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Christian Reitz

Born January 11, 1960 · Munich, Bavaria, Germany (age 66)

Christian Reitz is a German film cinematographer. He is the son of German filmmaker Edgar Reitz.

Known For

September 5September 5 · 2024
September 5
7.02024
MovieThrillerDrama
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Die KinderDie Kinder · 1967
Die Kinder
9.01967
Movie
Short by Edgar Reitz.
Tales of the Dumpster KidTales of the Dumpster Kid · 1974
Tales of the Dumpster Kid
4.31974
MovieComedyDrama
The Dumpster Kid is an artistic creation: in every story society forces her to learn something. But she, fully grown from the moment of her birth, unquestionably learns more than is called for. This extra knowledge, which is not wanted by society, regularly brings her into danger. Dumpster Kid dies in each story, and across each genre. Her stories are set in a whole range of different time periods. What is a Dumpster Kid?
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost PaintingLeibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting · 2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
6.72025
MovieDramaHistory
Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.
Home from Home – Chronicle of a VisionHome from Home – Chronicle of a Vision · 2013
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
7.72013
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Heimat Fragments: The WomenHeimat Fragments: The Women · 2006
Heimat Fragments: The Women
5.82006
MovieMusicDrama
Lulu, the daughter of musician Hermann Simon, is looking for something she feels is missing from her life. She delves into the past and is transported to the lives of her ancestors via dreamlike sequences that show the hopes and realities of her female relations over the course of an entire century. Heimat Fragments is an intoxicating trip into the lives of venerable characters from different periods in Lulu's family history, from long-forgotten scenes of war to every day family life on the farm. This gripping film shows fragments of the lives that shaped her own. Her gaze into the past does not simply signal the end of her youth, it means the beginning of a newly gained freedom.
The Night of the FilmmakersThe Night of the Filmmakers · 1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
6.31995
MovieDocumentary
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
The Golden ThingThe Golden Thing · 1972
The Golden Thing
6.81972
MovieDramaAdventure
Eleven-year old Jason and his companions, including Hercules and Orpheus, go with the ship "Argo" in the search for the Golden Fleece. With wit and cunning to overcome various obstacles until they reach the destination of their fantastic journey. The experiment is not only due to the popularization or naive glorification of a myth, but the search space occupied by fact that the heroes of antiquity were actually very young.

Filmography

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