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Edgar Reitz
Director 93 years old

Edgar Reitz

Morbach, Germany

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

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

4 titles
Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht

Die andere Heimat - Chronik einer Sehnsucht

Edgar Reitz 2013 3h 45m 8.0

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.

Deutschland im Herbst

Deutschland im Herbst

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff 1978 2h 3m

Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped and murdered by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction).

Geschichten vom Kübelkind

Geschichten vom Kübelkind

Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl 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, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre.

Die Reise nach Wien

Die Reise nach Wien

Edgar Reitz 1973 1h 43m

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

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