Werner Schroeter Movies

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...

Feminist short film set in West Berlin.

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

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....

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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...

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

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...

Meetings in Lisbon...

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

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...