The Night of the Film-Makers
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Edgar Reitz
Edgar Reitz
Alexander Kluge
Hanna Schygulla
Henry Arnold
Leni Riefenstahl
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A series of interviews with living filmmakers about German film history.
Director
Edgar Reitz
Cast
Edgar Reitz
Alexander Kluge
Hanna Schygulla
Henry Arnold
Leni Riefenstahl
Wolfgang Becker
Rosa Von Praunheim
Peter Fleischmann
Helma Sanders-brahms
Detlev Buck
Peter Lilienthal
Hans W. Geissendorfer
Rudolf Thome
Margarethe Von Trotta
Franz Beyer
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Werner Herzog
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Wim Wenders
Hans-jurgen Syberberg
Peter Schamoni
Peter Sehr
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Reinhard Hauff
Jeanine Meerapfel
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Volker Schlöndorff
Crew
Wolfgang Becker
Franz Beyer
Detlev Buck
Robert Busch
Peter Fleischmann
Gernot Funke
Hans W. Geissendorfer
Samir Abou Ghali
Peter Graf
Helge Haack
Reinhard Hauff
Werner Herzog
Raidar Huber
Esther Johnson
Peter Junghans
Birgit Klier
Uwe Klimmeck
Alexander Kluge
Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Franz Kraus
Bob Last
Beate Lesch
Peter Lilienthal
Mel Luker
Colin Maccabe
Nikos Mamangakis
Jeanine Meerapfel
Tanja Nagel
Enno Patalas
Rudiger Pedersen
Peter Petridis
Peter Petridis
Hans Gunther Pflaum
Mathias Pilmes
Horst Reiter
Christian Reitz
Christian Reitz
Edgar Reitz
Edgar Reitz
Leni Riefenstahl
Helma Sanders-brahms
Peter Schamoni
Volker Schlöndorff
Christiane Schulze
Hanna Schygulla
Peter Sehr
Caroline Seiser
Christian Singer
Birgit Steffan
Hans-jurgen Syberberg
Rudolf Thome
Michael Tischner
Stefan Von Borbely
Stefan Von Borbely
Rosa Von Praunheim
Margarethe Von Trotta
Wim Wenders
Aljoscha Zimmermann
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States February 1995
Released in United States May 1996
Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (in competition) February 9-20, 1995.
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamed Tazi (North Africa), Pavel Lozinski (Poland), Stig Bjorkman (Scandinavia), Jean Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa), Sergei Selyanov (USSR/CIS), and others.
The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), George Miller (Australia), Shu Kei (China), Anne-Marie Mieville & Jean-Luc Godard (France), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezze (Italy), Nagisa Oshima (Japan), Jang Sun-woo (Korea), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
aspect ratio 1:1.37
Released in United States 1995
Released in United States February 1995 (Shown at Berlin International Film Festival (in competition) February 9-20, 1995.)
Released in United States May 1996 (Shown in New York City (MoMA) as part of series "The Century of Cinema" May 10-11, 1996.)