List of the best Elisabeth Trissenaar movies: Angry Harvest(1985), Nobody Loves Me(1995), In a Year of 13 Moons(1978), The Marriage of Maria Braun(1978), A Love in Germany(1983), Mario and the Magician(1994) ... ...
Drama
West Germany
1985
102 Minutes
Rosa Eckart
Armin Mueller-Stahl Elisabeth Trissenaar Hans Beerhenke
In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »
Romance
Germany
1995
104 Minutes
Madeleine
Maria Schrader Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss Michael von Au Elisabeth Trissenaar Ingo Naujoks Joachim Król Peggy Parnass Lorose Keller Anja Hoffmann
young woman artist neighbor amusing germany apartment building relationships search existential crisis love future
On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing up on her. She is obsessed with death, even visits evening classes on dying and so it seems fitting, ... See full summary »
Drama
1978
124 Minutes
Irene Weishaupt
Volker Spengler Ingrid Caven Gottfried John Elisabeth Trissenaar Eva Mattes Günther Kaufmann Lilo Pempeit Isolde Barth Karl Scheydt Walter Bockmayer Peter Kollek
butcher businessperson partner love interest engaging dark gutsy raw germany courage infatuation desire heartbreak journey forbidden love forbidden love quest sacrifice 1970s
Elvira, once a working-class butcher named Erwin, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now struggles to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Drama
West Germany
1978
120 Minutes
Betti Klenze
Hanna Schygulla Klaus Löwitsch Ivan Desny Gisela Uhlen Elisabeth Trissenaar Gottfried John Hark Bohm George Byrd Claus Holm Gunter Lamprecht Anton Schiersner
woman soldier husband industrialist intense sad somber emotional engaging germany bar train station war love devotion struggle sacrifice fall love 1940s
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Drama
West Germany|France
1983
107 Minutes
Elsbeth Schnittgens
Hanna Schygulla Piotr Lysak Marie-Christine Barrault Armin Mueller-Stahl Elisabeth Trissenaar Daniel Olbrychski Bernhard Wicki
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an ... See full summary »
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
1994
127 Minutes
Sofronia Angiolieri
Julian Sands Anna Galiena Jan Wachtel Nina Schweser Klaus Maria Brandauer Pavel Greco Valentina Chico Elisabeth Trissenaar Rolf Hoppe Philippe Leroy Ivano Marescotti
The 1920s: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and... See full summary »