Best movies of Helma Sanders-Brahms

Actors : Elisabeth Stepanek, Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Angelika Thomas,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and ...

Actors : Pascal Greggory, Malik Zidi, Aline Annessy, Martina Gedeck,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

A look at the lives of 19th-century composers Clara and Robert Schumann.

Actors : Heinrich Giskes, Ursula von Berg, Grischa Huber, Gesine Strempel,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

Berlin, 1974. Grischa and Heinrich are actors, accidentally locked in the rehearsal hall one night. He tries to seduce her; she's puts him off. Later she dumps her husband and sleeps with ...

Actors : Jorge Reis, Elisabeth Stepanek, Nguyen Chi Danh, Karl Heinz Reimann,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she ...

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Ivan Desny, Hildegard Knef, Hermann Treusch,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

Emily, a child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans ...

Actors : Elisabeth Zündel, Johannes Herrschmann, Alfred Edel, Adriana Altaras,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

Germany in the 50ies: A love story between an eastern spy and a western secretary who detects him (and her love) ...

Actors : Nicolai Albrecht, Klaus Bunk, Janina Berge, Dagmar Bertram,
Directors : Helma Sanders-Brahms,

The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century ...