Jörg Buttgereit
Date of Birth: 20 Dec 1963
Country: Germany
Biography: Born in 1963, the year following the Oberhausen Manifesto's demands for a "new German feature film" predicated upon "new freedoms," liberated from "the influence of commercial partners" and "the control of special interest groups,"i Buttgereit received his first Super-8 camera as a First Holy Communion present. He made his first film in 1977, as West Germany veered to the political right and various left wing, feminist, anti-establishment and terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the Baader-Meinhoff group came to the cultural and political fore. In the face of ideological divisions at the heart of West German society, and the evolution of Kluge's Young German Cinema into the distinctively historically engaged New German Cinema, it is notable that whilst Buttgereit's early film career ranged across genres (from parodic monster and super-hero shorts to mock-rockumentaries set in the West Berlin punk scene)ii it is still possible to trace a culturally engaged thematic continuity across these early works that is of great relevance to German cinema of the period in general, and the Nekromantik movies in particular.
Total Credits at Criticker: 11 (Actor), 11 (Director), 8 (Writer)
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Horror Heaven (1984) - Short Film
Buttgereit's early short film sports loving homages to The Mummy, Frankenstein, cannibal girl flicks, and most amusingly Godzilla, all hosted in quasi-Hitchcock style by the director himself. (mondo-digital.com)
Captain Berlin - Retter der Welt (1982) - Short Film
Shot in 1982 with the use of a handycam "Captain Berlin" is the second film from the German director who later shocked the planet with disturbing movies like "Nekromantik" or "Schramm". However, this one is childish and harmless: the title hero is a guy who wears a Spiderman mask, a yellow pyjama and the flag of Germany's capital as his cape. His mission is to free his girlfriend from the claws of an extraordinary super villain from space... (IMDB Comments)
A female nurse desperately tries to hide her feelings of necrophilia from her new boyfriend, but still has pieces of the corpse of the first movie's hero in her possession.
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
Structured like a children's movie, the film follows the exploits of Captain Gustav who once saved the life of another boy from drowning. This boy later grew up to be the Captain's "best" friend, never leaving his side and making life miserable. So, when a beautiful woman asks for shelter at their home one day, the Captain escapes with her; taking to the sea. There, they start a family, fight tyranny and leave their pasts behind, or do they? (Jeremy Knox)
Hot Love (1985) - Short Film
Daktari Lorenz falls in eternal, blissfull love with Marion (Marion Koob) at a party. He is in heaven... but soon she dumps him and moves in with a tall, blond new lover (Jörg Buttgereit himself). Daktari vows bitter revenge. He rapes the girl thus creating a monster baby that will show Marion what "Present Me with Your Heart" literally means. Dark, brooding and violent, this movie, made in 1985, set the tone for NEKROMANTIK. (joergbuttgereit.com)
Bloody Excess in the Leader's Bunker (1984) - Short Film
In 1984, Adolf Hitler is still alive and is attempting to breed a new master race with the resurrected Eva Braun and a creature made out of human bodies. Naturally this doesn't go well for his physical well being.
Making of 'Süsse Stuten 7' (2010) - Direct-to-Video
a comedy series about the production of a porno movie
The Railroad Cinema (Bahnhofskino) was a special kind of cinema, existing only in the old West German Federal Republic. These cinemas were build by the German Railway Company after WW2 for their travelers, who could now enjoy a movie or part of a movie while waiting for the next train. Due to this fact, the programmes in these cinemas were quite special, too...
Der Gollob (1983) - Short Film
Early short by Buttgereit about a monster that's partly frozen pizza.