Esteban Schroeder

Directing

Esteban Schroeder

Place of birth

Montevideo, Uruguay

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

He is a director, producer, president of the Uruguayan Association of Film Producers and Directors. Esteban Schroeder's career begins with CEMA: an experiment that brought together a group of young people who in the last years of the military dictatorship began to make films without any prior cinematographic training. They focused on social themes, they created their own exhibition circuit and thought that television could be a more accessible destination than the big screen. In 1993, they sought the experience of a filmmaker trained in Europe, Beatriz Flores Silva, and directed a television unit that ended up becoming a classic in local cinema, Pepita the Holster (1993). A short time later,…

Known for

Seven Seas Pirates poster
6.2

Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.

Seven Seas Pirates

2012

The Vineyard poster
4.2

A Montevideo journalist discovers that the murder of a boy from the slums near the vineyards had political reasons, and was not an isolated incident. Developing a friendship with the victim's older brother, and then the entire family, the journalist tries to get to the bottom of this case. It is not the only case of summary executions of young poor boys in this vineyard, but nevertheless few people really want to challenge the powerful owner of the vineyards.

The Vineyard

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sala de Espera

1988

Pepita the Holster poster
6.0

A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her victims with the handle of her umbrella that she make them think is a real revolver.

Pepita the Holster

1993

On the Edge poster
NR

After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past. In this documentary the CEMA camera team roam the city streets and find out what Montevideans think about bringing armed forces personnel to justice. This tour reveals a climate of scepticism, a climate of fear and suspicion, but also a will and a desire that justice must be done.

On the Edge

1987

Eurídice, Far Away... poster
3.8

Emile Robert, a music-hall artist in his sixties, receives a message from Uruguay from a certain Alfredo Quiroga. He says to be the brother of Eurídice, a young intern with whom he had a passionate love story in the 70s. Emile travels to Montevideo in search of the past, where Alfredo lends him the family apartment.

Eurídice, Far Away...

2022

Behind the camera

Seven Seas Pirates poster
6.2

Selkirk, an unruly, selfish pirate, is the sailing master of the Esperanza, an English galley sailing the South Seas in search of treasures. When Captain Bullock decides to abandon him on an uninhabited island, he discovers a new outlook on the world and learns to survive alone, becoming the real Robinson Crusoe.

Seven Seas Pirates

2012

The Vineyard poster
4.2

A Montevideo journalist discovers that the murder of a boy from the slums near the vineyards had political reasons, and was not an isolated incident. Developing a friendship with the victim's older brother, and then the entire family, the journalist tries to get to the bottom of this case. It is not the only case of summary executions of young poor boys in this vineyard, but nevertheless few people really want to challenge the powerful owner of the vineyards.

The Vineyard

2000

The Vineyard poster
4.2

A Montevideo journalist discovers that the murder of a boy from the slums near the vineyards had political reasons, and was not an isolated incident. Developing a friendship with the victim's older brother, and then the entire family, the journalist tries to get to the bottom of this case. It is not the only case of summary executions of young poor boys in this vineyard, but nevertheless few people really want to challenge the powerful owner of the vineyards.

The Vineyard

2000

The Vineyard poster
4.2

A Montevideo journalist discovers that the murder of a boy from the slums near the vineyards had political reasons, and was not an isolated incident. Developing a friendship with the victim's older brother, and then the entire family, the journalist tries to get to the bottom of this case. It is not the only case of summary executions of young poor boys in this vineyard, but nevertheless few people really want to challenge the powerful owner of the vineyards.

The Vineyard

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sala de Espera

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sala de Espera

1988

Pepita the Holster poster
6.0

A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her victims with the handle of her umbrella that she make them think is a real revolver.

Pepita the Holster

1993

On the Edge poster
NR

After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past. In this documentary the CEMA camera team roam the city streets and find out what Montevideans think about bringing armed forces personnel to justice. This tour reveals a climate of scepticism, a climate of fear and suspicion, but also a will and a desire that justice must be done.

On the Edge

1987

On the Edge poster
NR

After the end of the dictatorship, Uruguay was faced with the unresolved problem of what to do with the past. In this documentary the CEMA camera team roam the city streets and find out what Montevideans think about bringing armed forces personnel to justice. This tour reveals a climate of scepticism, a climate of fear and suspicion, but also a will and a desire that justice must be done.

On the Edge

1987

Eurídice, Far Away... poster
3.8

Emile Robert, a music-hall artist in his sixties, receives a message from Uruguay from a certain Alfredo Quiroga. He says to be the brother of Eurídice, a young intern with whom he had a passionate love story in the 70s. Emile travels to Montevideo in search of the past, where Alfredo lends him the family apartment.

Eurídice, Far Away...

2022

Uruguay, the Unrendered Accounts poster
NR

The Uruguay of restored democracy alter years of military dictatorship remains divided about what to do with de military accused of violations of human rights during their government. This documentary records that division and the opinion of different people previous to the referendum on April 16, wich finally granted amnesty for the military.

Uruguay, the Unrendered Accounts

1989

La Huella de las Palabras poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Huella de las Palabras

2024

Kill Them All poster
4.6

A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.

Kill Them All

2007

The Uncertain Hope poster
NR

This documentary was shot in four countries in the Southern Cone of South America over a two-week period. It examines the democracies that re-emerged after military rule and we hear the testimony of presidents Carlos Menem, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Patricio Alwyn and Luis Alberto Lacalle, and the reflections of many other key figures of that time. There is also an early discussion of the regional integration process that these countries were planning to promote, so we are shown a representative mosaic of each country, which makes this material truly unique.

The Uncertain Hope

1992