Thomas Mauch Movies

The Indomitable Leni Peickert is a loose, half-hour sequel to Alexander Kluge's second feature film, Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. This shorter...

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

The Cold War is peaking again in divided Germany in the early 1980s. How to deal with the upcoming nuclear annihilation shows this Alexander Kluge...

In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema's most uncompromising filmmakers —...

Mrs. Blackburn, born in 1872, i.e. before the history of cinema began, is Alexander Kluge's grandmother. Portrait of this lady.

A city (Hamburg) is afflicted by a series of slaps in the face. Pia Frankenberg’s short film proves that cinema can strike back!

Alice Schneider redecorates her house.

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

A short montage about rhythm, movement, and speed.