
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
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kulturplatz
2004
The news program delivers captivating stories and informative insights on current topics in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz
2010
No synopsis available yet.
Nachtstudio
1997
Film credits
2020s · 4 titles
7.6In 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
NRFrom 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.
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Hannelore Elsner: More Than One Life
2021
5.0Anna 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.
Eight Hundred Times Lonely
2020
2000s · 2 titles
NRA 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.
Alle Gefühle glauben an einen glücklichen Ausgang
2002
A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.
Von Sex bis Simmel
2005
1990s · 1 titles
1960s · 2 titles
4.8In 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.
The Cat Has Nine Lives
1968
NRDocumentary by Wilhelm Roth about the state of affairs of the Young German Cinema.
Die Erben von Papas Kino
1968
Series credits
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
1967
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Grimme Award
1964
No synopsis available yet.
German Film Award
1951
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Kulturplatz
2004
The news program delivers captivating stories and informative insights on current topics in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz
2010
No synopsis available yet.
Nachtstudio
1997
No synopsis available yet.
Wortwechsel
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
No synopsis available yet.
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
No synopsis available yet.
Telestar
1983
Behind the camera
5.0Made 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
7.8Follow-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
7.8Follow-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
5.0Combining 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
5.0Combining 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
7.6In 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
7.6In 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
6.4Nine 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
6.4Nine 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
6.7Out 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
6.7Out 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
7.7The 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
7.7The 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
7.7The 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
5.2Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
The Journey to Vienna
1973
5.2Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
The Journey to Vienna
1973
5.2Two women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
The Journey to Vienna
1973
4.2The 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
4.2The 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
4.2The 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
6.8Eleven-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
6.8Eleven-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
6.8Eleven-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
9.0Short by Edgar Reitz.
Die Kinder
1967
9.0Short by Edgar Reitz.
Die Kinder
1967
9.0Short by Edgar Reitz.
Die Kinder
1967
6.2A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
6.5A documentary about the Hunsrück (an area in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and its people.
The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages
1982
6.5A documentary about the Hunsrück (an area in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and its people.
The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages
1982
6.5A documentary about the Hunsrück (an area in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) and its people.
The Stories of the Hunsrück Villages
1982
6.0Lulu, 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
6.0Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication.
Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung
1962
6.0Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication.
Kommunikation - Technik der Verständigung
1962
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
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
6.0In 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
6.0In 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
6.0In 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
4.0Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.
Story of an Opera House
1958
4.0Short by Bernhard Dörries, Edgar Reitz and Stefan Meuschel.
Story of an Opera House
1958

