Arnold Schönberg

Good Night, Little Town (2024)

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love! ...

Písně z Gurre (2023)

A brilliant performance of Schönberg's monumental work at the Prague State Opera. Arnold Schönberg composed Gurre-Lieder to a text by J. P. Jacobsen about the tragic love of the Danish king Waldemar and his mistress Tove Lille, who was murdered out of je ...

Perfect Darkness (2016)

Gus and his pregnant girlfriend Anna are on holiday. During their nightly walk to a spot near the water, Anna makes a confession. Can the couple, amidst the wildness of nature and under a full moon, overcome the conflict? Will they reach their idyllic spot ...

Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron (2015)

Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris. Moses und Aron was filmed for television by film director François-René Martin, in co-production with the P ...

Pierrot Lunaire (2014)

Invited by the conductor Premil Petrovic to stage Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, a musical theater work from 1912 based on the poems of Albert Giraud, LaBruce transposed a strange and tragic episode of true crime onto the composition. Complementing t ...

Accomplice (2010)

An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. ...

Gurrelieder (2009)

Performance of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder by SBR, conducted by Mariss Jansons ...

Moses und Aron (2009)

One of the greatest revolutions in the history of mankind happened around 3000 years ago: the transition from polytheism to monotheism through the prophet Moses. God revealed himself directly to Moses, instructing him in absolute truth. Moses was charged w ...

Dead Man's Memories (2003)

A policeman lunching with his daughter is present when a dead body washes up on shore. He investigates, leading him down a twisted and muddled path of nefarious connections reflecting, somewhat, his own life. ...

One Night, One Life (2002)

In the film One Night. One Life, based on the cycle Pierrot Lunaire, Arnold Schönberg's opus 21, director Oliver Herrmann has created a surreal, at times grotesque dream world set in a modern city, through which Pierrot moves like a spirit. In each new nu ...

From Today Until Tomorrow (1997)

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man while he has cast an appraising eye toward one of her acquaint ...

Wettertanz (1990)

A film with and about the painter Christian Ludwig Attersee. The external occasion, Attersee's fiftieth birthday is being complemented by an in-depth documentation of Attersee's art and oeuvre which gives a transparent account of his perception of reality ...

Pierrot Lunaire (1988)

A series of short vignettes set in a Berlin Mietskaserne (rental barracks for the poor), framed by Schönberg's atonal piece Pierrot Lunaire. ...

Erinnerung - ein Film mit Oskar Kokoschka (1986)

The Language Of The New Music (1985)

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism. Both men emerged from the turmoil of the Habsburg Empire in its closing days with the idea of analyzing l ...

Der Ort der Handlung (1977)

A German TV movie ...

Rules For a Film about Anabaptists (1976)

A political film about the policy of the anabaptists of Münster (1534) and the 'enemies of constitution' in West Germany (1976). ...

Moses and Aaron (1975)

A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate God's true message and intent for His creations, a conflict that leads their followers towards chaos and s ...

Engel und Puppe (1975)

Engel und Puppe is the first film by Italian filmmaker and writer Ellis Donda. Screened at Oberhausen in 1975, Engel und Puppe is a political adaptation of some lines from Rilke's Duino Elegies, featuring the French poet Jacqueline Risset and a young Rosse ...

Distinti Saluti (1974)

A young employee in a large industry. Its identity breaks away from the harshness of a system determined by power and hypocrisy. It struggles in the quicksand of everyday banality, and even its private life crumbles under the steamroller with inexorable ru ...

Through the Darkness (2021)

The poignant story of a love triangle that upended the life of one of the most important figures of 20th-century classical music. Composer Arnold Schoenberg befriended painter Richard Gerstl, a young man who shared the revered musician's passion for art— ...

The Language Of The New Music (1985)

This is a film about Ludwig Wittgenstein and Arnold Schoenberg; two men whose lives and ideas run parallel in the development of Viennese radicalism. Both men emerged from the turmoil of the Habsburg Empire in its closing days with the idea of analyzing l ...