German director Margarethe von Trotta ('Hannah Arendt,' 'Rosenstrasse,' 'Rosa Luxemburg'), who is considered a pioneer of feminist filmmaking and one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the German new ...

One of Europe’s preeminent film directors for more than three decades, Margarethe von Trotta (Rosa Luxemburg, The Promise) was born in Berlin 1942 and relocated to Düsseldorf with her mother after the ...

The veteran filmmaker, who has carved out a unique place in cinema history, brings her 'Ingeborg Bachmann — Journey in the Desert' to the Berlin Film Festival competition. By Scott Roxborough Europe ...

German film director, screenwriter, and actor Margarethe von Trotta will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th European Film Awards. Set to take place on Dec. 10 in Reykjavik, ...

A retrospective of the New German Cinema director’s influential work marks the release of her latest documentary, Searching for Ingmar Bergman. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like ...

Margarethe Von Trotta’s Sheer Madness, which opens this June in Boston, was greeted with sheer malice by the West German press when it premiered at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival. The almost all-male ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release Searching for Ingmar Bergman, ...

The first female filmmaker to achieve international acclaim, Margarethe von Trotta is referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. As she turns 75, here are the highlights of ...

The trio will oversee the winner of the Toronto Platform Prize, an award of C$25,000 presented to the Best Film in the program, which aims to champion up to 12 works with high artistic merit that also ...

The Match Factory has pre-sold Margarethe von Trotta’s English-language comedy “Forget About Nick” to key territories ahead of its world premiere at the Tokyo Film Festival. Starring Katja Riemann, ...

Margarethe Von Trotta, Germany’s key feminist filmmaker, specializes in realistic dramas about relationships among women — usually sisters, usually intelligent and middle class and often involved in ...

When the top-grossing films of the last two years include The Dark Knight Rises, Iron Man 3, and Fast and Furious 6, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out how to get a big audience into a ...