A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Read More »
Tag Archives: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Satansbraten / Satans Brew (1976) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Walter, a German anarchist poet, is short of money after his publisher refuses to give him an advance. Read More »
Frauen In New York / Women in New York (1977) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Eva Mattes, Angela Schmid, Margit Carstensen, Comedy
The main characters in this film are wives of rich men who have nothing to do because they have staff – like the cook, the maid, the hairdresser, the manicurist Read More »
Fontane Effi Briest (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Drama, History
In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. Read More »
Schatten der Engel / Shadow of Angels (1976) Daniel Schmid, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer, Drama
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. Read More »
Faustrecht der Freiheit / Fox and His Friends (1975) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Drama, Romance
Working class and middle-upper class worlds come together in this interesting look at class conflict within the gay world from the German director Reiner Werner Fassbinder. Read More »
Angst vor der Angst / Fear of Fear (1975) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Drama
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand her situation. Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law Lore are openly hostile to her. She resorts to valium and drink, and looks for sympathy, but to no avail.
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Baal (1970) Volker Schlöndorff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Drama
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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Die Niklashauser Fart / The Niklashausen Journey (1970) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the “Black Monk” in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the Virgin Mary to create a revolt against the church and the landowners. The “Black Monk” suggests that he would have more success if he dressed up Johanna and had her appear as the Virgin Mary.
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Bolwieser / The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, Bernhard Helfrich
The lackluster and plodding station master Bolwieser has the (mis)fortune to be married to the town’s siren; his trusting nature leads him into serious trouble when she beds nearly every available guy.
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