Edgar Reitz Filmes

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

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

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

A short by Alexander Kluge.

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

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...

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

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

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.

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...

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

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

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

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...

The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth,...

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.

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

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz.