Hannelore Hoger Movies
A former soldier is called on to help capture a former colleague turned vigilante in this action-thriller. Frank Hector (Dennis Hopper) is an American expatriate who now lives in Germany, running a chain of strip joints. Hector was once a member of the French Legion, and one of his comrades in arms was Volker Bretz (Heino Ferch), a sniper who was a sure shot with a rifle. After Bretz's daughter dies as a result of an accident at a nuclear power plant, the former gunman snaps and hatches a plan to kill the men who built and operate the plant one by one until it's shut down. Intelligence agents draft Hector as one of the only men who might be able to stop Bretz and his reign of terror, but it's soon discovered that his vendetta may be more complex than expected. Katja Flint and Hannelore Hoger co-star. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dennis Hopper
- 1999
The question is just who's setting up whom in this stylish crime drama from Germany. A woman named Melody (Nicolette Krebitz) is making a drug buy when to the surprise of the dealers, she pulls a gun and police burst into the room. Despite outward appearances, Melody is not a cop -- she's being blackmailed by Kahnitz (Dietrich Hollinderbaumer), a police chief who uses her as a decoy for various assignments. Ben (Marc Hosemann), a safecracker, is about to be released from jail, and Kahnitz wants to tie him to another crime involving Ben and his partner Dennis (Martin Gladde), who was in on the job that sent Ben to prison but managed to avoid capture. Claiming to be a friend of Dennis, Melody (under Kahnitz's instructions) meets Ben shortly after he hits the street and tries to encourage him to pull another job. She also seduces Ben and introduces him to Percy (Axel Milberg) and Aurelia (Sunnyi Melles), a couple who have their own ties to the crimes. Long Hello and Short Goodbye was adapted from a screenplay by American writer Jeff Vintar -- perhaps appropriate, given the frequent comparisons made between director Rainer Kaufmann's work and that of American filmmaker Brian DePalma. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicolette Krebitz, Marc Hosemann, (more)
- 1997
Densely plotted and featuring a large ensemble cast, this German drama offers a smorgasbord of lush visuals, intrigue, sex, egos run amok, and raw emotion. Set in Bavaria, within a posh Italian restaurant owned by Pierrot, much of the story centers on a filmmaker and his producers as they try to keep bankers from backing out on their promise to pay for a new film about the Lorelay, the ideal woman of German mythology. At the same time, the director is searching for a woman to play her. Despite his outward confidence, the director Uhu is deeply insecure about his career. Beautiful Snow White is determined to win the title role and will stop at nothing, not even the prostitution of her body, to get the part. Her girlfriend, Watsussnik is not pleased but is too emotionally unstable to speak out. Meanwhile Jakob, the writer of the novel on which the film is to be based, sits in a back room musing about how to get the film rights for himself. As the stories progress and unfold, more people are added to the mix, including a lonely beauty who is worshipped by a cosmetic surgeon. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1992
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In 1984, the director of this extraordinarily long film (25+ hours) released a similarly long film, Heimat, which was a mere 15 hours long. Both of them are essentially television miniseries that have been edited for festival viewing into one enormously long film. In this sequel, Die Zweite Heimat follows the lives of a group of young people in Munich in the 1960s and '70s. The main character is a musician from the first film who has been forced to leave his small hometown in order to study music composition in Munich. The circumstances of his move have made him somewhat bitter. He gradually becomes involved in his new life among the musicians and budding filmmakers of the city, and the stories spin out from there, as each character ages and adapts to life's changes. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Henry Arnold, Anke Sevenich, (more)
- 1989
Jacob (Thomas Speilberg) is a 12 year old affected by the recent death of his father. His still-grieving mother (Dagmar Deisen) can't control her son as his grades suffer and he becomes obsessed with death and dying. Jacob meets jazz musician Shot (Marquard Bohm), and the veteran cornet player and the lonely boy help each other through their difficult times together. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Thomas Speilberg, Dagmar Deisen, (more)
- 1986
Concocted with a flair for the kind of mystery once captured in the best silent films, this engaging suspense story concerns a German samurai who mastered his art while growing up in Japan. The flaxen-haired samurai is Wilcke (Hans Peter Hallwachs), who has his dander up because an ancient and highly valuable sword has been stolen from its rightful owners. Wojciech Pzoniak plays Gerhard Krall, a cringing, super-rich thief who defends himself with huge castle walls, a moat, a surveillance system, and one talented ninja bodyguard. To complicate matters between these enemies, a female journalist is on the trail of the samurai and the story behind his actions. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Cornelia Froboess, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, (more)
- 1984
In this curiously irresolute drama, Gabriele (Barbara Rudnik) is a young woman who lives at home in her wealthy parents' apartment, but dreams of returning to Australia to join her Aussie boyfriend. He keeps in touch by mailing her taped messages and a video of their good times together on the beach. She, in turn, is studying marine biology and working at a peep show at night so she can save some money to join him. Her nighttime job introduces new people into her life -- everyone from her manager who lusts after her, to the women who work in the peep shows, and the taxi driver who takes her to work each night. An uneasy sense of foreboding slowly takes over, raising the question of whether she may finally return to Australia or not. All this might be more compelling if the acting were less stylized and the script a little more convincing. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Barbara Rudnik
- 1983
In this intellectual perspective of what emotion is and does, director Alexander Kluge has divided the topic into 12 parts with titles such as "The Change," "Act Five" or "The Shot" and then proceeded to formulate a film treatise that does not exclude political figures or activities in West Germany in the early 1980s. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hannelore Hoger, Alexandra Kluge, (more)
- 1982
Paulina (Kristin Genee, daughter of director Heidi Genee) has had to suddenly shoulder the burden of taking care of her mother's responsibilities at home while the latter goes off to a rehab center for alcoholics. Unfortunately, Paulina also has to work at a drive-in to cover the bills, handle the visits of a social worker, and take care of an unwanted teenager hiding out from the law -- making school and homework seem like child's play. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Kai Taschner, Hannelore Hoger, (more)
- 1982
In this drama with an undercurrent of incest, a truck driver spends so much time with his mentally impaired younger daughter that neighbors' protests bring in a social worker who manages to get the young woman placed with a distant pastor's family before tragedy can strike. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Gerhard Olschewski, Susanne Lothar, (more)
- 1980
Director Peter Bringmann has captured the ambiance of the port city of Bremerhaven at the end of the 1950s in this evocative slice-of-life drama. When a young 17-year-old falls in love with a slightly older woman, he weathers several setbacks before romance finds its own way. The woman he loves gets involved with an Afro-American soldier, partly in rebellion against the anti-American sentiment in the town, home to many GIs stationed in the city. Just as Elvis Presley arrives in Bremerhaven at the end of 1958 for a tour of duty, the love-struck 17-year-old is confronted with several unexpected circumstances that affect his life and the relationship with the woman he loves. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- 1979
The Patriot is the kind of symbolic, avant-garde, historical and cultural drama that lends itself to several viewings in order to get at the basis of what, in this case, director Alexander Kluge had in mind. Various aspects of German history are explored from several angles in a series of odd sequences. Gabi Teichert (Hannelore Hogar) is both a history teacher and a patriot. One day she goes out into the winter landscape carrying a shovel (digging for the truth?). She comes across is a dead soldier killed at the battle of Leningrad, whose symbolically disembodied knee speaks to her. Next, Gabi scans the landscape with a telescope, looking for evidence. Later, she is at a convention of the Social Democrat Party and tries to find information there. The scenes continue at different venues and with different people as this history teacher tries to piece together history. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hannelore Hoger, Alfred Edel, (more)
- 1978
This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Germany when terrorism ran rampant. Filmmakers include Fassbinder, Boll, Schlondorff, Sinkel, Kluge (who narrates) and more. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Caroline Chaniolleau
- 1977
After Goethe, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) is the playwright and writer who did the most to fuel the Romantic movement in German literature. A troubled and brilliant man, he committed suicide at age 34, and his life was the paradigm for that of a tragic romantic artist. Penthesilea was among his better known works. This biographical film explores the circumstances leading up to and immediately following his suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1976
At the end of the 19th century, an educated white-collar worker finds himself in the employ of an inventor. As he is neither a "worker" nor an "owner," his position in the inventor's household and in the world at large is equivocal. Despite the difficulties he encounters, he tries to hold onto his job in order to support his family, but is eventually fired. This Swiss movie is based on a novel written around 1900 by Robert Walser. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paul Burian, Ingold Wildenauer, (more)
- 1975
Based on a very successful play of the same name by Tankred Dorst, this film tells a story about Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (here played by O.E. Hasse), a Nobel prizewinner for literature who was notorious for having collaborated with the Nazi regime. After the war, rather than hand him over for prosecution, he was sent to a retirement home. A young man, bitter about the war, tracks him down and begins to harass him in various ways. The author handles everything that comes to him with remarkable dignity, which eventually removes some of the taint from his actions. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- O.E. Hasse, Hannelore Hoger, (more)
- 1975
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum marks the directorial debut for actress Margarethe von Trotta, who co-directed the film with her then-husband Volker Schlöndorff. At a costume party, Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) meets Ludwig Goetten (Jürgen Prochnow ) and spends the night with him. The next morning, he's gone and the police bust into her apartment looking for him with the belief that he is a dangerous terrorist. She is taken into police custody and interrogated by Kommissar Beizmenne (Mario Adorf), who questions her about her every action. Meanwhile, sleazy reporter Werner Toetges (Dieter Laser) makes her story into a scandal in the papers by writing sensational stories about her personal life and portraying her as a criminal in photos. He exaggerates the testimonies of her ex-husband, neighbors, and even her elderly mother who is dying of cancer in an intensive care hospital. With the fear-induced public thinking she is a Communist and terrorist sympathizer, Katharina receives hate mail and personal threats until she is finally driven over the edge. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, (more)
- 1970
This independent film is a satirical look at a group of successful, middle aged business people. Included are a film director, a writer and others who talk of love, sex and politics. They are portrayed as cynical and bored with life, and the viewer may feel the same way about the feature. This is the second effort from director Peter Zadek after his critically acclaimed I Am An Elephant, Madame. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anton Diffring, Gisela Fischer, (more)
- 1970
A mini-sequel to German director Alexander Kluge's 1968 Golden Lion winner Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed, The Indomitable Leni Peickert continues the slice-of-life tale of down-on-her-luck Peickert (Hannelore Hoger), who in that earlier film (many will remember) made the mistake of investing in a "socially relevant" circus that failed to draw crowds - and quickly found herself in financial hot water. In this particular outing, she begins by working on television, then gets fired for smuggling an explicit, uncensored film - and promptly returns to the circus, while remaining footloose and unsettled. Intriguingly, this film does not represent a sequel to Big Top per se, but actually works in material that Kluge originally intended for that earlier outing. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hannelore Hoger
- 1968
This film combines both black-and-white and color photography to tell the story of a circus beset with financial woes. Leni (Hannelore Hoger), the director of a circus, has just lost her father in a trapeze accident. She tries to keep the circus out of debt and vows to continue the performances under the big top. Helped by a small and unexpected inheritance, Leni has high hopes of keeping the circus operating. She must decide if her dedication to the show is realistic or merely wishful thinking. Curt Jurgens appears as the animal trainer Mackensen in this symbolic but slow-moving feature. The film took the Gold Lion award at the 1968 Venice Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Hannelore Hoger, Alfred Edel, (more)
