Movies: Peter Schamoni

Two former lovers start a new relationship....

A group of gamblers travels through Europe....

This documentary celebrates Max Ernst, one of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century. The film covers the highlights of Ernst's fascinating career via a format that mirrors the restless reality of his life. An inveterate trave...

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A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction....

A documentary about Germany's last emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II....

In the sixties the painter and sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle started her career with shooting paintings, reliefs that were fired at with paint bags. She became famous and popular for her Nanas, colorful sculptures of big and cheerful women, and for t...

In his experimental short film "Brutalität in Stein" (Brutality in Stone), Alexander Kluge demonstrates how Nazi architecture used dimensions of inhuman and super-human scale to bolster the regime's politics of the same kind. Shots of huge neo-classi...

The fate of a young girl named Svea, who has always been hunted down, in the depths of an immense forest governed by the monstrous Akos, not far from a mysterious castle inhabited by the noble Adrien, who will become the willing sacrificial victim of...

a brief documentary about Dorothea Tanning with gothic flourishes...

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T. finds a letter. Instead of just dropping it in a mailbox, he decides, conscientious as he is, to deliver it personally. He wanders the entire world, discovers astounding forms of existence, but cannot be hindered from his duty and keeps looking un...

Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher....

Max Ernst on amateur astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel....

A film made secretly in Moscow by Peter Schamoni during the World Festival of Youth and Students in the summer of 1957. His cameraman was Jost Vacano. During their trip, they made authentic film and audio recordings of a kind that had never been seen...

A film about and with Max Ernst....

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The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the nature of materials and the emotional significance of shapes to combine with his collages and netherworld ...

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