Movies: Reiner Uthoff

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to br...

A worker wants to escape the monotony of his work and sets off for Munich to see his pop music idol up close. Due to a breakdown, he doesn't make it to his destination, but meets a cabaret troupe, which he joins. The new environment confronts him wit...