members to leave and start their own production and distribution companies, such as Pro-ject Filmproduktion (started for Kluge's documentary Der Kandidat on Franz-Josef Strauß's 1980 campaign running for German chancellor) and Theo Hinz's Futura-Film (founded in 1983). While the Filmverlag during Augstein's era scored impressive commercial successes such as (1980, starring Marius Müller-Westernhagen) and Men… (1985), it also began German distribution of less ambitious films such as The Terminator (1984) and Up the creek (1984), and in the eyes of many of its founders its original political and intellectual credibility suffered. After Augstein In 1986, Augstein sold his interests in the Filmverlag to Futura-Film. In 1989, Futura-Film founded the subsidiary distributor Felix-Film with an emphasis upon films from the Soviet Union. In 1999, all home video distribution rights to the Filmverlags films and all rights to its label were acquired by Arthaus, a subsidiary of Kinowelt AG. In the following years, Arthaus published many of the Filmverlag films for the first time on VHS and DVD, and in 2009, Arthaus published all Filmverlag films in a large, 50-disc DVD box, half of which had not been published on home video before. Since the re-organization of Kinowelt in 2003, the original Filmverlag is officially known today as Filmverlag der Autoren und Futura Film GmbH & Co. Verleih Vertriebsgesellschaft KG. It has three subsidiaries:Futura Film Weltvertrieb im Filmverlag der Autoren GmbHPro-ject Filmproduktion im Filmverlag der Autoren GmbHFelix Film GmbH Founding members On April 18, 1971 in Munich, thirteen filmmakers signed the founding papers of Filmverlag der Autoren. They are: Hark Bohm Michael Fengler Peter Lilienthal Hans Noever Wim Wenders Hans W. Geissendörfer Volker Vogeler Documentary In 2008, Dominik Wessely and Laurens Straub published the 120-minute documentary Gegenschuß - Aufbruch der Filmemacher ("Countershot: Dawn of the filmmakers") on the Filmverlag''. External links Official website Deutsches Filminstitut Film distributors of Germany Wim Wenders