This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.
Direction
Conversational structure lets personalities shine over dry history.
Writing
Personal anecdotes transform film criticism into emotional memoir.
Director
Hans Helmut Prinzler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Ballhaus shot this shortly before his Hollywood retirement, making his segments a valedictory from one of cinema's great image-makers.
The film quietly maps how West German cinema (Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog) eclipsed DEFA in collective memory—note who's missing from the conversation.
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