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04/10/09
ARTHAUS issues a DVD Edition and a catalogue about the Filmverlag der Autoren
40 years “New German Film History” in a box edition
For the founders of the Filmverlag der Autoren (FdA), the artistic nucleus of the New German Film in the late 1960s was Munich’s Schwabing neighborhood. Based on cooperative principles comparable to the Verlag der Autoren (VdA) and its motto: “the publishing house belongs to the authors”, the intention was to create a company “for the production and the adequate international distribution of all types of audiovisual media”. The company was also to be open to non-members. The 13 signers of the document dated April 18, 1971 were: Pete Ariel, Hark Bohm, Uwe Brandner, Michael Fengler, Veith von Fürstenberg, Florian Furtwängler, Hans W. Geissendörfer, Peter Lilienthal, Hans Noever, Thomas Schamoni, Laurens Straub, Volker Vogeler and Wim Wenders.
Contributors who submitted their films for national and international distribution in subsequent years included Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Percy Adlon, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Peter Fleischmann, Reinhard Hauff, Werner Herzog, Wolfgang Petersen, Edgar Reitz, Rudolf Thomé, Margarethe von Trotta as well as Michael Verhoeven.
In 1999, the KINOWELT group acquired the distribution rights to more than 150 FdA titles. This is a real treasure that the quality-oriented ARTHAUS DVD label now presents in a unique classics box. The majority of the 50 (!) films published together now in one album were newly digitalized. The box contains five Fassbinder movies plus the portrait dedicated to him I DON'T JUST WANT YOU TO LOVE ME (1992, direction: Hans Günther Pflaum). 22 of the works by other directors are DVD world premieres. The trailer for the collection may be viewed at: http://www.filmverlagderautoren.de/trailer
All films in individual overview:
http://www.filmverlagderautoren.de/filme
This limited special edition also contains the exciting and entertaining documentary REVERSE ANGLE – REBELLION OF THE FILMMAKERS (2008, directors: Dominik Wessely and Laurens Straub), as well as extensive bonus materials and a 160 page booklet with an introduction by Wim Wenders. To order the DVD box edition go to: http://www.filmverlagderautoren.de
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