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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.
Werner Schroeter. Director: The Kingdom of Naples. The key person of the New German Cinema of the '70s. His works, mostly shot in 16mm, combine an intense interest and knowledge of German history and personal dramatic and emotional investigations.
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- Georgenthal, Thuringia, Germany
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- Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Apr 21, 2010 · Werner Schroeter, a German film and stage director whose flair for lush visuals and heightened emotions introduced an operatic sensibility to the New German Cinema movement of the 1970s,...
Werner Schroeter is, simply, the most interesting, irritating, civilizing filmmaker since Godard. So far, his films have been containers for several perennial obsessions: opera, specifically French and Italian opera buffa contrasted with German epic opera, used as sound track and visually parodied in costumes and sets.
The cult or coterie status to which Schroeter’s films have long been assigned—an obscurity abetted in North America by the persistent refusal of the New York and Toronto film festivals to show his work—infuriated his friend and champion Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who published a polemic in 1979 decrying Schroeter’s treatment as an exotic ...
Explore the extraordinary oeuvre of Werner Schroeter, a queer filmmaker who blended art cinema and avant-garde aesthetics. See his adaptations of classics, his essays on theater and politics, and his final film in restored copies.
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Werner Schroeter (* 7. April 1945 in Georgenthal; † 12. April 2010 in Kassel) war ein deutscher Film-, Opern- und Theater- Regisseur .
