EXOTICISM, PUNCH UPS & SUSPENDER BELTS COPYRIGHT: 2003 DIRECTOR: Christophe BIER AUTHOR: Christophe BIER FORMAT: Digital Beta DIFFUSION: Digital Beta 4/3 DURATION: 52 minutes VERSION: French TYPE: documentary PRODUCTION: Ciné Cinéma, Lieurac Productions. PARTICIPATION: Centre National de la Cinématographie. Film critics have the habit of dismissing post-war West German cinema as mediocre and bogged down in conventions, thus showing a real disregard for certain so-called minor films be they exotic, fantastic, "krimi"(German dectective films), western or dramatic, so many categories that flourished in the 50s and 60s. EXOTICISM, PUNCH UPS & SUSPENDER BELTS pays homage to these films through a portrait of Wolfgang C. Hartwig an important producer in those years who, from 1953 on, made around fifty films which offer a striking example of a certain West German cinema, previously undervalued.