THE BERLIN SCHOOL

The informal movement that critics like to call the Berlin School, as director Christoph Hochhäusler puts it, is a loose affiliatio n of filmmakers who emerged around the time the Berlin Wall fell. The founding figuresThomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, and Angela Schanelecand their younger colleagues are not bound by a manifesto or by any singular aesthetic. Nonetheless, their observant portr ayals of characters in flux offer a compelling cinematic expression of the search for new identities in a time of societal change. T he films of ...[Read more]