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...

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.

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

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

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 by Walter Ruttmann.

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...

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

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

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...

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

Jeff and Luck, seal hunters aboard The Viking, both love the same girl. She loves Luck but fears Jeff. Lost in the ice following a storm, Luck saves...

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

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

Wochende (Weekend) is a film initially commissioned by the Berlin Radio Hour. Prior to Weekend, Ruttmann had made numerous celebrated avant-garde...

Commercial for the GESOLEI health and art exhibition in Düsseldorf.