Lothar Lambert
No one in Germany can more justifiably call himself an independent filmmaker than Lothar Lambert: 41 films to date since 1971, almost all financed out of his own pocket, as producer, director, screenwriter, actor and, time and again, as editor, cameraman, sound man and distributor.
Cinema about sex and longings, self-realization and psychological deformities, desires, the weal and woe of the little-noticed in the (initially only West) Berlin urban jungle. And it is as authentic, shocking and tragicomic as you rarely find in this country.
Because they were unusually weird and "dirty" in terms of content and form - especially for the well-behaved German standards - Lambert's works were quickly classified as "underground" in the seventies. And have recently been increasingly ignored by critics and film historians.
Having long since become documents of the zeitgeist and thus of contemporary history, it is long overdue to (re)discover these works.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.0858 |
| Birthday | 1944-06-24 |
| Place of Birth | Rudolstadt, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1990
You Elvis, Me Monroe
8.5/2
A Turkish woman with a Marilyn Monroe obsession hooks up with her new neighbor, an Arab. Although the young man occasionally intones Elvis Presley son...
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You Elvis, Me Monroe
1992
A Fairy for Dessert
4/3
Julchen is the "feminine" (transvestite) and definitely motherly half of a couple of homosexual men, the "co-fathers" of a pleasant part-Moroccan girl...
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A Fairy for Dessert
1987
Kismet Kismet
8/1
Director İsmet Elçi tells the semi-autobiographical story of Kemal (played by Elçi himself), who negotiates his identity between two cultures (Turkey...
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Kismet Kismet
1986
Kobay
8/1
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Kobay
1973
A Touch of Longing: His Fight
9/1
A simple tax collector suffers from a deep depression. He flies from his dominant mother to a dangerous company in violent left-wing circles. And disc...
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A Touch of Longing: His Fight
1977
Late Show
3/3
A man tries to liberate himself from a puritan-minded sister, mother, and girlfriend. The movies are his way out -- and at one late show he sees himse...
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Late Show
1982
Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
8/1
Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love.
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Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
1982
Fucking City
3.333/3
The edgy, quirky, nearly disposable life of marginal Berliners. Four mediocre existences are on an increasingly desperate quest for love and sexual sa...
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Fucking City
2000
From Here to Vanity
8/1
Anyone who is keen to capture Berlin’s most original characters on film is bound to end up at Sylvia Heidemann’s door. Sylvia has saved up every penny...
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From Here to Vanity
1981
The Nightmare Woman
9/1
A Berlin woman in her early thirties is trying to handle her psychological problems and childhood trauma with the help of her psychiatrist. She is ash...
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The Nightmare Woman
1996
Love/Hate Lola
9/1
Lola L., a washed-up travesty star, is extremely taken with the shy, young Turk Hasim when he comes into her dressing room and wants to get to know th...
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Love/Hate Lola
1997
Blonde to the Bone
7/1
The actor Holger Miesbach can no longer pursue this or any other profession, for psychological reasons and despite ongoing psychiatric treatment. Whil...
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Blonde to the Bone
2015
Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe
0/0
Depicts Carl Andersens uncommon art and life. Born in Vienna, the capital of Austria in 1958, he participated in the development of Viennas subculture...
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Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe
1974
1 Berlin-Harlem
3/4
An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, who already has a baby with another black man. After...
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1 Berlin-Harlem
1984
Wolfgirl
7/1
The story of a short but intense friendship between two very different women in Berlin. Mascha, in her mid-30’s, worked as a television editor for yea...
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Wolfgirl
1979
Now or Never
10/1
Half-travelogue half Lambert’s fictional attempt to find his identity in the gay crowd in Central Park, Harlem, and Brooklyn.
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Now or Never
2012
Lost and Found in Underground: Lothar Lambert's Psycho City
0/0
Life, work, art and struggle of Berlin's radical enfant terrible Lothar Lambert, an underground filmmaker for 40 years now, who mainly focuses society...
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