Werner Schroeter Movies

Carla is a different form of homage, in which Carla Aulaulu sings a song by Gitta Linds.

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

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...

In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality.

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

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

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

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...

"On the occasion of the premiere of Nel Regno di Napoli in Cannes in 1978, Werner Schroeter gave me an audio interview about this film and about his...

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,...

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

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

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...

"Of all the female interpreters I know, Maria Callas was the one who, in her expressive power, could let time stand so long until all fear...

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

With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused...

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