defilmtv1-4, Exercise 3: The Oberhausen Manifesto

Model answer:

In February 1962, at the Oberhausen short-film festival, a group of young film-makers declared the old German cinema finished, in the phrase usually translated "Daddy's cinema is dead". Twenty-six people are generally reported to have signed, including Alexander Kluge and Edgar Reitz (check the number). They called for a new, independent cinema with new financial and training support.

It led to public funding for young directors, film schools and a more personal style, and within about a decade to New German Cinema (Chapter 6).

It can be read as a generation gap because the signatories grew up during or just after the war and objected to a cinema they associated with their parents' generation and its silence about the past.