Thomas Mauch Movies

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

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...

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...

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young,...

In five different countries, the filmmakers explore the question of why so many development aid projects have been so unsuccessful to date and how...

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

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

A piece of lint from a Beethoven fan's record collection sticks to the clothes of a bank robber. Inspector Koschonsky finds the lint and solves the...

Documentary film about the official view of art in the Third Reich and state funding of artistic practice.

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

Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son and makes films with real passion. To stay close to the pulse of society, she has moved in with a...

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

Katja Junge plays the title role in this West German romantic drama, directed by noted cinematographer Thomas Mauch. Maria is just as girl who can't...