Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein Movies

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the...

A former police officer accidentally killed a bystander while hunting criminals. Now he lives alone, continues to search for the criminal and spies...

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While...

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing...

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New...

A German-born director of an American television station travels through Bavaria with a folk music impresario to do research for a show to be...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

A painter learns that leaving the creative life behind is much more complicated than he expected.

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older...

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this...

On December 12, 1945 Maria Stadler got (as one of the first from the American occupying power) the license to operate a movie theater. At first she...

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of...

A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested...

Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the...

A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the...

There has never been a documentary like "Land of Look Behind". Relatively unknown due to poor distribution and New York Film Festival skullduggery,...

Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other,...

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.