Hellmuth Costard
Biography
Hellmuth Costard (1940, Holzhausen, Leipzig, Germany) was a director and writer, known for The Oppression of the Woman Is Especially Seen in the Attitude of the Women Themselves (1970), Der kleine Godard an das Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (1978) and Echtzeit (1983). He died on June 13, 2000 in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Rector Ernesti
The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The drawings on which the series is based were created in 1969 and served as a template for a slide series in 1970. During its screening, this is interrupted by the film "Percy McPhee Agent of Horror (6th + 7th episode)".
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up shot of a penis ‘mouthing’ the parliamentary defense of the law by its author. A landmark in political pamphleteering, the film was selected for the 1968 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival by a committee of leading German critics and promptly banned by the city government, causing the withdrawal of almost all German directors from the festival and a national scandal. The title satirically refers to the official certificate of ‘Particularly Valuable’ given each year to the best film shorts by an Establishment selection.