Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
Titel Kino 2/2001(2 Alternativ) - German Films
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FILM ARCHIVES AND FILM MUSEUMS IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC<br />
Zurich, Los Angeles and New York. The most comprehensive<br />
collection of films whose production involved <strong>German</strong> film<br />
emigrants in Hollywood is available in the Film Library<br />
Hamburg. These film copies, around 600 in number and<br />
mostly acquired from collectors in the USA, present the entire<br />
range of work in emigration: they include films by famous<br />
directors such as Lubitsch, Siodmak, Dieterle or Lang and<br />
titles such as Casablanca (many emigrants worked on its<br />
production), but also films completely unknown today (and here)<br />
– the archive has acquired these because, for example, Curt<br />
Bois played a minor role.<br />
The archives also participate in the working group “Cinematography<br />
of the Holocaust”, which is supported by the DIF,<br />
CineGraph Hamburg and the Fritz Bauer Institute in<br />
12<br />
Frankfurt, and was established in 1992. This group has taken on<br />
the task of documenting film traces of the genocide perpetrated<br />
on the Jews.<br />
Lively film culture<br />
The film museums and the film archives in <strong>German</strong>y are indispensable<br />
if we are to maintain 20th century film heritage. That should<br />
be clear to everyone by now. But what is often forgotten is that<br />
they also, particularly at a time of financial cuts, help to maintain a<br />
lively film culture in the Federal<br />
Republic. Film historical retrospectives<br />
can only be realized with<br />
their support and the use of their<br />
collected treasures. Since 1977, for<br />
example, the Berlin Film Festival has<br />
made use of assistance given by the<br />
SDK, which arranges and organizes<br />
the festival’s annual retrospectives.<br />
Technical Collection (photo © Film Museum Potsdam<br />
But the activities are not only<br />
historically oriented, by any means.<br />
Every two years, the <strong>German</strong><br />
Film Museum arranges the<br />
International Children’s and Young<br />
People’s Film Festival ”Lucas“,<br />
with its “Murnau Short Film<br />
Prize” the Friedrich-Wilhelm-<br />
Murnau Foundation honors<br />
current short format productions,<br />
and in Wiesbaden the festival<br />
”GoEast“, presenting films from<br />
the former socialist countries, was<br />
organized for the first time this<br />
year by the <strong>German</strong> Film<br />
Institute (DIF).<br />
Publications often appear about<br />
festivals, film series, retrospectives<br />
and exhibitions. Today, this appears<br />
to be a matter of course, but<br />
especially during the seventies and<br />
eighties, the film institutions functioned as a motor for serious<br />
film journalism, which was only just beginning at that time.<br />
Stefan Drößler, Claudia Dillmann, Hans Helmut Prinzler, Heiner Roß
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