One of Werner Schroeter's most important and inventive works, this threadbare evocation of Jean Genet's notorious Querelle depicts the erotic adventures of two sailors through the world's seaports in the manner of a cut-rate silent movie.

슈뢰터가 오스카 와일드의 비극을 화려하게 연출한 이 작품은 레바논의 고대 로마 신전 바알베크의 웅장한 계단에서 촬영된 영상과 음향의 복잡한 몽타주로, 레바논과 독일 민요를 베르디, 바그너, 슈트라우스, 모차르트, 벨리니, 도니제티의 음악과 교차시킨다. 슈뢰터 후기 영화의 촬영감독 엘피 미케쉬가 영화의 화려한 의상을 디자인했다. 르 몽드의 한 동시대 평론가는 슈뢰터가 묘사한 "어두운 기독교적 도덕과 빛나는 이교도적 신앙 사이의 치명적인 투쟁"에 대해 감탄하며 글을 썼다.

1968 film by Werner Schroeter

1969 film by Werner Schroeter

Nel Regno di Napoli, Schroeter's own voyage to Italy, has the appearance of something much more straightforward, hewing closely to a postwar timeline (actually marked and measured by emblematic intertitle cut-ins announcing the year, accompanied by radio bulletin-like narration updating us on the historical/social/political context) as it tells the story of little Vittoria (played as an adult by Cristina Donadino), born to a poor family in a rough neighborhood of Naples at the end of the war, whose fate, as she grows from impoverished girlhood to "success" as an airline stewardess in the 1970s, provides our dramatic compass through a living, clear-eyed history book, encompassing a whole microcosm of Neapolitan life in the turbulent, industrializing decades after the war: A brother, Massimo (Antonio Orlando) earnestly and diligently devoted to the promise of a better, fairer future for the oppressed workers held out by the Communist Party; a pretty, naïve, ill-fated French prostitute; the Spanish War veteran who becomes their local C.P. leader, and his wife, more pragmatic and lurking in the ideological gray area by buying rationed necessities on the ultra-capitalist black market; the turncoat bourgeois attorney who sells out his working-class neighbors for his tacky, impossible dreams of the good life; and the operatically evil heiress/factory boss lady (Ida Di Benedetto) whose clutches Massimo fights to neutralize, but whom Vittoria ultimately just wants to escape any ideologically-impure way she can.

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

1991 film by Werner Schroeter