Ute Lemper

Songs for Eternity (2024)

Rendezvous mit Marlene (2020)

Ute Lemper's one-woman show is a stroll through Marlene Dietrich's life and music. It all began when Marlene, then in her late 80s, called Ute in her Parisian hotel room in 1987. ...

Tom Waits: Tales from a Cracked Jukebox (2017)

Tom Waits is one of the most original musicians of the last five decades. Renowned for his gravelly voice and dazzling mix of musical styles, he's also one of modern music's most enigmatic and influential artists. Using rare archive, audio recordings and ...

Magic in the Moonlight (2014)

Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud. ...

Bulles de Vian (2009)

"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatural phenomenon crosses all of France: in the streets, one sings everywhere his songs and one expresses oneself only in the language of the poet. In Paris, A ...

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2007)

A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker. ...

Ute Lemper: Blood & Feathers (2005)

On this release, the inimitable Ute Lemper entertains an audience at the Café Carlyle in New York City . The show formed part of Lemper's world tour, and saw the talented singer performing a meticulously arranged set. Tackling works by Berthold Brecht, Ku ...

Aurélien (2003)

France, 1920s: An affluent ladies' man finds himself in love with a homely married woman. ...

Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration (2000)

A celebration of the life and work of Dame Elizabeth Taylor interspersed with clips from some of her finest films. Highlights from the musical gala held in the Royal Albert Hall in May 2000. ...

Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999)

This documentary tells the story of an unusual victim of the Nazi holocaust -- Kurt Gerron, a German film actor and cabaret star. During World War II, Gerron went from being a leading light of the German entertainment community (he made over 70 films and s ...

Appetite (1998)

The guests of the Station Hotel have assembled to play a game of cards. The loser will sleep in room 207, a room rumored to be haunted. It hasn't been slept in for 20 years. As their lives tangle in a paranoid deadlock, the only escape becomes murder. ...

River Made to Drown In (1997)

Thaddeus Mackenzie, a wealthy lawyer, learns that he is dying and decides to sell all of his property and visit his old friend Allen Hayden. Allen is a struggling artist with a passion for life who once survived by working the streets, but now is romantica ...

Wild Games (1997)

Once upon a time a carnivorous advertising methodist (Richard Bohringer) finds himself stuck between floors in an old elevator. The owner of the deserted building (Ute Lemper) does not help, but plays with him like a prey trapped. To get out, he threatens, ...

Bogus (1996)

Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus. ...

Prêt-à-Porter (1994)

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another. ...

Jiggery Pokery (1994)

The story begins at the stage door after a performance. A cabaret somewhere presenting songs from Dietrich to pop performed by various artists. ...

Moscow Parade (1992)

The drama of a former noblewoman who became the wife of an NKVD officer in the 1930s, and the almost anecdotal story of how a spirited stallion was prepared for Marshal Budyonny's parade and, in the end, a reliable mare was "slipped in" instead. The realit ...

The Michael Nyman Songbook (1992)

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur Rimbaud. It was filmed at the Musikhalle, Hamburg, 4 February 1992. ...

Guilty of Innocence (1992)

This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead ...

Burning Stone (1992)

Daniel has just been released from prison, where he served 13 years for a hold-up. An idealist, he's always lived on myths. Now it's time to take stock. He's determined to change his life. Pursued by his former accomplices, he embarks on a long journey. Al ...

In Search of Cabaret (1992)

Prospero's Books (1991)

An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'. ...

Not Mozart: Letters, Riddles and Writs (1991)

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991. ...

Jean Galmot, aventurier (1990)

Evocation of the life of the journalist Jean Galmot, adventurer, who established himself as a gold digger in Guyana in 1906. Madly in love with this country, he will die for having wanted to give dignity and freedom to the Guyanese people. ...

The Austrian (1990)

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days. ...

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin (1990)

A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the ...

Drei gegen drei (1985)

The plan is simple: the three generals Weingarten, Ludovico and Klotz from San Chaco set a hitman on their doubles Stephan, Kralle and Peter, who live in Germany, in order to fake their deaths and also lighten the state coffers by 300 million dollars. But ...

Rendezvous mit Marlene (2020)

Ute Lemper's one-woman show is a stroll through Marlene Dietrich's life and music. It all began when Marlene, then in her late 80s, called Ute in her Parisian hotel room in 1987. ...