Irm Hermann
October 4, 1942 · 83 years old
Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who cast her in many of his films.
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16 titles
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
Woyzeck
Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
A Woman in Berlin
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
Love Is Colder Than Death
A small-time pimp is torn between his lover and Bruno the gangster.
Katzelmacher
Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been...
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven
Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the p...
The American Soldier
Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood a...
Fear of Fear
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law a...
Gods of the Plague
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
Joan of Arc of Mongolia
A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.
Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.
Women in New York
New York in the 1930's. A group of wealthy women meet in beauty and fashion salons, at parties and other social occasions. Their lives circle around their wealthy husbands or lovers.
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him.
Welcome to Germany
An US-based film director returns from the US to Germany, where he was forced along with other concentration camp prisoners to participate in an Anti-Semitic propaganda film in 1942. He plans to make a documentary on this part of ...
Die Schaukel
The life of three sisters in Munich before the First World War. Based on the book by Annette Kolb.