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Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger was an early German practitioner of experimental film. Ruttmann was born in Frankfurt am Main; His film career began in the early 1920s. His first abstract short films, Lichtspiel: Opus I (1921) and Opus II (1923), were experiments with new forms of film expression. Ruttmann and his colleagues of the avant garde movement enriched the language of film as a medium with new formal techniques.
Ruttmann was a prominent exponent of both avant-garde art and music. His early abstractions played at the 1929 Baden-Baden Festival to international acclaim despite their being almost eight years old. Ruttmann licensed a Wax Slicing machine from Oskar Fischinger to create special effects for Lotte Reiniger. Together with Erwin Piscator, he worked on the film Melody of the World (1929), though he is best remembered for Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 1927).
During the Nazi period he worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl on Triumph of the Will (1935). He died in Berlin of wounds sustained when he was working on the front line as a war photographer.
Most Popular Walter Ruttmann Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
06 February 1927
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.
12 March 1929
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.
01 January 1929
A farcical war between the forces of Commercial Cinema and Independent Cinema.
01 April 1921
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time.
19 March 1928
A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
31 March 1933
In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina.
24 February 1935
Nazi propaganda film about the embryo of metal falling from the sky, extracted by the German industry for various purposes.
11 March 1924
An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.
14 September 1940
Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II.
23 September 1927
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.
03 June 1926
Commercial for the GESOLEI health and art exhibition in Düsseldorf.
13 April 1938
Short version of the Mannesmann film that premiered the previous year.
05 August 1931
This live-action short subject commissioned for the 75th birthday of German romantic composer Robert Schumann juxtaposes flowing water imagery with the piano playing of artist Nina Hanson.
09 April 1925
An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.
28 March 1935
A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.
27 December 1927
A short film by Walther Ruttmann.
01 January 1922
An advertisement for Kantorowicz-Liköre, wherein our protagonists suffer no ill effects whatsoever from consuming alcohol.
26 May 1930
Wochende (Weekend) is a film initially commissioned by the Berlin Radio Hour. Prior to Weekend, Ruttmann had made numerous celebrated avant-garde films, namely Opus I-IV, and the spectacular Berlin: Symphony of a City (1927).
28 April 1926
Promotional film for "AEG".
21 March 1940
Wehrmacht propaganda documentary about the might of the German armament factories and their inexhaustible reserves of war material made ready for use.
17 October 1925
Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.
31 December 1921
An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.
30 November 1933
Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) refers to the ideology focussing on a concept of ethnicity based on descent (Blood) and homeland (Soil).
23 January 1931
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
08 December 1935
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 almost 22 years.
03 August 1921
An animated commercial for tire company Excelsior Reifen.
26 February 1932
Jeff and Luck, seal hunters aboard The Viking, both love the same girl. She loves Luck but fears Jeff.
