Werner Schroeter Movies

  • 2011
    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter

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    Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...

    Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
  • 1996
    Love’s Debris

    Love’s Debris

    Love’s Debris

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    German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...

    Love’s Debris
  • 1974
    The Black Angel

    The Black Angel

    The Black Angel

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    Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one...

    The Black Angel
  • 1969
    Neurasia

    Neurasia

    Neurasia

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    In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

    Neurasia
  • 1969
    Eika Katappa

    Eika Katappa

    Eika Katappa

    6.41969HD

    Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music...

    Eika Katappa
  • 1981
    Day of the Idiots

    Day of the Idiots

    Day of the Idiots

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    A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

    Day of the Idiots
  • 1969
    Alabama (2000 Light Years)

    Alabama (2000 Light Years)

    Alabama (2000 Light Years)

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    "The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always music in it. When I was asked by some critics...

    Alabama (2000 Light Years)
  • 2012
    We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)

    We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)

    We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)

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    We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)
  • 1980
    White Journey

    White Journey

    White Journey

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    One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic...

    White Journey
  • 1973
    Willow Springs

    Willow Springs

    Willow Springs

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    Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.

    Willow Springs
  • 1975
    Joan's Dream

    Joan's Dream

    Joan's Dream

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    With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

    Joan's Dream
  • 1971
    Macbeth

    Macbeth

    Macbeth

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    Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with...

    Macbeth
  • 1968
    Ica Vilander

    Ica Vilander

    Ica Vilander

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    Ica Vilander
  • 1990
    So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich

    So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich

    So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich

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    So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich
  • 1968
    Aggression

    Aggression

    Aggression

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    Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.

    Aggression
  • 2011
    Eine Hommage an Lautréamont

    Eine Hommage an Lautréamont

    Eine Hommage an Lautréamont

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    Eine Hommage an Lautréamont
  • 1968
    Maria Callas singt 1957 Rezitativ und Arie der Elvira aus Ernani 1844 von Giuseppe Verdi

    Maria Callas singt 1957 Rezitativ und Arie der Elvira aus Ernani 1844 von Giuseppe Verdi

    Maria Callas singt 1957 Rezitativ und Arie der Elvira aus Ernani 1844 von Giuseppe Verdi

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    "Of all the female interpreters I know, Maria Callas was the one who, in her expressive power, could let time stand so long until all fear...

    Maria Callas singt 1957 Rezitativ und Arie der Elvira aus Ernani 1844 von Giuseppe Verdi
  • 2010
    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

    5.82010HD

    When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence,...

    Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
  • 1968
    Carla Salomé

    Carla Salomé

    Carla Salomé

    01968HD

    Carla Salomé
  • 1970
    Der Bomberpilot

    Der Bomberpilot

    Der Bomberpilot

    5.81970HD

    Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who...

    Der Bomberpilot