Edgar Reitz Movies

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.

A short by Alexander Kluge.

The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although...

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the...

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

Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.

In 1968, the young Edgar Reitz teaches filmmaking at a girls’ school – a ground-breaking educational experiment. Fifty-five years later,...

Eleven-year old Jason and his companions, including Hercules and Orpheus, go with the ship "Argo" in the search for the Golden Fleece. With wit and...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

A documentary about the Hunsrück (an area in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and its people.

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his...

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of...

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

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

Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is...

In July 1945, US troops are leaving Saxony and Thuringia while the Red Army takes control of the territories. In a small village near Leipzig, the...

Filmmaker Utz Kastenholz has accompanied Edgar Reitz during the filming of the third part of the legendary family chronicle "Heimat". The fictitious...