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Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films (2016)

Name: Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-02-19
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Klaus Lemke, Roland Klick, Mario Adorf, Rainer Knepperges, Werner Enke

Doomed Love: A Journey Through German Genre Films (2016), directed by Dominik Graf, starring Klaus Lemke and Roland Klick.

02/19/2016 BR Documentary 1h 32m

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An alternative history of the not-so-well-known West German genre cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.

Dominik GrafDirector, Writer
Johannes SievertDirector

Deutscher Film Filmreihe

The franchise in release order. 2 films.

Verfluchte Liebe Deutscher Film 2016 · you are here
Offene Wunde deutscher Film 2017

About the film

Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films is a 2016 documentary film by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert, which describes forgotten German film genre and follows the counter-movement to the New German Cinema and its influence on film culture. The documentary contains interviews with seventeen filmmakers, film critics and film historians.

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Synopsis

The film is a documentary that searches for traces of undiscovered German film history. It is an essay on the often-forgotten German cinema genre.

The 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of a series of unusually physical and short films that depart from the idyllically stylised post-war film, at the same time set themselves apart from the more intellectual contemporaries of New German Cinema. In interview, the directors describe this often overlooked chapter of German film history, and reflects on what ultimately led to its end.

Production

The documentary uses film clips and photos along with recent interviews with the filmmakers at the time. The documentary was written and directed by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert. The film was produced for the WDR and the Arte and produced by the North Rhine-Westphalia Media Foundation.

Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films had its world premiere at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival as part of the Forum and was subsequently screened at numerous film festivals in Germany and abroad, such as Locarno Film Festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival, The Festival of German Films, and Besonders Wertlos Festival and others.

The film was nominated by the BVR for the Metropolis 2016 Director's Award in the category "Best Documentary Director".

The sequel Open Wound German Film was shown for the first time at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017.

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Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films at IMDb

Doomed Love: A journey through German Genre Films in the filmportal.de

Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films at 66th Berlin International Film Festival

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Trivia

It premiered on February 19, 2016, a Friday.
It runs 1h32 — a typical feature length.
Its original title is "Verfluchte Liebe Deutscher Film".
It is film 1 of 2 in the Deutscher Film Filmreihe franchise.
This film's quiz has 7 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.