Werner Schroeter Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

"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...

"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...

"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...

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,...

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

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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...