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Robert Kramer
Writer 1939 - 1999

Robert Kramer

New York City, New York, USA

Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999) was a left leaning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view. His film À toute allure was entered into the 1982... Read full bio →

Filmography

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5 titles
Route One USA

Route One USA

Robert Kramer 1989 4h 15m 7.0

Route One is the first major U.S. highway. 5000 km along the Atlantic coast, from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida. Doc, a physician who spent many years in Africa, returns to the U.S. and decides to reconnect with his home country by walking the legendary Route One.

Der Stand der Dinge

Der Stand der Dinge

Wim Wenders 1982 2h 1m 8.6

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's _Day the World Ended, The (1956)_ . The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.

Milestones

Milestones

Robert Kramer, John Douglas 1975 3h 15m

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters. Exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left during the period following the Vietnam War.

Ice

Ice

Robert Kramer 1970 2h 13m

An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and restrain the melodrama inherent in the thriller genre.

The Edge

The Edge

Robert Kramer 1968 1h 40m

A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned group of political allies to face the threat of government counterintelligence and the temptations of middle-age security, and to reexamine their commitment to radical action.

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