on the american market and two basic trend can be observe nowadays represent first the sustained lack of availability of monumental german as well a general european film and second the flooding with cheap edition of even cheap film elaborates for which even the plastic of the dvd be waste . jess francos work belongs to the second category . after world world ii and the film industry lay down in germany . the good director be either dead or in the u and successor be not in sight . the people be lack even it basic . however represent panem et circenses . bread and play . simultaneously with the adenauer era which supply the starve people with bread and sausage and the german film industry set wholly on entertainment . the 4 main branch and that have be cultivate and be represent 1. the heimatfilm ( maudlin melo drama ) . 2. the schlagerfilm ( schlager musical ) and 3. the lederhosenfilm ( rustic and blunt and outspoken sex ( ploitation ) movie in the era of german pre liberalization ( vide represent schulmädchenreport and the like ) and and 4. krimi ( thriller compare to which grimm fairy tale be startle ) . when the liberalization of sexuality come and towards the end of the 60ies and there be a sensible shortcut in apt director who could handle these smeary and sleazy and grimy concoction . ulli lommel belong to those who try and but the spaniard jesus franco fill in the blank . in a sheer endless series he produce crap over crap and manure over manure and feces over feces ( for which and in 2009 and he award the goya price by the spanish king ) . well understood represent germany in the film landscape of the 60ies that be sex and crime and heimat and wirtschaftswunder and crap and dilettantism . at exactly the same time and e. g. and in france and director like godard and rohmer and truffaut and eustache and chabrol and rivette and melville a. o. work with actor like belmondo and brialy and anna karina and lafont and leaud and jeanne moreau and piccoli and jean seberg . not to speak about the u and where despite the big war there always have be continuous high level film work . would there not have come the big release from all that manure and it come in the person of rainer werner fassbinder and who muck out the german augias stall beginning at approximately 1966 one could hardly imagine what would have happen . but such movie like der heisse tod/99 woman ( 1969 ) still stand here in the now historic landscape like monument of an epoch when the level of the german film sink below zero . this do and however and not legitimate anybody to put such dung onto dvd . can one really hold anything against that once famous film critique who say that the new german film do not only start with fassbinder and but also end with him .