Who was the director of the 1985 West German-Italian war film starring the actor who played the character of "Bodie" in the late 1970s - early 1980s British television series "The Professionals"?
Lewis Collins Lewis Collins (27 May 1946 – 27 November 2013) was an English film and theatre actor. His career defining role was playing the character of "Bodie" in the late 1970s - early 1980s British television series "The Professionals".
New German Cinema New German Cinema (German: "Neuer Deutscher Film" ) is a period in German cinema which lasted from the late 1960s into the 1980s. It saw the emergence of a new generation of directors. Working with low budgets, and influenced by the French New Wave, such directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Harun Farocki, Volker Schlöndorff, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Margarethe von Trotta and Wim Wenders made names for themselves and produced a number of 'small' motion pictures that caught the attention of art house audiences, and enabled these directors (particularly Wenders and Schlöndorff) to create better-financed productions which were backed by the big US studios. However, most of the films were commercial failures and, by 1977, 80% of a budget for a typical German film was ensured by a subsidy.