The best Margarethe von Trotta’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Margarethe von Trotta’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Margarethe von Trotta.
A Free Woman
6.9/10
A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women.
Coup de Grâce
6.9/10
A countess loves her brother's Prussian-officer friend in the 1919 Baltic area.
Beware of a Holy Whore
6.6/10
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.
Baal
6.4/10
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
7/10
An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Gods of the Plague
6.4/10
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
The American Soldier
6.5/10
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer in Fassbinder’s subversive and experimental gangster movie.
Hands Up!
6.5/10
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Desaster
Directed by Reinhard Hauff
