Edgar Reitz Movies

Short by Edgar Reitz.

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

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

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...

Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.

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...

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.

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

Filmmaker Utz Kastenholz has accompanied Edgar Reitz during the filming of the third part of the legendary family chronicle "Heimat". The fictitious...

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

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