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Walter Ruttmann

Walter Ruttmann

DirectorWriterEditorArtActor Dec 28 (died age 53) Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany 1921–1940 (19 year career)
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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…

Known For

Metropolis
Film

Metropolis

Director of Photography
Triumph of the Will
Film

Triumph of the Will

Screenplay
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Film

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Cinematography
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Film

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Director
Lichtspiel: Opus I
Film

Lichtspiel: Opus I

Director
The White Stadium
Film

The White Stadium

Editor
Opus III
Film

Opus III

Animation
Opus IV
Film

Opus IV

Director

Filmography