Renata Schroeter Movies
- 1983
This dramatic view of a nuclear accident focuses on a doctor and his family who are on vacation in a rural area and a local family they know. As these individuals are enjoying themselves, a speeding gasoline truck crashes into a caravan of trucks carrying nuclear waste in canisters, and the containers break open in the accident. After the powers-that-be realize what has happened, they seal off the contaminated area and spare not a minute in rounding up the villagers and summarily herding them into a church. Thus confined and unsure of when or how they are going to be released, the villagers become restive and decide to break out -- not an option the waiting military units are ready to accept. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Renata Schroeter
- 1983
Roger, a learned and bookish Swiss ethnologist (Roger Wiedmer) has long held an ambition to travel from Genoa to Rio de Janeiro by ship in order to trace Claude Levy-Strauss' journey in his famous work "Tristes Tropiques." He decides to embark on the journey immediately because his wife wants to start a family after 10 years of marriage and he knows this may be his last chance to realize his dream. Once on the ship -- loaded with wildly individualistic travelers -- Roger meets Zaira (Zaira Gelbert), a Brazilian woman returning home after a few years of wandering around Europe as a part-time student and nightclub dancer. Zaira and Roger share French in common, but that is about all. When Roger tells her he wants to study Brazil's Native Americans up-close, Zaira takes him down to the engine room to introduce him to one. She also gives him the idea of recording conversations with the passengers on the ship, and voilà, a medley of off-the-wall types provide ample fodder for comedy. By the time they reach Rio, Roger feels Zaira is a lot more appealing than Levy-Strauss, but his interest does not seem to be reciprocated. Once this trip is over, the "Sad Tropics" might have a fully different meaning for Roger than for his venerated Levy-Strauss. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Zaira Zambelli, Roger Jendly, (more)
- 1983
Director and also lead actor Rolf Lyssy has created a comic treatment of a serious subject, without detracting from the truth or from the subject itself - which is the difficulty in getting financed for worthy film projects. The fictional director Teddy Baer wins an Oscar for Best Foreign Film, only to find that while everyone is more than happy to exploit his new-found fame, no one is willing to back his next film project, period. After hitting a brick wall enough times, Baer cracks up himself and enters a psychiatric clinic for treatment. When he gets out of the clinic he decides to make a new film about a director who has just won an Oscar and cannot get funding. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Rolf Lyssy, Renata Schroeter, (more)
- 1983
In this brief, 50-minute film, a hit man gives an interview to a journalist -- and this story unfolds -- about how he took a plane to Zurich and waited for the right moment to kill his victim. The mundane, boring activities of the killer are emphasized, making his amoral objective all the more evil. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Bruno Ganz, Renata Schroeter, (more)
- 1980
Talented Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project -- the life and times of a German literary figure -- and making it interesting. Christian Dietrich Grabbes lived a very short life in the first half of the 19th century and is primarily known for his satire, skepticism, basurd theater, and the fact that he presaged the Postmodern movement in literature. Hannibal and Don Juan and Faust are two of his better-known works. In this docudrama, his Comedy, Satire, Irony, and Deeper Meaning is featured partly because it gives a drubbing to the icons of German thought that had a stranglehold on the creative process. One memorable moment in this three-and-a-half-hour story is when the alcoholic writer is caught in the throes of delirium and comes around to see his own mother as a figure of death. The irony is that an Iranian director could capture the spirit and age of a German writer so well. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Renata Schroeter
- 1978
Kneuss (Ingold Wildnauer) is a free spirit, not tied down to anyone or anything. However, when an old friend of his gets him involved in a complicated scheme involving drugs and gangsters, which requires that they pretend to be Mormons, things get more involved and more complicated very quickly. This crime drama is based on the Swiss best-seller by Beat Brechbuehl. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ingold Wildenauer, Renata Schroeter, (more)
- 1977
The internationally produced The Lacemaker (La Dentelliere) stars Isabelle Huppert as Pomme, a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. Here Huppert becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student Francois (Yves Beneyton). The relationship sours when Francois takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds. The Lacemaker was the film that solidified the stardom of Isabelle Huppert; she was showered with awards, most notably the British Film Academy. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, (more)
