Werner Schroeter Movies

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

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...

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

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

Schroeter’s film is a chronicle of Germany from the Nazi era until the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s, centering on three women who...

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

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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

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...

"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...

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...