Filmportal.de
filmportal.de is an online database of information related to German film. It includes extensive information on films and filmmakers as well as articles on film issues. The website was released on occasion of the 54th Berlin International Film Festival on 11 February 2005. filmportal.de was revised and expanded in 2011/2012.
Content
The database provides information on about 85 000 German cinema and television films from 1895 to the present. About 8 000 films are presented in detail with content descriptions, stills and/or posters. In addition, filmportal.de catalogues about 190 000 names of filmmakers, 5 000 of these entries feature a biography.The lexical information is supplemented by trailers, film clips from German classics, and, increasingly, full-length films. Moreover, editorial texts link the information with the history of film in the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany and the GDR.