Cinema of Brunant

The Cinema of Brunant has a long and vivid history. The first films were made in the 1900's and since the 1960's, the Brunanter film industry has dominated the domestic market. The history of Brunanter cinema is generally divided in four periods: Pre-war cinema (1900's - 1941), the Classic period (1945 - 1969), the New Cinema (1970 - 1990's) and the Modern period (1990's - today).

Brunanters quickly embraced the new medium, resulting in an quantitatively impressive outpout. The most important filmmaker of this early period was the immensely prolific Joseph van Marwijk, director of the first feature film, The American West (1908), but many other filmmakers left their mark. Brunanter films went through a crisis during the 1930's, as most domestic companies could not compete with the American sound films. Following the German occupation of the country, the industry experienced a revival and it flourished with films made by John Barker, Fabian Barthols and others. In the early 1970's, a new approach came with directors like Diederick Kluijskens and Michael Maybury. Contemporary cinema, emerging aroung 1990, has been described as a "cauldron of different styles and film genres".