Werner Schroeter
Birthday: 1945-04-07
Place of Birth: Georgenthal, Germany
Biography: Werner Schroeter (7 April 1945 – 12 April 2010) was a German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work and on German cinema at large. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Schroeter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Last Year
Klaus Wyborny's Das letzte Jahr is a take on Ovid's "Fasti" in three parts. Yet, "a character as con...
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Alabama (2000 Light Years)
"The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always mus...
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Mondo Lux: The Visual Worlds of Werner Schroeter
Werner Schroeter was one of the most significant proponents of New German Cinema. Schroeter was diag...
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The Ghost
Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up ...
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Rosas Welt – 70 neue Filme von Rosa von Praunheim
Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special film...
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So lange ich fliehen noch kann, da schütze ich mich
Documentary film about a young actor from the GDR who lives in West Germany after moving there. It d...
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Beware of a Holy Whore
Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and st...
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The Ministries of Art
Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustac...
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Vivre à Naples et Mourir (Entretien avec Werner Schroeter)
"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me ...
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Sisters of Revolution
Feminist short film set in West Berlin. A militant group of homosexuals who campaign for women's lib...
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White Journey
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Gene...
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Der Bomberpilot
Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s an...
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Maria Callas singt 1957 Rezitativ und Arie der Elvira aus Ernani 1844 von Giuseppe Verdi
"Of all the female interpreters I know, Maria Callas was the one who, in her expressive power, could...
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La morte d'Isotta
La morte d’Isotta is a passionate melodrama inspired by Richard Wagner and Comte de Lautréamont, wit...
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Paula – « Je reviens »
One of Schroeter’s first experiments in choreography, as he stages actors in an empty room....
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Eika Katappa
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well know...
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Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense
When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting ...
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Eine Hommage an Lautréamont
Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin....
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