Movies: Edgar Reitz

A short by Alexander Kluge....

Short by Edgar Reitz....

Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her....

In July 1945, US troops are leaving Saxony and Thuringia while the Red Army takes control of the territories. In a small village near Leipzig, the inhabitants try to adjust to the new authority....

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, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, re...

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz....

The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two-month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnap...

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed....

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz....

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

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

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 the future of cinema....

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love...

In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés, acquaintances, and parties. In a series of conversations between them and other women, they talk about the chances for fe...

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

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

The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers....

Filmmaker Utz Kastenholz has accompanied Edgar Reitz during the filming of the third part of the legendary family chronicle "Heimat". The fictitious town of Schabbach, home to the TV family Simon, for many audience members has become a synonym for th...

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

Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about his life, his view of art and his sometimes philosophical viewpoint....