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
DEFA Films at the Berlinale
The Wendländische Filmkooperative
Remembrance Work: Deutschland bleiche Mutter by Helma Sanders-Brahms
Adolf Winkelmann's Cinematic Monuments to the Ruhr Region
Berlin Subculture in the 1980s
Biographies of Women: Die bleierne Zeit and Rosa Luxemburg by Margarethe von Trotta
Film Stars (IV/VI) (FRG and GDR)
The BRD Trilogy by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Oscar Nominations for an Amphibious Film: Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot
Women's Roles in the Films of Ulrike Ottinger
The White Rose in Film
A French-German Co-Production: Romy Schneider's Last Film
Portraits of Women in DEFA Films
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski on Location in the Amazon
Documentaries by Helga Reidemeister
Herbert Achternbusch's Das Gespenst and the "Münchner Erklärung"
"Impossible Shots": The Steadycam
Alexander Kluge: The All-Rounder
Milieu Study: Uwe Schrader's Kanakerbraut
The Postwar Period in Germany: Peppermint Frieden
The Experimental Film Echtzeit
The Filming of Die unendliche Geschichte
Maximilian Schell's Documentary on Marlene Dietrich
The Epic Film Heimat by Edgar Reitz
Cinematic Explorations of the Holocaust
Posters for Children's Films from the 1980s
Doris Dörrie: Ethnologist, Filmmaker, Author
Film Comedians: Otto Waalkes and Dieter Hallervorden
The Figure of the Alien in Enemy Mine
Reinhard Hauff's Stammheim at the Berlinale
A Major International Production: Der Name der Rose
Wim Wenders's Der Himmel über Berlin
Between the Baghdad Café and Paris, Texas
The Dawn of German-Turkish Cinema
A Pioneer of Queer Cinema: Monika Treut
Loriot and the Cinema
Action Films by Dominik Graf
The Films of Jeanine Meerapfel
Coming Out on November 9, 1989