Walter Ruttmann

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-12-28 (54 years old)

Deathday

1941-07-15

Place of Birth

Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany

Walter Ruttmann

Biography

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 internationa...

Acting

1929

Production

1927

Metropolis

as Director of Photography

1931

The End of the World

as Art Direction

1929

1926

Game of Waves

as Director

1921

The Winner

as Director

1921

1921

1922

The Wonder

as Director

1924

Opus III

as Director

1925

Opus IV

as Director

1931

In the Night

as Director

1940

German Armaments

as Director

1933

Steel

as Director

1926

The Climb

as Director

1930

Weekend

as Director

1933

Blood and Soil

as Director

1940

Deutsche Panzer

as Director

1927

1926

The Climb

as Animation

1935

1927

1931

Feind im Blut

as Writer

1931

Feind im Blut

as Director

1931

Feind im Blut

as Editor

1935

Triumph of the Will

as Screenplay

1938

Mannesmann

as Director

1938

Mannesmann

as Writer

1924

Opus III

as Animation

1924

Opus III

as Producer

1924

Opus III

as Editor

1933

Steel

as Writer

1933

Steel

as Editor

1928

1932

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