Edgar Reitz Movies

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

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...

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

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...

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,...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz.

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

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

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

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

Short by Edgar Reitz.

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...

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

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.

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...