German Cinema

Movies can change the world, says German filmmaker

"As we take on the enthusiastic task of strengthening ties with India across politics, business, science and research, we believe culture, art and first of all filmmaking and cinema is a more fitting platform for exchange of ideas. We wish to bring this to India for connoisseurs, especially those in the Oxford of the East," Heldman said.

Donation a bouquet of 47 films from Germany, the highlights include those by filmmakers Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders . Naber's maiden mark film, The Albanian, which is competing in Piff's world cinema category, is inspired from true events pertaining to immigrants from Albania to Germany.

"Today, Germany is assimilating special communities of migrants because I think the Germans have begun to feel the need for a migrant workforce. But migration is an cause c, as immigrants do not enjoy legal status. The policy on migrants is not effective enough, as they are not granted basic rights," said Berlin-based Naber. It took him ten years to publish The Albanian.

1941 The Invasion of Ukraine - German Amateur Film

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Paul Wegener

German actor, writer and film director Paul Wegener (1874-1948) is one of the true fathers of the horror and fantasy genre, particularly remembered for his three silent films centred around the Jewish legend of the Golem. Wegener was one of the pioneers of the German cinema who realized the potential of the new medium and used the possibilities of cinematic trick photography as a method for presenting fantastic tales in a serious matter.

Paul Wegener
German postcard by Ross Verlag, nr. 2014/1, 1927-1928. Photo: Metro-Golwyn-Mayer (MGM)/Fanamet. (The FaNaMet company was one of the cooperations in Europe of the First National Pictures Corporation, Metro-Golwyn-Mayer company and the Paramount Famous Lasky Cooperation, It was located in Austria and till 1928 in former Yugoslavia. Another cooperation was the Parufamet in Germany).

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Paul Wegener was born in 1874 in in the West Prussian village of Arnoldsdorf, Germany (today Jarantowice, Poland) to Anna Wolff and Otto Wegener. He grew up on his father's estate Bischdorf in Ermland before he was sent to Rössel in 1883, and later to Königsberg, to attend secondary school. As a school boy Wegener already appeared on stage as an extra at Königsberger Stadttheater which began his life-long devotion to the stage. After finishing school in 1894, he started to study law in Freiburg (Breisgau) and in Leipzig but dropped out of university already one year later to start a career as an actor. He set off for Berlin to make his stage debut at the Stadt Nurnberg. He toured the provinces, until he appeared in the film Die Byzantier/The Byzantines (1905, Victor Hahn). The film's premier was seen by a talent-scout for Max Reinhardt of the Deutschen Theater. Reinhardt himself saw Wegener in a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths in Hamburg and took him to his distinguished theatre company...

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