Edgar Reitz Movies

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

Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.

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

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

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has...

Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the...

The story of a gold smith who is so obsessed with his own craft that he murders his customers.

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.

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.

Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about...

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

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

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