Erika Pluhar Movies
- 1984
When a mother meets her teenage daughter's boyfriend, an attraction starts that leads to an affair -- and has disastrous results on the family. This drama about the dissolution of a middle-class family might be unconvincing for some viewers because of a rather weak psychological rendering of individual characters. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Erika Pluhar, Günter Lamprecht, (more)
- 1980
Framed as the memories of a young schoolgirl in a small German village, this realistic, harrowing drama focuses on the lives of the girl and her acquaintances during World War II. She and her friends of varying ages come up against the harsh cruelties of war in several shattering experiences. One of them is almost raped by a bitter and disfigured soldier, another makes a suicide pact with her lover, a professed Nazi is sent home from the war as a paraplegic, while a young man against the Nazis is among those killed in a bombing raid. The inhumanity of war is not confined to physical wounds, violent death, or rape; the drama goes on to paint twisted psyches that have been bent by unholy circumstances. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Erika Pluhar
- 1979
- R
The West German Just a Gigolo has little to do with the popular song of the same name. Its central character, played by David Bowie, is a World War I-era Prussian aristocrat. Living by his wits throughout Europe, Bowie uses his sexual prowess with beautiful women (and powerful men) to advance himself. The leering lothario eventually comes to grief in the decadent Berlin of the 1920s. We don't know how he did it, but director David Hemmings managed to corral some of the most stellar sex goddesses in film history to play cameos in Just a Gigolo: Kim Novak, Maria Schell, and even Marlene Dietrich. The film was originally released as Schoner Gigolo, Armer Gigolo. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Bowie, Sydne Rome, (more)
- 1977
In this complex story, set in the late 18th century, two brothers with contrasting principles feud against one another. One, who refuses to knuckle under to authority and militarism, shoots an English military recruiter when he comes to seek men to fight on the British side against the American colonists during the American Revolution. He is forced to take to the hills and adopts the motto of "death or freedom." His efforts are deliberately misrepresented by his dastardly brother to their father. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Sattmann, Erika Pluhar, (more)
- 1976
Frank (Klaus Loewitsch) has been making love with his stepmother Rachel (Erika Pluhar) for years. In fact, though he doesn't know it, his step-brother Roman is actually his son. Unfortunately, brother-son or not, the boy hates him, and engineers a plan to kill him which backfires, and instead injures his beloved mother. At the same time, Frank's overly affectionate relationship with his stepmother is revealed for what it is, and he is expelled from the house. Rachel lingers on for some years, paralyzed. Years later, on her deathbed, she reveals to the now-grown Roman (Peter Sattmann) and Frank the secret of their true kinship. Frank, by this time an alcoholic mess, goes on a rampage and then disappears during Rachel's funeral, and Roman teams up with Frank's wife Sandra to find him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Erika Pluhar, Klaus Löwitsch, (more)
- 1971
A loose adaptation of a novelette by author Peter Handke, this early effort from acclaimed director Wim Wenders follows penalized goalie Joseph Bloch (Arthur Brauss) as he makes his way through the city after missing penalty kick and getting suspended from a game. Wandering by a local cinema, Joseph picks up the pretty cashier and the two spend the night together. Inexplicably strangling the girl in the light of the morning, the seemingly unaffected Joseph makes his way through the city streets as emotion begins to boil under the surface of his stony gaze. Making his way to an old girlfriends house in the country, the emotionally shattered goalie has little to do but wait for the police to close in on him. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- 1968
This film combines black-and-white with color photography to tell the story of an ambitious advertising executive. Engaged to the daughter of an aging baron, the man wishes to renovate the baron's crumbling castle into a holiday getaway gathering for the social elite. In his zeal to seal the deal, he manages to alienate his friends, lose his fiancee to a more clear-thinking man, and end up with nothing for his efforts in this allegorical and symbolic feature. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Erika Pluhar, Heinz Trixner, (more)
