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
Also known As
Walther Ruttmann
Walter Ruttmann
Biography
Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) 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 Ba...
Acting
1929
as Saint George
Production
1927
as Director of Photography
1927
as Editor
1927
as Director
1931
as Art Direction
1929
as Director
1926
as Director
1921
as Director
1921
as Director
1922
as Director
1921
as Director
1924
as Director
1925
as Director
1931
as Director
1940
as Director
1935
1925
as Director
1933
as Director
1926
as Director
1930
as Director
1933
as Director
1940
as Director
1927
as Director
1926
as Animation
1935
as Director
1927
as Director
1931
as Director
1931
as Writer
1931
as Editor
1935
as Screenplay
1938
as Director
1938
as Writer
1924
as Editor
1924
as Producer
1924
as Animation
1933
as Writer
1933
as Editor
1928
as Editor
1932
as Editor
1934
as Director
1924
as Director of Photography
1937
1927
as Writer
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