The rockstars who made German cinema dangerous again finally spill the tea.
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.
Direction
Wessely and Straub navigate egos like diplomatic spies.
Production
Rare footage of Fassbinder before he burned out.
Director
Laurens Straub
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmverlag für Autoren was essentially a punk rock label for cinema—distributing films the establishment rejected, until economics killed the dream in 1977.
Herzog famously ate his shoe on camera for Errol Morris, but here he's almost soft-spoken about the collective's collapse—rare vulnerability from cinema's wildest showman.
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