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Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films, is a 2016 completed documentary film by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert, which embarks on a journey of discovery to the forgotten German film genre and follows the counter-movement to the New German Cinema and its influence on film culture. The documentary contains interviews with seventeen filmmakers, film critics and film historians.^[1]

Synopsis[edit]

The film is a documentary that searches for traces of undiscovered German film history. It is an essay on the often-forgotten German cinema genre, on cinema with an audience appeal that combines sensations and ambition.

The 1970s and 80s saw the emergence of a series of unusually physical and short films that bid farewell to the idyllically stylised post-war film at eh same time set themselves apart from the more intellectual contemporaries of New German Cinema. IN interview, prominent founder brings this forgotten chapter of German film history back to the screen and reflect on what ultimately led to its end In interviews, prominent founders bring this forgotten chapter of German film history back to the screen and reflect on what ultimately led to its end.

Production[edit]

The documentary uses film clips and photos along with recent interviews with the filmmakers at the time. The documentary was written and directed by Dominik Graf and Johannes F. Sievert. The film was produced for the WDR and the Arte and produced by the North Rhine-Westphalia Media Foundation.

Doomed Love: A Journey through German Genre Films had its world premiere at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival as part of the Forum and was subsequently screened at numerous film festivals in Germany and abroad, such as Locarno Film Festival, the Shanghai International Film Festival, The Festival of German Films, and Besonders Wertlos Festival and others.

The film was nominated by the BVR for the Metropolis 2016 Director’s Award in the category “Best Documentary Director.”

The sequel Open Wound German Film was shown for the first time at the
67th Berlin International Film Festival in 2017.

Criticism[edit]

“A passionate
objection to recent German film history: Dominik Graf…