FILM DIRECTOR

Edgar Reitz

1932 - Today

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Edgar Reitz (born 1 November 1932) is a German filmmaker and Professor of Film at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (State University of Design) in Karlsruhe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgar Reitz has received more than 87,303 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Edgar Reitz is the 815th most popular film director (down from 812th in 2019), the 3,952nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,683rd in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edgar Reitz ranks 815 out of 2,041. Before him are Edmund Goulding, Ulu Grosbard, Vladimir Gardin, Gulzar, Matthew Vaughn, and Ari Folman. After him are Aleksander Ford, Sion Sono, Sean S. Cunningham, Andrew Davis, Urban Gad, and Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Edgar Reitz ranks 259. Before him are Phyllida Law, Sergio Toppi, Sven Lindqvist, Alain Besançon, Felicia Farr, and Mongo Beti. After him are Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Jean Stablinski, Carlos Borges, Katherine Paterson, Albert Collins, and Dino Bruni.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Edgar Reitz ranks 3,952 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Peter Salomon (1745), Grete Hermann (1901), Wilhelm Lexis (1837), Paul Pietsch (1911), Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782), and Wilhelm Gesenius (1786). After him are Marco Rose (1976), Ernest Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1560), Philip II, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1541), Peter Schenk the Elder (1660), Leopold III, Prince of Lippe (1821), and Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1824).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Edgar Reitz ranks 42. Before him are Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Marc Forster (1969), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Michael Verhoeven (1938), and Uwe Boll (1965). After him are Wolfgang Becker (1954), Percy Adlon (1935), Wolfgang Staudte (1906), Ludwig Berger (1892), Helmut Käutner (1908), and Kurt Maetzig (1911).

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Filmography

Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Director
Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Oct 3rd 20138 / 10
Germany in Autumn
Director
Germany in Autumn does not have a plot per se; it mixes documentary footage, along with standard movie scenes, to give the audience the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The movie covers the two month time period during 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the left-wing terrorists known as the RAF-Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction). The businessman had been kidnapped in an effort to secure the release of the orginal leaders of the RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. When the kidnapping effort and a plane hijacking effort failed, the three most prominent leaders of the RAF, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe, all committed suicide in prison. It has become an article of faith within the left-wing community that these three were actually murdered by the state.
Mar 3rd 19786.259 / 10
Heimat
Director
Spanning 1919 to 1982, in the fictional village of Schabbach, lives Maria Simon and her family, whose lives and community are changed by historical events around them.
7.8 / 10