CineFest 2013
10th International Festival of German Film Heritage
Hamburg: 16 - 24 November 2013
organized by CineGraph and Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv
Verboten!
Film censorship in Europe
"Überfall" (D 1928, Ernö Metzner)
Source: Filmmuseum Berlin - Deutsche Kinemathek / Sammlung Casparius
Since it first emerged as a popular medium, cinema has been subjected to censorship from a broad cross section of society. What started with small town police officers and narrow-minded teachers enforcing their opinions progressed to government institutions enforcing newly established censorship laws. Throughout history, changes in social structure as well as in sexual politics have directly influenced the limits of what was considered acceptable on the screen and repeatedly, political upheavals have sparked a tide of banned and forbidden films.
Cinefest 2013 will reopen famous cases of censorship, looking at films that were put under lock and key in a variety of situations: by the Nazis when they came to power in 1933, by the Communist party in East Germany, or by the Warsaw Pact states after their invasion of Czechoslovakia. Following the example of the BBFC – which has recently celebrated its centenary in London – we will examine the progression from film “censorship” to film “classification”.
CineGraph - Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e.V.
Schillerstr. 43, 22767 Hamburg
Tel: +49-(0)40-352194 / Fax: +49-(0)40-345864
email: info(at)cinefest.de
in Cooperation with
Kinemathek Hamburg - Kommunales Kino Metropolis
Deutsches Historisches Museum / Zeughauskino, Berlin
Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung, Wiesbaden
Narodní filmový archiv, Prague
Filmarchiv Austria, Vienna
Cinémathèque Suisse Lausanne / Filmpodium Zurich
CineGraph – Hamburgisches Centrum für Filmforschung e.V. is funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Culture.
After the event in Hamburg, parts of the film programme will also be shown in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Prague, Vienna and Zurich.
CineFest 2012
9th International Festival of German Film Heritage
Hamburg: 17 - 25 November 2012
organized by CineGraph and Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv
Kalter Krieg und Film-Frühling
The cinema of the early 1960s
to the archive
Genosse Münchhausen (D 1961/62, Wolfgang Neuss)
Source: Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF, Frankfurt
In the early 1960s, cinema in both East and West Germany was in a crisis. As audience numbers dwindled and critics complained about numb formulation and schematism, young filmmakers cast themselves as auteurs, raving against the established routineers. In West Germany the Oberhauseners declared that “Papas Kino” was dead, demanding a total reform of film production while on the other side of the recently built Berlin Wall, a number of directors in East Germany tried to tread new paths, politically as well as aesthetically.
Cinefest 2012 explores the developments of the “young” cinema in East and West Germany (as well as Czechoslovakia and France), and looks into the works of the despised “old” film culture: through a variety of remarkable films from outsiders, established professionals, and returning exiles, who dealt with the happenings of their time; an epoch between Nazi regime, Cold War, Wirtschaftswunder, building of the Berlin Wall and the first social upheavals.
