Of Special Merit
1968, German. Directed by Hellmuth Costard.
An attack on a piece of reactionary German legislation discriminating against young film directors. The film features a head-on, close-up 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.
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- 0h 11m
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- 17 February 1968
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Of Special Merit runs 11 minutes (0h 11m).
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Of Special Merit isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 17 February 1968. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Of Special Merit (1968) was directed by Hellmuth Costard and stars Hellmuth Costard, Hans Toussaint.