Movement in German film lasting from about 1969 and into the 1980s that saw the emergence of a new group of director, among them Werner Rainer Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff, and Werner Herzog. In 1974, the Federal Republic's main broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, and the German Federal Film Board, provided for the television companies to make available an annual sum to support the production of films shown in theaters and on television. As a result, the films were artistically ambitious and critically acclaimed, despite their limited budgets. Well known films include Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (1972) and Schlöndorff's "The Tin Drum" (1979).
