Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta is a German film director, screenwriter, and actress. She has been referred to as a "leading force" of the New German Cinema movement. Von Trotta's extensive body of work has won awards internationally. She was married to and collaborated with director Volker Schlöndorff. Although they made a successful team, von Trotta felt she was seen as secondary to Schlöndorff. Subsequently, she established a solo career for herself and became "Germany's foremost female film director, who has offered the most sustained and successful female variant of Autorenkino in postwar German film history". Certain aspects of von Trotta's work have been compared to Ingmar Bergman's features from the 1960s and 1970s.

21 February 1942

Born on the same birth date (21 February 1942): Tony Martin (professor)

Born on the same birth day (21 February): Anton Vratuša • Charles Scribner I • Clemence Dane • Greg Turner • Ilmari Juutilainen • Jake Muzzin • James Dean Bradfield • John Haden Badley • Mattias Tedenby • Rue McClanahan • Tebogo Jacko Magubane • Thelma Estrin • Zachary Scott

Born in the same month (February 1942): Ahmad-Jabir Ahmadov • Carol Lynley • David Sincock • Graham Nash • James W. Loewen • Joe Lieberman • Jozef Adamec • Mitch McConnell • Otis Clay • Peter Tork • Robert H. Grubbs • Sarah Brady • Terry Jones • Tony Martin (professor)