Thomas Mauch Movies

During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal...

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...

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

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

Reverend Huie Rogers is a preacher at the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Brooklyn. He is the topic of this short film, during which...

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

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated...

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, 57 East-Berliners try their luck through a tunnel...

Martha and Alfred exchange experiences about life and events in Hamburg.

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

The Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc Bondy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard...

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

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

Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an...

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

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

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

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