Werner Schroeter Movies

German director Werner Schroeter invited his favourite opera singers to a 13th century abbey near Paris. There was no pre-planned action. There was...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

"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...

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...

La morte d’Isotta is a passionate melodrama inspired by Richard Wagner and Comte de Lautréamont, with Schroeter appearing in a principal...

Documentary film about a young actor from the GDR who lives in West Germany after moving there. It deals with his close relationship with his mother,...