
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 international acclaim despite their being almost eight years old. Ruttmann licensed a Wax Slicing machine from Oskar Fischinger to create special effects for Lotte Reiniger. Together with Erwin Piscator, he worked on the film Melody of the World (1929), though he is best remembered for Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, 1927). During the Nazi period he worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl on Triumph of the Will (1935). He died in Berlin of wounds sustained when he was working on the front line as a war photographer.
Personal Info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1887-12-28
Place of Birth
Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
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Cast
The Storming of La Sarraz
19290.0 / 10
Crew
Metropolis
19278.1 / 10
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
19277.5 / 10
The End of the World
19314.9 / 10
Melody of the World
19296.7 / 10
Game of Waves
19265.8 / 10
Lightplay Opus II
19215.9 / 10
The Winner
19215.6 / 10
The Wonder
19226.3 / 10
Lichtspiel: Opus I
19216.0 / 10
Opus III
19246.6 / 10
Opus IV
19256.2 / 10
In the Night
19317.1 / 10
German Armaments
19400.0 / 10
Stuttgart, die Großstadt zwischen Wald und Reben
19350.0 / 10
The Rediscovered Paradise
19256.5 / 10
Steel
19335.2 / 10
The Climb
19266.8 / 10
Weekend
19306.2 / 10
Blood and Soil
19330.0 / 10
Deutsche Panzer
19406.0 / 10
Where the Rhine...
19277.2 / 10
Metall des Himmels
19355.0 / 10
Hoppla, wir leben
19270.0 / 10
Feind im Blut
19310.0 / 10
Triumph of the Will
19356.9 / 10
Mannesmann
19380.0 / 10
The White Stadium
19287.4 / 10
Ceux du viking
19320.0 / 10