Of Special Merit

An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors The film features a headon closeup shot of a penis mouthing the parliamentary defense of the law by its author A landmark in political pamphleteering the film was selected for the 1968 Oberhausen International Short Film Festival by a committee of leading German critics and promptly banned by the city government causing the withdrawal of almost all German directors from the festival and a national scandal The title satirically refers to the official certificate of Particularly Valuable given each year to the best film shorts by an Establishment selection