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After attending the Film Festival at Knokke, Belgium in 1967, Schroeter made his first 8mm film, Maria Callas Portrait, that consisted of animated stills of Callas overlaid with the sound of her singing. [3] Eika Katappa was his first feature, which mixes pop and opera.
The title of Palermo or Wolfsburg, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival—Schroeter was the first German director to take the prize—establishes the film’s polarities: a romanticized preindustrial Sicily (genuine, sensual, convivial) and its abhorrent opposite, materialistic Germany (chilly, sterile, hostile). A shock-headed ...
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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The Bomber Pilot. After attending the 4th experi-mental Film Festival at Knokke, Belgium, in 1967, the 22-year-old Schroeter started to make his first 8mm films, most notably Maria Callas Portrait (68), in which he animated stills of Maria Callas and overlaid them with a soundtrack of her singing.
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The filmography contains the following information about the films where known: Screenplay (S), Cinematography (C), Editor (E), Producer (P), Principle actors or subjects if a documentary (A), film format and running time. Verona(1967) C & E: Werner Schroeter, 8mm, B&W, 10 min Callas Walking Lucia(1968) S, C & E: Werner Schroeter, 8mm, B&W, 3 min C...
Books: Gérard Courant, (ed.), Werner Schroeter, Paris, Goethe-Institut, Cinémathèque Française, 1982 Sabine Dhein, Werner Schroeter, Frankfurt am Main, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991 Peter W. Jansen & Wolfram Schütte (eds.), Werner Schroeter, Munich, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1980 Michelle Langford, Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the ...
Compiled by author and Albert Fung Bright Lights Film Journal Gary Morris, “Love’s Debris”, Bright Lights Film Journal Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Several pages on Schroeter can be found if you do a search.
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.
As it appears in Schroeter’s first feature films, opera evokes not only a canon of musical works but also the modern perception of the operatic mentality as a species of camp. Eika Katappa , 1969, with respect to the themes and devices already enumerated, is copious to the point of bursting.
