Legendary tracking shot through Landsberger Strasse was a gift to RWF Born January 8, 1933, Jean-Marie Straub initially grew up speaking French but was forced to learn German in the course of the German occupation. Following the end of the war he attended the Saint-Clément Jesuit school and, after completing his schooling there, spent one (…)

Poisonings and an ugly scandal in late 1972 On December 27, 1972, BREMEN FREEDOM was shown for the first time on German television and, from December 30, 1972 onwards, JAILBAIT caused a stir across the Federal Republic. Both films deal with the attempt by characters to free themselves from the restrictiveness of dominant social conventions (…)

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HEIMAT IV to hit the big screen in 2013 The German filmmaker and author Edgar Reitz, who was born in Morbach, Hunsrück in the far west of Germany on November 1, 1932, recently celebrated his eightieth birthday. As one of the signatories to the Oberhausen Manifesto proclaimed in 1962, Reitz played a decisive role in (…)