Christian Reitz

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025)

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 d ...

September 5 (2024)

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. ...

Subject: Filmmaking (2024)

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. ...

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (2013)

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. ...

Heimat Fragments: The Women (2006)

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 rel ...

Hinterlassenschaften (2002)

The Night of the Filmmakers (1995)

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

Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias (2018)

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 an ...

Tales of the Dumpster Kid (1974)

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, regularl ...

The Golden Thing (1972)

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 exper ...

Die Kinder (1967)

Short by Edgar Reitz. ...