Thomas Mauch Movies

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

In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema's most uncompromising filmmakers —...

In order to be reunited with Mahmood (Ören), a man she was promised to as a young girl, 20-year-old Shirin (Erten) leaves the life she had in a...

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

Skoda is the son of a wealthy, overbearing banker and rather than put up with his father to keep a privileged lifestyle, he has chosen to ditch the...

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion,...

Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between...

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic...

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

A group of tormented patients stage a coup at an oppressive, dismal asylum after they're not allowed out on an excursion.

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel...

Election campaign for the parliamentary elections for the Bundestag in 1965 in the town of Neu-Ulm, Germany.

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

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

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he...

This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the...