Direction: Edgar Reitz

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Henry Arnold · Salome Kammer · Frank Röth · Noemi Steuer

Synopsis The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music...

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Marita Breuer · Dieter Schaad · Michael Lesch · Eva Maria Bayerswaltes

Synopsis It follows Maria Simon (Marita Breuer), a woman living in the fictional village of Schabbach. The film covers the years 1919 to 1982, depicting how the events of German history affected the Simon family and the community in which they...

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Jan Dieter Schneider · Antonia Bill · Maximilian Scheidt · Marita Breuer

Synopsis Follow-up to the TV trilogy "Heimat", this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate. Set in the mid-19th century, this latest instalment in the decades-spanning Heimat series from venerable German filmmaker...

Direction Alexander Kluge · Edgar Reitz

Cast Dagmar Bödderich · Jutta Winkelmann · Alfred Edel · Norbert Kentrup

Synopsis Interweaving a number of disparate fictitious and documentary strands into a nightmarish portrait of life in the Federal Republic, Kluge's fascinating exploration of perception effectively consists of a plethora of short films held together by director's keen eye for striking...

Direction Alf Brustellin · Hans Peter Cloos · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Alexander Kluge

Cast Heinz Bennent · Wolf Biermann · Caroline Chaniolleau · Hildegard Friese

Synopsis Through documentary and fiction footage, the body of work of the New German Cinema offers a general view of Germany in the late 70's. A time marked by the left-wing terrorism of the Baader Meinhof group. With an aim to...

Direction Hala Abdallah · Karim Aïnouz · John Akomfrah · Catherine Breillat

Cast Bernardo Bertolucci · Tygh Runyan · Shannyn Sossamon · Michele Placido

Synopsis 70 short movies about cinema and its future.

Direction Alexander Kluge · Edgar Reitz

Synopsis A film by songwriter Wolf Biermann lights the wishes and realities of a divided Germany. The images shows the confrontation between students and police on the streets.

Direction Edgar Reitz · Ula Stöckl

Cast Christine de Loup · Bruno Bendel · Alf Brustellin · Ilse Brustellin

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Elke Sommer · Hannelore Elsner · Mario Adorf · Nicolas Brieger

Synopsis During the closing months of the Second World War, two small-town German woman discover some money in an attic and decide to spend it on a trip to Vienna.

Direction Edgar Reitz

Synopsis A reflection about speed, about the experience of speed in modern life that has found its most complete expression in the movies.

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Henry Arnold · Salome Kammer · Peter Schneider · Uwe Steimle

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Edgar Reitz

Synopsis This documentary arises in preparation for Heimat, Reitz’s following project, and reveals stories and legends of the Woppenroth region, in Hunsrück. Unlike the people in Heimat, the community in Tales From the Hunsrück Village chose to stay in their hometown,...

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Tilo Prückner · Vadim Glowna · Hannelore Elsner · Harald Kuhlmann

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Edgar Selge · Aenne Schwarz · Barbara Sukowa · Lars Eidinger

Synopsis Queen Charlotte has loved the great Enlightenment philosopher Leibniz ever since she was his student and he taught her the joys of thinking. As Queen of Prussia, she yearns for his wise answers to life’s big questions. Leibniz is happy...

Direction Edgar Reitz

Synopsis An industry film for the West German Post Office. The use of the latest communications technology to link up the world. A technophile ballet in the mysterious world of relays, very high frequency channels and decimeter bridges.

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Heidi Stroh · Georg Hauke · Nina Frank · Ruth von Zerboni

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Kai Taschner · Herbert Weissbach · Günter Schiemann · Anette Jünger

Synopsis The narrative is set in the summer of 1945 in a small village outside Leipzig, where the Americans just have pulled back and been replaced by Soviet troops. The film follows the inhabitants as they adjust to the new situation,...

Direction Alf Brustellin · Nicos Perakis · Edgar Reitz · Ula Stöckl

Cast Christian Reitz · Oliver Jovine · Konstantin Sautier · Hermann Haberer

Synopsis The myth of Jason and the Argonauts in a different interpretation performed by children.

Direction Jörg Adolph · Edgar Reitz

Cast Edgar Reitz

Synopsis In 1968, a classroom in a girls’ high school in Munich is transformed into a film studio under the direction of the young Edgar Reitz. The film lesson begins: the first documented attempt in cinema history to teach film aesthetics...

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Hans Christian Blech · Catana Cayetano · Rolf Becker · Liane Hielscher

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