Honoring Margarete von Trotta at the European Film Awards
The European Film Awards honor Margarete von Trotta with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Charso Press: German director, screenwriter and actress Margarete von Trotta will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 35th European Film Awards.
The award ceremony will be held on December 10 in Reykjavik, Iceland, and will recognize von Trotta for his unique contribution to the world of cinema.
Born in Berlin and raised in Dusseldorf, the 80-year-old von Trotta began her acting career in the theater and in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff. He eventually became a director in the European cinema and in 1978 he directed his first film titled “The Second Awakening of Christa Claggs”.
Among his other works, we can mention “Marine and Juliane” in 1981, which won the Golden Lion of Venice, “Sheer Madness” in 1983, which was in the competition section of the Berlinale, and “Rosa Luxemburg” in 1986, which was shown in Cannes. earned and won the Best Actress award for Barbara Sukova. This film also won the honorary award of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Von Trotta returned to the Cannes Film Festival in 1988 with “Love and Fear” and in 2018 with “The Search for Ingmar Bergman” and in 2003 won the Venice Volpi Cup and was nominated for the European Film Awards with the drama “Rosenstrasse”.
This filmmaker won 2 German Film Awards for making the film “Hannah Arendt”, an academic portrait of the famous philosopher. His latest film “Bachmann and Frisch” depicts the relationship between 2 writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.