Jutta Brückner

Jutta Brückner is a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. She directed nine films between 1975 and 2005. Furthermore, she has written essays in film theory, film reviews and radio plays. She lives in Berlin and was Professor for narrative film at Berlin University of the Arts.

Bertolt Brecht - Love, Revolution and Other Dangerous Things (1998)

Brecht′s 100th birthday is being celebrated on 10 February, 1998. A good enough opportunity to examine his life closely again. The film director Jutta Brueckner is mainly concerned here with the question of the kind of person Brecht was. We have known him until now ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Peter Buchholz  •  Jutta Brückner

Brecht′s 100th birthday is being celebrated on 10 February, 1998. A good enough opportunity to examine his life closely again. The film director Jutta Brueckner is mainly concerned here with the question of the kind of person Brecht was. We have known him until now ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Peter Buchholz  •  Jutta Brückner

The Hunger Years: In a Land of Plenty (1980)

Hungerjahre is a movie about adolescence in 1950s West Germany, in which director and scriptwriter Jutta Brückner comes to terms with her own memories.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Britta Pohland  •  Sylvia Ulrich  •  Claus Jurichs  •  Heidi Joschko

Hungerjahre is a movie about adolescence in 1950s West Germany, in which director and scriptwriter Jutta Brückner comes to terms with her own memories.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Britta Pohland  •  Sylvia Ulrich  •  Claus Jurichs  •  Heidi Joschko

Kolossale Liebe (1984)

Berlin 1808. A young, immature student who considers himself a poet, August Varnhagen, enters the famous salon of Rahel Levin, one of the first assimilated Jewish women of the Romantic period. He has heard of this woman who was praised by all for her wit and wisdom ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Kirsten Dene  •  Ulrich Gebauer  •  Ilse Künkele  •  Richard Münch

Berlin 1808. A young, immature student who considers himself a poet, August Varnhagen, enters the famous salon of Rahel Levin, one of the first assimilated Jewish women of the Romantic period. He has heard of this woman who was praised by all for her wit and wisdom ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Kirsten Dene  •  Ulrich Gebauer  •  Ilse Künkele  •  Richard Münch

Hitlerkantate (2005)

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems like a dream ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Lena Lauzemis  •  Hilmar Thate  •  Rike Schmid  •  Arnd Klawitter

Berlin during the Nazi reign: Young music student Ursula is a talented musician and a fervent admirer of the "Führer". When she is asked to assist renowned composer Broch, who was ordered to compose a cantata for Hitler′s 50th birthday, it first seems like a dream ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Lena Lauzemis  •  Hilmar Thate  •  Rike Schmid  •  Arnd Klawitter

Bräute des Nichts. Der weibliche Terror: Magda Goebbels und Ulrike Meinhof (2008)

"Brides of Nothingness: Female Terror." What connects Magda Goebbels with Ulrike Meinhof? - Both women represent a different side of modernity: continuity and fractures of a female mentality story in which the unconscious of history is sedimented. The fanaticism of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Anne Tismer

"Brides of Nothingness: Female Terror." What connects Magda Goebbels with Ulrike Meinhof? - Both women represent a different side of modernity: continuity and fractures of a female mentality story in which the unconscious of history is sedimented. The fanaticism of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Anne Tismer

Do Right and Fear No One (1975)

A portrait of a woman’s life between 1915 and 1975. In Jutta Brückner’s documentary, her mother looks back at the 60 years of her life, talking about her father’s early accidental death, the constraints faced by a lower middle-class family of five, her training as ...  (more)

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A portrait of a woman’s life between 1915 and 1975. In Jutta Brückner’s documentary, her mother looks back at the 60 years of her life, talking about her father’s early accidental death, the constraints faced by a lower middle-class family of five, her training as ...  (more)

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Ein ganz und gar verwahrlostes Mädchen (1977)

It's a perfectly ordinary day in Rita's life: early in the morning her lover from last night left the apartment, and Rita doesn't dare to go back to work after she stole money in the telephone cabin the day before.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Rita Rischak  •  Manfred Fischer  •  Christian Bausch  •  Bertha Zenglein

It's a perfectly ordinary day in Rita's life: early in the morning her lover from last night left the apartment, and Rita doesn't dare to go back to work after she stole money in the telephone cabin the day before.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Rita Rischak  •  Manfred Fischer  •  Christian Bausch  •  Bertha Zenglein

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DIRECTION:  Jutta Brückner
CAST:  Elida Araoz  •  Regina Lamm  •  Rosario Bléfari

Die Erbtöchter (1983)

A TV movie in episodes by a group of female filmmakers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helma Sanders-Brahms  •  Marie-Christine Questerbert  •  Danièle Dubroux  •  Viviane Berthommier  •  Ula Stöckl  •  Jutta Brückner
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A TV movie in episodes by a group of female filmmakers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Helma Sanders-Brahms  •  Marie-Christine Questerbert  •  Danièle Dubroux  •  Viviane Berthommier  •  Ula Stöckl  •  Jutta Brückner
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alice Agneskirchner
CAST:  Erika Gregor  •  Ulrich Gregor  •  Wim Wenders  •  Jutta Brückner

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alice Agneskirchner
CAST:  Erika Gregor  •  Ulrich Gregor  •  Wim Wenders  •  Jutta Brückner