Werner Schroeter Movies

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

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...

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

Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.

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

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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

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

"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...

A meeting with Werner Schroeter. An sequence originally featured in Wyborny's Das letzte Jahr extended here to its own short film.

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

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

"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...

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

Documentary film about a young actor from the GDR who lives in West Germany after moving there. It deals with his close relationship with his mother,...

Two women, one from Boston and one from Germany, flee their empty lives to seek fulfillment in Mexico. The Black Angel is a transitional film; on one...

"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...