Lothar Lambert
Director
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.
Filmography
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974
A Fairy for Dessert
as Julchen 1992
Late Show
1977
Fucking City
as Kurt 1982
You Elvis, Me Monroe
1990
Kismet Kismet
1987
Kobay
1986
A Touch of Longing: His Fight
1973
Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
as Betty 1982
From Here to Vanity
2000
The Nightmare Woman
1981
Blonde to the Bone
as Nachbar 1997
Love/Hate Lola
as Lola 1996
Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe
as himself 2015
Wolfgirl
as Kurtchen "Marilyn" 1984
Now or Never
1979