Movies: Edgar Reitz
- 2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
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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....
- 1978
Germany in Autumn (1978)
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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 Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman w...
- 2013
Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
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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 future of cinema....
- 2020
Eight Hundred Times Lonely (2020)
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Anna Hepp meets with renowned German director Edgar Reitz in one of Germany’s most famous cinemas: the Lichtburg in Essen. Reitz talks about his life, his view of art and his sometimes philosophical viewpoint....
- 2006
Heimat Fragments: The Women (2006)
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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 transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her fema...
- 1967
Yesterday Girl (1967)
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A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery....
- 2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
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From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist....
- 1978
The Tailor from Ulm (1978)
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The true story of the Bavarian Tailor Albrecht Berblinger who, after a strange encounter with a balloon starts building a flying machine. Although not an engineer by profession, he never gives up. No matter how many obstacles are put in his way nor h...
- 1971
Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1971)
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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, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, re...
- 1973
Die Reise nach Wien (1973)
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Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna....
- 1972
The Golden Thing (1972)
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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 cunning to overcome various obstacles until they reach the destination of their fantastic journey. The...
- 2005
Von Sex bis Simmel (2005)
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A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder....
- 1969
Leibniz (1969)
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The great philosopher and intellectual Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is painted on behalf of Electress Sophie of Hanover. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness,...
- 2018
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018)
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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 explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to br...
- 2021
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life (2021)
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- 1968
The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)
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Katharina and Anne go on trips, visit cafés, acquaintances and parties. In doing so, they explore the chances of female emancipation in a male-dominated society. Katharina strives for a life without sentimental compulsion. She believes that she has s...
- 1958
Story of an Opera House (1958)
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Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel....
- 1974
In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death (1974)
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Combining fictional and documentary modes, the film takes a critical stance toward Frankfurt's public sphere and urban redevelopment. Despite the serious formal and political concerns of the film, Kluge's heightened sense of the absurd safeguards a r...
- 1962
Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung (1962)
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Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication....
- 1967
Lust for Love (1967)
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Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her....