Edgar Reitz

The series (11 episodes) tells the story of the village Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982... (imdb)

Thirteen episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years.

The fictional stories of a "sexual intercourse thief" and an agent of the German Democratic Republic are confronted with real events like the squatting in Frankfurt and the street carnival in the spring of 1974.

This is not only a sequel to the "Second Heimat", but also a chronicle of a very decisive decade for Germany (1989 to 2000) (imdb)

A short documentary about München Opera House.

Documentary, trying to catch up with the latest developments in the field of communication.

Set in the mid-19th century, this latest instalment in the decades-spanning Heimat series from venerable German filmmaker Edgar Reitz chronicles the quests of two Hunsrück families to escape poverty and famine by forging a new life in Brazil. (tiff.net)

A young couple with existential dilemmas find happiness when they meet LDS missionaries and are baptized. Their troubles, however, return and the husband commits suicide. The wife remarries another Latter-day Saint and moves, five children in tow, to Utah in a pessimistic ending. (letterboxd.com)

In a small town in Germany towards the end of the war: the story centers around two good-time girls who use some money found in an attic to make a trip to Vienna. (ftvdb.bfi.org.uk)

A series of short German films between 2 and 20 minutes. All of the stories feature a 'Dumpster Kid', a female born fully-grown out of some afterbirth thrown into a slimy dumpster. At first happy in her dumpster and unwilling to try to fit into society, she is forcefully adopted by a woman who tries to teach her manners. Every episode features her in a different environment or period trying to learn the quirks of society, and, often, she dies violently at the end. (The Worldwide Celluloid Massacre)

Joschie, a former member of the Hitler Youth, dreams of America and hopes to follow the Americans as they leave the area to the Russians. But first he must recover a treasure that the Nazis have buried in a cemetery in a village near Leipzig. Driving to the village, where everyone is waiting for the Red Army to arrive, Joschie meets a refugee girl and tells her his secret.

Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female relations over the course of an entire century. (imdb)

A film by songwriter Wolf Biermann lights the wishes and realities of a divided Germany. The images shows the confrontation between students and police on the streets. (Filmaffinity)

In 1968 Munich, a high school classroom becomes a film studio directed by Edgar Reitz, chronicling the lives of teenage girls.

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.