Controversial cinema

Kino Kontrovers is an ongoing DVD collection that has been published by the German media company Legend Home Entertainment since 2004 . The series has been published via Bavaria Media since August 2011 . In 2014 the rights changed to EuroVideo .

concept

To this day, the original film series included controversial author films such as Die 120 Tage von Sodom or German first releases such as the film Misanthrope . Each film was accompanied by a booklet which, in the form of an essay, gave backgrounds, interpretations and information about the film and the motivation and life of the director. Extensive additional material was published on the DVDs, such as the soundtrack to Ex Drummer , an audio commentary by Alejandro Jodorowsky on his film Santa Sangre, as well as cinema posters and making-ofs .

With the takeover by Bavaria Media, a subsidiary of Bavaria Film , the concept was changed. The brand was revived in the last quarter of 2011, initially with the re-release of the film series, later releases for the first time on Blu-ray Disc . Bavaria Media wants to work closely with EuroVideo . The first project is the movie Tyrannosaur - a love story , a social drama and Sundance winner from 2011, which was released by Kino Kontrovers on October 13, 2011.

In the new series, in which new films have been brought onto the market on average every month since August 2011, the films are published in Digipak format in Mediabooks . There is a booklet for each film, complete with artwork, interviews with the directors and information on the history of the making and the content of the films. While titles 1–7 were still available on DVD , Kino Kontrovers started with the release of hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria on February 9, 2012, with the films in double media books, both with and on Blu-ray Disc the execution of the film on DVD.

Other new films are the social drama Code Blue by the Dutchwoman Urszula Antoniak , the Peter Watkins classic Strafpark and the controversial Michael by the Austrian Markus Schleinzer , as well as the documentary film, which is important for the gay and lesbian movement in German-speaking countries, Not the homosexual is perverse, but the situation , in which he lives Rosa von Praunheims . The order of publication has to be decided first. With the announcement of the participation of the black comedian social drama God Bless America by the director and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait at the Fantasy Filmfest 2012, it was also confirmed on the official Facebook presence that the order of the upcoming film releases has been changed.

In June 2014, Kino Kontrovers confirmed on Facebook that the series had completely switched to EuroVideo .

title

Legend home entertainment series (2004-2010)

#	German title	Original title	Country of production	Director	FSK	Publishing year
1	Misanthropist	Seul contre tous	France	Gaspar Noé	18th	1998
2	Irreversible	Irreversible	France	Gaspar Noé	18th	2002
3	A Hole in My Heart	Ett hål i mitt hjärta	Sweden / Denmark	Lukas Moodysson	18th	2004
4th	The 120 days of Sodom	Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma	Italy	Pier Paolo Pasolini	indexed	1975
5	Ken Park	Ken Park	USA / Netherlands / France	Larry Clark	18th	2002
6th	Santa Sangre	Santa sangre	Italy / Mexico	Alejandro Jodorowsky	18th	1989
7th	Ex drummer	Ex drummer	Belgium	Koen Mortier	16	2007
8th*	zoo	zoo	United States	Robinson Devor	16	2007
9	I am curious (yellow) I am curious (blue)	Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått	Sweden	Vilgot Sjoman	16	1967 1968
10 *	Twentynine Palms	Twentynine Palms	USA / France / Germany	Bruno Dumont	18th	2003

• Chronologically, Zoo is currently the last or tenth part of the series (as of March 21, 2010), but was given the number eight for unexplained reasons, because Twentynine Palms was actually the eighth film to appear in the Kino Kontrovers series .

Bavaria Film series (2011-2014)

#	German title	Original title	Country of production	Director	FSK	Publishing year	Publication date
1	Ex drummer	Ex drummer	Belgium	Koen Mortier	16	2007	October 27, 2011
2	zoo	zoo	United States	Robinson Devor	16	2007	October 27, 2011
3	A Hole in My Heart	Ett hål i mitt hjärta	Sweden / Denmark	Lukas Moodysson	18th	2004	October 27, 2011
4th	Twentynine Palms	Twentynine Palms	USA / France / Germany	Bruno Dumont	18th	2003	November 10, 2011
5	I am curious (yellow) I am curious (blue)	Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult Jag är nyfiken - en film i blått	Sweden	Vilgot Sjoman	16	1967 1968	November 10, 2011
6th	Antares - studies of love	Antares	Austria	Götz Spielmann	16	2004	December 6, 2011
7th	Dog Bite Dog - Like mangy dogs	狗咬狗 Gǒu yǎo gǒu	Hong Kong / Japan	Cheang Pou-Soi	18th	2006	December 6, 2011
8th*	Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria	Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria	Germany	Peter Fleischmann	16	1969	February 9, 2012
9 *	Tyrannosaur - A love story	Tyrannosaur	England	Paddy Considine	16	2011	March 8, 2012
10 *	Code Blue	Code Blue	Netherlands	Urszula Antoniak	18th	2011	April 5, 2012
11	Michael	Michael	Austria	Markus Schleinzer	16	2011	June 14, 2012
12 *	Penal park	Punishment Park	United States	Peter Watkins	16	1971	July 12, 2012
13 *	We Need To Talk About Kevin	We Need To Talk About Kevin	England	Lynne Ramsay	16	2011	November 8, 2012
14th	God Bless America	God Bless America	United States	Bobcat Goldthwait	16	2011	February 14, 2013
15th	It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the situation in which he lives	It is not the homosexual who is perverse, but the situation in which he lives	Germany	Rosa von Praunheim	16	1971	March 27, 2014
16	Salon Kitty	Salon Kitty	Italy / Germany	Tinto Brass	indexed	1976	November 14, 2014

• The films Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria (released: February 9, 2012), Tyrannosaur - Eine Liebesgeschichte (released: March 8, 2012) and Code Blue (released: April 5, 2012) all appeared in a media book for the first time on Blu-ray Disc and DVD version. The film Michael (release: June 14, 2012) was only released as a DVD version. As of Strafpark (release: July 12, 2012) the films were released separately on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

EuroVideo series (2014-present)

#	German title	Original title	Country of production	Director	FSK	Publishing year	Publication date
17 *	The 120 days of Sodom	Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma	Italy	Pier Paolo Pasolini	indexed	1975	November 13, 2014
18 *	Baise-moi (fuck me!)	Baise-moi	France	Virginie Despentes	indexed	2000	March 15, 2015
19 *	Funny games	Funny games	Austria	Michael Haneke	18th	1997	February 25, 2016
20 *	Free will	Free will	Germany	Matthias Glasner	16	2006	15th June 2017
21 *	Playground	Plac zabaw	Poland	Bartosz M. Kowalski	16	2016	December 9, 2018
22 *	We - The summer when we lifted our skirts and the world hit the wall	Wij	Netherlands / Belgium	René Eller	18th	2018	September 24, 2019

• The numbering and external design are continued in relation to the Bavaria Film series. The film The Free Will was only released in the Amaray Keepcase on double DVD and not as a media book.

reception

Joachim Kurz from the arthouse film portal kino-zeit.de described the original series as a preoccupation with "the so-called" basement children "of arthouse cinema, with films that break through the boundaries of good taste and taboos, but not for a vague end in themselves, but as a closely observed image of our society and our environment. "Martin Muhl from The Gap wrote about the sequel:" These films should not only be discussed because of their content, but also as films and works with a strong author's signature. [...] This is where categories falter and backgrounds and contexts become unusually important. ”The magazine's online page then received the titles published since November 2011, which include both“ great works ”and“ tough strips ”.

Web links

• Legend Home Entertainment website with pictures and table of contents for the series (outdated)
• KinoKontrovers' YouTube channel
• Internet presence of Bavaria Media for KinoKontrovers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörn Krieger: Bavaria Media takes over Kino Kontrovers. (No longer available online.) Rapidtvnews.com, August 10, 2011, formerly the original ; Retrieved November 23, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ Sandy Kolbuch: "Cinema controversial" is taken over by Bavaria Media. (No longer available online.) Cintega.com, Aug 16, 2011, archived from the original on Aug. 30, 2011 ; Retrieved November 23, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Official website for the film
4. ↑ Daniel Sander: What a wonderful imposition! Spiegel Online , October 13, 2011, accessed November 23, 2011 . 
5. ↑ Andreas Fischer: Escape with no way out - M&C about 'Tyrannosaur'. (No longer available online.) Monstersandcritics.de , March 9, 2012, archived from the original on April 30, 2012 ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Official press release by Bavaria Media from January 30, 2012
7. ^ Review of 'Hunting Scenes from Lower Bavaria' on Cinema.de
8. ↑ Maurice Lahde: Hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria. critic.de, February 11, 2012, accessed on February 23, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Ekkehard Knörer: Mockery and hatred in Unholzing - taz.de about 'hunting scenes from Lower Bavaria'. taz.de , March 8, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Antoniak's drama "Code Blue" from April 5th on DVD and Blu-ray. digitalfernsehen.de , March 2, 2012, accessed on March 28, 2012 . 
11. ↑ Kino Kontrovers: "Michael" from May 24, 2012 on Blu-ray Disc. Bluray-disc.de , February 27, 2012, accessed on February 27, 2012 . 
12. ↑ Fantasy Filmfest 2012 premiere 'God Bless America'. (No longer available online.) Fantasyfilmfest.com , July 27, 2012, archived from the original on August 8, 2012 ; Retrieved July 27, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Kino Kontrovers Posting on facebook.com, accessed on September 8, 2015
14. ↑ Joachim Kurz: Kino Kontrovers - A series of films and their backgrounds. (No longer available online.) Kino-zeit.de, archived from the original on November 6, 2011 ; Retrieved March 2, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ^ Martin Mühl: Cinema Controversy. thegap.at , December 27, 2011, accessed on March 2, 2012 .