The 91-year-old filmmaker is best known for his epic 'Heimat' trilogy, which traces the life of a German family from the 1840s to 2000. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Reitz was one of the ...

12/05/2014 - The cult German director has won gold at the national cinema awards; Viennese Prochaska was given eight awards, including a silver Lola for The Dark Valley Last Friday at Berlin’s ...

Edgar Reitz continues his visionary sweep through history with this black-and-white prequel to his 'Heimat' juggernaut. No prior knowledge of the series is necessary, and at just under four hours, ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – German filmmaker and author Edgar Reitz, the winner of the Berlinale Camera award at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, told Rudaw on Thursday that winning such ...

Reitz also won the best director and best screenwriting trophies at the German version of the Oscars, while Alpine Western "The Dark Valley" took home eight trophies, mainly in technical categories.

Young filmmaker Anna Hepp meets doyen and pioneer of New German Cinema Edgar Reitz. The result is not only a sensitive biographical portrait of a life’s work, but also a declaration of love to all too ...

91-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz, best known for the influential Heimat trilogy, has started shooting his latest film Leibniz, a portrait of leading Enlightenment thinker Gottfried Wilhelm ...

In his 80th year, Heimat has secured him a unique place in German culture, and now these first two releases in The Edgar Reitz Collection (both UK DVD debuts) excavate his own buried past.

The 91-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz, director of the Heimat trilogy, will be honored at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival with the Berlinale Camera Award. Reitz will receive the ...

Edgar Reitz continues his visionary sweep through history with this black-and-white prequel to his 'Heimat' juggernaut. No prior knowledge of the series is necessary, and at just under four hours, ...