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Hanna Schygulla
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Hanna Schygulla and Angela Winkler are the stars of the German psychological drama Friends and Husbands. Having both been burned by unhappy relationships with men, Schygulla and Winkler become more and more reliant upon each other. The men in their lives can't come to grips with their strong friendship, and begin writing off Schygulla and Winkler as "oddballs." As in most of her films, writer/director Margarethe von Trotta probes the unspoken human complexities that draw people together.
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Hanna Schygulla and Rainer Werner Fassbinder are both featured in this film about a doomed film production unit. Both the crew and cast are besieged by every conceivable problem in a luxurious seaside hotel. As they wait for the director to show up and the producer scrambles to procure more cash, they are forced to confront themselves and each other. The DVD includes filmographies, optional English subtitles and more. German with English subtitles. West Germany, 1970, 103 mins.
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The sublime Hanna Schygulla stars as a plucky frau perennially separated from her husband, first by war, then by prison, and finally by pervasive capitalist malaise. She channels her frustrated romantic energy into the construction of an industrial empire--a plot that mixes love and money in the manner of Mildred Pierce. Though Fassbinder takes a more open attitude toward his characters, letting them exist as fully developed psychological specimens, his deadly irony continues to operate on the level of mise-en-scene, drawing his actors into an unstable world of seductive surfaces and shifting meanings. Fassbinder argues that happiness delayed is happiness denied, tempering the film's emotion with precise analysis.
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Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen-year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition that causes her to accept a proposal of marriage from Baron Geert Von Instetten, a Prussian diplomat who is much older than Effi. Unfortunately, neither the Baron's family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship and finding none from her busy husband, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize even her tenuous position as the Baron's wife.
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Hanna Schygulla was born in German-occupied Poland 1943. She grew up in Munich and studied Roman languages and literature in the local university. In her early twenties Hanna became more involved with acting and she worked with experimental theatre groups in Munich. There she met Fassbinder, and in 1968 she first appeared in his film Katzelmacher. That project was the beginning of a long and often tense cooperation which lasted till Fassbinder’s death in 1982. Schygulla was often called Fassbinder’s muse.
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Hanna Schygulla later won acclaim with Love in Germany by Andrzej Wajda, acted for Ferreri again in The Future is Woman and appeared in Dead Again by Kenneth Branagh. She then worked with Amos Gitaï (Golem, the Spirit of the Exile), Michel Deville (Life’s Little Treasures) and Agnès Varda (A Hundred and One Nights of Simon). In 2000, she topped the bill in Werckmeister Harmonies, a film by the Hungarian director Bela Tarr.
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