Thomas Mauch Movies

Kluge’s short-film starring his sister/muse Alexandra.

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels...

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

Emotions and feelings should not be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any artistic expression. The film...

Sweety Barrett is a giant of a man with the mind of a child. An easy target in a corrupt world, Sweety becomes embroiled in a smuggling operation...

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...

A young German woman searches for happiness, liberation, and independence in the illusive wake of a transformative national recovery.

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

A poignant film essay about 'superfluous people' facing up to a moment of crisis in their lives.

Making-of documentary that covers "Cobra Verde," Herzog's last film with Kinski before Kinski's death. This is the documentary that registers the...

Documentary film about the official view of art in the Third Reich and state funding of artistic practice.

Falling in love after a meet-cute on Hamburg’s frozen-over Alster Lake, Martha—a filmmaker with guilt over her privilege—and...

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

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

Vienna at the turn of the century: The industrialist Friedrich Hofreiter is a vain, self-important man who is used to taking what he wants and who...

The life and struggles of the German writer Heinrich von Kleist.

West Berlin, 1974. The revolution didn't happen like it was supposed. Grischa, a 30-year-old actress dissatisfied with standard left-wing politics,...

Roswitha runs an illegal abortion clinic in Frankfurt to support her student husband and children. When she is forced to close her practice she...

The clownish security chief of a West German business is obsessed with protecting his factory from fancied and real breaches, especially from groups...