Werner Schroeter Filmes

Jesus returns to present-day Bavaria, walks around Munich in a somewhat dazed manner and strikes up an affair with a nun, arguing that they are...

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

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...

A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

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

Meetings in Lisbon...

"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...

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

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

Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music...

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

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,...

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

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