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Walter Ruttman's Lichtspiel: Opus I (Light Play: Opus I) 1921



Walter Ruttmann (28 December 1887 – 15 July 1941) was a German film director and along with Hans Richter and Viking Eggeling was an early German practitioner of experimental film. Ruttmann studied architecture and painting and worked as a graphic designer. His film career began in the early 1920s. His first abstract short films, "Opus I" (1921) and "Opus II" (1923), were experiments with new forms of film expression, and the influence of these early abstract films is especially obvious in the work of Oskar Fischinger in the 1930s. Ruttmann was a prominent exponent of both avant-garde art and music, though he is best remembered for Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a Great City) from 1927. During the Nazi period, he worked as an assistant to director Leni Riefenstahl on Triumph of the Will (1935). He died in Berlin.