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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: December 8, 1935 in Nossendorf, Germany Biography:Best known for his epic, loose trilogy of films "Ludwig, Requiem for a Virgin King" (1972), "Karl May" (1974), and his seven-hour magnum opus Hitler, a Film From Germany (1977), director, screenwriter, and influential film theorist "Hans-Jurgen Syberberg" is considered a maverick of German cinema. Though unpopular with many German critics, he is internationally renowned (particularly in France where he has become a cult figure) as an iconoclastic genius to whom cinema is seen as the "total work of art, the 'Gesamtkunstwerk' of modern times." Heavily influenced by the plays of "Bertolt Brecht" and the heroic operas of "Richard Wagner", the films of Syberberg tend to explore the very limits of German taboo; they challenge the intellect and delve deeply into the past at the literal and metaphysical levels to explain the often incomprehensible developments of the present.
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