Peter SchneiderFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter, Book Author

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Waking Sleeping Beauty

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures has been the leading name in animated filmmaking since the 1930s, but the studio's crown was looking more than a little tarnished in the 1980s after a series of expensive commercial and critical disappointments such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and The Great Read More

2009
Berlin Calling

Actors: Paul Kalkbrenner, Rita Lengyel, Corinna Harfouch, Araba Walton, Peter Schneider

Synopsis: A club DJ begins to fall prey to the nightlife that's a major part of his career in this drama from Germany. Ickarus (Paul Kalkbrenner) has risen from spinning records in tiny dance clubs to becoming one of the leading lights in European electronica; his work as a producer has earned him a Read More

2008
Schroeder's Wonderful World

Actors: Peter Schneider, Karl-Fred Mueller, Gitta Schweighöfer, Stanislaw Jaskolka, Igor Bares

Synopsis: Helmer Michael Schorr's comedic follow-up to his arthouse hit Schultze Gets the Blues unfurls in a depressing, steel-skied Eastern Europe where strip mines and dilapidated buildings litter the Earth. In a little-known piece of land called the "Silesia" region, sandwiched snugly in between Russia Read More

2007
Heimat 3 - Chronik Einer Zeitenwende

Actors: Henry Arnold, Salome Kammer, Michael Kausch, Mathias Kniesbeck, Christian Leonard

Synopsis: Director Edgar Reitz concludes his epic-length, tripartite chronicle of the Simon clan with the 11-hour (six episode) Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings. The omega and alpha of the title refer to the fall of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, circa 1989 (an event that christens the Read More

2004
Papa Rua Alguem 5555

Crew: Book Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Thomas Kretschmann, Charlton Heston, F. Murray Abraham, Thomas Heinze, Alberto Bevilacqua

2004
Das Versprechen

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Anian Zollner, Jean-Yves Gautier

Synopsis: Two star-crossed lovers, separated by the Berlin wall for thirty years are reunited. The major events in their separate lives become the focus in this German political drama. The story begins in August 1961 as the Wall is being built. In Eastern Berlin a group of young adults plans their escape. Read More

1994
Pestalozzis Berg

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Gwisdek

Synopsis: It is difficult these days to imagine that elementary school education was instituted by anyone at all. In fact, Swiss experimental educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) laid the groundwork for universal elementary school education and developed many of the educational theories and Read More

1988
Lisi und Der General

Actors: Silvia Silva, Franz Matter, Eva Bendig-Luond, Peter Schneider

Synopsis: This crime-romance story from Mark M. Rissi concerns a serious mid-life crisis. The "general" (Walo Luond) is actually an officer-clerk who leaves his deadly boring life behind one New Year's eve and takes off in his car for nowhere in particular. During his travels he meets Lisi, a smashing Read More

1986
Die Schwarze Spinne

Actors: Beatrice Kessler, Walo Lueoend, Peter Ehrlich, Walter Hess

Synopsis: In this, the third, remake of Gotthelf's classic horror story, a woman offers the soul of her unborn baby in exchange for Satan's intervention in a situation that threatens her village. Unlike it's two predecessors, this version is told without operatic embellishment and is framed by the Read More

1983
Melzer

Crew: Editor

Actors: Rüdiger Vogler, Adelheid Arndt

Synopsis: Mauro Melzer (Ruediger Vogler) is an artist whose canvasses are much admired, but who feels his mental stability is wobbly, and so he asks a psychiatric clinic to check him in until he can return to normal. His behavior is, in part, patterned after the famous Swiss writer Robert Walser who was Read More

1983
Der Mann Auf Der Mauer

Crew: Screenwriter, Short Story Author

Actors: Towje Kleiner, Julie Carmen, Karin Baal

Synopsis: Kabe (Marius Mueller-Westernhagen) lives with his wife Andrea (Patricia von Miseroni) in East Germany in an apartment that backs right up to the Berlin Wall. The Wall is only one of many confining aspects of life that drive Kabe nuts -- when he sees these barriers, he just has to cross them. Read More

1982
Kassettenliebe

Actors: Hilde Ziegler, Buddy Elias

Synopsis: Felix Stamm (Emil Steinberger) works at a match-making company that uses videotapes to bring together prospective couples. His gets more personally involved in his job than he would like, as he and his girlfriend Regula Koller (Franziska Oehme) find their own relationship affected by the people he Read More

1981
Andy, Bloed En Blond Haar

1979
Messer im Kopf

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans-Christian Blech, Heinz Honig, Hans Brenner

Synopsis: Despite the film's English title Knife in the Head, Hoffman (Bruno Ganz), a scientist, is shot in the head by the police while he is trying to pick up his wife from a political rally. Upon awakening, Hoffman finds that he has lost all memory of who he is and why the police were after him. At Read More

1978
Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages

Actors: Tina Engel, Sylvia Reize, Katharina Thalbach, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Peter Schneider

Synopsis: The West German The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages) stars Tina Engel in the title role. Unable to pay the rent on the day care center that she operates, Christa steals the money from a bank, then tries to cover up her crime by passing the money off as a Read More

1977
Agilok und Blubbo

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Walker, Jr.

Synopsis: Aligok and Blubbo are two aspiring revolutionaries who live a lonely existence in a woodland cottage. Their plans for revolt are quickly changed when a beautiful blonde woman appears and sleeps with both of them. There is also a gander named Lenin pictured in the four seasons in this offbeat film Read More

1969