Nicole Heesters Movies
- 1998
Dani Levy directed and co-stars in this German-Austrian political thriller. Lena Katz (Maria Schrader), living in New York, is the granddaughter of Jewish chocolate-factory owner Eliah Goldberg (Lukas Ammann), whose factory in Germany has been recently set on fire by some anti-Semitic thugs. In NYC, German émigrée Mrs. Fish (Lynn Cohen) reads about the fire and recognizes Goldberg as her father, who she thought was long dead, a victim of the Holocaust. Mrs. Fish phones her son David (Dani Levy), who hires Jewish activist attorney Charles Kaminski (David Strathairn) to contact Goldberg. At the same time, Lena's mom (Nicole Heesters) is visiting New York, and when Lena goes to see her at her hotel, she finds Mrs. Fish near death in the hallway, the victim of an attempted murder. She's taken to the hospital -- where David and Lena meet and begin to learn about their mysterious shared backgrounds and past history. Made with English and German dialogue, this film was shown at the 1998 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maria Schrader, Dani Levy, (more)
- 1994
This nostalgic Austrian romantic drama, filmed in black and white, tells the story of two people from different walks of life who meet before the start of World War I. Tonino, an Italian fisherman, still copes with death of his wife and baby after a flu outbreak. He lives on an island and dreams of opening a spaghetti factory in America. Toinette is a blue-blooded woman who married a mean old manufacturer of munitions. They have a son whom Toinette adores. She meets Tonino while she spends the summer in Italy with her aunt the countess. Every day Robby is scheduled to visit Tonino's island. The two adults fall in love and Toinette will not go back to her husband. Instead she, he, and Robby end up in America where Tonino's dream comes true. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Julia Stemberger
- 1989
Herman (Ernst Stankovski) and his young wife Elisabeth (Nicole Heesters) are on their way to Kiev, where Herman (an architect) is to deliver a lecture. He takes the opportunity of his travels to the east to revisit the town he grew up in before the war. It is now part of Poland, but was formerly within the borders of Germany. His visit, and the fact that he survived some untrue allegations that he was Jewish (which caused him grave difficulty during World War II), sets off a wave of encounters, discussions and confrontations with people from his past. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ernst Stankovski, Nicole Heesters, (more)
- 1985
An avant-garde film that may be too avant for most viewers, this 87-minute feature involves a melange of scenes straight out of the "theater of the absurd" in which the actors speak directly to the camera. A jaded film director goes routinely off to work every morning, while the aspiring actors he auditions are not always successful in their screen tests. One of these becomes the main protagonist for the film, and the oddball people he meets fill in the rest of these puzzling observances on life and human nature. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nicole Heesters, Mathew Anden, (more)
- 1982
Famed filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars as a futuristic cop who must sniff out a bomb stashed somewhere in a 30-story Berlin office building. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, (more)
- 1981
Based on a novel by Irmgard Keun written in 1937, this film is a satire on the up-and-coming Germans of that time who desired to make the leap from comfortably well-off to rich and/or powerful. The bawdy cabarets and omnipresent swastikas and military police form a backdrop for these social climbers, as they are observed by an older teenage girl. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Desiree Nosbusch, Nicole Heesters, (more)
- 1953
Attila Hoerbiger and Paula Wessely play the title characters in the Austrian musical Ich und Mein Frau (I and My Wife). Feeling neglected, Sophie Nagimueller (Wessely) decides to make her husband Herman (Hoerbiger) jealous. This she does not by fooling around with another man, but by dropping hints that she might be dallying. Fritz Schulz contributes to the fun as Sophie's confused former fiancé. For once, the comedy supports the music, rather than the other way around. Ich und Mein Frau is hardly Shakespeare, but it is immensely entertaining. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Paula Wessely, Attila Hoerbiger, (more)
