Werner Schroeter Movies

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

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

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

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...

"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his...

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,...

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

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

"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...

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

"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...

Klaus Wyborny's Das letzte Jahr is a take on Ovid's "Fasti" in three parts. Yet, "a character as confused as our protagonist hardly would have been...

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

Elfi Mikesch accompanies Werner Schroeter in staging a tribute to Lautréamont in Berlin.

"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...