
Directing
Jörg Buttgereit
Born 1963-12-20 · Berlin, Germany
Jörg Buttgereit (born 20 December 1963) is a German writer/director known for his controversial films. He was born in Berlin and has lived there his entire life. He is best known for his horror films Nekromantik (1987), Der Todesking (1990), Nekromantik 2 (1991) and Schramm (1993).
Acting credits
5.1An employee of Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a company that cleans up after grisly accidents, Rob brings home an entire decomposing corpse, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty.
Nekromantik
1988
5.2Monika lives with Rob, a corpse she loves. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets Mark and considers a normal life with him. She must choose between her affection for Rob and a new relationship.
Nekromantik 2
1991
6.3Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
The Death King
1990
5.3Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
German Angst
2015
6.3Early no budget experimental Super-8 short film made by Buttgereit in just one day in 1982. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has survived the war, holed up in his bunker. There, he re-created his former wife Eva Braun as a Frankenstein monster, along with a “Germanic breeding bull”(played by Buttgereit). With the help of these Nazi-zombies, he wants to take over the world again. But as soon as the monsters awake, they tear their maker to shreds. Much fun and gory effects!
Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker
1982
6.3Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
VHS Revolution
2017
7.7The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
2015
5.1A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby.
Hot Love
1985
NRTv documentary by Margarete Kreuzer about the sub-culture of West-Berlin in the 1980s. The unique political and geographical status of West-Berlin in the cold war lead to a unique scene of artists reflecting the Zeitgeist and creating profound work that is now a part of history. A lot of historical footage is used and interesting anecdotes are shared. For example the story of creating the famous Die Dominas project involving Kraftwerk.
Wilde Jahre West-Berlin
2015
5.8The film deals loosely with the adventures of the grizzled Gustav who captains a ship – a giant floating ‘snailboat’ – with a crew of talking animals and lumbering sailors in blackface. It unspools like a perverse children’s story book, all at once cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene and beyond absurd as normal narrative logic shatters, giving way to an episodic, free-associative structure that one critic likened to “cinematic memory association.” (joergbuttgereit.com)
A Journey Into Bliss
2004
7.0In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 celebrates and explores the movies that defined the era: from Scream’s genre-shattering impact to J-Horror’s global emergence, from mind-bending twists to Y2K apocalyptic dread, and from blockbuster hits to straight-to-video gems.
In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999
2025
Klaus Beyer turned 70 and celebrated with an open-air concert in the Festsaal Kreuzberg, Berlin. Georg Maas, Matl Findel, Sabine Herpich and Stephan Kruhl filmed and Frank Behnke edited the first Beyer live concert film. He not only performed his hits, but also received musical gifts from his friends.
Wenn Ich 70 Bin
2022
4.4ABCs of Superheroes brings you not only one or two or five, but no less than twenty-six of the most heroic and outrageous Superheroes and Supervillains of all time. From the Almighty Ape to the fabulous Zee-Men, this anthology feature film will have you laughing and screaming for more. The ultimate experience in Superpower!
ABCs of Superheroes
2015
A short documentary about Jörg Buttgereit's father.
Mein Papi
1995
4.8While searching for Nazi documents in an Austrian farmhouse, a team of experts uncovers a hidden secret buried in its bowels. American expatriate Gunner S. Holbrook becomes obsessed with solving the mystery, and as his sanity wanes, he must confront an insatiable evil.
Solvent
2024
7.4Celluloid Horror explores Kier-La Janisse's tireless crusade to bring obscure cult horror film to the masses through her independently run international film festival.
Celluloid Horror
2004
7.0Documentary about film projectionists.
Der Vorführ-Effekt
2001
7.9Film icons and genre experts share observations, experiences, and analysis to help reframe, deconstruct, and re-contextualize the "lost" decade of horror: the '90s.
In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
2024
6.0Berlin Super 80 is a compilation of 18 short movies shot in Super 8 by West German experimental film makers during the late 1970s/early 80s. Featuring music by Malaria, Reflections, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann and Die Tödliche Doris.
Berlin Super 80
2005
4.3Jörg Buttgereit short film.
Der Gollob
1983
The dwarf Ogar lived alone and abandoned. He lived in a small, cramped cave and fed on garbage. One day, a prince rode by and wanted to free Ogar from his fate.
Ogar - the Ugly
1981
3.9Disappointed by love, suicidal Norman arranges to meet some like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting the alleged suicides turn out to be unscrupulous killers looking for a willing victim. A comical and macabre fight against death begins.
Must Love Death
2009
A documentary about the German band "Mutter".
Wir waren niemals hier
2005
NRBehind the scenes of Jörg Buttgereit's Nekromantik 2.
The Making of 'Nekromantik 2'
1992
Behind the camera
5.1An employee of Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a company that cleans up after grisly accidents, Rob brings home an entire decomposing corpse, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty.
Nekromantik
1988
5.1An employee of Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a company that cleans up after grisly accidents, Rob brings home an entire decomposing corpse, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty.
Nekromantik
1988
5.1An employee of Joe's Streetcleaning Agency, a company that cleans up after grisly accidents, Rob brings home an entire decomposing corpse, much to the delight of his girlfriend, Betty.
Nekromantik
1988
5.2Monika lives with Rob, a corpse she loves. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets Mark and considers a normal life with him. She must choose between her affection for Rob and a new relationship.
Nekromantik 2
1991
5.2Monika lives with Rob, a corpse she loves. Her dilemma intensifies when she meets Mark and considers a normal life with him. She must choose between her affection for Rob and a new relationship.
Nekromantik 2
1991
6.3Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
The Death King
1990
6.3Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
The Death King
1990
6.0A documentary about the now abandoned and very influential punk club S.O.36. A punk music club on Oranienstrasse near Heinrichplatz in the area of Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany.
Such Was the S.O. 36
1984
5.3Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
German Angst
2015
5.3Horror anthology consisting of three episodes directed by Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski.
German Angst
2015
5.8Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
Schramm
1993
5.8Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
Schramm
1993
5.8Lothar Schramm is a simple man with complex problems, yet he seems like such a nice guy. He works as a taxi driver and lives by himself where he is happy to answer his door to strangers and kill them outright. As with many shy loner types he has a problem dealing with women so he drugs them and photographs their nude bodies for sexual stimulation. He then murders his helpless victims and so goes the life of a deranged serial killer.
Schramm
1993
6.3Early no budget experimental Super-8 short film made by Buttgereit in just one day in 1982. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has survived the war, holed up in his bunker. There, he re-created his former wife Eva Braun as a Frankenstein monster, along with a “Germanic breeding bull”(played by Buttgereit). With the help of these Nazi-zombies, he wants to take over the world again. But as soon as the monsters awake, they tear their maker to shreds. Much fun and gory effects!
Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker
1982
6.3Early no budget experimental Super-8 short film made by Buttgereit in just one day in 1982. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has survived the war, holed up in his bunker. There, he re-created his former wife Eva Braun as a Frankenstein monster, along with a “Germanic breeding bull”(played by Buttgereit). With the help of these Nazi-zombies, he wants to take over the world again. But as soon as the monsters awake, they tear their maker to shreds. Much fun and gory effects!
Blutige Exzesse im Führerbunker
1982
5.1A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby.
Hot Love
1985
5.1A guy is in love with a girl. He sees her one day with another guy, freaks out, commits suicide, and then she has a baby.
Hot Love
1985
A short documentary about Jörg Buttgereit's father.
Mein Papi
1995
6.5A journey through time and history of diverse monster types, from the latex monster in devastated postwar Japan to aliens and serial murderers.
Monsterland
2009
6.5A journey through time and history of diverse monster types, from the latex monster in devastated postwar Japan to aliens and serial murderers.
Monsterland
2009
NRJörg Buttgereit short film.
Der Trend
1982
6.0Berlin Super 80 is a compilation of 18 short movies shot in Super 8 by West German experimental film makers during the late 1970s/early 80s. Featuring music by Malaria, Reflections, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann and Die Tödliche Doris.
Berlin Super 80
2005
4.3Jörg Buttgereit short film.
Der Gollob
1983
The dwarf Ogar lived alone and abandoned. He lived in a small, cramped cave and fed on garbage. One day, a prince rode by and wanted to free Ogar from his fate.
Ogar - the Ugly
1981