Thomas Mauch Movies

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

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

The Flying Doctors of East Africa (German: Die Fliegenden Ärzte von Ostafrika) is a 1969 documentary film by Werner Herzog about the "flying...

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

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...

Short by Edgar Reitz.

In order to be reunited with Mahmood (Ören), a man she was promised to as a young girl, 20-year-old Shirin (Erten) leaves the life she had in a...

Katja Junge plays the title role in this West German romantic drama, directed by noted cinematographer Thomas Mauch. Maria is just as girl who can't...

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...

In the summer of 1967, journalist Katharina is visited in Munich by her French friend Anne. They take day trips and visit cafés,...

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

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

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

Erika and Franziska haven't seen each other for 4 years. 10 years earlier they both felt that they had the same chances in life: both were young,...

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

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...

Early documentary by Edgar Reitz.

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