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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. [1] [2] Schroeter was cited by Rainer Werner Fassbinder as an influence both on his own work and on German cinema at large.
- 1967–2008
Werner Schroeter (1945-2010) Werner Schroeter. 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. Malina (1991) which stars Isabelle Huppert is one of the great classics of modern cinema and deals ...
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- Georgenthal, Thuringia, Germany
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- Kassel, Hesse, Germany
Apr 22, 2010 · Thu 22 Apr 2010 13.34 EDT. After a long, fallow period in German cinema, there emerged, in the late 1960s, a new wave of directors, including Werner Schroeter, who has died of cancer, aged 65 ...
- Ronald Bergan
April 20, 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 ...
Werner Schroeter, Der Tod der Maria Malibran (The Death of Maria Malibran), 1972, still from a color film in 16 mm, 104 minutes. Singer (Anette Tirier) and Maria Malibran (Magdalena Montezuma). What Schroeter does with a face, a cheekbone, the lips, an expression of the eyes [is a] multiplying and burgeoning of the body, an exaltation.
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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.
An experimental filmmaker whose work challenged audiences and critics, Schroeter came to prominence in his native Germany with The Death of Maria Malibran (1971). Never easily pigeonholed, his subsequent films include Willow Springs (1973), The Kingdom of Naples (1978), Palermo Or Wolfsburg (1980), The Rose King (1985) and Malina (1991). - Read Werner Schroeter's Guardian Obituary
