Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein Movies

Georg Maltus wants to make a career as an editor in Munich, but has to make do with a job as publicity manager for pop singer Kim Calder. Kim lives...

A short film made by Sirk at the end of his life with one of his students. An adaptation of Schnitzler, with Hanna Schygulla: a night of New...

A documentation of the live Action Ulay performed in Berlin in 1976. It shows step by step his arranged "art theft" of Carl Spitzweg's painting "The...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

A young woman strolls through the night, then boards a train. Seeking closeness to others she chooses an unusual method by searching through...

Gabi Teichert, a history teacher, is unhappy with the way history is portrayed in textbooks and is looking for an alternative, more practical...

Alexander Kluge reflects on the medieval Staufer dynasty and draws a line from Emperor Barbarossa to Operation Barbarossa.

Fred is a journalist who investigates the death of a man in room 36. He interviews the man's widow and her deranged mother for clues as to how the...

A German-born director of an American television station travels through Bavaria with a folk music impresario to do research for a show to be...

Vignettes portraying the Rastafarians in Jamaica feature the 1981 funeral of musician Bob Marley.

Alexander Kluge documents the preparations for an exhibition on the Staufer dynasty.