Marianne Rosenberg Movies
- 1989
This somber drama from director Margit Czenki draws from her experience in serving a five-year prison term for armed robbery. The main heroine spends weeks in solitary confinement, then encounters the typical dangers of being with other women behind bars. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pola Kinski, Therese Affolter, (more)
- 1985
This Berlin Underground spoof of a vampire movie begins with a few original ideas that are difficult to sustain through to the ending. Sylvana (Marianne Enzenberger, also the director) has arrived for a stay in New York City but after becoming exhausted wandering around somewhat lost, she is taken to a mysterious brownstone walk-up and is bitten by a vampire before she knows what is going on. Now with a slightly different perspective on life, she flies back to Berlin, anxious to sink her teeth into just about anyone she can find. But as she tries to entrap people -- ranging from commune dwellers to the staid middle classes -- no one is interested in being bitten, and they get a little irritated with Sylvana. This hardly bodes well for her future as a bat woman.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marianne Rosenberg
- 1983
In this entertaining comedy, two couples -- or "about to be" couples -- meet by chance for a carefree weekend in Berlin. Adding to everyone's enjoyment is a tacit agreement to keep their own workaday lives to themselves so as not to spoil the fun of their weekend. Another couple joins the group and the "wild bunch" have a series of escapades that make for a great two days, before they finally do divulge who they are and what they do. Director Dieter Koster and his wife and scriptwriter Hannelore Conradsen had a series of successful films for youth before creating this low-budget, sensitive work on Berlin and a few of its typical citizens. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Dorothea Moritz
- 1981
This is the third children's feature to appear in 1981 from director Dieter Koester with the assistance of his wife, Hannelore Conradsen-Koester, and unlike the other two features, this story was made for television. A group of youngsters in their pre-teen years are thrown together simply by the fact that they live in the same neighborhood in West Berlin, unique in that it is surrounded by the Berlin Wall on three sides. All the kids in the group are from working-class families struggling to keep their heads above water -- and so the art of survival is definitely passed on from parent to child. In spite of the economic hardships they share, one has been able to get a Super-8 film camera and starts to shoot interesting neighborhood scenes, from the local subway station to graffiti on the Wall. This and other activities often get them into trouble, though most of the trouble consists of being chased and not getting caught by people like customs guards, conductors on the subway, and similar authority figures. Their antics stand in high relief against the Wall erected by their elders, a divider that is taken as a part of the landscape like everything else. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
