Werner Schroeter Movies

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

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

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

After reading a postcard that her mother let go in the wind, a woman learns that she has a twin.

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

Werner Schroeter directed this dark and surreal tale of a man determined to save a lost lover from a grim fate at the hands of a violent mob. The...

Personal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels...

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

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Jesus (played by the director) returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun,...

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style...

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

A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer.

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...

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

Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning.

"My camera was silent, and so I started to compose wild sound collages for my films from my records with the help of tape, for example with my...