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List of German films of the 1970s

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6571816 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of the most notable films produced in Cinema of Germany in the 1970s.

For an alphabetical list of articles on West German films see Category:West German films. For East German films made during the decade see List of East German films.

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

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References

Browning, John Edgar; Picart, Caroline Joan (2010). Dracula in Visual Media:Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786433650.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1971, 1972, 1973—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, German and films.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6571816. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of German films of the 1970s” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.