Juliane Lorenz

Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day: A Series Becomes a Family Reunion (2017)

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller. ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today (2010)

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire". ...

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story (2007)

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

Deux (2002)

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin. ...

Life, Love & Celluloid (1998)

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

Love’s Debris (1996)

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was no script, no continuity. On the other hand, there were precise constraints that provided the rules of the g ...

Malina (1991)

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under his spell. It will be her last great passion. Her feelings are so strong and all-encompassing that Ivan can n ...

Das einfache Glück (1990)

Frank, a perpetual loser from the "milieu", runs over a pedestrian during an argument with his lover Sabine and commits a hit-and-run. A petty criminal and friend of the dead man, to whom he has confessed his crime, hires him as a "bill collector" and char ...

The Girlfriend (1989)

Since childhood, Raquel and Maria have been close friends. Now all grown-up, Raquel has fulfilled her dream of becoming an actress, while Maria has married a handyman, given birth to three children and runs the family household. In the wake of the Argentin ...

Die Nacht des Marders (1988)

One day, a mysterious stranger shows up at a farm. The farmer's wife succumbs to the charms of the seemingly mute stranger. When she can no longer resist him, disaster strikes. ...

Egomania: Island Without Hope (1987)

Egomania is a visually stunning end-of-the-world melodrama about lust, jealousy and murder set amidst solar eclipses, orchestral chants and the distant thunder of the boiling sea. The film's characters – riddled with unconscious desires – find themselv ...

Auf der Suche nach der Sonne (1987)

Schroeter casts his tutored eye on Mnouchkine, the legendary founder of the avant-garde Théâtre du Soleil, with whom he shared an affinity for collage and pastiche, improvisation and distillation, ancient Greek drama, commedia dell'arte, opera, and Asian ...

Der wilde Clown (1986)

The Rose King (1986)

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. ...

Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985)

The story of Marie Ward, a religious woman from a devout, aristocratic Yorkshire Catholic family who lived between 1585 and 1645 and moved to St. Omer in Walloon France, where she joined the Order of St. Clare, later returning to England to found her own o ...

Love Is Not an Argument (1984)

The relationship of a married couple in their 40s is broken when the mother has an affair with her teenage daughter's boyfriend. ...

Pankow ’95 (1983)

Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems. ...

Querelle (1982)

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was. ...

Veronika Voss (1982)

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's ...

Lola (1981)

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building com ...

Lili Marleen (1981)

The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert's family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as s ...

The Third Generation (1979)

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies. ...

The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone. ...

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity. ...

Spiel der Verlierer (1978)

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's parents tolerate the relationship because Kluth supports them financially. But when Anita is expecting Kluth ...

Despair (1978)

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a ...

Germany in Autumn (1978)

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original le ...

The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977)

The lackluster and plodding Bolweiser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town's siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy. ...

Fassbinder (2015)

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality, which chronologically covers all the important stages from Action-Theater to the director's early death, supplemented with anecdotes. ...

Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter (2011)

Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mikesch, who photographed a number of Schroeter's films and who collaborated closely with him to create his vi ...

The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited (2011)

This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including se ...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today (2010)

A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire". ...

Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story (2007)

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

Juliane Lorenz über Lili Marleen (2003)

Juliane Lorenz on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lili Marleen. ...

Fassbinder's Women (2000)

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ...

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ...

Pankow ’95 (1983)

Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems. ...

Kamikaze '89 (1982)

In a futuristic, totalitarian society wherein the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings and uncovers more than he bargained for. ...

Veronika Voss (1982)

In Munich 1955, German film star Veronika Voss becomes a drug addict at the mercy of corrupt Dr. Marianne Katz, who keeps her supplied with morphine. After meeting sports writer Robert Krohn, Veronika begins to dream of a return to stardom. As the couple's ...

Lola (1981)

Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building com ...

The Third Generation (1979)

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies. ...