Thomas Mauch Movies

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...

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

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

Skoda is the son of a wealthy, overbearing banker and rather than put up with his father to keep a privileged lifestyle, he has chosen to ditch the...

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...

A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial...

In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema's most uncompromising filmmakers —...

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

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

Elizabeth is a young woman who seeks happiness excessively burning out all those around her.

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

A piece of lint from a Beethoven fan's record collection sticks to the clothes of a bank robber. Inspector Koschonsky finds the lint and solves the...

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

Saroyanland is a docu-drama focusing on the journey of famous writer William Saroyan to the birthplace of his Armenian family Bitlis, in Turkey in...

In five different countries, the filmmakers explore the question of why so many development aid projects have been so unsuccessful to date and how...

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.