To put it gently, West German cinema in the 1950s was not of the highest quality. In Heimatfilme, or homeland films, men in lederhosen and women in dirndls had safe, romantic adventures in unspoilt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, ...

German movies of the 1970s will forever be linked with the New German Cinema movement, the auteur directors - led by the likes of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von ...

Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker, whose career spanned more than six decades and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died. He was 94. Kluge's family confirmed his death to German ...