Robert Kramer

After relocating to Europe in 1979, Kramer directed the 1982 French film À toute allure, which was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. In 1999, Kramer died of complications from meningitis in a hospital in Rouen, France. In a retrospective essay, academic David Fresko wrote that Kramer's "unwavering commitment to anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, and anti-racism and antipathy for Hollywood (and corporate media more generally) dashed any hopes for his commercial integration into the culture industries", and noted that, in Europe, "he is considered second only to Jean-Luc Godard in the pantheon of political modernists."

• Name — Robert Kramer • Born — 22 June 1939 • Birthplace — New York City, United States • Died — 10 November 1999 • Place of death — Haute-Normandie, France • Occupation — * Film director • screenwriter • actor • Years Active — 1965–1999

• 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)