Werner Schroeter
Date of Birth: 07 Apr 1945
Country: Germany
Biography: Werner Schroeter (7 April 1945 – 12 April 2010) was a German film director, screenwriter, and opera director known for his stylistic excess. Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work and on German cinema at large.
Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 16 (Director), 13 (Writer)
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Avant-garde director Werner Schroeter's Deux (Two) is a willfully disjointed film about twin sisters played by Isabelle Huppert. As newborns, the two girls were separated. The film intercuts snippets from their lives. (Allmovie)
Love and death, madness and great opera are the themes which Werner Schroeter combines in this film which he once called his 'main work'. Der Tod der Maria Malibran is a musical and scenic reflection of the 19th century cult of genius and the myth surrounding the great singer (deutsche-in-london.net)
The scene is a large Portuguese estate. Still-beauteous widow Magdalene Montezuma lives in empty luxury on the estate with her son. This close familial relationship is shaken up, but ultimately strengthened, by the arrival of a low-born laborer. (AllMovie)
The 17-year old Nicola from Sicily comes to Germany to get a well paid job, so he can help his family in southern Italy. He finds work at the automobile manufacturer "Volkswagen" and meets other italians who help him to live in the foreign society. When he meets Brigitte, he falls in love with her, but their luck won't be for long.
The film centers around a passionate woman, Carole who feels alienated and repressed by the highly institutionalized public and private spheres of Western society. Unable to extract any kind of emotional response from her reserved boyfriend, Carole seeks attention by falsely denouncing her neighbors as terrorists.
In Werner Schroeter's very free interpretation of Ingeborg Bachmann's novel "Malina" (1971), the main character has no name, but appears in four reflections, two of them are the male main characters Malina and Ivan. Moreover, Schroeder used even two light-doubles for a famous mirror scene in which the female character appears in a "chiastic" and thus non-Aristotelian relation. (imdb)
In a miserable neighborhood of Naples, two siblings make totally different choices in their lives. The boy joins the Communist Party, while his sister follows the way of the church. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Three women retreat to a hacienda in the Mojave Desert and vengefully lure men to their deaths to the siren song of the Andrews Sisters' "Rum And Coca-Cola," in Werner Schroeter's sublimely strange fever dream of a film. (tiff.net)
Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films. (tiff.net)
This exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy was Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films. (tiff.net)
Neurasia (1969) - Short Film
In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality. (Letterboxd)
