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Looking for reviews of films directed by Walter Ruttmann? Cinafilm has a total of 28 reviews across 1 movies directed by Walter Ruttmann.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 77%.
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is Walter Ruttmann's highest rated movie, with a score of 77% based on 28 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Walter Ruttmann is Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, with a score of 77% based on 28 reviews.
Walter Ruttmann was a German film director and along with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling and Oskar Fischinger what an early German practitioner of experimental film. Ruttmann was born in Frankfurt-on-Main; His film career began in the early 1920s. His first abstract short films, light game: 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.
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