Edgar Reitz Movies

Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The great philosopher and intellectual Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is painted on behalf of Electress Sophie of Hanover. During the portrait sessions,...

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...

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...

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

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...

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

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

Documentary short by Edgar Reitz.

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

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

A short by Alexander Kluge.

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.