Werner Schroeter — Playwright (9)
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White Journey (1980)
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Werner Schroeter actor: Jim Auwae / Tilly Soffing …
other title: Weiße Reise
One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic adventures of two sailors through the world's seaports in the manner of a cut-rate silent movie.
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Dress Rehearsal (1980)
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Werner Schroeter actor: Pina Bausch / Reinhold Hoffmann …
other title: Die Generalprobe
An exhilarating, essayistic documentary about the 1980 festival of experimental theatre in the French city of Nancy. Werner Schroeter's favourite of his own films.
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Gold Flakes (1976)
Goldflocken WikiData IMDb TMDB
Werner Schroeter actor: Magdalena Montezuma / Ila von Hasperg …
other title: Goldflocken / Flocons d'or
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.