Born in Berlin in 1942, Margarethe von Trotta worked as an actress in Fassbinder's and Schlöndorff's films, and co-directed The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum with Schlöndorff, before making her own work. Her films focus on women, sisters and political conscience in postwar Germany, and Marianne and Juliane (1981), about two sisters, one a journalist and one a terrorist, won the Golden Lion at Venice. She later made Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse and a film about Hannah Arendt.
Filmography
- The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (1978)
- Marianne and Juliane (1981)
- Sheer Madness (1983)
- Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
- Three Sisters (1988) (1988)
- The Promise (1995)
- Rosenstrasse (2003)
- Vision (2009)
- Hannah Arendt (2012)
- Searching for Ingmar Bergman (2018)