Werner Schroeter Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

"The film starts with a shot of a cassette recorder, and it has a juke box in it. There’s always music in it. When I was asked by some critics...

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

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

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