The Films Of Margarethe von Trotta Three Pack

Under The Pavement Lies The Strand (Unter Dem Pflaster Ist Der Strand) (1975)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Grischa Huber, Heinrich Giskes

When do you give up your dreams of revolution and assimilate into polite society? That question grates on Grischa (Grischa Huber) and Heinrich (Heinrich Giskes), two German radicals of the 1960s who ... more

Young Dr. Freud (1976)

Category: Foreign | Director: Axel Corti | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Karlheinz Hackl, Jacques Alric

Originally made for European TV, this compelling biodrama traces the early years and academic career of Sigmund Freud, showing how the origins of his groundbreaking theories on the workings of the human ... more

The Second Awakening Of Christina Klages (1977)

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tina Engel, Katharina Thalbach, Peter Schneider

For her first solo directorial effort, German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta creates a compelling mix of action and social polemic. Tina Engel stars as Christa, a young woman forced into robbing a ... more

Sisters, Or The Balance Of Happiness (1979)

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jutta Lampe, Gudrun Gabriel, Jessica Fruh

The emotional and psychological bonds that keep two women--a successful, controlling secretary and her insecure younger sister, a college student--tied to one another are explored in Margarethe von Trotta's ... more

Sheer Madness (1983)

Category: Foreign | Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Franz Buchrieser, Helga Ballhaus

Two disparate German women, one a staid college professor (Hanna Schygulla), the other an eccentric artist (Angela Winkler), strike up a friendship that is tested by the world around them in this acclaimed ... more

Germany In Autumn (1978)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Black & White / Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Hannelore Hoger, Katja Rupe, Hans Peter Cloos

A number of Germany's major filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, and Volker Schlondorff, contributed to this meditation on political terrorism in their country ... more

Buddenbrooks (1979)

Category: Foreign | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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Thomas Mann's epic Nobel Prize-winning chronicle of a 19th-century merchant and his family's dramatic ascent--and eventual downfall--comes to life in this lavish German TV miniseries. Martin Benrath, ... more

Doktor Faustus (1982)

Category: Foreign | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Joe Finch, Hanns Zischler, Siemen Ruehaak

The Faust legend is reimagined in this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, as a struggling composer (Jon Finch) makes an unwise deal with the devil (Andre Heller). As it typically goes in the ... more

The Thomas Mann Collection

Category: Foreign | Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Gunter Strack, Kurt Raab, Carl Raddatz

Seven-disc set includes "Buddenbrooks," "Doktor Faustus," and "The Magic Mountain."