Movies: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

  • 1978
    New Year's Eve

    New Year's Eve (1978)

    New Year's Eve

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    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 Year’s Eve, when the family meal is finished, Hanna is in a window while a young man entertains her and talks...

    New Year's Eve
  • 1978
    Germany in Autumn

    Germany in Autumn (1978)

    Germany in Autumn

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    The film does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two-month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnap...

    Germany in Autumn
  • 1982
    Land of Look Behind

    Land of Look Behind (1982)

    Land of Look Behind

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    There has never been a documentary like "Land of Look Behind". Relatively unknown due to poor distribution and New York Film Festival skullduggery, this breathtaking film presents a unique epic vision with quasi-dramatic elements and cinematographic ...

    Land of Look Behind
  • 1984
    Rita Ritter

    Rita Ritter (1984)

    Rita Ritter

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    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 his work. He then remembers his old Parisian lover Rita, calls himself Rita from then on and becomes...

    Rita Ritter
  • 1986
    Portrait: Werner Herzog

    Portrait: Werner Herzog (1986)

    Portrait: Werner Herzog

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    An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and commentary on several Herzog films, including Signs of Life, Heart of Glass, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, the Wrat...

    Portrait: Werner Herzog
  • 1969
    Precautions Against Fanatics

    Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

    Precautions Against Fanatics

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    The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, and demands that they be thrown out. One recurring young man, ...

    Precautions Against Fanatics
  • 2000
    Just Messing About

    Just Messing About (2000)

    Just Messing About

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

    Just Messing About
  • 1975
    Das Andechser Gefühl

    Das Andechser Gefühl (1975)

    Das Andechser Gefühl

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    An anxious teacher (played, as is the lead role in all his films, by the director) sits in a beer garden on the hill of the Andechs monastery. While flies drown in his mug of beer, he confronts a life of failure: the wife he ignored, the child he neg...

    Das Andechser Gefühl
  • 1983
    The Olympic Champion

    The Olympic Champion (1983)

    The Olympic Champion

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    Dentist Adi has an extraordinary dream: a boy appears to him and asks to become his father. The unknown boy has chosen the most beautiful woman in Munich - sportswoman Ilona - as his mother. She has ambitions to win an Olympic title. Adi's reality is...

    The Olympic Champion
  • 2001
    Pilgrimage

    Pilgrimage (2001)

    Pilgrimage

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    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 Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico....

    Pilgrimage
  • 1971
    Handicapped Future

    Handicapped Future (1971)

    Handicapped Future

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    A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA....

    Handicapped Future
  • 1971
    Land of Silence and Darkness

    Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)

    Land of Silence and Darkness

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    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 film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost w...

    Land of Silence and Darkness
  • 1986
    Der Nachbar

    Der Nachbar (1986)

    Der Nachbar

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    A former police officer accidentally killed a bystander while hunting criminals. Now he lives alone, continues to search for the criminal and spies on a young neighbor. His relationship with her becomes dangerous for both of them....

    Der Nachbar
  • 1976
    No One Will Play with Me

    No One Will Play with Me (1976)

    No One Will Play with Me

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    A darkly humorous short documentary about a preschool-age boy ostracised from interactions with his classmates until a girl who has become interested in his pet crow provides the link to social acceptance....

    No One Will Play with Me
  • 1978
    Bye-Bye Bavaria!

    Bye-Bye Bavaria! (1978)

    Bye-Bye Bavaria!

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    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 die there....

    Bye-Bye Bavaria!
  • 1993
    Bells from the Deep

    Bells from the Deep (1993)

    Bells from the Deep

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    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 city from the Mongolian prince Batyi's soldiers by letting it sink to the bottom of the lake. If you l...

    Bells from the Deep
  • 1977
    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe (1977)

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

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    Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave....

    La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
  • 1974
    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)

    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner

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

    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
  • 1985
    The Practice of Love

    The Practice of Love (1985)

    The Practice of Love

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

    The Practice of Love
  • 1977
    Beer Chase

    Beer Chase (1977)

    Beer Chase

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    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 Oktoberfest. Now he is somebody, he is important, he can help, people respect him, etc. His wife, other ...

    Beer Chase