Movies: Peter Weiss

Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused during the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. This ultra-faithful film adaptation builds, across four ...

In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direc...

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24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school....

"Studie II (Hallucinationer)" (Study II (Hallucinations)) (1952), comprises twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form surrealistic collages against the ...

A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen Belsen, the last of 11 concentration camps where he was held by the Nazi...

First experimental film by Peter Weiss....

A film about the youth prison in Uppsala, which focuses on one intern's alienation and anxiety....

A young man comes to Stockholm, Sweden and experiences several bizarre and surrealistic situations....

Experimental short by Peter Weiss....

Deals with young people dealing and using drugs of all kind....

Study V: Interplay is constructed along the same principles as Study IV / Hallucinations. Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced against more realistic sections. Study V depicts a surrealistically charged encounter between two love...

A symbolic reconstruction of the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt in 1963-1965. Litigation against those responsible for the mass extermination in German prison camps during the Second World War....

A documentary film about the 99 year old artist Anna Casparsson. She is interviewed by Peter Weiss in her home in Saltsjöbaden. “I shot 'Anna Casparsson' together with Staffan Lamm. I had wanted to complete the film, but somehow I did not get around ...

'Studie IV' (1955) by Peter Weiss portrays a liberation process. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him, dragging something that constantly changes form but eventually turns out to be himself. It is an old and...

Film by Peter Weiss....

A personal portrayal of Peter Weiss’ period as a painter and filmmaker in Sweden before his rise to fame....

In a single room, Peter Weiss has captured the environment of two drug addicts, without ever showing their faces in the film....

A heavy drug addict in his junkie quarter at Österlånggatan, Stockholm....

Surrealistic images of Faust-Mephisto in his fantastic laboratory....