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Marianne Sägebrecht is a Actor Allemande born on 27 august 1945 at Starnberg (German)

Marianne Sägebrecht

Marianne Sägebrecht
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Nationality German
Birth 27 august 1945 (79 years) at Starnberg (German)
Awards Bavarian Order of Merit

Marianne Sägebrecht (born 27 August 1945) is a German film actress.

Her background included stints as a medical lab assistant and magazine assistant editor before she found her calling in show business. Claiming to be inspired by Bavaria's mad King Ludwig II, she became known as the "mother of Munich's sub-culture" as producer and performer of avant-garde theater and cabaret revues, particularly with her troupe Opera Curiosa. Spotted by director Percy Adlon in a 1977 production of Adele Spitzeder in which she essayed the role of a delicate prostitute, Sägebrecht was cast as Madame Sanchez/Mrs. Sancho Panza in Adlon's TV special Herr Kischott (1979), a spin on Don Quixote. The director put her in his 1983 feature The Swing in a small role and then in the leading role of Marianne, an overweight mortician in love with a subway conductor, in Sugarbaby (1985).

In 1987 she co-starred in the romantic comedy Bagdad Café. American films beckoned as well and Sägebrecht was often cast in roles tailored to her unique abilities. Paul Mazursky reworked the part of a Teutonic masseuse for her in Moon over Parador (1988) while Danny DeVito tailored the part of the German housekeeper for a divorcing couple in The War of the Roses (1989).

Returning to Germany, she played a timid maid in the 1930s who marries her Jewish employer for convenience then falls in love in Martha and I (1990; released in the USA in 1995). Sägebrecht headlined the black comedy as an unhappy wife whose straying husband plots her death in Mona Must Die (1994) and had small supporting parts in The Ogre (1996) and Left Luggage (1998).

In 1997, she was a member of the jury at the 47th Berlin International Film Festival.

Best films

The War of the Roses
The War of the Roses
(1989)
(Actress) Bagdad Cafe
Bagdad Cafe
(1987)
(Actress)

Usually with

Percy Adlon
Percy Adlon
(2 films)
Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky
(1 films)
Monika Treut
Monika Treut
(1 films)
Roger Hanin
Roger Hanin
(1 films)
Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Marianne Sägebrecht (17 films)

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Actress

The Circle
The Circle (2014)
, 1h42
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Marianne Sägebrecht, Anatole Taubman, Marie Leuenberger
Roles Erika Rapp
Rating72% 3.63753.63753.63753.63753.6375
Le film raconte l'histoire du réseau social créé autour de la revue zurichoise « homophile » Der Kreis qui a été publiée de 1943 à 1967 et distribuée internationalement. Le film se concentre particulièrement sur l'histoire d'Ernst Ostertag et de Röbi Rapp dans les années 1950 et 1960 (avec interview documentaire des personnes réelles).
Without Family
Without Family (2000)
, 3h
Directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Pierre Richard, Jules Sitruk, Stefano Dionisi, Veronica Ferres, Marianne Sägebrecht, Bernard Fresson
Roles Mère Barberin
Rating69% 3.4770053.4770053.4770053.4770053.477005
Rémi est un petit garçon abandonné bébé et élevé par la mère Barberin. Un jour, le mari de cette dernière le vend à Vitalis un musicien ambulant qui prendra le garçon en affection. Rémi vivra donc aux côtés de cet homme et de ses animaux : Joli-Cœur un petit singe farceur, Capi, Zerbino et Dolce, trois chiens. Il finira par apprendre la véritable histoire de sa naissance et de son abandon…
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar (1999)
, 1h45
Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Circus films, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Films about dogs, Asterix films, Political films, Buddy films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Christian Clavier, Gérard Depardieu, Roberto Benigni, Laetitia Casta, Gottfried John, Claude Piéplu
Roles Bonemine
Rating59% 2.999882.999882.999882.999882.99988
Julius Caesar is celebrating his victory over all of Gaul, but Lucius Detritus has kept from him that one village has managed to resist them. Detritus travels to the garrison near the village where Caius Bonus (Crismus Bonus), the garrison's commanding Centurion, explains that the Gauls have a magic potion, which makes them invincible. Detritus decides to capture the potion for himself, and hearing that the clever Asterix and permanently invincible Obelix are the backbone of the Gaulish forces, attempts and fails to eliminate them.
Left Luggage
Left Luggage (1998)
, 1h40
Directed by Jeroen Krabbé
Origin Pays-bas
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbé, Chaim Topol, Marianne Sägebrecht, Maximilian Schell
Roles Mrs. Silberschmidt
Rating72% 3.6432253.6432253.6432253.6432253.643225
While escaping from Nazis during World War II, a Jewish man buries two suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, an obsessive compulsion. He keeps checking old maps and keeps digging, trying to find what he lost. His daughter Chaya is a beautiful modern girl looking for a part-time job. She finds a place as a nanny in the strictly observant hassidic family with many children, although her secular manners clearly fly in the face of their beliefs. One of the reasons she is accepted is that mother of the family is absolutely overburdened by the household, so Chaya stays despite the resistance of the father, who is normally an indisputable authority in the family.
Soleil
Soleil (1997)
, 1h44
Directed by Roger Hanin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Philippe Noiret, Sophia Loren, Roger Hanin, Michel Creton, Marianne Sägebrecht, Roger Dumas
Roles Tata Jeannette
Rating57% 2.876862.876862.876862.876862.87686
Un cardiologue, victime d'une attaque cardiaque, revoit défiler sa vie d'enfant.
The Ogre
The Ogre (1996)
, 1h58
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Origin German
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Political films
Actors John Malkovich, Agnès Soral, Volker Spengler, Marianne Sägebrecht, Gottfried John, Heino Ferch
Roles Frau Netta
Rating67% 3.395063.395063.395063.395063.39506
Abel Tiffauges (Malkovich) is a simple Frenchman at the start of World War II, who loves animals and children. The first part of the film recalls his childhood at a Catholic school for boys, in where he wishes to Saint Christopher that the school, which he sees as a prison, is burned down. By irony of fate, while Abel is being disciplined for spilling lamp oil on the chapel floor, his friend Nestor accidentally sets fire to the building, burning it down as he wished. From that day on, Abel is convinced that fate is on his side, and that it will protect him from anything.
Dust Devil
Dust Devil (1992)
, 1h43
Directed by Richard Stanley
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Zakes Mokae, Robert John Burke, Chelsea Field, Richard Stanley, William Hootkins, Marianne Sägebrecht
Roles Dr. Leidzinger
Rating62% 3.101713.101713.101713.101713.10171
Joe Niemand (John Matshikiza), a Sangoma near Spitzkoppe in Namibia, begins a tale that states "back in the first times, in the time of the red light, Desert Wind was a man like us. Until by mischance, he grew wings and flew like a bird. He became a hunter, and like a hawk, he flew to seek his prey. Taking refuge in those far corners of the world where magic still lingers. But having once been a man, so does he still suffer the passions of a man, flying in the rages sometimes, and throwing himself down like a child, to vent his wrath upon the earth. The people of the great Namib have another name for those violent winds that blow from nowhere. They call them Dust Devils.
Martha and I
Martha and I (1990)

Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Marianne Sägebrecht, Michel Piccoli, Klaus Grünberg, Božidara Turzonovová, Jiří Menzel
Roles Martha
Rating66% 3.311453.311453.311453.311453.31145
Dans les années 1930, à Prague, un riche médecin épouse sa servante, Martha. Leur vie va être bouleversée par l'arrivée des Nazis au pouvoir.
The War of the Roses
The War of the Roses (1989)
, 1h56
Directed by Danny DeVito
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Dan Castellaneta, Sean Astin
Roles Susan
Rating68% 3.4008053.4008053.4008053.4008053.400805
Lawyer Gavin D'Amato is in his office discussing a divorce case with a client. Noticing the man's determination to divorce his wife, Gavin decides to tell him the story of one of his clients, a personal friend of his.
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)
, 1h36
Directed by Percy Adlon
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Marianne Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, Judge Reinhold, John Hawkes, Alex Winter
Roles Rosalie Greenspace
Rating58% 2.9007152.9007152.9007152.9007152.900715
Rosalie Greenspace is an expedite German woman living in rural Arkansas with her eccentric American husband Ray, who works as a crop-duster airplane pilot. They have seven children: Schnucki, the eldest son who is a US Army soldier stationed out of state; Barbara, the eldest daughter who is a good natured overachieving college student, Schatzi, an underachieving high school student, Kindi, a flamboyant gourmet cook, two teenage twin girls who are never named, and Herzi, the youngest child. Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. Every day she goes on lavish shopping sprees in the nearby small town of Stuttgart (the same same of her hometown in Germany) where she forges checks, uses false credit cards, and other means to supplement her livelihood with purchases of fancy foods for Kindi to cook and various clothing and appliances for her large house. A devout Catholic, she has a twisted view on religion when she goes every day to a small church and confesses her sins of stealing and swindling to a local priest, believing that if she confesses her crimes to her priest, her "sins" will not become sins anymore.