Neuer Deutscher Film (New German Cinema)
New German Cinema (German: Neuer Deutscher Film) is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors. Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Volker Scholondorff, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Margarethe von Trotta and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of ‘small’ motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors (particularly Wenders and Schlondorff) to create better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios. Their success sparked a renaissance in German film and encouraged other German filmmakers to make quality movies.