Margarethe von Trotta (Actor)

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Movies starring Margarethe von Trotta have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 68%.

Das Andechser Gefühl - released in 1975 - is Margarethe von Trotta's highest rated movie, with a score of 73% based on 1 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Margarethe von Trotta is Searching for Ingmar Bergman - released in 2018 - with a score of 65% based on 18 reviews.

Actor Biography

Margarethe von Trotta (born 21 February 1942, Berlin) is a German film director and a member of the New German Cinema movement. The child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films. In her early career, von Trotta was an actress, appearing in notable films of directors Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. In 1971, she divorced her first husband to marry Schlöndorff. A few years later she presented her first feature film. Her 1983 film Heller Wahn was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. Von Trotta, often featuring prominent female characters, has become the foremost female director working in Germany. She is a Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and remains an important personality of German cinema. Von Trotta and Schlöndorff split in 1991.

Margarethe von Trotta has acted in films with Ingmar Bergman, Mario Adorf, Liv Ullmann and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Margarethe von Trotta has worked with these film directors: Volker Schlöndorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge and Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus.