White Journey

Weiße Reise

France, Switzerland

1980

55 Min

Color

German

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Eric Franck, Werner Schroeter

CAST Jim Auwae, Margareth Clémenti, Bulle Ogier, Maria Schneider, Tilly Soffing, Ursula Rodel, Marion Varella, Werner Schroeter

Synopsis

White Journey (Weiße Reise) is kind of ‘folk-theatre’/experimental film by Werner Schroeter (based on his script “Die Matrosen dieser Welt” which he previously published in the magazine “Filmkritik”) A Spirited, colourful fantasy of two beautiful young sailors who travel around the world together visiting the harbors of Naples, Hamburg and San Francisco. The entire world is reduced to a series of painted backdrops reflecting geographic and thereby sensual polarities.

Director

Werner Schroeter

Werner Schroeter (born 7 April 1945, Georgenthal, Thuringia) is a German film director and screenwriter, considered one of the most important of his country in the post-war period. He has also worked in film as a producer, cinematographer, editor and actor. In the later function he appeared in several films directed by his friend Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), and a number of theatre productions.

His 1980 film Palermo oder Wolfsburg, telling the story of a Sicilian guest worker in Germany, won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, while his 1991 production Malina was entered into that year’s Cannes Film Festival.

In the 1960s, Schroeter worked with Rosa von Praunheim, who is also gay. Schroeter has also worked as a theater and opera director, in Germany and elsewhere. In the late 1970s Schroeter met the Irish Artist Reginald Gray at a collection of Yves St.Laurent in Paris. Gray painted a portrait of Schroeter. —Wikipedia read more