3 Movies Starring Klaus Lèwitsch

World on a Wire

World on a Wire

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-10-14

Languages:

German, English

Countries:

West Germany

Runtime:

212 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (3051 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel F. Galouye (novel)

Fritz Mèller-Scherz (teleplay)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (teleplay)

Fullplot:

Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality, when suddenly project leader Henry Vollmer dies. His successor Dr. Fred Stiller experiences odd phenomena. A good friend, Guenther Lause, disappears in the middle of a conversation and a week later nobody has ever heard of him. And those fits of dizzyness - Stiller cannot believe himself to be fool. There has to be an explanation for all this. Could Simulacron have something to do with it?

Despair

Despair

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-09-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

West Germany, France

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (1345 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Tom Stoppard (screenplay)

Vladimir Nabokov (novel)

Fullplot:

Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian èmigrè and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-03-23

Languages:

German, English

Countries:

West Germany

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (7915 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pea Frèhlich (screenplay)

Peter Mèrthesheimer (screenplay)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (idea)

Pea Frèhlich (dialogue)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (dialogue)

Peter Mèrthesheimer (dialogue)

Fullplot:

This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.

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