Margarethe von Trotta is a German filmmaker whose career began during the famed New German Cinema period. Her films tend to take significant historical and political moments as backdrops to more emotional investigations, particularly between complex, well-drawn women characters. These films include The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975), Marianne and Juliane (1981), Sheer Madness (1983), Rosa Luxemberg (1986), and Rosenstrasse (2003).
This is also true of her latest work, a biopic of the famous writer and political theorist, Hannah Arendt (2012). Margarethe premiered the film at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where we were lucky to convene at our studio space hosted by Onsite [at] OCAD U in order to discuss it in relation to her career as a whole.
Our interview with Margarethe von Trotta was one of four feature interviews in the thirteenth monthly issue of The Seventh Art as a “video magazine.” It was released in June 2013 and was shot as part of our Toronto International Film Festival coverage. Other TIFF 2012 interviews on video from that year include Thomas Vinterberg, Ben Wheatley, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Miguel Gomes, Costa-Gavras, Ernie Gehr, João Pedro Rodrigues & João Rui Guerra da Mata, Matías Piñeiro, Peter Mettler, Rodney Ascher & Tim Kirk, and William Vega.
