Edgar Reitz

Directing

Edgar Reitz

Born

1932-11-01 (93)

Place of birth

Morbach, Germany

Known for

Directing

Credits

60 titles

Edgar Reitz is a German film director and writer, best known for his "Heimat" trilogy.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2000s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Venice 70: Future Reloaded poster
5.0

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.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision poster
7.8

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.

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

2013

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision poster
7.8

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.

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision

2013

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death poster
5.0

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.

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

1974

In Danger and Dire Distress the Middle of the Road Leads to Death poster
5.0

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.

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

1974

Subject: Filmmaking poster
7.6

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.

Subject: Filmmaking

2024

Subject: Filmmaking poster
7.6

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.

Subject: Filmmaking

2024

Germany in Autumn poster
6.4

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.

Germany in Autumn

1978

Germany in Autumn poster
6.4

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.

Germany in Autumn

1978

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting poster
6.7

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.

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

2025

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting poster
6.7

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.

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

2025

The Tailor from Ulm poster
7.7

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.

The Tailor from Ulm

1978

The Tailor from Ulm poster
7.7

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.

The Tailor from Ulm

1978

The Tailor from Ulm poster
7.7

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.

The Tailor from Ulm

1978

The Journey to Vienna poster
5.2

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

The Journey to Vienna

1973

The Journey to Vienna poster
5.2

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

The Journey to Vienna

1973

The Journey to Vienna poster
5.2

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

The Journey to Vienna

1973

Tales of the Dumpster Kid poster
4.2

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?

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

1974

Tales of the Dumpster Kid poster
4.2

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?

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

1974

Tales of the Dumpster Kid poster
4.2

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?

Tales of the Dumpster Kid

1974

The Golden Thing poster
6.8

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.

The Golden Thing

1972

The Golden Thing poster
6.8

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.

The Golden Thing

1972

The Golden Thing poster
6.8

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.

The Golden Thing

1972

Die Kinder poster
9.0

Short by Edgar Reitz.

Die Kinder

1967

Die Kinder poster
9.0

Short by Edgar Reitz.

Die Kinder

1967

Die Kinder poster
9.0

Short by Edgar Reitz.

Die Kinder

1967

The Night of the Filmmakers poster
6.2

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

The Night of the Filmmakers

1995

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages poster
6.5

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

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages

1982

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages poster
6.5

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

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages

1982

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages poster
6.5

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

The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages

1982

Heimat Fragments: The Women poster
6.0

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.

Heimat Fragments: The Women

2006

Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung poster
6.0

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

Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung

1962

Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung poster
6.0

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

Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung

1962

No artwork available
NR

A large, darkened, rectangular room. A total of 16 screens hover in rows of four above the viewers' heads, arranged in such a way that each of the 4 rows contains 2 CinemaScope images and 2 standard format color images.

Varia Vision

1965

No artwork available
NR

A large, darkened, rectangular room. A total of 16 screens hover in rows of four above the viewers' heads, arranged in such a way that each of the 4 rows contains 2 CinemaScope images and 2 standard format color images.

Varia Vision

1965

Zero Hour poster
6.0

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.

Zero Hour

1977

Zero Hour poster
6.0

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.

Zero Hour

1977

Zero Hour poster
6.0

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.

Zero Hour

1977

Story of an Opera House poster
4.0

Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.

Story of an Opera House

1958

Story of an Opera House poster
4.0

Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.

Story of an Opera House

1958