Thomas Mauch Movies

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

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

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics,...

Short by Edgar Reitz.

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

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

In her essay film, Eva Hiller illustrates the nightly infrastructure of a large city, using Frankfurt am Main and Berlin as examples. Just as pet...

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

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...

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

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