6 Movies Starring Hanns Zischler

Basic Info:

Cast:

Writer:

Fullplot:

A traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out film-theatres. He meets up with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.

Basic Info:

Cast:

Writer:

Fullplot:

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.

Basic Info:

Cast:

Writer:

Fullplot:

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience? Luisa prepares for her concert.

Basic Info:

Cast:

Writer:

Fullplot:

A renowned artist must uncover a young dancer's secrets in order to truly capture her likeness for a commissioned work.

Basic Info:

Cast:

Writer:

Fullplot:

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.

Basic Info:

Cast:

Writer:

Fullplot:

A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.