Lust For Love (Mahlzeiten) is the debut feature of German filmmaker Edgar Reitz, best known for the Heimat trilogy. Awarded at the 1967 Venice Film Festival, the film tells the story of a young couple who follow their own and society's expectations only to find that the reality that awaits them is very different. Elisabeth, a photographer, and Rolf, a medical student, love each other, so they decide to get married and have children. After all, it is the natural order of things. Or at least that's what they believe. By playing with different registers and formal elements - such as voice-over narration or interview inserts - Reitz creates an avant-garde fable that takes a critical look at traditional values. A work that reflects, from the most intimate sphere, an impulse for liberation in a Germany that still lives with the imprint of its wartime past.
Edgar Reitz
Born in 1932 in Morbach (Germany). After studying Journalism, Art History and German Philology and Literature, in 1963 he founded the Institut für Filmgestaltung with Alexander Kluge. In 1967 he made his feature film debut with ‘Lust for Love’, which won the award for best first film at the Venice Film Festival. In 1971 he was awarded at the Berlin Film Festival for ‘Tales of the Dumpster Kid’, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl, received a special mention at Seminci in 1975 for ‘Die Reise nach Wien’ and returned to the festival in 1978 with the omnibus film ‘Germany in Autumn’. The premiere in Venice of the first part of ‘Heimat’ (1984) consolidated him as one of the pillars of the New German Cinema and one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation. The film won the critics’ award and premiered in Spain at the Valladolid Film Festival. This year, the Berlin Film Festival paid tribute to him by dedicating the Berlinale Camera to him.
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