Thomas Mauch Movies

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

Martha and Alfred exchange experiences about life and events in Hamburg.

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen".

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing...

The Flying Doctors of East Africa (German: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying...

The film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

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

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

Saroyanland is a docu-drama focusing on the journey of famous writer William Saroyan to the birthplace of his Armenian family Bitlis, in Turkey in...

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

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...

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

Poetic documentary about the deconstruction of a railroad track in South Germany.

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

“The Bella Vista” is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a...

Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.

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...