FILM DIRECTOR

Werner Schroeter

1945 - 2010

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Werner Schroeter is the 510th most popular film director (up from 607th in 2019), the 2,796th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,244th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Werner Schroeter ranks 510 out of 2,041Before him are Hiroshi Inagaki, J. J. Abrams, Vicente Aranda, Clarence Brown, Richard Thorpe, and Renny Harlin. After him are Glauber Rocha, Ján Kadár, Mike Leigh, Don Bluth, Louis Feuillade, and Michel Gondry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Werner Schroeter ranks 235Before him are Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, Jörg Immendorff, Pablo Forlán, Pinarayi Vijayan, and David Purley. After him are Zdeňka Vávrová, Dimitar Penev, Eric Woolfson, Bianca Jagger, Barry Bostwick, and Richard Long. Among people deceased in 2010, Werner Schroeter ranks 134Before him are Albert Ghiorso, Howard Zinn, Cécile Aubry, Georges Wilson, Raimon Panikkar, and Charlie Hickcox. After him are Bogdan Bogdanović, Captain Beefheart, Trevor Taylor, Raymond Franz, Bobby Smith, and Rudolf Barshai.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Schroeter ranks 2,797 out of 7,253Before him are Luigi Colani (1928), Hans von Marées (1837), Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782), Michael Rummenigge (1964), Franz Joseph Emil Fischer (1877), and Martin Walser (1927). After him are Sabina of Bavaria (1492), Udo Lindenberg (1946), Leo Löwenthal (1900), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Hermann Breith (1892), and Duke George of Oldenburg (1784).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Werner Schroeter ranks 23Before him are Lotte Reiniger (1899), Veit Harlan (1899), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), Wolfgang Reitherman (1909), Walter Frentz (1907), and Walter Ruttmann (1887). After him are Alexander Kluge (1932), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Uli Edel (1947), Henry Koster (1905), Tom Tykwer (1965), and Arnold Fanck (1889).