Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director who has been referred to as a leading force of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta boasts an impressive body of work that has won her awards all over the world in the last forty years. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became Germanys foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history. Certain aspects of von Trottas work have been compared to Ingmar Bergmans features from the 1960s and 1970s. She says that it was thanks to Bergmans films that she fell in love with the medium and its possibilities for representing inner psychic worlds.

The child of Elisabeth von Trotta and painter Alfred Roloff, she was born in Berlin and relocated to Paris in the 1960s, where she worked for film collectives, collaborating on scripts and codirecting short films.

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