How to deal with production or release dates in extinct countries? I see no way to add them to the list, so it seams to be impossible to enter different release dates for east and west germany or to decide whether consider a czechoslovak movie as czech or slovak one
Es fehlt ein Film oder eine Serie? Logge dich ein zum Ergänzen.
Diesen Eintrag bewerten oder zu einer Liste hinzufügen?
Kein Mitglied?
Antwort von Travis Bell
am 22. November 2013 um 11:47
If you have a list of missing countries, let me know and I'll see about getting them added. So far, I have:
Let me know if you see some others.
Antwort von Karl Dietz
am 23. November 2013 um 16:49
I'm not sure into how much detail you want to go, as movie have been created for some time now. e.g. http://www.themoviedb.org/person/29110-carl-froelich (first hit for the relevant time from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Regisseure_des_deutschen_Films)
If someone feels like going through a list... good luck ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_sovereign_states
Antwort von senax
am 23. November 2013 um 17:32
You could use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 just like Musicbrainz does. -> https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release_Country lists some historical countries.
Antwort von Travis Bell
am 23. November 2013 um 18:03
We do use ISO 3166-1. If you look at the list West Germany and the countries we're discussing here are not on it as independent countries. That's the issue here. They're not part of the current standard and are currently lumped into their current country ie. Germany, or even worse, in Czechoslovakia's case, they re-assigned the CS value to Serbia and Montenegro.
Antwort von TikiWho
am 11. Mai 2014 um 03:33
If you could add the Soviet Union, that would be great. Soviet Cinema is so strikingly different from modern Russian cinema.
Antwort von Travis Bell
am 1. Dezember 2014 um 18:22
Another one to consider is Kosovo. It's marked under the "User-assigned" group on the Wikipedia list.
Antwort von Faruz
am 28. Januar 2015 um 15:41
Any chance of this is changing any time soon? Feels like adding a bunch of countries should be a relatively quick fix, no?
Antwort von Theli93
am 5. Oktober 2015 um 08:07
This appears to still not have been addressed. From 1949 to 1990 East Germany and West Germany were separate nations (or as Karl Dietz noted above GDR and FRG). That's excess of 40 years of unresolvable errors and inaccuracies for prime and classic films!
Antwort von Samara
am 5. Oktober 2015 um 09:36
I think we should not seperate West and East Germany now because Germany got all the rights of the movies and other stuff after the reunion. So I think there should be Germany only
Antwort von TikiWho
am 5. Oktober 2015 um 09:39
Germany may have gotten the rights, but a film made in East Germany is very different from a film made in West Germany, thus I believe there is value to adding that distinction of origin.
Antwort von Samara
am 5. Oktober 2015 um 13:07
But it's not a different country I'm german and I see no reason to have two germanys here, a movie from Bavaria is different to a movie in Hamburg but it's the same country, even the actors are the same
Antwort von TikiWho
am 5. Oktober 2015 um 13:29
I'd be all for regional distinctions as well. I'd love to be able to indicate that a film in the US wasn't made in Hollywood, for example, and Indian cinema varies widely based on region. It's not all Bollywood.
Antwort von Samara
am 5. Oktober 2015 um 19:24
Yes but I really think that could be done with a keyword instead, the other way would be too much for a database, just my opinion
Antwort von Theli93
am 8. Oktober 2015 um 14:18
My point here is in dealing with release dates, the area on a map is not the same as a country; territory is not government. What is permitted in one territory may well not be in another. Release dates in communist nations and democratic nations my vary by decades, in both directions, yet this is a time-frame in which many of the classic films fall! This is precisely the issue when dealing with East and West Germany. There is also the issue of accuracy; I am very disappointed that IMDb can provide a level of accuracy in which we continue to fail.
Antwort von Samara
am 8. Oktober 2015 um 14:23
IMDB is more accurate? I can't see movies from Ohio, Missouri for example, only from the United States of America, no Scotland or Wales only United Kingdom, so I think IMDB is not a perfect example