Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein Filmes

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

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in...

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of...

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

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older...

There has never been a documentary like "Land of Look Behind". Relatively unknown due to poor distribution and New York Film Festival skullduggery,...

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

A man who is dissatisfied with his senseless existence in his family-life and social status steals the uniform of a policeman and then enters the...

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time,...

Judith is a maverick reporter who is also seeking a satisfying relationship with various men. She finds corruption and power-games everywhere.

A former police officer accidentally killed a bystander while hunting criminals. Now he lives alone, continues to search for the criminal and spies...

A renowned and sensitive poet and writer is fed up with the crudenesses of his native Bavaria and, in a well-publicized move, says he refuses even to...

Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other,...

Accompanied only by music the film alternates between shots of pilgrims near the tomb of Saint Sergei in Sergiyev Posad, Russia and pilgrims at the...

A painter learns that leaving the creative life behind is much more complicated than he expected.

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this...

A group of pilgrims lie down on the thin ice of the lake Svetloyar and begin to look for the city of Kitesh. According to the legend, God saved the...

After several years in a coma, the Comanche, an Indian, wakes up in a Bavarian hospital. But reality does not match the dreams he had of it during...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.