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...
Magdalena Montezuma (born Erika Kluge; 2 October 1942 - 15 July 1984) was a German actress known for her collaborations with avant-garde New German Cinema filmmakers, including Werner Schroeter, Ulrike Ottinger, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Rosa...
New German Cinema (German: Neuer Deutscher Film) is a period in West German cinema which lasted from 1962 to 1982, in which a new generation of directors emerged who, working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave and Italian...
Candy Darling (born James Lawrence Slattery, November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American actress. Best known as a Warhol superstar, she became a prominent figure in New York's downtown cultural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. Darling rose to...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German: [ˈʁaɪnɐ ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfasbɪndɐ] ; 31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982), sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the...
Malina is a 1971 novel by the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann. It tells the story of a female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted. The text deals with themes including gender relations, guilt, mental...
The Kipper Kids were a duo composed of Martin Rochus Sebastian von Haselberg (born 20 January 1949) and Brian Routh (1948–2018), two artists known for the extreme and often comedic performance art they made together in the 1970s and after. Von...
Two (French: Deux) is a 2002 French surrealist experimental arthouse psychological drama film directed by Werner Schroeter and starring Isabelle Huppert.
Day of the Idiots (German: Tag der Idioten) is a 1981 West German psychological fantasy film drama directed and written by Werner Schroeter. It stars Carole Bouquet as a disturbed mental patient with an inclination to remove her clothes and Ingrid...
Werner is a name of German origin and is common both as a given name and a surname. As is often the case with Germanic names, it is a dithematic name, meaning it is composed of two semantically unrelated word stems, in this case the Old High German...