Im Austausch der Generationen trifft der Mitunterzeichner des berühmten Oberhausener Manifesters und Wegbereiter des "Neuen Deutschen Films" auf die Nachwuchsregisseurin Anna Hepp. Der Film greift Fragen nach seiner persönlichen Biografie bis hin zum Kino-sterben auf und wird zur Liebeserklärung an das Filmemachen an sich.Eine Widmung an das Kino, an die Filmkunst, ans Scheitern und Lieben. Und an Edgar Reitz...

[EN] An old man and a young woman in one of Germany’s most beautiful cinemas: For her interview portrait of filmmaker Edgar Reitz, director Anna Hepp chose the Filmpalast Lichtburg in Essen from the 1920s; film and cinema history meet. Reitz started making films more than 60 years ago, he was a co-signatory of the Oberhausen Manifesto in 1962, one of the pioneers of the New German Cinema and he made television history with his Heimat series. Along the way, he rehabilitated the word Heimat, which had been tainted by Nazi ideology and the Heimatfilme of the 1950s. From the outset, Hepp does not deny that she admires Reitz and his work, which the latter counters above all with humour and an irrepressible delight in storytelling – the film thus becomes the document of an encounter. The result is not only a sensitive portrait of the filmmaker, but also an intelligent reflection on a declaration of love for filmmaking and cinema in Germany; supplemented by a few, precisely selected excerpts from Reitz’s works.