Lothar Lambert

Directing Jun 24, 1944 (82 years old) Rudolstadt, Germany

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.

19 Acting Credits

31 Crew Credits

Acting

Polizeiruf 110

1971

Lothar Lambert

Acting

Polizeiruf 110

Utopia

1 Berlin-Harlem

A Fairy for Dessert

Late Show

Fucking City

You Elvis, Me Monroe

Kismet Kismet

Kobay

A Touch of Longing: His Fight

Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn

From Here to Vanity

The Nightmare Woman

Blonde to the Bone

Love/Hate Lola

Wolfgirl

Now or Never

Carl Andersens Underground der Liebe

Lost and Found in Underground: Lothar Lambert's Psycho City

Crew

The Nomi Song