Peter Weiss Movies

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...

A Jewish Holocaust survivor travels through Germany recalling scenes from his memory. This documentary follows a Holocaust survivor in 1965 on an...

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

A documentary film about the 99 year old artist Anna Casparsson. She is interviewed by Peter Weiss in her home in Saltsjöbaden. “I shot...

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...

Experimental short by Peter Weiss.

"Studie II (Hallucinationer)" (Study II (Hallucinations)) (1952), comprises twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings....

Surrealistic images of Faust-Mephisto in his fantastic laboratory.

'Studie IV' (1955) by Peter Weiss portrays a liberation process. The main character moves between different rooms, rooms of significance for him,...

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

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

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

The immense population increase in Copenhagen mid of the 20th century requested new living space further from the city centre. The old town quarters...

Short film.

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

Film by Peter Weiss.

Study V: Interplay is constructed along the same principles as Study IV / Hallucinations. Sequences of photographic abstractions have been balanced...

First experimental film by Peter Weiss.

Experimental survey of down-and-outs in the city. - BFI