Edgar Reitz Movies

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of...

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was...

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although...

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth,...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication.

In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés,...

A documentary about the Hunsrück (an area in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and its people.

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

Eleven-year old Jason and his companions, including Hercules and Orpheus, go with the ship "Argo" in the search for the Golden Fleece. With wit and...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Short by Edgar Reitz.