Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

October 4, 1942 · 83 years old

Irmgard Hermann (4 October 1942 – 26 May 2020) was a German actress. She worked in film, television, and the stage, appearing in over 160 film and television productions. She was discovered, without formal training, by Rainer Werner Fassbinder who cast her in many of his films.

Known For

16 titles
1
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974 · 1h 33m · Movie

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

8.0
2
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

1972 · 2h 4m · Movie

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

7.5
3
Woyzeck

Woyzeck

1979 · 1h 22m · Movie

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

7.0
4
A Woman in Berlin

A Woman in Berlin

2008 · 2h 11m · Movie

A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.

7.0
5
Love Is Colder Than Death

Love Is Colder Than Death

1970 · 1h 28m · Movie

A small-time pimp is torn between his lover and Bruno the gangster.

6.4
6
Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher

1969 · 1h 28m · Movie

Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been...

6.8
7
Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

1975 · 1h 48m · Movie

Frau Kusters is preparing dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary kitchen in Frankfurt, Germany. She wants to add canned sausages to the stew; her annoying daughter-in-law thinks otherwise. But the p...

7.5
8
The American Soldier

The American Soldier

1976 · 1h 20m · Movie

Ricky is a cold-blooded U.S. German contract killer. After serving in Viet Nam, he returns to his home town of Munich to eliminate a few problem crooks for three renegade cops. He inspects his old neighborhood with his childhood a...

6.5
9
Fear of Fear

Fear of Fear

1975 · 1h 31m · Movie

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law a...

7.4
10
Gods of the Plague

Gods of the Plague

1970 · 1h 31m · Movie

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

6.4
11
Joan of Arc of Mongolia

Joan of Arc of Mongolia

1989 · 2h 45m · Movie

A group of cosmopolitan women passengers aboard the Trans-Siberian/Mongolian Railway are taken prisoner by Ulan Iga, a warrior princess.

6.9
12
Fassbinder

Fassbinder

2015 · 1h 35m · Movie

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

6.6
13
Women in New York

Women in New York

1977 · 1h 51m · Movie

New York in the 1930's. A group of wealthy women meet in beauty and fashion salons, at parties and other social occasions. Their lives circle around their wealthy husbands or lovers.

6.9
14
Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press

1984 · 2h 30m · Movie

Our organization will create a human being whom we can shape and manipulate according to our needs. Dorian Gray: young, rich and handsome. We will make him, seduce him and break him.

6.6
15
Welcome to Germany

Welcome to Germany

1988 · 1h 42m · Movie

An US-based film director returns from the US to Germany, where he was forced along with other concentration camp prisoners to participate in an Anti-Semitic propaganda film in 1942. He plans to make a documentary on this part of ...

6.8
16
Die Schaukel

Die Schaukel

1983 · 2h 13m · Movie

The life of three sisters in Munich before the First World War. Based on the book by Annette Kolb.

6.3