Die Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen is a major German film archive located in Berlin.

History

The Deutsche Kinemathek opened in 1963. Until the opening of a permanent display in the

Museum of Film and Television Berlin The Museum of Film and Television Berlin (German: ''Museum für Film und Fernsehen'') is one of seven film museums in Germany, and is located at Potsdamer Straße 2 in Berlin. It opened in 2000 as part of the ''Deutsche Kinemathek'', the German ...

(Museum für Film und Fernsehen) on 1 June 2006, it was known simply by this name; as the Deutsche Kinemathek, after that date acquiring the second part of its name. Since 1977, the Deutsche Kinemathek has supervised the annual "Retrospective and Homage" section of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale). Since late 2000, part of the archived collection has been exhibited at the "Filmhaus' on Potsdamer Platz.

Description

The collection contains a wide range of material relating to film and television, including the estate of Marlene Dietrich; items donated by famous German director Werner Herzog and TV documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller; important

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, ranging from

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to Christian Petzold. The film archive contains copies of over 26,500 films, as well as an inventory of over 40,000 films on video, DVD and Blu-ray. Mediathek Fernsehen contains over 9,000 broadcasts, made over around 70 years in both East and West Germany as well as modern Germany. In addition, the archival collection includes photographs, posters, costumes and architectural sketches. The permanent exhibition in the Filmhaus includes the set designs for Fritz Lang's futuristic 1927 film '' Metropolis'', Marlene Dietrich's cosmetics case, and the clothing from Wolfgang Petersen's 1981 war film '' Das Boot''. the Berlinale continues to use Zeughauskino a venue for some of its Retrospectives screenings.

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* (in German) {{authority control Film archives in Germany Cinema museums in Germany Museums in Berlin 1963 establishments in Germany FIAF-affiliated institutions

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