Thomas Mauch Movies

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

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

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

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

The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland....

“The Bella Vista” is the story of a house started as a football club, becoming a successful transvestite brothel and changes at last to a...

Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.

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

Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de...

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

The Laddakhis, high up in the Western Himalayas, have a strong connection to the psychic energies of the gods and demons through their belief in...

Poetic documentary about the deconstruction of a railroad track in South Germany.

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...

Alexander spends christmas with his mother but this year he gets a new perspective on the traditions.

Travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find that he's been transformed into a giant insect. This particular Franz Kafka adaptation is seen from...

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...

Early short by Werner Herzog shot while being on location in Greece shooting "Lebenszeichen".

For many years the old Waller worked as a railwayman. After Waller is informed that "his" track will be closed down and that he will be retired, he...

Election campaign for the parliamentary elections for the Bundestag in 1965 in the town of Neu-Ulm, Germany.