Kairos film

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KAIROS-FILM (own spelling in capital letters) is a Munich-based production company and was founded in 1963 by Alexander Kluge .

That foundation can be described as the practical implementation of the Oberhausen Manifesto from the previous year, as it gave the new generation of directors the necessary financial framework to realize their new German Film . In addition to Kluge, many of the auteur filmmakers founded their own companies such as B. Volker Schlöndorff together with Reinhard Hauff the "Bioskop-Film" or Werner Herzog the "Herzog-Filmproduktion". With Kairos-Film, Kluge produced his own big films, but was also committed to his idea of ​​"publisher television" at an early stage. With the advent of commercial private broadcasters in the 80s, Kluge has been broadcasting its own dctp culture magazines there since 1988 , all of which are produced by Kairos-Film: 10 to 11 , News & Stories , Prime-Time / Late Edition and Midnight Magazine .

The first sponsored film adaptation was the short documentary Portrait of a Probation in 1964/1965 . The film, which was made by Kluge himself, won the main prize for “Best Documentary” at the West German Short Film Festival in 1965. The greatest successes, however, include Farewell to Yesterday (including the Silver Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 1966), The Artists in the Big Top: At a Glance (including the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival in 1969) and the collective film Germany in Autumn (including German Film Prize 1978), in which Kluge u. a. Heinrich Böll , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Edgar Reitz and Volker Schlöndorff participated.

The term “ kairos ” stands for the fleeting, “favorable moment” and goes back to a Greek myth . It is a key motif in Alexander Kluge's work.

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  1. ↑ Kairo's film. In: dctp.de . Retrieved September 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Portrait of a Probation. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on September 28, 2016 .