Walter Ruttmann Movies

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a...

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

Commercial for the GESOLEI health and art exhibition in Düsseldorf.

In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because...

An advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre, wherein our protagonists suffer no ill effects whatsoever from consuming alcohol.

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.

An animated commercial for tire company Excelsior Reifen.

Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.

This live-action short subject commissioned for the 75th birthday of German romantic composer Robert Schumann juxtaposes flowing water imagery with...

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Short version of the Mannesmann film that premiered the previous year.

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the...

Promotional film for "AEG".

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.