Peter Weiss Movies

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

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...

In this preliminary study for Study IV “Liberation” a man hauls his alter ego through various spaces. The scene is reminiscent of Luis...

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

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

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...

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and...

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

Surrealistic images of Faust-Mephisto in his fantastic laboratory.

Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of witnesses and the accused...

About everyday life and the recurrent dangers in the big city.

Twelve staged scenes that were modelled after a set of drawings. Accompanied by metallic sounds, various body parts, limbs and objects form...

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

The Investigation (1965) is TV version of a play by German playwright Peter Weiss that depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963–1965.

A symbolic reconstruction of the Auschwitz process in Frankfurt in 1963-1965. Litigation against those responsible for the mass extermination in...

The day begins for an avant-garde artist. We see him waking up amid empty bottles, easels, and silk stockings.

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

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

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

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