In the late sixties and early seventies, filmmakers such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schl??ndorff, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, and Hans-J??rgen Syberberg set out to create smaller, more independent and artistically challenging films to investigate the state of contemporary Germany (Schl??ndorff and von Trotta???s The Lost Honor of Katherine Blum), as