Thomas Mauch Movies

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

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

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 film accompanies Jenny Gröllmann, a German actress, during the last two years of her life.

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

A drama that strings together vignettes of events taken from everyday newspaper headlines. Germans are shown in their reactions to World War II,...

Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son and makes films with real passion. To stay close to the pulse of society, she has moved in with a...

A large, darkened, rectangular room. A total of 16 screens hover in rows of four above the viewers' heads, arranged in such a way that each of the 4...

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...

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

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

Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.

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

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...

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady...

Veronika is a young, devoutly religious Berlin woman from a strict bourgeois background diagnosed with schizophrenia. She experiences a profound...

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

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

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