Ingrid van Bergen Movies

Oskar Roehler's drama Der Alte Affe Angst (Angst) is about the dissolution of a couple. Robert (Andre Hennicke) and Marie (Marie Baumer) have little in common other than their sex life. Since Robert is going through a bout with impotency, they are having a very rocky time. Robert learns that his father, whom he is estranged from, has died. This disturbs Robert so much that he visits a prostitute, and is able to engage in sex with her. Marie discovers the infidelity, and the prostitute has a surprise of her own. Angst was screened at the 2003 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

Carl Hamilton is in one sense a peculiar sort of secret agent in that he has a license to kill but applies his conscience to that license far more often than is comfortable for him. In another sense, since he is Swedish, it makes sense that this would be so. In this story, one of a series of successful films based on this character from the novels of Jan Guillou, he has been given the task of infiltrating a group of terrorists operating out of Hamburg, who reportedly intend to attack the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm. After falling in love with one beautiful terrorist, he attempts to get her to change her ways by the force of moral persuasion rather than arms. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Martin (Marius Muller Westernhagen) is an Australian tourist forced to land in Hamburg in this routine thriller. He is mistaken for a notorious hitman and is pursued by the authorities. With help from the darling Dutch woman Juliane (Renee Soutendjik), the two are chased through the city by the thugs and the law. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Rosa Von Praunheim satirizes cults of any kind in this black-humored story about a gay couple in Berlin, one studying art and the other medicine, happily living together until one of them is hypnotized by a deranged female cult leader and convinced to join her "Optimal Optimism" religion. The traumas and dramas of cult foibles play out against neo-expressionist backdrops, with von Praunheim using the Moonies, the Rajnishers, and doomed Jim Jones followers as ample material to twist around an already kinky storyline. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Italian producer Pier A. Caminnecci went to Germany and hired British director Freddie Francis to make this vampire comedy starring his Scandinavian wife, Pia Dagermark (Elvira Madigan). The resultant international mish-mash is neither very scary nor very funny. Dagermark portrays Hollywood actress Betty Williams, who inherits a Balkan castle only to find that her grandmother (also played by Dagermark) was a vampiric witch. There is a great deal of nudity, bad jokes, cheesy visuals, and Ferdy Mayne -- star of this film's superior inspiration, Dance of the Vampires -- as a helicopter-riding Dracula. It's certainly unusual, and horror completists will want to give it a look, but most viewers will find it simultaneously ridiculous and dull, a combination found frequently in Francis' films. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Eva (Maria Liljedahl) is the virginal teenager who wishes to hold onto her status for a while longer. She and her girlfriend Yvonne (Karin Schubert) are pursued by two teenaged wolves whose sole mission in life is seducing young girls. Eva remains steadfast in her desire to remain a virgin, but sex is everywhere in her world. She sees her parents making love, then her father is seen having sex with another woman. Eva tries to maintain her moral standards but eventually gives in to the suitor who merely uses her as a sex object in this coming-of-age story. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

Joachim Mahlke (Lars Brandt) is a high-school student who dreams of being awarded the German Iron Cross so he can wear it to hide his Adam's apple. When he steals one from a war hero, he is expelled from school. He joins the military and eventually earns his own medal, but in spite of his heroism, the older and wiser Joachim (Peter Brandt) is not forgiven by his former school principal. The film received a lot of publicity before it was even shown for having the two sons of West German Mayor Willy Brandt as the principle actors. Brandt would later become Chancellor of West Germany. Many former Nazi war veterans voiced their objections to the alleged "ridicule" of awarded military medals -- and they were in turn eternally ridiculed for being Nazis. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

In this tense espionage drama set in 1942, William Holden plays Eric Erickson, an American-born Swede who is put on the Allied blacklist for trading oil with the Nazis. Collins (Hugh Griffith), a British intelligence agent, offers to expunge Erickson's name from the blacklist after the war in return for information on the Nazis. Erickson agrees to the plan and proceeds to make it look as if he is pro-Nazi. This subterfuge causes him to be branded a traitor, and his wife, believing Eric to be a Nazi, walks out on him. Nevertheless, Eric continues with his deceit and makes the Germans think that he is planning to construct an oil refinery in Sweden to serve as a fuel supply for Germany. As a result he is allowed entrance to four German oil refinery, and he passes on the information to Collins. But Eric is being put under surveillance by the Nazis. They discover that Eric's lover, Marianne (Lilli Palmer) is working for the Allies. Suddenly both Marianne and Eric are arrested and thrown into Moabit Prison -- with dire consequences for both of them. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

This light comedy concerns psychiatrist Lilli Koenig (Maria Schell). Her practice revolves around idle, wealthy women with too much time on their hands who imagine they are suffering from a bevy of complexes. She catches the eye of fashion-photographer Martin Bohlen (Paul Hubschmidt), who longs to zoom in on her with more than just his camera lens. In the darkroom of his lovestruck mind, he develops a scheme to get near the doctor by pretending to suffer from a variety of ailments. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

In this detective film, a Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer." The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide