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Quiz about German Cinema
Quiz about German Cinema

German Cinema Trivia Quiz


German flicks are the worst bores in the world? Why, you may be right, but still, if you take the time, you might one day fall for a German movie. I´ll give you the plot, you name the world famous movie.

A multiple-choice quiz by vishvakarman. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
vishvakarman
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
82,226
Updated
Mar 23 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. The claustrophobic quest of a German submarine crew in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1942. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In the first Science-Fiction film ever we are taken to a futuristic city populated by the upper class while the workers slave in horrible, underground conditions. Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. The story of a boy refusing to grow up (and to literally grow). Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Two men and a woman get entangled in a surreal and deadly nightmare after meeting a mad doctor and a somnambulist at a fair. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. A group of German teenage boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Ignorant of this fact that the bridge is of no more strategic importance, the boys sacrifice their lives in vain to hold the bridge. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. A decision taken in the matter of a second may change the course of your life irrevertably, as this recent success graphically shows. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. After the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition is out to search 'El Dorado', the Golden Land. As they advance further into the jungle, the madness of the expedition's leader becomes ever more visible. Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. A German World War II woman seizes her opportunities at the cost of others. At the height of her career, fate strikes by killing her and her husband. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Fritz Knobel makes his living faking art. When one day he fakes a real 'Hitler', he gets the idea of faking Hitler´s diaries. He manages to sell them to a big German magazine, provoking a huge media scandal. Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. A man has left his wife and child. Having lost all memory of his marriage, he returns after four years to face his past. Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. The claustrophobic quest of a German submarine crew in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1942.

Answer: Das Boot (The Boat)

Directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starring a German all-star cast, this movie has been one of the most appreciated contributions of German cinema in the 1980s.
2. In the first Science-Fiction film ever we are taken to a futuristic city populated by the upper class while the workers slave in horrible, underground conditions.

Answer: Metropolis

Directed in 1927 by Fritz Lang, arguably the most influential director of the 1920s to 1940s, who fled Germany after the Nazis had taken power.
3. Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. The story of a boy refusing to grow up (and to literally grow).

Answer: Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)

All these movies were directed by Volker Schloendorff, one of the protagonists of New German Cinema. The movie is based on a novel by Nobel Price laureate Guenter Grass.
4. Two men and a woman get entangled in a surreal and deadly nightmare after meeting a mad doctor and a somnambulist at a fair.

Answer: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)

Directed by Robert Wiene, this 1919 movie is universally regarded as a milestone of experessionistic cinema.
5. A group of German teenage boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Ignorant of this fact that the bridge is of no more strategic importance, the boys sacrifice their lives in vain to hold the bridge.

Answer: Die Bruecke (The Bridge)

Directed by Bernhard Wicki, this heart-breaking story starred many future German TV and movie stars, e.g. Fritz Wepper and Volker Lechtenbrink.
6. A decision taken in the matter of a second may change the course of your life irrevertably, as this recent success graphically shows.

Answer: Lola rennt (Run Lola Run)

Directed by Tom Tykwer, one of the most noticed German directors of recent years.
7. After the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition is out to search 'El Dorado', the Golden Land. As they advance further into the jungle, the madness of the expedition's leader becomes ever more visible.

Answer: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre, the Wrath of God)

All films star Klaus Kinski and were directed by Werner Herzog. Both were cineatic madmen, and more than once threatened each other´s lives in the course of shooting.
8. A German World War II woman seizes her opportunities at the cost of others. At the height of her career, fate strikes by killing her and her husband.

Answer: Die Ehe der Maria Braun (The Marriage of Maria Braun)

`The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum´ is a Schloendorff film based on a novel by Heinrich Boell. It depicts the destruction of an innocent woman´s life by German tabloid papers. All other movies are woman´s stories narrated by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the genius of German post-war cinema.
9. Fritz Knobel makes his living faking art. When one day he fakes a real 'Hitler', he gets the idea of faking Hitler´s diaries. He manages to sell them to a big German magazine, provoking a huge media scandal.

Answer: Schtonk!

'Schtonk!' is a cry Charlie Chaplin had used for his parody of Hitler in `The Great Dictator´. It also fits this hilarious parody of German media discovering Nazi nostalgia. Directed by Dieter Wedel, who also directed `Late Show´ and `Rossini´, two other parodies on modern German society. `Der blaue Engel´ of course was Marlene Dietrich in 1930 after a novel of Heinrich Mann, also a satire.
10. A man has left his wife and child. Having lost all memory of his marriage, he returns after four years to face his past.

Answer: Paris, Texas

All films directed by Wim Wenders.
Source: Author vishvakarman

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