Movies: Walter Ruttmann

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences....

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally....

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War,...

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster....

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland....

An animated commercial for tire company Excelsior Reifen....

In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his f...

Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes move into or across t...

An advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre, wherein our protagonists suffer no ill effects whatsoever from consuming alcohol....

Wochende (Weekend) is a film initially commissioned by the Berlin Radio Hour. Prior to Weekend, Ruttmann had made numerous celebrated avant-garde films, namely Opus I-IV, and the spectacular Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927). The advent of sound film...

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann....

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann....

Commercial for the GESOLEI health and art exhibition in Düsseldorf....

Hans Schilling, who emigrated to Chile shortly before World War 1, comes from Valparaiso to visit his old hometown of Stuttgart after an absence of almost 22 years. His brother Georg Schilling, who stayed in Stuttgart, picks him up at the train stati...

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony....

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann....

Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) refers to the ideology focussing on a concept of ethnicity based on descent (Blood) and homeland (Soil). It celebrates the relationship of a people to the land that they occupy and cultivate and places high est...

Nazi propaganda film about the embryo of metal falling from the sky, extracted by the German industry for various purposes....

This live-action short subject commissioned for the 75th birthday of German romantic composer Robert Schumann juxtaposes flowing water imagery with the piano playing of artist Nina Hanson....

Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace....