Juliane Lorenz

Highlighted works

• In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden

  A lonely transsexual journeys through modern Frankfurt in this dark elegy for doomed love.

• Die dritte Generation

  Colourful farce centring on a group of bourgeois self-styled terrorists.

• Die Ehe der Maria Braun

  Hanna Schygulla gives a star performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, as a German woman who struggles to rebuild her life after the Second World War.

• Lili Marleen

  Set in the Third Reich, this forbidden love story focuses on recording star Willie Bunterberg.

• Querelle

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s adaptation of one of his favourite novels by Jean Genet – a dream-like tale of sex, murder and the quest for self-realisation.

• Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

  A young sports journalist meets an ageing movie star in this eerie vision of 1950s Germany.

• Lola

  Fantastically vulgar update of The Blue Angel (1930) set in late 1950s West Germany.

• Theater in Trance

  This immersive documentary captures the 1981 World Theatre Festival in Cologne.

• Despair

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.

• Bolwieser

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s striking adaptation of Oskar Maria Graf’s novel about a small-town Bavarian stationmaster.

• Chinesisches Roulette

  A bitter young girl brings her emotionally estranged parents together in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gothic psychodrama.