Direction: Werner Schroeter

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Gisela Trowe · Carla Egerer · Rosemarie Heinikel · Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music - with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Christine Kaufmann · Candy Darling · Manuela Riva

Synopsis A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer. Each tableau has a different motif, and each comes across with a decadent romanticism that lies somewhere between the Pre-Raphaelites and a quick...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Christine Kaufmann · Ila von Hasperg · Michael O'Daniels

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Nicola Zarbo · Otto Sander · Ida Di Benedetto · Magdalena Montezuma

Synopsis 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 through Northern Italy by train. The young man is arrested after he kills two Germans...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Knut Koch · Heidi Lorenzo

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Pascal Greggory · Bruno Todeschini · Eric Caravaca · Amira Casar

Synopsis A 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 city of Santa Maria is falling into chaos as an armed military faction is...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Mathieu Carrière · Can Togay · Fritz Schediwy

Synopsis Malina, the key character of this psychological enigma, is the strong rational part of a fragile personality, which splits also in a passionate female character, played by Isabelle Huppert, both actually symbolic figures of a single personality. The story describes,...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Bulle Ogier · Manuel Blanc · Arielle Dombasle

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carole Bouquet · Ingrid Caven · Christine Kaufmann · Ida Di Benedetto

Synopsis Carol is a young woman dissatisfied and demanding with life. To prove herself, she pretends to be a terrorist. She is admitted and kept under observation in a residence, despite not being sick. The suicide of a patient will make...

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Maria Callas

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

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Mostefa Djadjam · Antonio Orlando · Karina Fallenstein

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Rita Bauer · Carla Egerer · Steven Adamczewski

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

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Antonio Salines · Magdalena Montezuma · Kurt Raab · Agnès Nobecourt

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carla Egerer · Magdalena Montezuma · Sigurd Salto · Gisela Trowe

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Anita Cerquetti · Martha Mödl · Rita Gorr · Kristine Ciesinski

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Mascha Rabben · Magdalena Montezuma · Ellen Umlauf · Thomas von Keyserling

Synopsis Shot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde's play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Carla Egerer · Mascha Rabben · Magdalena Montezuma · Suzanne Sheed

Synopsis Der Bomberpilot tells the story of three eccentric women in Germany during the Nazi period who try to become show stars in America after the war.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Liana Trouche · Antonio Orlando · Renata Zamengo · Dino Mele

Synopsis In a miserable neighbourhood of Napoli, two brothers make totally different choices for their lives. The boy joins the Communist Party, while his sister follows the way of the church.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Steven Adamczewski · Joachim Bauer · Rita Bauer

Synopsis A love triangle, accompanied by traditional German Christmas songs.

Direction Werner Schroeter

Cast Magdalena Montezuma · Ellen Umlauf · Christine Kaufmann · Andrea Ferréol

Synopsis Four stories, "Cuba", "Drame du rail", "Cœur brisé" and "La trahison", framed by a prologue and an epilogue, exalt the sensuality of the bodies and the beauty of the faces.