Quotes
I`m against caricatures, I`m against parodies;if you say that this scene has the effect of a parody, then I have to take your word for it, but then I`m ashamed of myself and I apologize.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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The American method of making films left the audience with emotions and nothing else; I want to give the spectator the emotions along with the possibility of reflecting on and analyzing what he is feeling.
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Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It`s a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.
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Love is the best, most insidious, most effective instrument of social repression.
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I let the audience feel and think.
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
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What I would like is to make Hollywood movies, that is, movies as wonderful and universal, but at the same time not as hypocritical, as Hollywood.
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Trivia
His death is often considered to mark the end of New German Cinema.
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He and Hanna Schygulla made 23 movies together: _"Acht Stunden sind kein Tag" (1972) (mini)_, _"Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980) (mini)_, Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die (1972), Bremer Freiheit (1972) (TV), Dritte Generation, Die (1979), _Effi Briest (1974)_, Ehe der Maria Braun, Die (1979), Götter der Pest (1970), _Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (1972)_ , Kaffeehaus, Das (1970) (TV), Katzelmacher (1969), Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969), Lili Marleen (1981), Niklashauser Fart, Die (1970) (TV), Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971) (TV), Rio das Mortes (1971) (TV), Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte (1971), Whity (1971), Ahnfrau - Oratorium nach Franz Grillparzer, Die (1971) (TV), Baal (1970) (TV), Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter, Der (1968), Mathias Kneissl (1970) and Wildwechsel (1973) (TV).
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He made 41 movies in 13 years
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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 318-330. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
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He and Irm Hermann made 24 movies together: _"Acht Stunden sind kein Tag" (1972) (mini)_, _"Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980) (mini)_, Amerikanische Soldat, Der (1970), Angst essen Seele auf (1974), Angst vor der Angst (1975) (TV), Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, Die (1972), _Effi Briest (1974)_, Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975), Götter der Pest (1970), Frauen in New York (1977) (TV), _Händler der vier Jahreszeiten, Der (1972)_, Katzelmacher (1969), Liebe ist kälter als der Tod (1969), Lili Marleen (1981), _Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel (1975)_, Nora Helmer (1974) (TV), Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971) (TV), Stadtstreicher, Der (1966), Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? (1970), Wildwechsel (1973) (TV), Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter, Der (1968), Mathias Kneissl (1970), Schatten der Engel (1976) and _Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe (1973)_.
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Ehe der Maria Braun, Die (1979) was his most successful movie
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Was a huge fan of Douglas Sirk. His movie Angst essen Seele auf (1974) is a remake of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955).
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Son of Lilo Pempeit.
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A school in Munich is named after him. Ironically, he left school without graduation at the age of 16 (18 July 2006).
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Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1977
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Whity (1971) was his least successful movie.
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