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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

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

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

Rosa von Praunheim is an icon in the scene: gay activist, loving provocateur and a very special filmmaker from Berlin for decades. His curiosity for...

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.