West Germany's "economic miracle" of the early 1950s did not help reestablish an internationally competitive German cinema, primarily because:
A. Germany was forbidden from exporting motion pictures under the terms of its 1945 surrender.
B. Hollywood controlled a large part of German distribution and was permitted to use blind- and block-booking tactics already outlawed in the United States.
C. the old Ufi monopoly was revived, and industry growth was stunted by the reintroduction of an inefficient bureaucracy that monopolized film production.
D. the most talented German filmmakers chose to remain in America and England rather than return to their homeland.
Answer: B
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