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Great cinema is art -
With the Master of Cinema Award, the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg honors directors who as authors have promoted the art of cinema both uncompromisingly and with artistic innovation, cinema artists who have created an author cinema with its own signature. This award is given to auteurs who create works of film art opposed to films which should be understood without a problem by everybody. Films that stand out from mainstream cinema like marvels of poetic "enchantment of reality" (Dr. Michael Kötz), auteur films that have the right to allow as much character as possible, free from all prototypes.
Since 1998, the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg has welcomed these outstanding creators of masterfully crafted cinematography:
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The epic works of Greek director Theodor Angelopoulos have received international awards.
1998
Master of Cinema Award
Theodor Angelopoulos
Laudation to Theodor Angelopoulos
Most people - not including those who have come together here tonight, but people in general - who are exposed to some kind of film almost every day, at least on TV, would find one thing surprising, amazing or actually not even possible: that cinema can be on as high a level as world literature - that there are cinema artists who are able to create pieces of art compared to which watching most other films becomes a laughable, trivial thing to do. However, there are not many of them - maybe 60, 70 artists, I reckon, worldwide, in this entire century - who belong to this Olympus of real masters of cinema - and he certainly is one of them (...).
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