Robert Kramer

Robert Kramer (June 22, 1939 – November 10, 1999), born in New York and educated at Swarthmore College and Stanford University, was an American film director, screenwriter and actor who directed 19 films between 1965 and 1999, most of them political cinema made from a left-wing point of view. He was a founding member of The Newsreel. His film À toute allure was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. He died of complications from meningitis.

Filmography

 * FALN (1965)
 * In the Country (1967)
 * The Edge (1968)
 * The People's War (1970)
 * Ice (1970)
 * Milestones (1975)
 * Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977)
 * Guns (1980)
 * À toute allure (Full speed, 1982)
 * Notre nazi (Our Nazi, 1985)
 * Diesel (1985)
 * Doc's Kingdom (1987)
 * X-Country (pronounced "cross-country") (1987)
 * Route One USA (1989)
 * Contre l'oubli (Against Oblivion, collective, 1991)
 * Point de départ (Starting Place, 1994)
 * Le manteau (The Coat, 1996)
 * Walk the Walk (1996)
 * The Ghosts of Electricity (1997)
 * Cités de la plaine (Flat Land Cities, 2001)