Reitz received one of his first awards for his film '' Mahlzeiten '' which was awarded the prize for best debut work at the Venice Film Festival in 1967 . In 1971 he founded Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion ( ERF ) in Munich . He now began to collaborate on films with his former academic colleague Alexander Kluge amongst them the 1974 fictitious documentary '' In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod '' . The lavish production costs of the 1979 film '' The Tailor of Ulm '' , which portrays the downfall of the aviation pioneer Albrecht Berblinger , caused Reitz 's own financial circumstances to take a tumble . The film was entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival . It was during this crisis that the idea for a film project about his homeland , the Hunsrück , first came to Reitz . What began as an attempt at self-discovery , ultimately broadened out into the '' Heimat '' trilogy ( from 1984 ) , which met with critical acclaim , an enthusiastic international audience , and numerous prizes . With this epic and monumental production , Reitz achieved a quite new perspective , an approach , both poetical and realistic , to the past of Germany as it might have played out in the provinces
11th Moscow International Film Festival
11th Moscow International Film Festival
Edgar Reitz