@ Stegerwald
Stegerwald wrote:You may well have hit it.
That is too much honour. Cinema is not really my thing. Nevertheless, yesterday evening it occurred to me, that the European market for films is actually extremely fragmented, in comparison with for instance the American or Chinese market. The majority of European films is not even subtitled in English. The problem of language is insurmoutable, and consequently the markets are largely confined within the national boundaries. The European film industry is a commercial disaster, so in general the release of films must be subsidized by the state or by the public television. Leading films such as
Star wars could never be made in Europe. It is like the British actor John Gielgud said about Ingrid Bergman: "She speaks five languages and can not act in any of them". Due to its fragmentation the production of European cinema is difficult to survey, and this inability certainly pertains to
me. However, I dare to conjecture that in most European states the native target group for movies about labour unions is simply too small to justify their production.
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