Margarethe von Trotta
German film director (born 1942)
2.29body-of-work score · ranked #466 of 2631 directors · 5 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- February 21, 1942 · Berlin
- Nationality
- Germany
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film actor, actor
- Movement
- New German Cinema
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1Marianne and JulianeDie bleierne Zeit
1981 · Germany · drama
Venice Golden Lion winner 1981 · Sarris's annual top 10 1982 #2
1.322 citations - 2
2012 · France / Germany / Luxembourg · drama, biography
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2013 #3
0.501 citation - 3The Lost Honour of Katharina BlumDie verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
1975 · Germany · drama, crime
Criterion Collection spine #177
0.161 citation - 40.161 citation
- 50.151 citation
Complete filmography
All 24 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1975The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
- 1978The Second Awakening of Christa Klages
- 1979Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness
- 1981Marianne and Juliane
- 1983Sheer Madness
- 1986Rosa Luxemburg
- 1988Felix
- 1988Love and Fear
- 1990The African Woman
- 1993The Long Silence
- 1994The Promise
- 1997Winterkind
- 1999Dunkle Tage
- 1999Mit fünfzig küssen Männer anders
- 2000Jahrestage
- 2003Rosenstraße
- 2006I Am the Other Woman
- 2007Tatort: Unter uns
- 2009Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
- 2012Hannah Arendt
- 2015Die abhandene Welt
- 2017Forget About Nick
- 2018Searching for Ingmar Bergman
- 2023Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert