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Article: THE TROUBLED WEST GERMAN FILM INDUSTRY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1988
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FRANKFURT - After enjoying great success in the 1960s and
'70s, West Germany's film industry has hit troubled times.
Critics talk about an artistic crisis compounded by the
growing trend toward mammoth, international co-productions aimed
primarily at making money. Cinema attendance also is down, and last
year only seven West German movies drew more than a half-million
viewers.
To many, 42-year-old director Wim Wenders, whose latest work
is the prize-winning "Der Himmel Ueber Berlin," remains Germany's
main hope, since the death in 1982 of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who
created such masterworks as "The Marriage of Eva Braun" (1978) and
"Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1981).
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