Werner Schroeter Movies

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

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...

Meetings in Lisbon...

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

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

"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...

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

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...

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

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....

Feminist short film set in West Berlin. A militant group of homosexuals who campaign for women's liberation. Dietmar, who reenacts the oppression and...

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