Edgar Reitz

The Cat Has Nine Lives

In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés, acquaintances, and parties. In a series of conversations between them and other women, they talk about the chances for female emancipation in a male-dominated society.

Release Date1968-10-12

Charactersd Party Guest (uncredited)

Vote Count14

Eight Hundred Times Lonely

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.

Release Date2020-03-05

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count1

Grimme Award

Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.

Release Date1964-01-16

Charactersd Self

Episode Count4

German Film Award

Release Date1951-06-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Kulturplatz

Release Date2004-09-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Nachtstudio

Release Date1997-09-03

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Bavarian Film Awards

Release Date1979-12-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Wortwechsel

Release Date1982-01-08

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz

The news program delivers captivating stories and informative insights on current topics in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Release Date2010-03-08

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Gero von Boehm begegnet...

Release Date2002-04-09

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Titel, Thesen, Temperamente

Release Date1967-12-04

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Telestar

Release Date1983-01-01

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Von Sex bis Simmel

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

Release Date2005-02-04

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

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.

Release Date2022-09-01

Charactersd Self

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias

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 break and extend in new ways. One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl in 1969/70, 22 absurdly funny, subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths, which consciously oppose all conventions, with incredible success. The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness.

Release Date2018-02-17

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life

Release Date2021-04-25

Charactersd Self

The Night of the Filmmakers

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

Release Date1995-02-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang

A study of Alexander Kluge that also emulates his technique of seeking and linking. Kluge reads aloud, Kluge recounts, including stories from his childhood and youth, from the bombing of Halberstadt, his home town. “What you don’t understand as a child you will contemplate for the rest of your life.” Kluge does this as the author of films, books, TV programs. He has always had several professions at once. He is a legal advisor, director, author, founder of the television production company DCTP, and person in charge of its culture magazines. But if you think that these are all different jobs, you’re mistaken.

Release Date2002-02-18

Charactersd Self

Subject: Filmmaking

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

Release Date2024-02-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count4

Heimat Fragments: The Women

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 female relations over the course of an entire century. Heimat Fragments is an intoxicating trip into the lives of venerable characters from different periods in Lulu's family history, from long-forgotten scenes of war to every day family life on the farm. This gripping film shows fragments of the lives that shaped her own. Her gaze into the past does not simply signal the end of her youth, it means the beginning of a newly gained freedom.

Release Date2006-10-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Biermann-Film

A short by Alexander Kluge.

Release Date1983-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages

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

Release Date1982-02-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.

Release Date2025-09-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Heimat

Spanning 1919 to 1982, in the fictional village of Schabbach, live Maria Simon and her family, whose lives and community are changed by historical events around them.

Release Date1984-09-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count39

Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings

The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000.

Release Date2004-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

E. A. Winterstein, Fire Extinguisher

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

Release Date1968-01-01

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count1

Story of an Opera House

Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.

Release Date1958-06-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Die Kinder

Short by Edgar Reitz.

Release Date1967-03-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Heimat II: A Chronicle of a Generation

The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music and film students). The movie tells a story in many different levels about love, friendship, misfortune, loss, art, politics, history with important historic events of the decennium in the background.

Release Date1993-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count13

Vote Count14

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

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.

Release Date2013-08-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

Zero Hour

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 inhabitants try to adjust to the new authority.

Release Date1977-02-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Lust for Love

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

Release Date1967-03-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Germany in Autumn

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 late 1970s. The movie covers the two-month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and later murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the original leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.

Release Date1978-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count28

Cotton

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

Release Date1960-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Golden Thing

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 experiment is not only due to the popularization or naive glorification of a myth, but the search space occupied by fact that the heroes of antiquity were actually very young.

Release Date1972-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

Speed

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.

Release Date1963-04-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Susanne tanzt

Short by Edgar Reitz and his daughter Susanne Reitz.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

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, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?

Release Date1971-04-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

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.

Release Date2013-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count54

The Tailor from Ulm

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 how many failures he endures, his ardour is never dampened. He continues with his dream to fly like a bird.

Release Date1978-12-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Yesterday Girl

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

Release Date1967-09-21

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count26

Schabbach ist überall

Filmmaker Utz Kastenholz has accompanied Edgar Reitz during the filming of the third part of the legendary family chronicle "Heimat". The fictitious town of Schabbach, home to the TV family Simon, for many audience members has become a synonym for their own experience. "Schabbach ist überall" (Schabbach is everywhere) follows the origins and workings of the legendary film series and moreover addressess the question what "Heimat" really means today.

Release Date2004-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Journey to Vienna

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

Release Date1973-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Cardillac

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

Release Date1970-03-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death

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 reserve of utopian optimism.

Release Date1974-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Altstadt - Lebensstadt

Release Date1977-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung

Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication.

Release Date1962-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

Yucatan

Poetic documentary about the vanished culture of the Maya.

Release Date1961-02-08

DepartmentCrew

JobCinematography

Die Erben von Papas Kino

Documentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.

Release Date1968-06-30