Movies: Walter Ruttmann

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

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

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....

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann....

A farcical war between the forces of Commercial Cinema and Independent Cinema....

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann....

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

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

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

Short version of the Mannesmann film that premiered the previous year....

Promotional film for "AEG"....

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann....

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

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,...

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...

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild....

Wehrmacht propaganda documentary about the might of the German armament factories and their inexhaustible reserves of war material made ready for use....

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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....

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...