Werner Schroeter Movies

Feminist short film set in West Berlin.

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...

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music...

"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...

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

Meetings in Lisbon...

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

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

An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of...

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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...

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...