Ingrid Caven Movies

A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann,...

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality drug.

Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not...

Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After...

Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence,...

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates....

Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along...

The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a...

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

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

Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Daydreams, contact ads, the firemen's brassband,...

Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with...

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....

About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.