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books on German cinema filmmakers of Germany Fassbinder Werner Herzog Schlöndorff Wim Wenders actors & others of Germany links on page 2: selected movies of Germany

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Books  on  German  Cinema

	"West German Film: In The Course of Time" [1984] by Eric Rentschler Redgrave Publng pb [1984] out of print/used
	"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
	"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: 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 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" [1994] by Thomas J. Saunders Univ CA Press 9x6 hardcover [4/94] for $55.00
	"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 and Its Afterlife" [1996] by Eric Rentschler Harvard Univ Press 9x6¼ pb [10/96] for $33.75
	"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" [1998] by Tytti Soila Routledge 9¼x6¼ pb [2/98] for $33.95 Routledge 9¼x6¼ [2/98] for $125.00
	"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 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" [2001] by Sabine Hake Routledge 9¼x6¼ pb [10/2007] for $33.95 Routledge hardcover [10/2007] for $125.00
	"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
	"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: 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
	"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
	"Austria Cinema: A History" [2005] by Robert von Dassanowsky McFarland & Co. 10x7¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $65.00
	"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: 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
	"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
	"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: 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
	"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 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" [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" [2011] Edited by Robert Von Dassanowsky & Oliver C. Speck Berghahn Books 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2011] for $128.95
	"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" [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

"Ministry of Illusion: Nazi Cinema and Its Afte..." [10/1996] by Eric Rentschler
http://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Illusion-Nazi-Cinema-Afterlife/dp/0674576403/

"DEFA: East German Cinema, 1946-1992" [8/1999] by S Allan
http://www.amazon.com/DEFA-East-German-Cinema-1946-1992/dp/1571817530/

"Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Polit..." [12/2003] by Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien
http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Cinema-Enchantment-Entertainment-Linguistics/dp/1571133348/
http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Cinema-Enchantment-Entertainment-Linguistics/dp/157113283X/

"The Concise CineGraph Encyclopedia of German Cinema" [Berghahn Books, 2009] by Hans-Michael Bock & Tim Bergfelder

"The Uncanny Gaze: The Drama of Early German Cinema" [1/2010] by Heide Schlupmann
http://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-Gaze-German-History-International/dp/0252076710/

"The A to Z of German Cinema" [4/2010] by Robert C. Reimer
http://www.amazon.com/German-Cinema-Guide-Robert-Reimer/dp/0810876116/

"The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscover... " [6/2010] by Christian Rogowski
http://www.amazon.com/Many-Faces-Weimar-Cinema-Rediscovering/dp/1571134298/

"The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film an..." [8/2010] by Jaimey Fisher
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Conventional-Twenty-First-Contemporary-Approaches/dp/081433377X/

"A Critical History of German Film" [11/2010] by Stephen Brockmann
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-History-Studies-Literature-Linguistics/dp/1571134689/

"Fairy-Tale Films Beyond Disney: International Perspectives" [2015] Edited by Jack Zipes, Pauline Greenhill & Kendra Magnus-Johnston Kindle Edition from Routledge [9/2015] for $29.44 Routledge 10x7 pb [9/2015] for $47.83 Routledge 10x7 hardcover [9/2015] for $92.14 {sic}

"Berlin: Symphony of a Great City - Documentary of Pre-Nazi Berlin" [1927] ~ Director: Walter Ruttmann
http://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Symphony-Great-City-Blu-ray/dp/B07GRS2C2Y/ br
http://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Symphony-Great-Walther-Ruttmann/dp/B00XM2F9M2/ dvd
http://www.amazon.com/Berlin-Symphony-Great-Documentary-Pre-Nazi/dp/B001D1H0XU/

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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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surrealist Herbert Achternbusch  [Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Axel Corti  [1933-93; Austria]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Doris  Dörrie  [Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Rainer Werner Fassbinder  [1945-82; Germany]
“It is only when we realize that everything is pointless that we can act fearlessly.” — R.W. Fassbinder
Fassbinder shot 44 films in just 16 years before dying of a drug overdose, at age 37; he remains one of the
most influential directors of his generation, particularly in France.
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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

"Fear Eats The Soul" [1974]

"Despair" [1978]

"Berlin Alexanderplatz" [1980]

"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

Announced 5/2012: Marco Kreuzpaintner will take on the wild life and young death of German
director Rainer Werner Fassbinder in his new film "Rainer" • not yet listed at IMDb

actor-director  Vadim  Glowna  [1941-2012; Germany]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Desperado City" directorial debut [1981]

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

Michael  ‘Bully’  Herbig  [Germany]
Announced 10/2012: Warner Bros. has signed a new first-look deal with Germany's most commercially successful director & comedy star.

Werner Herzog  [Germany]
browse books • IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

"Fitzcarraldo" [1982]

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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/

"Invincible" [Germany January 2002] /tt0245171/
written & directed by Werner Herzog

"The White Diamond" documentary feature [indep Nov 2004]

Herzog filmed 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 $14.99 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.

"An Evening with Werner Herzog" [U.C. Santa Barbara Oct 2010]

2-hour episode of U.C. Santa Barbara TV program "Voices" with moderator {writer} Pico Iyer, broadcast in October 2010 • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • not listed at IMDb a similar event is on tour in 2016, including Winspear Opera House in Dallas, Texas in August

"Werner Herzog's Masterclass at Locarno" [Aug 2013]
complete video of the public event on 16 August 2013 at 66th Festival del film Locarno; uploaded 5/2014
watch entire event [1:30:28] online at YouTube

"B.B.C. HARDtalk: Werner Herzog - Film Director" [BBC-TV Jan 2015]

with interviewer Stephen Sackur VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb watch program [24:39] online at YouTube

"Queen of The Desert" [Sept 2015] by Werner Herzog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg3ZRmLTJAU intl trailer [1:50]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stacvv4VK1A [3:15]

"Master Class: Werner Herzog Teaches Filmmaking" [Aug 2016]  
official webpage: purchase 5-hours-plus class for $90
watch 5/2016 official trailer [1:45] online at YouTube

"Lo and Behold: Reveries of The Connected World"  
[Magnolia Pictures Aug 2016]

98-minute documentary film by Werner Herzog told in ten chapters on the origins of the 'connected world' and the internet and social networks and their future . . . DVD/Blu-ray not yet available latestcredits at IMDb • official movie site • movie entry at Wikipedia watch 1/2016 official trailer [2:15] at YouTube

Agnieszka Holland  [Poland/Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

writer-director  Alexander Kluge  [Germany]
IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

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writer-director  Fritz Lang  [1890-1976] Page

Magic Lantern's "Metropolis" 1927 Movie Page
on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s

Magic Lantern's Ernst Lubitsch  [1892-1947; Germany/USA] Page

received 3 Oscar nominations [1930-1944]; won Honorary Oscar in 1947

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F.W. Murnau [1888-1931; Germany] Page

G.W. Pabst  [1885-1967; 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

actor-producer-director Heinrich 'Harry' Piel  [1892-1963; Germany]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0682176/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Piel

"Twixt Man and Beast" aka "Panik" silent feature [U.F.A. Germany Feb 1928] /tt0439271/
tagline: 'Harry Piel contra Arsène Lupin!' • Written & directed by and starring Harry Piel

"Der Herr der Welt (Master of The World)" [N.D.L.S. Germany Aug 1934, USA Dec 1935]

A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy, but the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved • Produced, co-written & directed by Harry Piel; co-written by Georg Mühlen-Schulte; music by Fritz Wenneis; starring Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Franck, Aribert Wäscher, Siegfried Schürenberg, Willi Schur, Gustav Püttjer, Klaus Pohl, Oskar Höcker, Max Gülstorff, Otto Wernicke, Hans Hermann Schaufuß, Erich Bartels, Ernst Behmer, Egon Brosig, Wally Filatoff, Eric Harden, Liselotte Hessler, Otto Kronburger, Max Mothes, Karl Platen, Dolly Raphael, Arthur Reinhardt, Franz Weber, Erika Wehrle VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb watch full b&w movie with English subtitles [4/2020 upload; 1:29:47] online at YouTube

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

animator  Charlotte 'Lotte' Reiniger  [1899-1981; Germany & USA]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"The Adventures of Prince Achmed"
[U.F.A. Germany July 1926, USA Feb 1931]

The oldest surviving animated feature film, 'stands as one of the great classics of animation - beautiful, mesmerizing, and utterly seductive'. Meticulously hand-drawn stories from "1001 Nights" in shadow-puppet style; original release was hand-tinted • 65-minute silent film written & directed by Lotte Reiniger; director of photography Carl Koch; animated by Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch, Walter Ruttmann & Berthold Bartosch Milestone Video b&w silent DVD [11/2011] for $20.08 Image Ent. b&w silent DVD [12/2002] out of prodn/used Milestone Video b&w silent VHS [1/2002] for $16.44 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

Leni Riefenstahl  [1902-2003; Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

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

Stefan Ruzowitzky  [Austria] IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Volker Schlöndorff  [Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"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: 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

actor-director Matthias Schweighöfer  [Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg  [b. 1935; Germany]

Luis Trenker  [1892-1990; Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Tom Tykwer  [Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Winterschläfer" aka "Winter Sleepers" [1997] /tt0120522/
"Run, Lola, Run" [1998] /tt0130827/
"The International" [2009] /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 listing • Wikipedia

Wim Wenders  [Germany]
IMDb listing • official website • Wikipedia

"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

Samuel 'Billy' Wilder  [Austria, Germany & USA 1906-2002]
Wilder wrote screenplays in Germany before fleeing the Nazis to Paris and then Hollywood in 1933.

Actors of Germany

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Wolf  Ackva  [1911-2000; Germany]

"Der Hund von Baskerville" [German TV 1955]

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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actor-director  Klaus  Maria  Brandauer  [Germany]
IMDb listing • entry at Wikipedia

"Mario und Der Zauberer" [Germany Dec 1994] The head of a family on vacation in Italy confronts a dictatorial magician who manipulates his audiences with mind tricks Directed by & starring Klaus Maria Brandauer; written by Burt Weinshanker; music by Christian Brandauer; also starring Julian Sands, Anna Galiena, Jan Wachtel, Nina Schweser, Pavel Greco, Valentina Chico, Rolf Hoppe, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Philippe Leroy Beaulieu, Ivano Marescotti, Tony Palazzo, Luigi Petrucci, Domiziana Giordano, Anthony Pfriem, Enzo Marino Bellanich, Stephanie Bosl, Franco Concilio, Petra Reinhardt, Liane Forestieri, Antonella Stefanucci, Pasquale La Selva, Maximilian Nisi, Sabina Cangiano, Monica Anna Cammerlander, Giselda Volodi, Margherita Bisogno, Marcello Arnone, Vittorio Vienna, Roberto Zibetti full credits at IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia Alive Vertrieb Region 2 German-language widescreen color DVD [5/2018] for $21.59 PAL format

"Mario and The Magician" novella [1929] by Thomas Mann [1875-1955] Anti-fascist novella that later got the German author exiled to Switzerland after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature; the tale has been adapted as several operas and as a 1994 film {above} • book entry at Wikipedia Minerva UK 7¾x5 pb [10/96] for $11.68 Vintage Classics pb [10/96] for $46.00 Buccaneer Books 7x4¼ hardcover [6/91] out of print/used A.A. Knopf 7¾x5¼ hardcover [1931] out of print/used

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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 listing • official website • Wikipedia

Marlene Dietrich U.K. fansite

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Gert  Frobe  [1913-88; Germany]

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Bruno  Ganz  [Germany]
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Michael  Gwisdek  [Germany]
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Henry  Hübchen  [Germany]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406099/

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

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Klaus Kinski  [1926-91; Germany]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"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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actress Eva Krautwig  [Germany]: IMDb listing

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Armin Mueller-Stahl  [Germany]
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Jürgen Prochnow  [Germany]
star of "Das Boot" [1981] /tt0082096/

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Jessica Schwarz  [Germany]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777594/

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Matthias Schweighöfer  [Germany]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0777788/

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Miriam Stein  [Germany]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0825587/
"Young Goethe In Love" [2010] /tt1440180/

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actress-writer Renée Stobrawa  [Germany 1897-1971]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830699

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child actress/singer/violinist Allegra Tinnefeld  [b. Vienna 9/2005]
http://www.youtube.com/c/AllegraTinnefeldMusic/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7256773/
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegra_Tinnefeld
http://www.genordell.com/stores/blackhat/EnidBlytonFamous5.htm#FFDE

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

browse German-language movies on DVD {returns over 1,000 titles} at Amazon

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German  Cinema  Links
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
Professional Production {company} of Hocheim, Germany
BVB: Bundesverband Beleuchtung und Bühne e.V. [est. 1993] (German Association of Electricians & Grips)
Dedo Weigert Film GmbH [est. 1965] film production equipment rental

"Film Dienst (Film Service)" Magazine [est. 1947] fúr Filmkultur website • German Wikipedia

German  Film & TV  Studios

Announced 7/2012: Constantin Film has set up a new label called Alpenrot ('Red Alps')
that will back low-to-no budget films that are budgeted at under $1.25 million (€1 million).

Announced 2/2012: Magic Media Company {M.M.C.} studios in Cologne/Köln, Germany has been put on
the auction block, with a sale expected by this summer; with more than 215,000 square feet of soundstage space,
MMC is one of the largest studio complexes in Europe.

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