Gila von Weitershausen

Acting

Gila von Weitershausen

Born 1944-03-21 · Trebnitz, Silesia, Germany [now Trzebnica, Dolnoslaskie, Poland]

Gisela "Gila" Freiin von Weitershausen (born 21 March 1944) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia, Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sisters and is the great-granddaughter of former German Chancellor Georg Graf von Hertling. Gila von Weitershausen became popular in the late 1960s when she appeared in German comedy films, for example alongside Uschi Glas. One of the films from that period about Swinging Sixties Bavaria, Engelchen, gave her the nickname Engelchen ("Little Angel"), which was used by the tabloid press for decades. In one of her best-known roles, she played a prostitute in the 1971 film Murmur of the Heart. She also appeared several times as "Rowena" in the British TV series Arthur of the Britons. By common consensus one of her best performances was in Circle of Deceit (1981), a film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, where she played with Hanna Schygulla and Bruno Ganz. Von Weitershausen regularly appears in television movies to this day. She was married to fellow actor Martin Lüttge from 1966 until 1972. Between 1970 and 1973, she had a relationship with movie director Louis Malle, who is the father of her son, Manuel Cuotemoc (born 1971). Since 1994, she has been married to Hartmut Wahle. Source: Article "Gila von Weitershausen" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Murmur of the Heart poster
7.0

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

Murmur of the Heart

1971

Charleys Onkel poster
5.0

Driving instructor Carola "Charley" can no longer stand the constant advances of her pupils and quits her job without further ado. To gain some distance, she takes the opportunity to look after her friend Lilo's dog, the two parrots and her apartment while Lilo is on vacation. But even here she has to fend off unloved admirers, as Lilo earns her living as a playgirl. However, "Charley" has received a good tip from her friend: As soon as a man becomes too pushy, janitor Pinkus pretends to be "Captain Tressblekken" on cue and quickly chases the visitors away. But when the real Uncle Tressblekken turns up at "Charley's" house, chaos can no longer be averted...

Charleys Onkel

1969

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tödlicher Ausgang

1979

Katie Fforde: Mein Sohn und seine Väter poster
4.9

No synopsis available yet.

Katie Fforde: Mein Sohn und seine Väter

2016

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7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Eine Lüge zuviel

1998

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die ewigen Gefühle

1984

Death Rite poster
4.9

While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.

Death Rite

1975

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ich knüpfte manche zarte Bande

1985

Slap in the Face poster
9.0

Dressed only with a muff, Eva - naked as God created her - reaches the conference room of the big bank to expose Terbanks' capitalists and bankers and to protest against capitalism and exploitation. But the naked woman from the "Red October" community slapped the wrong man and pursued tangible own interests in the form of inherited shares ...

Slap in the Face

1970

No artwork available
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Köpfchen in das Wasser, Schwänzchen in die Höh

1969

Circle of Deceit poster
6.1

To escape his crumbling marriage, German journalist Laschen travels to Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay. Together with his photographer, he meets some influential people and discovers the everyday face of the war.

Circle of Deceit

1981

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child poster
7.2

A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.

Itinerary of a Spoiled Child

1988

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kissenschlacht

1995

Das Einhorn poster
7.0

A copywriter gets famous with his first book. When asked to write a new novel about love for his publisher, he urgently needs tutoring since he doesn't know the first thing about it. His way through the beds leads him to the very young Orli. In her he discovers the true meaning of love, which makes him forget all the wrong paths of the past decades and feel young again.

Das Einhorn

1978

Trenchcoat poster
5.8

An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.

Trenchcoat

1983

Just Think of Us Both poster
6.2

A young woman is employed as a waitress at the party of an important architect. There she meets his motherless children. When his father realizes the good relationship established within the children and her, he offers her to work as nanny for the holidays. Although their relationship is very tight at first, soon they find an irreplaceable emotional bond.

Just Think of Us Both

2010

Nathalie poster
NR

Short film about as little girl that suddenly disappears.

Nathalie

1975

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9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Liebesreise

1992

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern poster
6.1

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

1968

Cry of the Black Wolves poster
5.3

A fur hunter living as a hermit in the Alaskan mountains is mistakenly suspected of the murder of a gold prospector. The murdered man's sister hires a gunslinger to catch the hunter, but after a dramatic confrontation, the two men become friends. Adventure movie based on Jack London's novel "Son of the Wolf".

Cry of the Black Wolves

1972

Black and White Like Day and Night poster
6.3

A scientist who swore off playing chess after a nervous breakdown as a boy wunderkind, creates an undefeated chess program. But the Russian world champ beats Tommy Rosemund's masterwork in a televised match. So the West German mathematician becomes a top chess pro himself, which the West German media boast will prove the superiority of Germany and democracy. The jowly, white-faced Rosemund believes that the entire Red Communist bloc is out to stop him from vanquishing their atheist pretty boy, Stefan Koruga, to become the next Bobby Fischer and a symbol that capitalism is preferable to socialism.

Black and White Like Day and Night

1978

The Sleeping Lion poster
8.0

The actions of the Russian and British embassies and the security forces of the central forces have made the people miserable. Mahmoud Khan, who is the secretary of the British Embassy, resigns from his job in the British Embassy and joins the people and incites them against the British and the Central Powers ...

The Sleeping Lion

1977

No artwork available
4.0

A young man gets caught between two women and finally loses both of them because he is unable to make up his mind. A love triangle that tries to conjure up hidden emotional states.

Brandmale

1983

Meine Mutter tanzend poster
5.5

Dark-skinned Stella was adopted as a baby, but before she gets married, she wants to meet her birth mother. However, the first meeting is a shock: her mother Beate is a white redneck who sits at the supermarket checkout and secretly drinks Piccolo from a bottle. Apart from that, she doesn't really feel the need to get to know her daughter. But Stella is not put off by her brusque manner.

Meine Mutter tanzend

2007

Behind the camera