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

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.
- 1Palermo or WolfsburgPalermo oder Wolfsburg
1980 · Germany / Switzerland · drama
Berlin Golden Bear winner 1980 · Cahiers du Cinéma annual top 10 1981 #10
1.292 citations - 20.501 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