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.
25 directing credits · 19 acting credits
Directing · 25
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974
You Elvis, Me Monroe
1990
Fräulein Berlin
1984
Gestatten, Bestatter
1986
From Here to Vanity
2000
Der sexte Sinn
1987
The Nightmare Woman
1981
Desert of Love
1986
Thank God I’m in the Film Business!
2003
Love/Hate Lola
1996
A Touch of Longing: His Fight
1973
Fucking City
1982
Now or Never
1979
Faux Pas de Deux
1977
What You Never Wanted to Know About Women
1992
And God Created Make-Up
1998
Drama in Blond
1984
Late Show
1977
Paso Doble
1984
Blonde to the Bone
1997
Tiergarten
1979
All My Tumbler Girls, or All About Women Who Dare to...
2010
Gut drauf, schlecht dran
1994
Liebe, Tod und kleine Teufel
1989
Forbidden to Forbid
1988
Acting · 19
Polizeiruf 110
1971
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974
Utopia
1983
You Elvis, Me Monroe
1990
From Here to Vanity
2000
Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe
2015
The Nightmare Woman
1981
Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
1982
Kismet Kismet
1987
Love/Hate Lola
1996
Kobay
1986
A Fairy for Dessert
1992
A Touch of Longing: His Fight
1973
Fucking City
1982
Now or Never
1979
Wolfgirl
1984
Late Show
1977
Lost and Found in Underground: Lothar Lambert's Psycho City
2012
Blonde to the Bone
1997