Werner Schroeter Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.

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.

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...

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

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

Paula–’je reviens’ is one of Schroeter’s first experiments in choreography, as he stages actors in an empty room.

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...

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

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 love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.