THE THIRD WAVE: CONTEMPORARY GERMAN CINEMA
sep 9 2008 - oct 14 2008
In the 1920s – the Golden Age of silent film – Hollywood’s closest
economic and artistic competitor was Germany. However, with the Nazi
takeover of government, society, and culture, German film products
declined in quality and interest. Unlike Japan and Italy, the two other
defeated Axis powers, who actually went through a film renaissance in
the postwar era, Germany saw no such return to the creation of many
remarkable films. It was not until the 1970s with the arrival of das neue Kino that German films returned to the screens of world theaters, thanks to
unique works by Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, Schlöndorff, and von
Trotta. The four latter directors have continued making excellent films
for the past thirty years, but it wasn’t until the arrival of RUN,
LOLA, RUN (1998) that worldwide film festival critics began talking
about an even newer generation of interesting German film directors.
Our new series will feature works by four of those younger directors
and two relatively recent films by veterans of the 1970s.
-- Chale Nafus, Director of Programming, Austin Film Society
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THE FAREWELL (ABSCHIED – BRECHTS LETZTER SOMMER)
Bertholt Brecht revolutionized world theater but couldn't keep his menage-a-cinq in order.
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THE LEGEND OF RITA (DIE STILLE NACH DEM SCHUß)
What is a revolutionary to do when she discovers that "the Revolution" doesn't really want her and finds her inconvenient?
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ROSENSTRASSE
A
daughter searches into her mother's past in Nazi Germany and uncovers
the history of valiant wives, mothers, and daughters who protested the
seizure of their Jewish husbands and relatives.
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LOVE IN THOUGHTS (WAS NUTZT DIE LIEBE IN GEDANKEN)
Full of love, creativity, imagination, and romantic intrigue, a group of beautiful young people make a suicide pact.
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HEAD-ON (GEGEN DIE WAND)
To
escape a repressive home life, Sibel proposes marriage to an alcoholic
middle-aged man, with neither thinking they might actually fall in
love.
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