The German film industry is mourning the passing of film-maker Helma Sanders-Brahms, one of the leading women directors of the New German Cinema with a broad international following, at the age of 73 after a long illness.
Over the course of a 40 year career, Sanders-Brahms wrote and directed 16 fiction films and seven documentaries, including Beneath The Paving Stones is the Beach (1975), Shirin’s Wedding (1976), Heinrich (1976/77), Germany, Pale Mother (1980), The Future Of Emily (1984), and more recently Geliebte Clara (2008).
“She was like not other a committed and passionate film-maker, active in documentaries as well in fiction films,” said Ulrich Gregor, former head of the Berlinale’s Forum. “Her film Germany, Pale Mother is a milestone in German film history. Her death opens a painful rift in the film landscape.“
It was only this February that Germany, Pale Mother - voted in the Us as one of the “Classics of Cinema” - was presented in a reconstructed and digitally restored original...
Over the course of a 40 year career, Sanders-Brahms wrote and directed 16 fiction films and seven documentaries, including Beneath The Paving Stones is the Beach (1975), Shirin’s Wedding (1976), Heinrich (1976/77), Germany, Pale Mother (1980), The Future Of Emily (1984), and more recently Geliebte Clara (2008).
“She was like not other a committed and passionate film-maker, active in documentaries as well in fiction films,” said Ulrich Gregor, former head of the Berlinale’s Forum. “Her film Germany, Pale Mother is a milestone in German film history. Her death opens a painful rift in the film landscape.“
It was only this February that Germany, Pale Mother - voted in the Us as one of the “Classics of Cinema” - was presented in a reconstructed and digitally restored original...
- 5/28/2014
- by [email protected] (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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