The Night of the Film-Makers


53m 1995

Brief Synopsis

A series of interviews with living filmmakers about German film history.

Film Details

Also Known As
Century of Cinema, The, Nacht der Regisseure, Die, Night of the Film-Makers, Night of the Filmmakers, Night of the Stars
Genre
Documentary
Experimental
Release Date
1995

Technical Specs

Duration
53m

Synopsis

A series of interviews with living filmmakers about German film history.

Crew

Wolfgang Becker

Other

Franz Beyer

Other

Detlev Buck

Other

Robert Busch

Producer

Peter Fleischmann

Other

Gernot Funke

Sound

Hans W. Geissendorfer

Other

Samir Abou Ghali

Assistant Camera Operator

Peter Graf

3-D Animator

Helge Haack

Assistant Camera Operator

Reinhard Hauff

Other

Werner Herzog

Other

Raidar Huber

Production Manager

Esther Johnson

Production Manager

Peter Junghans

Production Designer

Birgit Klier

Other

Uwe Klimmeck

Special Effects

Alexander Kluge

Other

Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Other

Franz Kraus

Post-Production Supervisor

Bob Last

Executive Producer

Beate Lesch

Post-Production Coordinator

Peter Lilienthal

Other

Mel Luker

Sound

Colin Maccabe

Executive Producer

Nikos Mamangakis

Music

Jeanine Meerapfel

Other

Tanja Nagel

Production Assistant

Enno Patalas

Consultant

Rudiger Pedersen

Sound

Peter Petridis

Cinematographer

Peter Petridis

Other

Hans Gunther Pflaum

Consultant

Mathias Pilmes

Assistant Camera Operator

Horst Reiter

Editor

Christian Reitz

Cinematographer

Christian Reitz

Other

Edgar Reitz

Other

Edgar Reitz

Screenplay

Leni Riefenstahl

Other

Helma Sanders-brahms

Other

Peter Schamoni

Other

Volker Schlöndorff

Other

Christiane Schulze

Production Manager

Hanna Schygulla

Other

Peter Sehr

Other

Caroline Seiser

Production Assistant

Christian Singer

Special Effects

Birgit Steffan

Other

Hans-jurgen Syberberg

Other

Rudolf Thome

Other

Michael Tischner

On-Line Editor

Stefan Von Borbely

Cinematographer

Stefan Von Borbely

Other

Rosa Von Praunheim

Other

Margarethe Von Trotta

Other

Wim Wenders

Other

Aljoscha Zimmermann

Music

Film Details

Also Known As
Century of Cinema, The, Nacht der Regisseure, Die, Night of the Film-Makers, Night of the Filmmakers, Night of the Stars
Genre
Documentary
Experimental
Release Date
1995

Technical Specs

Duration
53m

Quotes

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.)