New German Cinema

Introduction of new German movies World War II not only brought serious damage to Germany but also caused cultural damage, especially in the film industry as well. In particular the West German movie industry has inevitably been dominated by the United States. American movies are popular among the people of West Germany, the famous West German director and actor chose to leave West Germany to pursue their career in Hollywood. And many of them were very successful.

Fassbinder uses the history of the German film but the social criticism movie of the new German film is striving to depict what it did before and works of director filmmakers like Kruger and Fassbinder Here is an example. The star also seeks a settlement between old and new movies. In addition, we may distinguish between avant-garde "Young German Films" of the 1960s and "New German Films" which is easy to obtain in the 1970s. Because of their influence, the new generation filmmakers are concerned about Italian neo-realism, French new wave, British new wave, but this compromise combines references to the perfect type Hollywood film To do. The new German film deals directly with the social problem of modern German; the troubles of Nazi, Gastarbeiter ("guest worker"), and the development of modern society are all the most important themes of the new German film.

With the emergence of new waves of France and Czechoslovakia and the emergence of new German films, the 1960s also brought a new stage to European films. These new artistic styles offer innovative techniques for European movies, but they provide an iconic style for each country. However, that style maintains the cultural identity of each country, but films of France, Germany, Czechoslovakia such as Italian neo-realism and Polish film academy also use low production value such as small budget Still trying to adopt social thought and expression. (Forbes & Street 2000)

New German movies from the 1970s to the 1980s include movies by directors of Fassbinder, Herzog, Wim Wenders. These directors produced movies with "many ideologies and film information", but they all had "aesthetic choices" for Hollywood movies and "cultural and political traditions related to the Third Reich" I have the same elements to provide. Breakthrough "(159) Lodz Film Academy was founded after World War II in 1948. In the 1950s and 1960s, movie makers such as Wojciech Has, Kazimierz Kutz, Andrzej Munk, Andrzej Wajda Polish school "was developed. According to the movie scholar Marek Haltof, the movie produced by the Polish Academy of Directors is a "distrustful movie". From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Barbara Sass produced influential movies, which attracted attention outside of Poland.