Werner Schroeter

German film director and screenwriter (1945–2010)

1.79body-of-work score · ranked #565 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
April 7, 1945 · Georgenthal
Died
April 12, 2010 · Kassel
Nationality
Germany
Work
actor, film director, screenwriter, cinematographer
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Werner Schroeter
Benutzer:Smalltown Boy · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Palermo or WolfsburgPalermo oder Wolfsburg

    1980 · Germany / Switzerland · drama

    Berlin Golden Bear winner 1980 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1981 #10

    1.292 citations
  2. 2

    1986 · Germany · drama

    Hoberman's annual top 10 1987 #1

    0.501 citation

Complete filmography

All 22 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1968Argila
  • 1968Mona Lisa
  • 1968Neurasia
  • 1968Virginia's Death
  • 1969Eika Katappa
  • 1969Nicaragua
  • 1971Macbeth
  • 1971Salome
  • 1972Der Tod der Maria Malibran
  • 1973Willow Springs
  • 1975L'Ange noir
  • 1978The Kingdom of Naples
  • 1980Goldflocken
  • 1980Palermo or Wolfsburg
  • 1981Day of the Idiots
  • 1982Liebeskonzil
  • 1986Der Rosenkönig
  • 1991Malina
  • 1996Poussières d'amour - Abfallprodukte der Liebe
  • 2000The Queen
  • 2002Two
  • 2008Nuit de chien