Barbara Sukowa
Barbara Sukowa (born 2 February 1950) is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 8.545 |
| Birthday | 1950-02-02 |
| Place of Birth | Bremen, Germany |
| Also Known As | Barbara Sukova, |
1993
M. Butterfly
6.6/224
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
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M. Butterfly
1991
Voyager
6.214/49
Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passio...
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Voyager
1981
Lola
7/111
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants mone...
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Lola
2014
Salomea's Nose
0/0
Salomea remembers the day her beloved brothers, Max and Karl, disfigured her and themselves for life. The Day of Tragedy, is what their mother called...
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Salomea's Nose
1987
The Sicilian
5.2/130
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
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The Sicilian
1991
Europa
7.332/316
A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try t...
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Europa
2009
Veronika Decides to Die
5.9/246
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializ...
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Veronika Decides to Die
2003
A Birthday to Remember
5.4/9
Lene Thurner is standing on a train platform in Munich. She has to decide: back to Berlin where she lives, or toward the south, where at the foot of t...
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A Birthday to Remember
1995
Johnny Mnemonic
5.8/1351
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks...
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Johnny Mnemonic
2023
Air
7.3/1916
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the wo...
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Air
1981
Marianne and Juliane
7/61
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are tota...
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Marianne and Juliane
2020
Granny Nanny
6.5/52
Retirees Karin, Gerhard and Philippa are not in the mood for Nordic walking and seniors' courses at the university. When Philippa, who is living life...
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Granny Nanny
2009
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
6.2/23
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christ...
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Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2005
Romance & Cigarettes
5.969/138
Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much...
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Romance & Cigarettes
1986
Rosa Luxemburg
6.5/51
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg ca...
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Rosa Luxemburg
2001
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
6.264/91
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of...
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2022
White Noise
5.563/679
Jack Gladney, professor of Hitler studies at The-College-on-the-Hill, husband to Babette, and father to four children/stepchildren, is torn asunder by...
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White Noise
2011
Nacht ohne Morgen
5.5/4
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Nacht ohne Morgen
2012
Hannah Arendt
6.924/269
HANNAH ARENDT is a portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann...
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Hannah Arendt
1998
The Port of Last Resort
6.5/2
Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.
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The Port of Last Resort
2021
Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
0/0
The life of German photographer Fred Stein, whose street scenes from 1930s Paris and 1940s New York are well known. While caught up in the darkness of...
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Out of Exile: The Photography of Fred Stein
2023
Enkel für Fortgeschrittene
6.7/3
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Enkel für Fortgeschrittene
1997
Office Killer
5.2/40
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to...
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Office Killer
2014
The Sky is Blue
6.2/4
On vacation from Mexico, wealthy man-children Oscar and Arturo are causing havoc in New York City, partying like there’s no tomorrow. Their sense of e...
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The Sky is Blue
1978
Heinrich Heine
0/0
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Heinrich Heine
1977
Women in New York
5.7/3
The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the...
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Women in New York
2008
Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
3.9/5
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Die Entdeckung der Currywurst
2025
Turning Tables
0/0
Richard, an artist, now lives in Tangier. With his help, the young Moroccan Malik manages to reach Europe, the destination of his dreams. That's where...
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Turning Tables
1990
The African Woman
0/0
A dying woman, who stole her best friend's lover, is convinced that a spell has been cast on her, so she orchestrates her former friend's return from...
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The African Woman
1999
Nightworld: Lost Souls
5/3
As a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is somehow communicating with th...
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Nightworld: Lost Souls
2004
The Other Woman
5.2/4
A German couple travels, shortly after reunification, to the Netherlands. Happiness does not last long. The wife receives a letter from an unknown wom...
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The Other Woman
2015
The Misplaced World
5.1/6
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead w...
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The Misplaced World
1987
Days to Remember
5.2/5
They meet in Yugoslavia. Katharina, daughter of a Yugoslavian immigrant worker, has grown up in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is a confident, e...
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Days to Remember
1997
In the Name of Innocence
6/2
The mother of a murdered hitchhiker meets the offender.
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In the Name of Innocence
1983
Un dimanche de flics
6/8
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot an...
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Un dimanche de flics
2000
Urbania
5.6/36
A series of urban legends take place around the life of a troubled man who is searching New York City for a mysterious stranger.
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Urbania
1983
Equator
3.8/6
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality...
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Equator
2016
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
6.6/75
Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards t...
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
1999
The Lady in Question
4/1
In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone el...
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The Lady in Question
1999
The Third Miracle
5.8/47
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
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The Third Miracle
2007
Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
0/0
A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.
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Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story
1982
Deadly Game
3/3
A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had “accidentally” shot and killed her first husba...
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Deadly Game
2017
Atomic Blonde
6.4/6186
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
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Atomic Blonde
1999
Cradle Will Rock
6.5/84
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
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Cradle Will Rock
2016
My Art
5/6
A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As...
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My Art
2019
Gloria Bell
6/314
Gloria is a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clu...
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Gloria Bell
2019
Rocca Changes the World
7.35/30
11-year-old Rocca, a clever, creative and brave girl who lives all by herself in defiance of her teachers and the authorities has to fight to keep her...
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Rocca Changes the World
2019
Native Son
5.5/85
A young black man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life...
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Native Son
2020
Two of Us
7.003/159
Nina and Madeleine have been sharing their lives and the landing between their two apartments for decades. After more than 20 years of loving in the s...
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Two of Us
2022
Dalíland
6.2/60
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New Yor...
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Dalíland
2003
Barbara Sukowa on Lola
0/0
Actress Barbara Sukowa began her career in the German theater. In this 2003 interview she discusses her move into film under the direction of Rainer W...
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Barbara Sukowa on Lola
2024
Mr. K
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Mr. K, a traveling magician, finds himself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when he can’t find the exit of the hotel, he has slept in. His attempts to get ou...
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Mr. K
2024
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
7.7/3
At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his l...
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François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
2024
Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
0/0
“Acting is something anyone can do,” says Barbara Sukowa. “It’s completely intuitive and instinctual, much like a child dressing up.” Those who have w...
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Sukowa - Playful Like A Child
2024
Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt
0/0
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Iris Berben - Ein persönliches Porträt
Leibniz
0/0
Great philosopher and intellectual Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is painted on behalf of Electress Sophie of Hanover. During the portrait sessions, the ph...
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Leibniz
2024
We're Not Done Yet
0/0
Bettina and her son Alex face unexpected challenges during a weekend trip to Bettina’s beach house.
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