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German Cinema
A cinema twice rebuilt from ruins — Weimar experiment, then the New German Cinema of the seventies, then reunification — and permanently interested in complicity.
Four textbook cases
Not the best four — the four that define the shape. Start anywhere.
Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders · 1987
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Werner Herzog · 1972
The Lives of Others
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck · 2006
Run Lola Run
Tom Tykwer · 1998
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