Werner Schroeter Movies

Documentary on State terrorism during the last military dictatorship in Argentina, made in its aftermath. Invited by the Goethe-Institut to hold a...

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...

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

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

"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...

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....

Schroeter casts his tutored eye on Mnouchkine, the legendary founder of the avant-garde Théâtre du Soleil, with whom he shared an...

"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...

Meetings in Lisbon...

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

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...

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

One of Schroeter’s first experiments in choreography, as he stages actors in an empty room.

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.