Ingrid Caven
Ingrid Caven (born Ingrid Schmidt; August 3, 1938) is a German actress best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6719 |
| Birthday | 1938-08-03 |
| Place of Birth | Saarbrücken, Germany |
| Also Known As | Ingrid Fassbinder , Ingrid Schmidt, Ingrid Carven, |
1976
Shadow of Angels
4.444/9
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend, Raoul, who gambles away what li...
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Shadow of Angels
1970
Gods of the Plague
5.65/30
After his release from prison, ex-convict Franz Walsch finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. His attentions focus upon two women, Jo...
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Gods of the Plague
1981
Day of the Idiots
5.846/13
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
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Day of the Idiots
1978
In a Year with 13 Moons
6.563/88
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest...
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In a Year with 13 Moons
1975
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
7.671/35
Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages...
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1995
Silent Night
5.778/9
Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend Julia and heads for Paris.
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Silent Night
1974
My Little Loves
6.763/59
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in the south of France; a harsher environment which r...
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My Little Loves
1975
Fear of Fear
6.3/30
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplicably falling into a continually misdiagnosed menta...
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Fear of Fear
1993
My Favorite Season
6.106/52
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoine had a falling out three years ago and have not...
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My Favorite Season
1986
The Satin Spider
2.75/4
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine...
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The Satin Spider
1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
6.455/11
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1973
Tenderness of the Wolves
5.663/46
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the wars. Based on the true story of Fritz Haarmann, a...
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Tenderness of the Wolves
1971
Rio das Mortes
5.25/16
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's gi...
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Rio das Mortes
1970
The Coffee House
6.5/4
People meet and chat at Ridolfo's Coffeehouse; the conversations are mostly about money, but also about feelings, ideals, friendship, love, fidelity a...
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The Coffee House
1972
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
5.462/13
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glossy and satirical time references, 19th century Ger...
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Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
2007
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
4.8/5
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
1976
Nea
4.875/8
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challe...
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Nea
1971
The Ancestress
9/1
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The Ancestress
1983
Die wilden Fünfziger
3.667/3
The Second World War is over and now begins in post-war Germany, the reconstruction. Jakob Formann sees his chance here and begins a rapid rise as an...
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Die wilden Fünfziger
1970
Love Is Colder Than Death
6.198/58
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady crime syndicate he has refused to join.
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Love Is Colder Than Death
1972
The Merchant of Four Seasons
6.7/81
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After r...
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
1970
The Niklashausen Journey
5.778/9
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket? The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to ha...
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The Niklashausen Journey
1976
Satan’s Brew
6.309/34
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his d...
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Satan’s Brew
1992
Off Season
4.556/9
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical...
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Off Season
1970
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
7.368/91
Technical draftsman Herr R. is a dependable guy. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to p...
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
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
1976
The American Soldier
6.292/24
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
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The American Soldier
1989
Yearning for Sodom
7/1
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder,...
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Yearning for Sodom
1973
Tonight or Never
3.643/7
Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution.
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Tonight or Never
1974
La Paloma
5.889/9
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be d...
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La Paloma
1981
Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
10/1
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Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
1975
Joan's Dream
8/1
With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage o...
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Joan's Dream
1981
Today We're Playing Boss
4.5/4
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to persuade one associates mother-in-law of marriage.
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Today We're Playing Boss
1971
Haytabo
6.8/5
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality drug.
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Haytabo
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
1999
Time Regained
6.279/68
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have...
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Time Regained
1975
Fox and His Friends
7.2/151
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive r...
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Fox and His Friends
1974
Martha
6.985/68
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous hus...
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Martha
1975
Playing with Fire
5.514/37
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
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Playing with Fire
1971
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
7/1
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
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Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1978
Ingrid Caven at Pigall's
0/0
Considered to be lost for a long time, the recently rediscovered recording of Ingrid Caven’s legendary first concert in Paris, at Pigall’s, in 1978. R...
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Ingrid Caven at Pigall's
1965
Frühstück in Rom
8/1
A film critic falls in love.
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Frühstück in Rom
1978
Violanta
8.667/3
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
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Violanta
2017
Sleeping Beauty
4.731/13
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day, he only has one thing on his mind: finding Sleep...
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Sleeping Beauty
1987
Devil's Paradise
5.667/3
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he saves a young woman from some nasty folk and takes...
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Devil's Paradise
2009
35 Shots of Rum
6.8/86
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.
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35 Shots of Rum
2012
Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
0/0
Ingrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at times, she dispenses with words and simply plays with so...
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Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
2018
Suspiria
6.903/2748
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grievi...
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Suspiria
1972
The Death of Maria Malibran
6.568/22
A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.
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The Death of Maria Malibran
1976
Gold Flakes
8.429/7
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evo...
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Gold Flakes
1981
Looping
4.5/6
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of sh...
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Looping
2019
The Portuguese Woman
6.4/13
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks marriage in a distant country, Portugal. After their...
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The Portuguese Woman
1972
Adele Spitzeder
10/1
The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. In...
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Adele Spitzeder
2008
Weitertanzen
2/2
A bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare.
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Weitertanzen
2012
Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
0/0
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Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
2012
In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
0/0
Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April 12, 2010. They were close friends, and along with...
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In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
1981
Malou
5.875/8
Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in South America: a picture of the pre-war generation ref...
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Malou
2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
5.5/2
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi Mike...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
1976
I Only Want You to Love Me
7.276/29
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that interpersonal relationships are based on the princ...
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I Only Want You to Love Me
2010
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
5.8/5
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence,...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2006
Deepfrozen
9/1
Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Daydreams, contact ads, the firemen's brassband, the...
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Deepfrozen
1978
Despair
6.511/47
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his te...
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Despair
1971
Beware of a Holy Whore
6.205/61
Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiti...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
2000
Fassbinder's Women
5.333/9
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
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