Ingrid Caven
Date of birth: 1938-08-03
Place of birth: Saarbrücken, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ingrid Fassbinder , Ingrid Schmidt, Ingrid Carven
Biography
Ingrid Caven was born on August 3, 1938 in Saarbrücken, Germany as Ingrid Schmidt. She is best known for her roles in several films directed by her husband, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Love Is Colder Than Death (1969), Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970), and The American Soldier (1970). She continued to appear in Fassbinder's films after their 1972 divorce until his death in 1982.
Movie Credits
Shadow of Angels
1976-09-03
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves h
Gods of the Plague
1970-07-24
A man is released from prison and finds society on the outside less than appealing. With several wom
Day of the Idiots
1981-10-31
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978-11-17
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She h
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975-07-07
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a
Silent Night
1995-09-13
Sensing their relationship is crumbling, Christian avoids celebrating Christmas with his girlfriend
My Little Loves
1974-12-20
Daniel lives with his grandmother and, after a year of high school, goes to live with his mother in
Fear of Fear
1975-07-08
After having her second child, a German housewife suffers from postpartum depression before inexplic
My Favorite Season
1993-05-14
Elderly woman Berthe leaves her house to live with her daughter Emilie. Emilie and her brother Antoi
The Satin Spider
1986-03-26
The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress In
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992-06-11
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Tenderness of the Wolves
1973-07-12
A German serial killer preys on boys and young men during the so-called years of crisis between the
Rio das Mortes
1971-02-15
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasu
The Coffee House
1970-05-18
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffeehouse and
Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King
1972-06-22
Reflected in an artificial and bombastically staged illusory world with Wagnerian compositions, glos
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007-02-16
Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
Nea
1976-08-17
In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shop
The Ancestress
1971-12-20
Die wilden Fünfziger
1983-09-23
Love Is Colder Than Death
1970-01-16
Small-time pimp Franz is torn between his mistress and Bruno, the gangster sent after him by a shady
The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972-03-10
Hans is a street fruit peddler and born loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, cau
The Niklashausen Journey
1970-10-26
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacke
Satan’s Brew
1976-10-07
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan Ge
Off Season
1992-09-23
The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970-06-28
The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.
1 Berlin-Harlem
1974-01-01
An African-American GI retires from the US Army in West Berlin to live with his white girlfriend, wh
The American Soldier
1970-10-09
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer.
Yearning for Sodom
1989-03-21
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in bo
Tonight or Never
1973-02-01
Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 polit
La Paloma
1974-08-28
Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries
Der Mond is nur a nackerte Kugel
1981-04-02
Joan's Dream
1975-01-01
With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visi
Today We're Playing Boss
1981-11-27
Film extras take possession of a bogus film production company and acting as ideal world of film to
Haytabo
1971-01-01
A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with the structure and formula of an immortality dr
Dirty Daughters oder Die Hure und der Hurensohn
1982-04-23
Rita, the prostitute, meets the Lebanese worker Hossein. He need working papers. She needs love.
Time Regained
1999-05-19
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded
Fox and His Friends
1975-06-06
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things
Martha
1974-05-28
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,
Playing with Fire
1975-02-19
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Fassbinder Produces: Film No. 8
1971-01-27
About the making of "Der amerikanische Soldat/The American Soldier" in 1970.
Ingrid Caven at Pigall's
1978-01-01
Considered to be lost for a long time, the recently rediscovered recording of Ingrid Caven’s legenda
Frühstück in Rom
1965-01-01
A film critic falls in love.
Violanta
1978-02-22
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
Sleeping Beauty
2017-01-18
In the kingdom of Letonia, the young prince Égon spends his nights playing the drums. During the day
Devil's Paradise
1987-05-07
At the start of the 20th century, a man lives in solitude on an island. One day on the mainland, he
35 Shots of Rum
2009-02-18
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her depar
Ingrid Caven: Music and Voice
2012-08-07
Ingrid Caven offers a rich repertoire of songs in French, German and occasionally English; at times,
Suspiria
2018-10-26
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic
The Death of Maria Malibran
1972-03-02
A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singe
Gold Flakes
1976-05-20
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in betwe
Looping
1981-01-05
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying custo
The Portuguese Woman
2019-02-28
North of Italy, the von Kettens dispute the forces of the Episcopate of Trent. Herr Ketten seeks mar
Adele Spitzeder
1972-09-18
The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising ev
Weitertanzen
2008-10-23
A bride's biggest fears regarding her wedding materialize in a bizarre nightmare.
Petite intrusion dans l’univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter
2012-07-03
In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter
2012-07-03
Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid died on August 5, 2006, and German filmmaker Werner Schroeter on April
Malou
1981-03-20
Two life stories. That of Malou, a French woman, married to a German Jew, a refugee stranded in Sout
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
2011-04-07
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diag
I Only Want You to Love Me
1976-03-23
Peter grew up during the economic miracle, bereft of parental care and love. Learning early on that
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
2010-09-02
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting
Deepfrozen
2006-09-07
Ronnie lives in a small sleepy village and is the owner of a small company for deep-frozen goods. Da
Despair
1978-09-20
Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufactu
Beware of a Holy Whore
1971-09-01
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st