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Film lovers will be able to appreciate a number of classic, award-winning German films next month in the Leisure and Cultural Services Department's   New German Cinema of the 60s  programme.

Students  can learn about post-war  Germany through the thought-provoking films, such as Alexander Kluge's pioneering work Yesterday Girl, Jean-Marie Straub and his wife Daniele Huillet's Not Reconciled, Werner Herzog's Even Dwarves Started Small, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore.

These renowned directors  had a great influence on Germany's film culture at the time.

The films will be shown at the Hong Kong Film Archive in Shau Kei Wan, and the Hong Kong Space Museum and Hong Kong Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui, from September 5 to 24.

All  movies are in 16mm film, in German with English subtitles.

Tickets priced at HK$25 for students (HK$50 for adults) are available at Urbtix outlets.

A seminar on German cinema will also be held on September 17 at the Space Museum.

Supported by the Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, New German Cinema of the 60s is the second programme of the Repertory Cinema 2006 series curated by Law Wai-ming. The series aims to introduce world film classics to Hong Kong audiences.

Works of Italian film master Bernardo Bertolucci were screened last month and films of Japanese film director Terayama Shuji will be shown in November.

The opening film in next month's programme  will be Yesterday Girl (1966). A Jewish East German girl risks everything to start a new life in West Germany, ending up in prison pregnant  with her first child.

It won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival 1966 and four film awards in the German Film Festival Awards 1967. Another highlight is  Herzog's Even Dwarves Started Small (1970),  an adventure-packed film with an anti-war message.

Straub's Not Reconciled is  highly  regarded for its experimental style. Straub and his  wife worked on many avant-garde films for which they won wide acclaim.

For details of the programme, call 2734 2900 or visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/fp



Catch a classic German film next month