Absolutely media

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The absolute media GmbH (proper spelling absolutely MEDIA GmbH ) is a German film was established in 1996 with offices in Fridolfing , Bavaria. It was established by film distributors from Berlin and Munich to sell German and European film classics in the field of game, experimental and documentary cinema on VHS and DVD . To this end, absolut Medien works with partners such as the Franco-German broadcaster arte , the British Film Institute in London, the Goethe-Institut , CineGraph , the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv , the Federal Agency for Civic Education , the Suhrkamp Verlag , the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum for film and television , the film museums in Potsdam and Frankfurt / Main, the CineFest , the Berlinale and numerous other German and international festivals and foundations.

One focus of the publishing house is on Eastern European film classics such as the films by Krzysztof Kieślowski and Andrei Tarkowski and especially on films about German history and film history. This is how the film editions of filmmakers like Oskar Fischinger , Hans Richter , Lotte Reiniger , Monika Treut , Erwin Leiser and Peter Pewas came about . The series The Great Documentarists published editions with detailed commentary by Joris Ivens , Harun Farocki , Klaus Wildenhahn , Lutz Dammbeck , Hans-Dieter Grabe and the Stuttgart Documentary Film School .

Even Bertolt Brecht's film work Kuhle Wampe or: Who owns the world? , the 45-year-old long-term documentary Die Kinder von Golzow by Barbara and Winfried Junge , Romuald Karmakar's controversial Hamburg lessons, and the Holocaust documentaries Shoah and Why Israel by Claude Lanzmann are offered. There are also editions on the history of German animated films, historical documentaries and unknown German silent films.

There is a chargeable download offer under the name absolut on demand .

The film essays by Alexander Kluge , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Jean-Luc Godard , Max Frisch and Gilles Deleuze , published by absolut Medien, are regularly featured in the feature sections, and the publisher and its curatorial work on classic films are also featured in film and media studies publications.

The Augsburger Allgemeine wrote on the occasion of the German edition of the film Die Generallinie by Sergei Eisenstein : “It is thanks to Arte und absolut Medien that the reconstructed and as faithful as possible version - as well as other classics of the Russian avant-garde, which is so groundbreaking for our modern cinema - are on DVD In addition, the radio station MDR Kultur certified the publishing house with the first edition of the Threepenny Opera by GW Pabst “because of the excellent and informative bonuses one of the best DVDs of the year, which revives a classic film and at the same time also features special features and curiosities in film history such as the Language versions conveyed ". The Berliner Zeitung highlighted the “carefully restored version” of The Birth of a Nation and praised the “long overdue, grandiose DVD edition” by documentarist Joris Ivens ; Michael Pekler called the Ivens edition in the film magazine Ray a “perfect example of a careful edition that has been prepared for years” and “one of the most important DVD editions of this year”; and the film magazine Splatting Image described the arte series at absolut MEDIEN as “meanwhile the most important local silent film edition” and wrote about Andrei Tarkowski's films published by absolut MEDIEN : “Thanks to the Berlin label for the advance - also in the case of this director legend the general German situation has been completely desolate so far. "

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  1. ↑ Profile ( Memento of May 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Absolut Medien website
  2. ↑ Quiz Cannes 2007: ARTE EDITION at absolut MEDIEN ( Memento from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Arte , September 11, 2008
  3. ↑ History is film is history , Ray Filmmagazin , 07/2006
  4. ↑ filmedition suhrkamp , Suhrkamp Verlag
  5. ^ Berlinale 2011: Absolut Medien accompanies the festival , Börsenblatt , February 9, 2011
  6. ↑ Josef Nagel: Legendary Classics: On the Russian silent film edition at absolut medien , Filmdienst 23/2006, p. 57
  7. ^ Herbert Spaich: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Peter Pewas. Films 1932–1967 ), SWR -Kino-Blog FilmSPAICHer, June 3, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swr.de
  8. ↑ absolutely on demand
  9. ^ Augsburger Allgemeine , April 28, 2007
  10. ↑ Broadcast on November 10, 2008
  11. ↑ Anke Westphal: Ku Klux Klan and loyal souls . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 31, 2008
  12. ↑ Ralf Schenk: About the wind and the rain . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 29, 2009
  13. ^ Splatting Image , September 2009
  14. ↑ Splatting Image , June 2008