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What is a New Wave?
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Comprises young filmmakers
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Rejects established national tradition
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Innovates film style
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Circulates internationally
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Inspires new cinema movements
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Oberhausen Manifesto
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International Short Film Festival
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Call to start a new German cinema
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signed by 26 young German filmmakers
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Alexander Kluge
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Edgar Reitz
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"Papas Kino ist tot"
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Text of Oberhausen Manifesto
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The collapse of the conventional German film finally removes the economic basis for a mode of filmmaking whose attitude and practice we reject. With it the new film has a chance to come to life.
German short films by young authors, directors, and producers have in recent years received a large number of prizes at international festivals and gained the recognition of international critics. These works and these successes show that the future of the German film lies in the hands of those who have proven that they speak a new film language.
Just as in other countries, the short film has become in Germany a school and experimental basis for the feature film.
We declare our intention to create the new German feature film.
This new film needs new freedoms. Freedom from the conventions of the established industry. Freedom from the outside influence of commercial partners. Freedom from the control of special interest groups.
We have concrete intellectual, formal, and economic conceptions about the production of the new German film We are as a collective prepared to take economic risks.
The old film is dead. We believe in the new one.
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West German subsidies
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State Subsidies to produce films
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tax credits
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initial financing
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National Film Schools
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Promotion of German identity worldwide
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rehabilitate image following WWII and Naziism
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New German Filmmakers
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Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet
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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)
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Alexander Kluge
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Yesterday Girl (1965)
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Volker Schlöndorff
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Young Torless (1966)
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Hans-Jürgen Syberg
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Frtiz Korner Rehearses (1965)
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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (1978)
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Werner Herzog
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
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Wim Wenders
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Paris, Texas (1984)
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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avid cinephile
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prolific filmmaker
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largely remained independent of state sponsorship
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trained in theater with Jean-Marie Straub
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The Bridgegroom, the Commedienne, and the Pimp (1968)
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simple camera setups
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original vision
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Love is Colder than Death (1969)
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first film
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downbeat crime drama
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inexpensive: 95,000 DM
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"long, flat" takes
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minimal editing
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Douglas Sirk
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Hollywood family melodramas
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All that Heaven Allows (1955)
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Written on the Wind (1957)
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Imitation of Life (1959)
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themes
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elevated emotions
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forbidden love affair
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tragic endings
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reinforcing family order
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Influence of Douglas Sirk
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Bitter Tears of Petra van Kant (1972)
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Eight Hours are not a Day (1972)
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
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reinterprets All that Heaven Allows
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reopens scars of Nazism
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addresses xenophobia (Munich 1972)
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characters trapped by extreme social pressures…
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