Werner Schroeter Movies

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

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

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...

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

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,...

"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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Meetings in Lisbon...

Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André...

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