Lothar Lambert

All My Tumbler Girls, or All About Women Who Dare to... (2010)

In his film, Lothar Lambert has chosen to portray eleven women over forty in Berlin, interweaving accounts of their experiences, their current lives and their expectations for the future. The line-up includes a number of well-known Berliners such as Irene ...

The Nomi Song (2004)

Looks like an alien, sings like a diva - Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980s' most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through rock music: a counter tenor who sang pop music like opera and brought opera to club audiences and made them like it. The Nomi Son ...

Thank God I’m in the Film Business! (2003)

Eva Ebner is a Berliner who gives the appearance of being rather eccentric. She knows the film business inside out – regardless of whether she's work- ing behind the camera as an assistant director or in front of it as an actor. Her name is closely assoc ...

From Here to Vanity (2000)

Anyone who is keen to capture Berlin's most original characters on film is bound to end up at Sylvia Heidemann's door. Sylvia has saved up every penny of her reparation money to appear just once in her life on the silver screen like Greta Garbo. It just so ...

And God Created Make-Up (1998)

Manfred, who is fascinated by his mother's underwear, becomes the latest addition to Dr Prinz's therapeutic flat-share for transvestites and sexual 'deviants'. During his inspection visits, to prove solidarity with his patients, Dr Prinz himself happily cr ...

Blonde to the Bone (1997)

The actor Holger Miesbach can no longer pursue this or any other profession, for psychological reasons and despite ongoing psychiatric treatment. While his mother offers telephone sex, where she pretends to be a minor and always forgets to get paid, he dev ...

Love/Hate Lola (1996)

Lola L., a washed-up travesty star, is extremely taken with the shy, young Turk Hasim when he comes into her dressing room and wants to get to know the famous artist. While her main aim is to lure him into her lottery bed, he remains steadfast and is only ...

Gut drauf, schlecht dran (1994)

Eight short episodes about the psychological and sexual hardships and joys of people in Berlin at the time: two old-school bourgeois women chat with each other on the street while watching the Christopher Street Day parade. A girl tries to solve her equall ...

A Fairy for Dessert (1992)

Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true. ...

What You Never Wanted to Know About Women (1992)

Four women in a therapeutic shared apartment adore their therapist and defend their hero with all available means, including sexual ones, when a strange woman breaks into their world. Doreen comes from the East and is looking for an apartment. ...

You Elvis, Me Monroe (1990)

A Turkish woman with a Marilyn Monroe obsession hooks up with her new neighbor, an Arab. Although the young man occasionally intones Elvis Presley songs to the guitar, as requested by her, the relationship soon falls into crisis, especially since the fun-l ...

Forbidden to Forbid (1988)

Eight short episodes about the psychological and sexual hardships and joys of people in West Berlin at the time: two old-school bourgeois women chat with each other on the street, between the Theater des Westens and a peep show. A woman's session with her ...

Der sexte Sinn (1987)

The two brothers Alfred and Hans are very different, one, a mummy's boy, still hopes for the great love at 35, the other enjoys life as a womanizer. When their mother dies, their lives change. Mama's boy Alfred and Don Juan Hans fall in love with the same ...

Kismet Kismet (1987)

Director İsmet Elçi tells the semi-autobiographical story of Kemal (played by Elçi himself), who negotiates his identity between two cultures (Turkey and Germany), struggling to find a future as a director in the German film industry. ...

Desert of Love (1986)

The plot centers around a director's ruined film – most of which was inadvertently destroyed at the lab. It is a wild mosaic of startling imagery including a safe-sex foot fucking scene with toes in a condom, a woman flasher, and a woman voyeur in a whee ...

Gestatten, Bestatter (1986)

Two shady businessmen set out to shake up the West Berlin funeral industry - with unconventional ideas and questionable methods. To this end, they take over the business of a long-established mortician who wants to retire. One of them also hooks up with th ...

Wolfgirl (1984)

The story of a short but intense friendship between two very different women in Berlin. Mascha, in her mid-30's, worked as a television editor for years before dropping out to make two self-financed and unexpectedly successful theatrical films. At the mome ...

Paso Doble (1984)

A West Berlin couple hopes to solve their marital problems while on vacation in Spain. Instead, the tensions between the neglected and misunderstood woman and her annoyed and otherwise unsatisfied husband escalate soon afterwards. She starts an affair with ...

Drama in Blond (1984)

A mousey, mild-mannered, mid-thirties bank clerk visits a cabaret and discovers his taste for drag and for the club's techie. ...

Fräulein Berlin (1984)

Berlin Underground-star Ulrike S. went to the Toronto-Filmfestival and then to New York - to find out something about the film business and also about her own desires, daydreams and nightmares. ...

Fucking City (1982)

The edgy, quirky, nearly disposable life of marginal Berliners. Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin. ...

Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn (1982)

Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love. ...

The Nightmare Woman (1981)

A Berlin woman in her early thirties is trying to handle her psychological problems and childhood trauma with the help of her psychiatrist. She is ashamed and overwhelmed by her masochistic sex fantasies. ...

Now or Never (1979)

Half-travelogue half Lambert's fictional attempt to find his identity in the gay crowd in Central Park, Harlem, and Brooklyn. ...

Tiergarten (1979)

Prostitutes, drunks, gays, senior citizens, and children, pass through one of the world's most famous parks. ...

Late Show (1977)

A man tries to liberate himself from a puritan-minded sister, mother, and girlfriend. The movies are his way out -- and at one late show he sees himself on the screen and begins to mix fantasy with reality. ...

Faux Pas de Deux (1977)

An elderly actress takes a young gardener as a lover and attract a lot of odd attention. ...

1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he k ...

A Touch of Longing: His Fight (1973)

A simple tax collector suffers from a deep depression. He flies from his dominant mother to a dangerous company in violent left-wing circles. And discovers a cure for his impotence. ...

Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe (2015)

Depicts Carl Andersens uncommon art and life. Born in Vienna, the capital of Austria in 1958, he participated in the development of Viennas subculture through his bar called "Fun Factory". It was a unique place to have some cheap drinks, see strange movies ...

Lost and Found in Underground: Lothar Lambert's Psycho City (2012)

Life, work, art and struggle of Berlin's radical enfant terrible Lothar Lambert, an underground filmmaker for 40 years now, who mainly focuses society's misfits, the gays, lesbians, transvestites and transsexuals of his Berlin neighborhood with no-budget f ...

From Here to Vanity (2000)

Anyone who is keen to capture Berlin's most original characters on film is bound to end up at Sylvia Heidemann's door. Sylvia has saved up every penny of her reparation money to appear just once in her life on the silver screen like Greta Garbo. It just so ...

Blonde to the Bone (1997)

The actor Holger Miesbach can no longer pursue this or any other profession, for psychological reasons and despite ongoing psychiatric treatment. While his mother offers telephone sex, where she pretends to be a minor and always forgets to get paid, he dev ...

Love/Hate Lola (1996)

Lola L., a washed-up travesty star, is extremely taken with the shy, young Turk Hasim when he comes into her dressing room and wants to get to know the famous artist. While her main aim is to lure him into her lottery bed, he remains steadfast and is only ...

A Fairy for Dessert (1992)

Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl. The girl has been told that her mother is dead, but Julchen knows this is not true. ...

You Elvis, Me Monroe (1990)

A Turkish woman with a Marilyn Monroe obsession hooks up with her new neighbor, an Arab. Although the young man occasionally intones Elvis Presley songs to the guitar, as requested by her, the relationship soon falls into crisis, especially since the fun-l ...

Kismet Kismet (1987)

Director İsmet Elçi tells the semi-autobiographical story of Kemal (played by Elçi himself), who negotiates his identity between two cultures (Turkey and Germany), struggling to find a future as a director in the German film industry. ...

Kobay (1986)

Wolfgirl (1984)

The story of a short but intense friendship between two very different women in Berlin. Mascha, in her mid-30's, worked as a television editor for years before dropping out to make two self-financed and unexpectedly successful theatrical films. At the mome ...

Utopia (1983)

A treatise on love and desire tainted by harsh reality of capitalism, in which submission to the laws of lust-as-commerce is played out by five prostitutes and their pimp, who pits them against one another so that they are incapable of standing up to him c ...

Fucking City (1982)

The edgy, quirky, nearly disposable life of marginal Berliners. Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual satisfaction in the urban jungle of West Berlin. ...

Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn (1982)

Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love. ...

The Nightmare Woman (1981)

A Berlin woman in her early thirties is trying to handle her psychological problems and childhood trauma with the help of her psychiatrist. She is ashamed and overwhelmed by her masochistic sex fantasies. ...

Now or Never (1979)

Half-travelogue half Lambert's fictional attempt to find his identity in the gay crowd in Central Park, Harlem, and Brooklyn. ...

Late Show (1977)

A man tries to liberate himself from a puritan-minded sister, mother, and girlfriend. The movies are his way out -- and at one late show he sees himself on the screen and begins to mix fantasy with reality. ...

1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)

An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After an argument with her family, she deserts him as well. Despite finding a job and a new place to live, he k ...

A Touch of Longing: His Fight (1973)

A simple tax collector suffers from a deep depression. He flies from his dominant mother to a dangerous company in violent left-wing circles. And discovers a cure for his impotence. ...