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Of Special Merit
196811mNo ratings yet
Overview
An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, the film was selected for the 1968 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival by a committee of leading German critics and promptly banned by the city government, causing the withdrawal of almost all German directors from the festival and a national scandal. The title satirically refers to the official certificate of ‘Particularly Valuable’ given each year to the best film shorts by an Establishment selection.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 17, 1968
- Original language
- German
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
- Director
- Hellmuth Costard
- Writer
- Hellmuth Costard
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0062727