Vision
Beautiful film. well done and performed. edition is perfect and music, sublime.
Margarethe von Trotta
Filmography
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Hannah Arendt
In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker...Watch Movie
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Vision
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist. In VISION, New German...Watch Movie
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Sheer Madness
Director Margarethe von Trotta weaves a wondrously compelling tale of friendship and feminism around the relationship between two seemingly opposite women. Olga is a professor of women's literature, Ruth is a gifted and extremely reticent artist who is desperately fearful of the outside world....Watch Movie
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Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
Two sisters share a complex and compelling relationship in the well crafted film about sibling rivalry. Anna seems dependent, emotionally and economically, on Maria. Successive inward turns of the screw reveal them, Siamese twin-like, bonded to one another, so that eventually...Watch Movie
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The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
Director Margarethe von Trotta's first solo effort is an intense political drama that embraces the theme of closeness between women. Christa is a young mother who, distraught over the prospect that her children's day care center is running out of money, executes a bank robbery...Watch Movie
Genres
- Crime / Criminal / Fugitive
- Crime / Transgression / Thievery
- Drama / Biopic
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Drama / Dysfunctional Family
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Political
- Drama / Procedural
- Drama / Religious
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- International / European / German
- War / WWII
Recent Reviews
Vision
I have read a number of books of and on Saint Hildegard. This movie is an excellent modern interpretation of her biography. Sukowa plays extremely well. Lights are well done....
Hannah Arendt
This is a great movie, The acting is exquisite, the story is very well told, and an incredibly important moment in history. Barbara Sukowa totally inhabits the Arendt persona. So...
The Second Awakening of Christina Klages
A few corrections to the plot synopsis. Werner is not killed during the hold-up, but later. The uncomfortable dynamic between Christa and Werner after the robbery is one of the...
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
Absolutely fascinating! Startling and moving! I want to watch it again before trying to say more.