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.

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...

Short film directed by Rosa von Praunheim and Werner Schroeter. Considered lost.

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André...

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

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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

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

"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...

Animated stills of Maria Callas and overlaid with a soundtrack of her singing.

In the first part of this short film, Schroeter tries to visualize the artist as Lucia in the mad scene of the third act of the Donizetti opera....

La morte d’Isotta is a passionate melodrama inspired by Richard Wagner and Comte de Lautréamont, with Schroeter appearing in a principal...

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

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

Paula–’je reviens’ is one of Schroeter’s first experiments in choreography, as he stages actors in an empty room.

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