Walter Ruttmann Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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

An animated commercial for tire company Excelsior Reifen.

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over...

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...

Promotional film for "AEG".

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...

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

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...

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.

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

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

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

Commercial for the GESOLEI health and art exhibition in Düsseldorf.