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           atop the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, from "Faraway, So Close!" [1993] sequel to "Wings of Desire" [1987], both by German director Wim Wenders            filmmakers of Germany

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Books  on  German  Cinema

West German Film In The Course of Time book by Eric Rentschler  
"West German Film: In The Course of Time" [1984]
by Eric Rentschler

Redgrave Publng pb [1984] out of print/used
Tales From Hollywood stageplay by Christopher Hampton  "Tales From Hollywood" [1984 stageplay] by Christopher Hampton
Many writers and artists and movie people of Germany fled the brutality of the Nazis and settled in Los Angeles in the 1930s, including Thomas & Heinrich Mann, Salka Viertel, Lion & Marta Feuchtwanger and playwright Bertolt Brecht
Faber & Faber 7¾x5 pb playscript [5/2002] out of print/many used
TV movie [P.B.S./B.B.C. Oct 1992]
directed by Howard Davies; starring Jeremy Irons, Charles Durning, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth McGovern, Sinéad Cusack, Jan Chappell, Ian Thompson & Jack Shepherd
DVD/Blu-ray not available; full credits from IMDb

Great German Films book by Frederick W. Ott  "The Great German Films: From Before World War I To The Present" [1986]
by Frederick W. Ott

Citadel Press 11½x8½ pb [4/91] out of print/used
Citadel Press 11½x8¾ hardcover [5/86] out of print/used
West German Filmmakers on Film book edited by Eric Rentschler  "West German Filmmakers On Film: Visions & Voices" [1989]
Edited by Eric Rentschler

Holmes & Meier Publrs 8¾x6 pb [2/89] for $22.50
Holmes & Meier Publrs 9x6 hardcover [2/89] for $49.00
Film & The German Left book by Bruce Murray  "Film and The German Left In The Weimar Republic: From Caligari
To Kuhle Wampe" [1990]
by Bruce Murray

Univ TX Press 8½x6¾ pb [7/90] for $30.00
Univ TX Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/90] out of print/used
Hollywood in Berlin / American Cinema & Weimar Germany book by Thomas J. Saunders  "Hollywood In Berlin: American Cinema & Weimar Germany" [1994]
by Thomas J. Saunders

Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [4/94] for $55.00
The U.F.A. Story / Germany's Greatest Film Company book by Klaus Kreimeie  "The U.F.A. Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company,
1918-1945" [1996]
by Klaus Kreimeie

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [10/99] out of print/used
Hill & Wang Publng 9¾x6¾ hardcover [7/96] out of print/used
Ministry of Illusion Nazi Cinema book by Eric Rentschler  "Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afterlife" [1996]
by Eric Rentschler

Harvard Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [10/96] for $33.75
Exiles and Emigres book edited by Stephanie Barron  "Exiles + Emigres: The Flight of European Artists From Hitler" [1997]
Edited by {LACMA curator} Stephanie Barron, with Sabine Eckmann

Companion book to a 1997 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
with 19 essays and over 300 photographs

L.A.C.M.A. 11¾x8¾ pb [2/97] out of print/used
Harry N. Abrams 12x9½ hardcover [2/97] out of print/many used
Nordic National Cinemas  
"Nordic National Cinemas" [1998]
by Tytti Soila

Routledge 9¼x6¼ pb [2/98] for $33.95
Routledge 9¼x6¼ [2/98] for $125.00
B.F.I. Companion To German Cinema book edited by Thomas Elsaesser  "The B.F.I. Companion To German Cinema" [1999]
Edited by Thomas Elsaesser, with Michael Wedel

British Film Institute 9x6 pb [11/99] for $25.50
British Film Institute 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2000] out of print/used
Weimar Cinema & After  "Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary" [2000]
by Thomas Elsaesser

Routledge 9x5¾ pb [9/2000] for $30.20
Routledge 9½x6½ library-hardcover [9/2000] for $125.00
German National Cinema  "German National Cinema" [2001]
by Sabine Hake

Routledge 9¼x6¼ pb [10/2007] for $33.95
Routledge hardcover [10/2007] for $125.00
Dark Mirror German Cinema book by Lutz Koepnick  "The Dark Mirror: German Cinema Between Hitler and Hollywood" [2002]
by Lutz Koepnick

Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [10/2002] for $25.95
Univ CA Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2002] for $60.00
B.F.I. German Cinema Book book edited by Bergfelder, Carter & Gokturk   "The German Cinema Book" [YR]
Edited by Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter & Deniz Göktürk

British Film Institute 10x7¼ pb [1/2008] for $24.11
British Film Institute 9¾x7½ hardcover [2/2003] out of print/used
Herr Lubitsch Goes to Hollywood book by Kristin Thompson  "Herr Lubitsch Goes To Hollywood: German and American Film After World War I" [2005] by Kristin Thompson
The Great War disrupted the world film market and United States studios overtook the studios in wartorn Europe; Germany banned all imported movies, so their industry thrived. When the ban was lifted, writer-director Ernst Lubitsch quickly absorbed all the advances in style and technique made in Hollywood; by 1923, he was making silent feature films in America.
Amsterdam Univ Press 9½x6¼ pb [2/2006] for $33.25
Amsterdam Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2005] for $82.75
Introduction to German Cinema book by Reimer & Zachau  
"German Culture Through Film: An Introduction To German Cinema" [2005]
by Robert C. Reimer & Reinhard Zachau

Focus Publng 10x7 pb [7/2005] for $28.08
Austrian Cinema  "Austria Cinema: A History" [2005]
by Robert von Dassanowsky

McFarland & Co. 10x7¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $65.00
Exiles in Hollywood book by David Wallace  "Exiles In Hollywood" [2006] by David Wallace
Profiles of personalities who fled Nazi Germany, including Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, actor Charles Laughton, Nobel-laureate Thomas Mann, composer Arnold Schoenberg, composer Igor Stravinsky, screenwriter Salka Viertel, and filmmaker Billy Wilder
Limelight Editions 8¾x6 pb [7/2006] for $22.95
Weimar on the Pacific book by Ehrhard Bahr  "Weimar On The Pacific: German Exile Culture In Los Angeles and The Crisis of Modernism" [2007]
by Ehrhard Bahr

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [8/2008] for $24.95
Univ CA Press 8x6¼ hardcover [5/2007] for $42.00
Hollywood & Reeducation of Postwar Germany book by Jennifer Fay  "Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and The Reeducation of Postwar Germany" [2008]
by Jennifer Fay

Univ MN Press 8¾x5¾ pb [3/2008] for $22.50
Univ MN Press 9x6 hardcover [3/2008] for $67.50
Expressionism in the German Cinema book by Lotte Eisner  "The Haunted Screen: Expressionism In The German Cinema & The Influence of Max Reinhardt" [orig 1969, rev 2008]
by Lotte H. Eisner

Univ CA Press 2nd Edition 8x5½ pb [9/2008] for $20.65
Thames & Hudson Ltd hardcover [10/69] out of print/used
Weimar Cinema Essential Guide book edited by Noah Isenberg  "Weimar Cinema: An Essential Guide To Classic Films of The Era" [2009]
Edited by Noah Isenberg

Columbia Univ Press 9x6 pb [1/2009] for $24.17
Columbia Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2009] for $89.50
Windfall of Musicians book by Dorothy Lamb Crawford  "A Windfall of Musicians: Hitler's Emigres and Exiles In Southern California"
[2009] by Dorothy Lamb Crawford

Chapters/subjects include Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Ingolf Dahl, Hanns Eisler, conductor Otto Klemperer, Erich Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Lotte Lehmann, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinski, Ernst Toch, Franz Waxman, Eugene Zador & Eric Zeisl
Yale Univ Press 9x6 pb [4/2011] for $23.00
Yale Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [6/2009] for $27.76
Shell Shock Cinema, Weimar Culture book by Anton Kaes  "Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and The Wounds of War" [2009]
by Anton Kaes

Princeton Univ Press 9¾x6 pb [11/2011] for $21.20  
Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [8/2009] for $29.05
Weimar Cinema 1919-1933 book from The Museum of Modern Art, New York City  "Weimar Cinema, 1919-1933" [2010]
from The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Companion book for MoMA's 75-film retrospective of Weimar cinema,
screened Nov 2010 to March 2011

Museum of Modern Art, NYC 10x8 pb [12/2010] for $21.99
New Austrian Film book edited by Robert Von Dassanowsky & Oliver C. Speck  "New Austrian Film" [2011]
Edited by Robert Von Dassanowsky & Oliver C. Speck

Berghahn Books 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2011] for $128.95
Screening Nostalgia / German Heimat Films book by Alexandra Ludewig   "Screening Nostalgia: 100 Years of German Heimat Film" [2011]
by Alexandra Ludewig

Traces the history of the Heimat {'homeland'} film from the early mountain films
to the genre’s recent resurgence.

Transcript Verlag 9x5¼ pb [6/2011] for $58.95
New Directions in German Cinema book edited by Paul Cooke & Chris Homewood  "New Directions In German Cinema" [2011]  
Edited by Paul Cooke & Chris Homewood

I.B. Tauris pb [10/2011] for $29.50
I.B. Tauris hardcover [10/2011] for $81.37

"A Critical History of German Film [] by Stephen Brockmann
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-History-Studies-Literature-Linguistics/dp/1571134689/

"The A to Z of German Cinema (The A to Z Guide... by Robert C. Reimer
http://www.amazon.com/German-Cinema-Guide-Robert-Reimer/dp/0810876116/

"The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film an... by Jaimey Fisher
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Conventional-Twenty-First-Contemporary-Approaches/dp/081433377X/

"Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afte... by Eric Rentschler
http://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Illusion-Nazi-Cinema-Afterlife/dp/0674576403/

"DEFA: East German Cinema 1946-1992 by S Allan
http://www.amazon.com/DEFA-East-German-Cinema-1946-1992/dp/1571817530/

"Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Polit... by Mary-Elizabeth O'...
http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Cinema-Enchantment-Entertainment-Linguistics/dp/1571133348/

"The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscover... by Christian Rogowski
http://www.amazon.com/Many-Faces-Weimar-Cinema-Rediscovering/dp/1571134298/

"Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (192... DVD ~ Director: Walter R...
http://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Symphony-Great-Documentary-Pre-Nazi/dp/B001D1H0XU/

"The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German C... by Heide Schlupmann
http://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-Gaze-German-History-International/dp/0252076710/

Books on Foreign Cinema   •   Books on Asian Cinema   •   Books on Canadian Cinema
Books on Chinese Cinema   •   Books on French Cinema
Books on Cinema of India   •   Books on Italian Cinema   •   Books on Japanese Cinema
Books on Mexican Cinema   •   Books on Russian Cinema   •   Books on Cinema of Spain


German  Filmmakers

NOTE: Oscar Awards for Best Foreign Language Film are not attributed
by A.M.P.A.S. or IMDb to the director or producer, but to the country of origin.

Foreign Filmmakers   •   Filmmakers of Asia   •   Filmmakers of Canada   •   Filmmakers of China
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Filmmakers of Mexico   •   Filmmakers of Russia   •   Filmmakers of Spain

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surrealist Herbert Achternbusch  [Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia


Axel Corti  [1933-93; Austria]
IMDb listingWikipedia


Doris  Dörrie  [Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia


Rainer  Werner  Fassbinder  [1945-82; Germany]
“It is only when we realize that everything is pointless that we can act fearlessly.” — R.W. Fassbinder
IMDb listingWikipedia

"World On A Wire" [1973] not released in USA

"Berlin Alexanderplatz" [1980]

Fassbinder's Germany   "Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity, Subject" [1996?]
by Thomas Elsaesser

Amsterdam Univ Press 9½x6¼ pb [6/96] for $19.00
Amsterdam Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/96] for $30.00


Michael  Haneke  [Austria]
"If you look at the suffering around you, you can't be happy." — Michael Haneke
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listingWikipedia


Werner  Herzog  [Germany]
browse booksIMDb listingofficial websiteWikipedia

Fitzcarraldo  
click poster
to enlarge
"Fitzcarraldo" [1982]
Look at the video/poster image: The movie was about a visionary who hauled a steamboat up a mountain by chains and ropes and brute manpower, in the steaming jungles of South America. Herzog did the same damn thing – his boat weighed 320 tons! – while producing and directing a 35mm feature motion picture – on a budget! Co-produced, written & directed by Werner Herzog; starring Klaus Kinski & Claudia Cardinale
Anchor Bay widescreen color VHS [10/99] for $14.99
Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [11/99] for $31.48
Les Blank documentary + book
full credits from IMDb
"Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story" by Werner Herzog
Fjord Press pb [1/83] out of print/used
http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Useless-Reflections-Making-Fitzcarraldo/dp/0061575534/

White Diamond docu  "The White Diamond" [documentary feature Nov 2004]
Directed by Werner Herzog

Herzog films the eccentric airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington's quest to fly a miniature helium airship over the jungles of Guyana, twelve years after his friend nature filmmaker Dieter Plage fell to his death on a similar expedition.
Fox Lorber widescreen color DVD [10/2005] for $17.99
full credits at IMDb

Werner Herzog’s "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" 3-D docu [IFC Films 2010]

Werner Herzog’s "On Death Row" [Discovery Channel March 2012]  
In late 2011, Herzog revealed that his new documentary film "Death Row" [March 2012] is but one of four
made to be shown on television, coming to Investigation Discovery in 2012. Herzog interviewed death row
inmates inside prisons in Texas and Florida.


Agnieszka  Holland  [Poland/Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia


writer-director  Alexander  Kluge  [Germany]
IMDb listingofficial websiteWikipedia


Magic Lantern's
writer-director  Fritz  Lang  [1890-1976] Page

Magic Lantern's "Metropolis" 1927 Movie Page
Magic Lantern's Hollywood Blacklist Page


star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Honorary Oscar in 1947    Magic Lantern's
Ernst Lubitsch  [1892-1947; Germany/USA] Page
received 3 Oscar nominations [1930-1944]; won Honorary Oscar in 1947


Magic Lantern's
F.W. Murnau [1888-1931; Germany] Page


G.W. Pabst  [1885-1967] of Austria
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1922-56]Wikipedia

directed "Pandora's Box" [Germany Feb 1929] starring Louise Brooks
directed "Diary of A Lost Girl" [Germany Sept 1929] starring Louise Brooks


Patricia  Plattner  [Switzerland]
IMDb listing • no entry at Wikipedia


Leni  Riefenstahl  [1902-2003; Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia

Leni Riefenstahl official website {English or Deutsch}
Das Blaue Licht: The Art of Leni Riefenstahl
'A Celebration of The Cinematic Spirit of Leni Riefenstahl' fansite
Leni Riefenstahl Media Archive {German-language} site


won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for "Die Fälscher (Counterfeiters)" [2007]     Stefan  Ruzowitzky  [Austria]
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Volker  Schlöndorff  [Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia

won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film  Tin Drum video   "Tin Drum" German title "Die Blechtrommel" [Argos/Bioskop 1979]
The 1959 Günter Grass novel, and the film adapted from it, use the tin drum as the perfect metaphor for That Little Voice Inside Your Head. Co-written & directed by Volker Schlöndorff; won Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film
Criterion color DVD [5/2004] for $24.99
Image Ent letterbox DVD with English subtitles [8/99] out of prodn/used
Kino Video widescreen VHS with English subtitles [11/96] for $39.95
full credits from IMDb

Billy Wilder Speaks TV docufilm by Volker Schlöndorff  "Billy Wilder Speaks: The Wit & Wisdom of One of Hollywood's Most Acclaimed Filmmakers" TV docufilm [T.C.M. June 2006]
Based on interviews of Billy Wilder [1906-2002] filmed in 1988; contains 71-minute docufilm, featurettes, 18 theatrical trailers, filmography; written, co-produced & co-directed by Volker Schlöndorff; co-directed by Gisela Grischow
Kino Video color/b&w DVD [10/2006] for $22.49
full credits at IMDb


Luis  Trenker  [1892-1990; Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia


Tom  Tykwer  [Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia

"Winterschläfer" aka "Winter Sleepers" [1997] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120522/
"Run, Lola, Run" [1998] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/
"The International" [2009] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0963178/


Magic Lantern's
Erich von Stroheim  [1885-1957] Page

von Stroheim did direct early silent films in America, but his 40-year acting career was almost entirely
portrayals of mean-looking German-Prussian military officer types

co-wrote & directed "Greed" [1924]
acted in Jean Renoir's "The Grand Illusion" [France 1937]
acted in Billy Wilder's "Sunset Blvd." [1950]


Margarethe  von Trotta  [Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia


Wim  Wenders  [Germany]
IMDb listingofficial websiteWikipedia

Wim Wenders Collection 2 DVD box set  "Wim Wenders Collection 2" DVD Box Set [2006]
Starz / Anchor Bay widescreen b&w/color DVD [12/2006] 8 disks for $89.95
contains 8 feature films: "A Trick of Light" [1995]; "The American Friend" [1977] starring Dennis Hopper & Bruno Ganz; "Lightning Over Water" documentary [1980] featuring director Nicholas Ray; "Notebook On Cities and Clothes" documentary [1989]; "Room 666" documentary [1982]; "The Scarlet Letter" [1973]; "Tokyo-Ga" documentary [1985]; and "Wrong Move" [1975] based on a novel by Goethe


Actors of Germany

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Actors of France   •   Actors of India   •   Actors of Italy   •   Actors of Japan
Actors of Mexico   •   Actors of Russia   •   Actors of Spain

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Wolf  Ackva  [1911-2000; Germany]

"Der Hund von Baskerville" [German TV 1955]
publicity still of German actor Wolf Ackva  80-minute German TV movie adapted & directed by Fritz Umgelter; starring Wolf Ackva {as Sherlock Holmes}, Arnulf Schröder {as Watson}, Ernst August Schepmann {as Sir Henry}, Werner Xantry {as Sir Charles}, Axel Ivers, Hedi Reich, Christian Schmieder, Gerhard Ritter, Annelotte von Obstfelde & Hans Epskamp
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb
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Floriane  Daniel  [Germany]
IMDb credits {since 1993]German-language fansite

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Marlene  Dietrich  [1901-92; Germany/U.S.A.]
IMDb listingofficial websiteWikipedia

Marlene Dietrich U.K. fansite

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Gert  Frobe  [1913-88; Germany]

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Bruno  Ganz  [Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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Michael  Gwisdek  [Germany]
IMDb listing

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Curt  Jergens aka Curd Jürgens  [1915-82; Germany]

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Klaus  Kinski  [1926-91; Germany]
IMDb listingWikipedia

Kinski Uncut autobiography of Klaus Kinski  
"Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski" [1996]
Translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Penguin 7¾x5 pb [8/97] out of print/used
Viking 9¼x6½ hardcover [8/96] out of print/used
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Armin  Mueller-Stahl  [Germany]
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Jürgen  Prochnow  [Germany]
star of "Das Boot" [1981] /tt0082096/


Selected  German  Films
The films of Germany, West Germany and East Germany have together received
3 Best Foreign Language Oscar® wins, among 16 Best Foreign Film nominations.
list of Germany's submissions for Oscar consideration

Selected films of:  Asia   •   Canada   •   China   •   France   •   India
Italy   •   Japan   •   Mexico   •   Russia   •   Spain

Shadows In Paradise: Hitler's Exiles In Hollywood documentary by Peter Rosen  "Shadows In Paradise: Hitler's Exiles In Hollywood" [indep 1980]
As Hitler gained power in Germany, intellectuals and radicals and artists and Jews fled into exile; a large number settled in Southern California, briefly transforming philistine Hollywood into one of the capitals of world culture. Co-produced & directed by Peter Rosen; hosted by James Conlon; featured interviews include playwright Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler, playwright Lion Feuchtwanger, composer Erich Wolf-gang Korngold, filmmaker Fritz Lang, Nobel laureate Thomas Mann, author Erich Maria Remarque, composer Arnold Schoenberg, composer Ernst Toch, screenwriter Salka Viertel, conductor Bruno Walter, and composer Erich Zeisl • credits at IMDb
White Star color DVD [9/2008] for $19.99

German Silent Masterworks Collection on DVD  "German Silent Masterworks Collection" on DVD [2001]
Sling Shot b&w DVD [10/2001] for $6.95
contains 3 silent feature films: "Der Golem" [1920] directed by Carl Boese
& Paul Wegener; F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" [1922]; and F.W. Murnau's
"The Last Laugh" [1924]
German Horror Classics DVD box set  "German Horror Classics" DVD Box Set [2002]
Kino Video b&w DVD set [9/2002] 4 disks for $69.95
contains 4 silent feature films: "Der Golem" [1920] directed by Carl Boese
& Paul Wegener; "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" [1920] directed by Robert
Wiene; F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" [1922]; and "Waxworks" [1924]
directed by Leo Birinsky & Paul Leni

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"Der Golem" [1920 silent] directed by Carl Boese & Paul Wegener /tt0011237/

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" [1920 silent] directed by Robert Wiene /tt0010323/

F.W. Murnau's "Nosferatu" [1922 silent]

F.W. Murnau's "The Last Laugh" [1924 silent]

"Kuhle Wampe, oder: Wem Gehört die Welt?" [1932] /tt0023104/

"The Pedestrian" aka "Der Fußgänger" [Germany 72?]
directed by Maximilian Schell; nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

"Jacob, The Liar" aka "Jakob, der Lügner" [East Germany 75?]
directed by Frank Beyer; nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

"The Tin Drum" aka "Die Blechtrommel" [West Germany 1979]
directed by Volker Schlöndorff; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film

"Das Boot" [1981] /tt0082096/

"Angry Harvest" aka "Bittere Ernte" [West Germany 85?]
directed by Agnieszka Holland; nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

"Wings of Desire" [1987]
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders  A brilliant, stunning, gorgeous subjective look at what it means to be human. "Luminously optimistic." Directed by Wim Wenders; German title "Der Himmel über Berlin" (Heaven Above Berlin); starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander & Peter Falk; many awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinema-tography & more; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005)
Criterion Collection Blu-ray [11/2009] for $22.76
MGM/UA widescreen DVD w/English subtitles [7/2003] out of prodn/many used
MGM/UA color VHS w/English subtitles [6/2000] for $9.98
Orion color VHS w/English subtitles [5/93] for $7.99
Fine Line import soundtrack CD [5/90] for $18.04
Nonesuch soundtrack CD [10/90] out of prodn/many used
11x17" poster at AllPosters.comfull credits from IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia

"Faraway, So Close" [1993]
Faraway, So Close  The sequel to "Wings of Desire" (above), this film is superb in its own right. Directed by Wim Wenders; German title "In weiter Ferne, so nah!"; starring Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander & Nastasia Kinski; several awards for direction & cinematography
Col/TriStar widescrn DVD w/Engl subtitles [9/2000] for $22.49
Col/TriStar color VHS w/English subtitles [3/2000] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb

"Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" aka "Sophie Scholl: Die Letzten Tage" [Germany 2005]
directed by Marc Rothemund; nominated for Best Foreign Language Film

"The Lives of Others" aka "Das Leben der Anderen" [Germany 2006]
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film


German  Cinema  Links

foreign movie poster catalog at AllPosters [dot] com
Foreign Films [dot] com
Danish Film Institute
Film Academy of Denmark
New German Cinema at University of Victoria, BC Canada
Film Zeit {'Film Time'} website
DEFA Stiftung {DEFA Foundation} former East German film studios
AV's German Flicks fansite
Verleihung des Ernst Lubitsch Preises of Berlin, Germany [est. 1958]
FilmMuseum Berlin
The German-Hollywood Connection website
German-langauge silent movie postcards website
Cinema Forever German films fansite
The Oberhausen Manifesto, signed February 1962
Complete Index To World Film
Yahoo! Deutschland Movies

Fünfseen Film Festival [July-Aug 2011 = #5] in Germany

International Media AG [est. 2000] of Germany        Deutsche Kinematek Museum für Film und Fernsehen [est. 1963] in Berlin, Germany        Berlin International Film Festival - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin [Feb 2009 = #59] in Berlin, Germany


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