Walter Ruttmann Movies

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a...

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.

In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because...

Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many...

An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over...

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

This live-action short subject commissioned for the 75th birthday of German romantic composer Robert Schumann juxtaposes flowing water imagery with...

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

An animated commercial for tire company Excelsior Reifen.

Commercial for the GESOLEI health and art exhibition in Düsseldorf.

An abstract animation by Walter Ruttmann.

Promotional film for "AEG".

An abstract animation from Walter Ruttmann.

Blood and Soil (German: Blut und Boden) refers to the ideology focussing on a concept of ethnicity based on descent (Blood) and homeland (Soil). It...

Nazi propaganda film about the embryo of metal falling from the sky, extracted by the German industry for various purposes.

Documentary about the process of building tanks in Germany during the early days of World War II.