Acting
Ingrid Caven
Ingrid Caven (born Ingrid Schmidt; August 3, 1938) is a German actress best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
Filmography
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German Film Award
Die Montagsmaler
Suspiria
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director,...
Square
Krimistunde
Bio’s Bahnhof
World on a Wire
In the future, Simulacron, a computer project simulating reality, encounters strange occurrences after its lead...
Playing with Fire
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Fox and His Friends
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has...
Time Regained
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memor...
35 Shots of Rum
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at he...
In a Year with 13 Moons
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergon...
Despair
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, marrie...
Martha
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasoch...
Nea
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. Sh...
Love Is Colder Than Death
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime synd...
Gods of the Plague
After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld....
My Little Loves
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south o...
Tenderness of the Wolves
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based...
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with...
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kit...
Fear of Fear
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably fallin...
Rio das Mortes
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a...
Satan’s Brew
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while...
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and sati...
My Favorite Season
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a fa...
Die wilden Fünfziger
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his cha...
Beware of a Holy Whore
Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a p...
Malou
Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America:...
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to...
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him...
I Only Want You to Love Me
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interperson...
Shadow of Angels
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boy...
La Paloma
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Befor...
Sleeping Beauty
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only h...