Werner Schroeter Movies

An unusual story of a triangular relationship in Vienna. A woman shares an apartment with a man named Malina. The woman meets Ivan and falls under...

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

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

Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style...

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...

Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient...

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

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 mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

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

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

Living together in an isolated house, three women go to murderous lengths to keep strangers out of their private retreat.

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

Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are...

When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence...

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with...

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

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