FrameThrower · Actors · Barbara Sukowa
Barbara Sukowa
5 films · 367 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1977–1997
Born 2 February 1950 · Bremen, Germany
Barbara Sukowa is a German theatre and film actress. She is known for her work with directors Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta. She won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the film Rosa Luxemburg (1986). Her other film appearances include Lola (1981), Europa (1990), M. Butterfly (1993), and Hannah Arendt (2012).
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 367 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1977–1997
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- Goldener Ochse2025
- Hessian film and cinema award2024
- CineMerit Award2023
- Echo Klassik – Classical Music without Borders2008
How their films are shot
Measured across 367 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Barbara takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 79% of their frames are night, 70% low key — the look of the work Barbara takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 367 frames from Barbara Sukowa's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.