Berlin, March 27 -- Alexander Kluge, the German filmmaker Who won Venice's top prize - the Golden Lion - and helped define the New German Cinema movement, has died.
He was 94, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Kluge's family confirmed his death to German media on Wednesday. A cause of death was not given.
A signatory to the 1962 Oberhausen Manifesto, which called for a new, auteur-driven German cinema, Kluge is credited with helping spark the New German Cinema movement.
A leading figure on the international festival circuit, particularly in Venice, Kluge's 1967 debut Abschied von gestern (released in the U.S. as Yesterday Girl), which dramatised the struggles of a young Jewish refugee from East Germany, won the Silver Lion, the first...