Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein Movies

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a...

The Australian Aborigines (in this film anyway) believe that this is the place where the green ants go to dream, and that if their dreams are...

A study of the psychology of a champion ski-flyer, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy...

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the...

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except...

Diamond expert Ronnie discovers a real gem: Ginnie. Struck by Cupid's arrow, he follows the pretty chance acquaintance to Belgium. As a front man for...

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...

An autobiographical short film by Werner Herzog made in 1986. Herzog tells stories about his life and career. The film contains excerpts and...

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing...

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this...

A writer tries unsuccessfully to sell his screenplays and plays. He marries a television editor, but she only wants to fuck him and thinks nothing of...

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesses and visits to key sites.

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

Two segments make up this short film. The first portion called “The French” has two men taste testing some delicious wine, and the other,...

Oskar Panizza’s The Council of Love (1895) is a blasphemous play set in 1495, during the first recorded outbreak of syphilis, which Panizza...

The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older...

Herzog's documentary of the Wodaabe people of the Sahara/Sahel region. Particular attention is given to the tribe's spectacular courtship rituals and...

Enquiries into the murder of a young woman take the private investigator Peter Keller to the idyllic village of Schwant in Emmental. But, the more...

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some...