From the invention of horror under the Weimar republic to recent re-examinations of the second world war, German cinema has an amazingly creative history
By Andrew Pulver
German cinema got off to a fantastic start straight after the first world war, as the liberal atmosphere of the Weimar republic triggered an explosion across all creative disciplines. Film-makers responded by appropriating the techniques of expressionist painting and theatre, incorporating them into twisted tales of madness and terror – thereby virtually inventing what would become known as the horror film...[continued]
