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WEST GERMAN FILM ON THE WAY UP
Special to “Cine World”
“IT can tell you this,” said Herr Strasel, press manager for the West German movie industry. “There is no reason why we should not have one of the largest celebrations.”
The West German movie industry at present has three reasons to celebrate:
1. The Germans, after a brief interval which they almost entirely spent in front of their newly acquired television sets, are coming back into the movie theatres. Business of the theatres in the large cities jumped from 15 to 38 percent in 1965 compared with 1964.
2. Nine ambitious producers are presenting their first fulllength movies this year.
3. A few German actors and actresses have become worldfamous.
Last year it was mostly a matter of cold cash. The 5,500 theatres in Western Germany and West Berlin got a new lease on life by presenting James Bond, Edgar Wallace and Karl May, the writer of famous adventure books. Business had not been so good for a long time. Even the smaller theatres in the suburbs and in the country got their share. The biggest hit was ‘“Thunderball”. Though the critics said that it was one of the weaker films in the 007-series it attracted more than three million people.
This year, so they hope in West Germany, it will not only be cash but also good artistic quality. The first one to start is Ulrich Schamoni, a young producer of 26. His film “Es” will run in West German movie houses and compete at the Cannes Film Festival. “Es” (It) is a child which never will be born — the problem of an unmarried mother. The film is already considered to be one of the more oustanding ones.
Schamonis’ brother Peter has just completed filming the movie version of a book — ‘“‘Schonzeit der Fuchse’’. It will compete at the Berlin Film Festival. There are other new producers and new titles in 1966 — Volker Schloendorf with “Der junge Toerless’’,
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