Margarethe von Trotta : interviews / edited by Monika Raesch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trotta, Margarethe von, author.

Contributor:

Raesch, Monika, editor.

Series:

Conversations with filmmakers series

Conversations with Filmmakers Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trotta, Margarethe von--Interviews.

Trotta, Margarethe von.

Motion picture producers and directors--Germany--Interviews.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Germany.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 148 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]

Summary:

"Margarethe von Trotta (b. 1942) entered the film industry in the only way she could in the 1960s as an actress. Throughout her career, von Trotta added thirty-two acting credits to her name; however, these credits came to a halt in 1975. Her ambition had always been to be a movie director. Though she viewed acting as a detour, it allowed her to be in the right place at the right time, and through her line of work she met such important directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlondorff. The latter would eventually provide her with the opportunity to codirect her first film, Die Verlohrene Ehre der Katharina Blum (The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum) in 1975. The debut's success ensured von Trotta's future in the film industry and launched her accomplished film directing career. Volume editor Monika Raesch furnishes twenty-four illuminating interviews with the auteur. Spanning three decades, from the mid-1980s until today, the interviews reveal not only von Trotta's life in the film industry, but also evolving roles of and opportunities provided to women over that time period. This collection of interviews presents the different dimensions of von Trotta through the lenses of film critics, scholars, and journalists. The volume offers essential reading for anyone seeking a better understanding of an iconic female movie director at a time when this possibility for women just emerged."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Other Format:

Online version: Trotta, Margarethe von author. Margarethe von Trotta.

ISBN:

9781496815613

1496815610

OCLC:

983527018