Walter Ruttmann

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German film director (1887-1941)

DirectorsLived 1887 to 1941 · aged 53

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Walter Ruttmann was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger.

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Filmography 25

Triumph of the Will1935 · ★ 6.9

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City1927 · ★ 7.5

Lichtspiel: Opus I1921 · ★ 6.1

Lightplay Opus II1921

Opus IV1925

Opus III1924

Melody of the World1929

The Wonder1922

The Rediscovered Paradise1925

Game of Waves1926

In the Night1931

Steel1933

German Tanks1940

Metall des Himmels1935

Weekend1930

The Climb1926

Where the Rhine...1927

Feind im Blut1931

Blood and Soil1933

Hoppla, wir leben1927

German Armaments1940

Stuttgart, die Großstadt zwischen Wald und Reben1935

Mannesmann1938

Altgermanische Bauernkultur1934

Mannesmann. Ein Film der Mannesmannröhren-Werke1937

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Connected to Walter 6

Leni RiefenstahlAlso in Triumph of the Will (1935)

Mario SoldatiAlso in Steel (1933)

Karl FreundAlso in Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)

Ivor MontaguAlso in Melody of the World (1929)

Emilio CecchiAlso in Steel (1933)Eberhard TaubertAlso in Triumph of the Will (1935)

About this person

Walter Ruttmann was a German cinematographer and film director, an important German abstract experimental film maker, along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger. He is best known for directing the semi-documentary 'city symphony' silent film, with orchestral score by Edmund Meisel, in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis. His audio montage Wochenende (Weekend) (1930) is considered a major contribution in the development of sound collages and audio plays.