Werner Schroeter

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Werner Schroeter (born April 7, 1945 in Georgenthal, Thuringia) is a German film director, considered, together with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the most important of his country in the post-war period. His 1980 film Palermo oder Wolfsburg, telling the story of a Sicilian guest worker in Germany, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Schroeter has also worked as a theater and opera director, in Germany and elsewhere.

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• Werner Schroeter at the Internet Movie Database

Publications Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter

By Michelle Langford

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ppbooks.php?isbn=1841501387

http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/schroeter.html