Hellmuth Costard
Director · 1940 – 2000
Hellmuth Costard (1940, Holzhausen, Leipzig, Germany) was a director and writer, known for The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves (1970), Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (1978) and Echtzeit (1983). He died on June 13, 2000 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Movie6.3MusicDramaThe life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
- Movie10.0Documentary
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.
- Movie7.0
A Super-8 film in color with sound on magnetic stripe.
Die Postkarte
1969 · 1 votes
Movie4.0An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, the film was selected for the 1968 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival by a committee of leading German critics and promptly banned by the city government, causing the withdrawal of almost all German directors from the festival and a national scandal. The title satirically refers to the official certificate of ‘Particularly Valuable’ given each year to the best film shorts by an Establishment selection.
MovieThe drawings on which the series is based were created in 1969 and served as a template for a slide series in 1970. During its screening, this is interrupted by the film "Percy McPhee Agent of Horror (6th + 7th episode)".
- Movie9.0Documentary
A documentary about the 'critical mass', the Film Coop, a group of young filmmakers in Hamburg during the 1960s - a small group far from the Mainstream or the New German Cinema.
- Movie7.0ComedyScience Fiction
A group of indispensable works in the Ruhr area on the development of a solar power plant. At first she only finds attention through a former KGB agent who believes that the struggle of the political systems is further fought in the hidden. His views are initially smiled at, but when a young spy causes confusion, there is a feeling of happiness: the apparent paranoia of the Russian friend has tangible causes, and the work of the group is more than just evident.
Vladimir Günstig - Eine trojanische Affäre
2004 · 1 votes
- MovieComedyDocumentary
Two aspiring filmmakers walk through Hamburg with a camera operator and a sound operator. From the time they get out bed to their encounter with a production manager, they are harassed by an intermittent white dot.
Der warme Punkt
1968