Werner Schroeter Movies
- 2011
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter5.52011HD
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In her film, Elfi...
- 1996
Love’s Debris
Love’s Debris6.71996HD
German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...
- 1974
The Black Angel
The Black Angel61974HD
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...
- 1969
Neurasia
Neurasia6.41969HD
In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.
- 1969
Eika Katappa
Eika Katappa6.41969HD
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music...
- 1981
Day of the Idiots
Day of the Idiots5.81981HD
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
- 1969
Alabama (2000 Light Years)
Alabama (2000 Light Years)5.31969HD
"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...
- 2012
We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)
We Must Save Him! (interview with Werner Schroeter)02012HD
- 1980
White Journey
White Journey11980HD
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic...
- 1973
Willow Springs
Willow Springs5.51973HD
Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.
- 1975
Joan's Dream
Joan's Dream01975HD
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...
- 1971
Macbeth
Macbeth71971HD
Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with...
- 1968
Ica Vilander
Ica Vilander01968HD
- 1990
So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich
So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich01990HD
- 1968
Aggression
Aggression51968HD
Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.
- 2011
Eine Hommage an Lautréamont
Eine Hommage an Lautréamont02011HD
- 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 Verdi01968HD
"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...
- 2010
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense5.82010HD
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,...
- 1968
Carla Salomé
Carla Salomé01968HD
- 1970
Der Bomberpilot
Der Bomberpilot5.81970HD
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...