This e-book is part of a twelve-volume series documenting the history of German film from its beginnings in 1895 to the present day using the collection holdings of the Deutsche Kinemathek. Each volume in ePUB format focuses on a decade and offers a concise overview of the cinematic masterpieces and milestones of that era, highlights famous films and films to be rediscovered, and pays tribute to the cinema, its audience and the creative minds behind the diversity of German film.
The complete work, which comprises over 2,700 objects from all areas of the collection and spans 130 years, is also available as a printed book and as a PDF in German and English.
The DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK is one of the world's leading institutions for the collection, preservation, and presentation of audio-visual heritage. Hundreds of thousands of objects are permanently preserved in its archives and are available for research into film and television history. In addition to scripts, photos, posters, costumes and designs, the collection also includes film equipment. The Kinemathek curates film series and exhibitions and restores and digitizes films. Its diverse activities, including installations, publications, educational formats, and conferences, encourage visitors to discover the world of moving images.

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Contents
Introduction
Coming to Terms with the Past in East and West
Utopian Film: Science Fiction at DEFA
DEFA Film Language in an International Format
A Cold War Comedy: One, Two, Three
Toward Self-Determination: Lots Weib
Architecture and Criticism of the Nazi Era: Brutalität in Stein
Divided Berlin and the Building of the Wall in 1961
Film Stars (II/VI) (FRG and GDR)
The Oberhausen Manifesto
Spearheads of the New German Cinema: Hansjürgen Pohland, Herbert Vesely, and Wolf Wirth
Westerns "Made in Germany": The Karl May Film Adaptations of the 1960s
The Opening of the Deutsche Kinemathek in 1963
The Film Critic Joe Hembus
Early Heinrich Böll Adaptations
Film as "Optical Literature": The Films of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
The Relationship between Film and Television
Posters from the Film Distributor Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner
Posters from Atlas Filmverleih
Versatile: The Director Frank Beyer
James Bond Hunts German Villains
The Protection of "Moral Sensibilities" by the FSK
New Departure in the GDR (I/II): Banned DEFA Films
New Departure in the GDR (II/II): Reconstructions
The Edgar Wallace Films
Chronicler of a Red-Light District: Jürgen Roland in St. Pauli
Signs of the Present in the New German Cinema
Kafka on the Big Screen
The Awakening of Women Filmmakers in 1966
Posters of DEFA Entertainment Films, 1960-1964
Posters of DEFA Entertainment Films, 1965-1969
The Documentarist and Chronicler Peter Nestler
Films from the Police Historical Collection, Berlin
The Collection of Film Extracts from the Estate of Gerhard Lamprecht
The DEFA Adventure Films and Westerns
The Kuratorium junger deutscher Film
Experimental Film Work: Dore O.
Experimental Films by Werner Nekes
The Genesis of the Hamburger Filmmacher Cooperative
In the Shadow of Bavaria: New Munich Cinema
Film Restoration (IV/IV): Neun Leben hat die Katze
The Sex Wave in the East and West German Summer Films of 1968
1969: The Year of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film and Television Converge
Charles Wilp: Advertising Productions of the 1960s