DISCUSSION WITH KLAUS EDER ON NEW GERMAN CINEMA

GOETHE-INSTITUTE FILM EXPERT TOUR DISCUSSING GERMAN FILMS WITH KLAUS EDER, SECRETARY GENERAL OF FIPRESCI. Goethe-Institut, Berlin 19 Feb 2005. Topics: the 1990s generation of German cinema, its diversity, commercial hits, its new international breakthrough, the return of comedy, the wave of films on the Third Reich, the German Turkish films, the school of Berlin. - My comment: intriguing is also the recent phenomenon that many Hollywood films are by financing German films, including such current offers as The Aviator and Kinsey. There is more money than ever in Germany's film funds, but mostly it is channeled into American films. I believe this is because of the superiority of American film marketing. There is no structure of European film distribution that can compare with the Americans.