Trotta, Margarethe von (1942-), Cineasta alemã:Os Anos de Chumbo (1981);
Rosa Luxemburgo (1985).
Margarethe von Trotta was born in 1942 in Berlin as the illegitimate child of Elisabeth von Trotta and the painter Alfred Roloff. When the war was over she moved to Duesseldorf with her mother. The absence of her father meant that von Trotta shared a strong bond with her mother, a relationship which, as von Trotta explains, gave her a sensitivity for female friendships and solidarity, a theme that runs through most of her films. (1) After attaining her intermediate high school certificate, von Trotta went to Paris, where she discovered the medium, film, and decided she wanted to become a director.
