Reinhard Hauff
German director and occasional actor who emerged in the late 1960s and 70s as part of the New German Cinema movement along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlondorff, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and others. They set out to revitalize a moribund German film culture which had been completely devastated as a consequence of the rise of Nazism and WWII.