Thomas Mauch Movies

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...

The third episodical film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German film makers reflect on the state of their country.

This Cold War dramatic thriller tells the passionate story of three people caught in a murderous web of deceit and revenge on both sides of the...

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing...

During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded.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...

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

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

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

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

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic story about Gregor Samsa, a man who awakes and sees himself suddenly turned into a repulsive insect.

An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels...

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

Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...