Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta was born on Feb 21, 1942 in Germany. Margarethe von Trotta's big-screen debut came with Baal directed by Volker Schlöndorff in 1970. Margarethe von Trotta is known for Hannah Arendt directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa stars as Hannah Arendt and Janet McTeer as Mary McCarthy. Margarethe von Trotta has got 40 awards and 24 nominations so far. The most recent award Margarethe von Trotta achieved is European Film Awards. The upcoming new movie Margarethe von Trotta plays is Searching for Ingmar Bergman which will be released on Nov 02, 2018.

Margarethe von Trotta was born in Berlin in 1942. In the 1960s she moved to Paris where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and co-directing short films. She also pursued an acclaimed acting career, starring in films by well known German directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Volker Schlöndorff. In 1971, von Trotta divorced her first husband Juergen Moeller (with whom she had a child) and married Schlöndorff. She co-wrote many of the scripts for his films, and in 1975 the two of them co-directed L'honneur perdu de Katharina Blum (1975). In 1977, von Trotta directed her first solo feature Le second éveil (1978). With her third film, Les années de plomb (1981), von Trotta's position as New German Cinema's most prominent and successful female filmmaker was fully secured.Her films feature strong female protagonists, and are usually set against an important political background. Themes in her work include the effect of the political on the personal, and vice versa, as well as the relationships between female characters, often sisters.