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5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm

5 Bemerkungen zum Dokumentarfilm

1974 · 61 min · ★ 9.0 · Documentary

The film develops 5 questions about documentary film against the background of the media-political situation of the early 1970s in West Germany. The following topics are developed: (1) the personal approach of filmmaker Klaus Wildenhahn to his profession; (2) the technical and technical approach of cameraman Rudolf Körösi; (3) the development of documentary film based on John Grierson's British School of Documentary Film; (4) the working conditions and political framework for the production of documentary films at WDR and NDR; (5) the constitutive characteristics of socially relevant documentary film.

Directed by Gisela Tuchtenhagen · Written by Gisela Tuchtenhagen

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