Edgar Reitz is a German film director and writer, best known for his "Heimat" trilogy.
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 and d ...
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In 1968, the young Edgar Reitz teaches filmmaking at a girls' school – a ground-breaking educational experiment. Fifty-five years later, there is a class reunion. ...
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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. ...
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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. ...
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Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female rel ...
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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 their ow ...
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A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers. ...
Watch NowA documentary about the Hunsrück (an area in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and its people. ...
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The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor how man ...
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Germany in Autumn 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 kid ...
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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. ...
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Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a reserve ...
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Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna. ...
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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 cunning to overcome various obstacles until they reach the destination of their fantastic journey. The exper ...
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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, regularl ...
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The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers. ...
Watch NowKluge's short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra. ...
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A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery. ...
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Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her. ...
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Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication. ...
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Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel. ...
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From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn't exist. ...
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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. ...
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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 explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break an ...
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A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his childhood and youth, from the bombing of Halberstadt, his home town. "What you don't understand as a child you ...
Watch NowA meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers. ...
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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 female ...
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Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema. ...
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