Lothar Lambert

Biography

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.

Directed

1. 1 Berlin-Harlem (1974) — Director
2. Late Show (1977) — Director
3. Fucking City (1982) — Director
4. Drama in Blond (1984) — Director
5. You Elvis, Me Monroe (1990) — Director
6. Tiergarten (1979) — Director
7. Faux Pas de Deux (1977) — Director
8. The Nightmare Woman (1981) — Director
9. A Touch of Longing: His Fight (1973) — Director
10. Gestatten, Bestatter (1986) — Director
11. Forbidden to Forbid (1988) — Director
12. Fräulein Berlin (1984) — Director
13. Love/Hate Lola (1996) — Director
14. From Here to Vanity (2000) — Director
15. Thank God I’m in the Film Business! (2003) — Director
16. Paso Doble (1984) — Director
17. Blonde to the Bone (1997) — Director
18. What You Never Wanted to Know About Women (1992) — Director
19. And God Created Make-Up (1998) — Director
20. Gut drauf, schlecht dran (1994) — Director
21. Desert of Love (1986) — Director
22. Now or Never (1979) — Director
23. Der sexte Sinn (1987) — Director
24. Liebe, Tod und kleine Teufel (1989) — Director
25. All My Tumbler Girls, or All About Women Who Dare to... (2010) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Polizeiruf 110 (1971)
2. Utopia (1983)
3. 1 Berlin-Harlem (1974)
4. A Fairy for Dessert (1992) — Julchen
5. Late Show (1977)
6. Fucking City (1982) — Kurt
7. You Elvis, Me Monroe (1990)
8. Kismet Kismet (1987)
9. Kobay (1986)
10. A Touch of Longing: His Fight (1973)
11. Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn (1982) — Betty
12. From Here to Vanity (2000)
13. The Nightmare Woman (1981)
14. Love/Hate Lola (1996) — Lola
15. Blonde to the Bone (1997) — Nachbar
16. Wolfgirl (1984) — Kurtchen "Marilyn"
17. Now or Never (1979)
18. Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe (2015) — himself
19. Lost and Found in Underground: Lothar Lambert's Psycho City (2012) — Self