The question What is film? What is cinema? can hardly be answered as well as by Edgar Reitz. Reitz made his first short film in 1954, his last film for the time being in 2013. He is one of the best-known and most respected German filmmakers. During the long period of his work, the technical, aesthetic and social conditions of making and seeing films have changed fundamentally. Instrumental in the awakening in the 1960s, he experienced how the opportunities for creative filmmaking in the cinema were lost in the 1970s. He freed himself from this crisis by developing new forms of serial narrative with his Heimat-Epos, produced for television. This book is the result of two large exhibitions of his work in Nuremberg and Vienna. It brings together a complete overview of Edgar Reitz's cinematic oeuvre, with production details and brief illustrated descriptions, supplemented by introductions that highlight the circumstances of the work at the time, but also the valid points that have withstood the years. In this way, a film history of a very special kind has been created: In retrospective dialogue with the audience and the actors, the concrete work becomes a document of change in artistic creation and understanding.