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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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2004
Master of Cinema Award
Edgar Reitz
Wim Wenders
Laudation to Edgar Reitz
Do you know who made the biggest film in the world? And not only in terms of length: 54 hours of film and 20 years production time - and this is the best part of it - who has also made the biggest author film of all time? And despite this, his feet have remained firmly on the ground, because he is somebody who thinks anyway that the stories he tells are much more important than (...).
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Laudation to Wim Wenders
You look at the world as always, and suddenly however everything is different, somehow amazing, and you are surprised at what you can see although it's nothing but reality. But you rediscover it. You look at a landscape or at a street, a sea of narrow standing houses, and you think about how much they actually tell, the things you see, detail after detail. And then we are with somebody, ladies and gentlemen, who masters just this because he believes that film wasn't invented to distract us from the world but to show us (...).
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