the Tatort series.
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The Net
Ultimately stunning in its revelations, Lutz Dammbeck’s THE NET explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th Century web of technology – a system that...Watch Movie
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My Best Fiend
Director Werner Herzog and late actor Klaus Kinski made five films together over a fifteen-year period, including such mutual career highlights as FITZCARRALDO, NOSFERATU and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD. As much as this collaboration benefitted them both, the partnership was fraught with off-screen...Watch Movie
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Woyzeck
Werner Herzog had long been fascinated by Georg Büchner’s 19th-century play (and 1920s opera by Alban Berg) about a soldier pushed to the point of madness and he finally got his chance to film it mere days after wrapping NOSFERATU. With his crew intact and star Klaus Kinski in the lead, everyone...Watch Movie
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Stroszek
After casting Bruno S., the wide-eyed, child-like steelworker and street musician, in THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER, Werner Herzog wrote STROSZEK specifically for the odd, idiosyncratic non-actor. The biographical details of his starving street musician and social misfit released from prison into...Watch Movie
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