Werner Schroeter Movies

Aggression, Schroeter’s first 16mm film, is the fictive portrait of a woman who is oppressed by her (unseen) boyfriend.

One of the most caustic and personal essay films ever made, Werner Schroeter's account of the 1983 Manila Film Festival, presided over by Imelda...

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

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

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,...

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

"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...

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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

Werner Schroeter's lovely and touching portrait of the great German actress Marianne Hoppe, whose career spanned from the glory days of the Weimar...

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

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

Meetings in Lisbon...

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

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