Werner Schroeter

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

One of the most caustic and personal essay films ever made, Werner Schroeter’s account of the 1983 Manila Film Festival, presided over by ...

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

A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.

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

One of Werner Schroeter’s most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet’s notorious Querelle depicts ...

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 ...