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The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Margit Carstensen , Hanna Schygulla , Katrin Schaake , Eva Mattes , Gisela Fackeldey
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Nr

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The Third Generation

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Eddie Constantine , Hanna Schygulla , Volker Spengler , Margit Carstensen , Harry Baer
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Studio: Tango Entertainment Inc Release Date: 07/25/2006

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Satan's Brew

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Kurt Raab , Margit Carstensen , Helen Vita , Volker Spengler , Ingrid Caven
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Almost certainly the wildest movie ever made by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Satan's Brew is as unhinged as some of the director's masterpieces are rigorously controlled. A kind of gross-out comedy on art and fame, Satan's Brew takes as its hero a celebrated poet, played by longtime RWF cohort Kurt Raab, whose resemblance to Peter Lorre is uncanny. In the first of the film's many affronts to good taste, the poet kills his wealthy mistress in an S&M game, thus prompting a financial crisis--he may even be forced to start writing again. The movie careens from one jaw-dropping oddity to the next, inspiring the suspicion that Mike Myers may have seen it before inventing his "Dieter" character. This depraved three-ring circus is not the way to be introduced to Fassbinder, but the director's fans will be amused. To quote the movie itself: "An epic from the sordid depths of humanity!" --Robert Horton

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Martha

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Margit Carstensen , Karlheinz Böhm , Barbara Valentin , Peter Chatel , Gisela Fackeldey
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Possession

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Isabelle Adjani , Sam Neill , Margit Carstensen , Heinz Bennent , Johanna Hofer
Director: Andrzej Zulawski
Mark (Sam Neill) comes home from months on the road to find his flighty wife, Anna (Isabelle Adjani in an almost bug-eyed performance), ready to divorce him. Distraught and angry, he tracks down her lover, but discovers a secret unknown to either of the men. Anna has given birth, literally, to a demon lover (created by monster maker Carlos Rimbaldi), and she'll murder anyone who dares to come between them. Full of anger, jealousy, emotional suffering, and vindictiveness, this bizarre, bleak horror film is a mix of Hollywood melodrama, European psychodrama, and the raw, blunt emotions of personal art cinema. Mark and Anna grow increasingly shrill and erratic as they sink deeper into madness and obsession, and finally doppelgängers, also played by Neill and Adjani, arise to take their place. Hints of Rosemary's Baby, The Omen, and the biological horrors of David Cronenberg float through the story. The English-language French production was shot in Germany with a Polish director and an international cast, which only adds to the dissonance. Andrzej Zulawski (who claims that the film was inspired by his own divorce) directs this obscure and often alienating film with unre...

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The Niklashausen Journey

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Peter Berling , Margit Carstensen , Ingrid Caven , Michael Fengler , Michael Gordon (II)
Director: Michael Fengler
In the 15th Century, Hans Böhm, a shepherd, claimed to have been visited by the Virgin Mary. He began preaching and gathered around him thousands of disciples who believed him to be the New Messiah. He was arrested and burned at the stake by the church. Fassbinder uses this true story to reflect the sexual and political upheaval in Germany, showing how and why revolution fails.

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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Peter Bollag , Karlheinz Böhm , Margit Carstensen , Ingrid Caven , Peter Chatel
When Hermann Kusters goes berserk at his factory and murders his manager before killing himself, a media blitz descends upon his middle-aged wife (Brigitte Mira) and her adult children. Her daughter attempts to use the situation to improve her cabaret singing career, but Frau Kusters remains distraught that her husband has been depicted in the papers as a boozing maniac. Her search for some solution leads her to the communist party, then finally to a group of anarchists who take drastic action. While Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven isn't one of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's more lively films--the pace is almost monotonously steady--but Fassbinder's eye for selfishness, hypocrisy, and manipulation remains sharp. The movie shifts from a darkly comic tone to a deep sadness; perhaps unable to decide which mood to commit to, Fassbinder shot two strikingly different endings, both of which are presented. --Bret Fetzer

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Angry Harvest

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Armin Mueller-Stahl , Elisabeth Trissenaar , Wojciech Pszoniak , Gerd Baltus , Anita Höfer
Director: Agnieszka Holland
This remarkable Academy Award-nominated film by renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) tells a compelling story of love and desire during World War II. Middle-aged, lonely farmer Leon (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Avalon) rescues the younger Rosa, an upper-class Jewish refugee, as she is fleeing from the Nazis. While he nurses her back to health, their relationship gradually grows more inti This remarkable Academy Award-nominated film by renowned filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa, Europa) tells a compelling story of love and desire during World War II. Middle-aged, lonely farmer Leon (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Avalon) rescues the younger Rosa, an upper-class Jewish refugee, as she is fleeing from the Nazis. While he nurses her back to health, their relationship gradually grows more intimate, but disintegrates into a cat-and-mouse power struggle as Leon's mixed motives in hiding Rosa emerge. One of the boldest Holocaust films ever made, Angry Harvest is a fascinating, multilayered portrait of two flawed people forced to depend on each other as war takes its ultimate toll.

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Fear of Fear

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Margit Carstensen , Ulrich Faulhaber , Brigitte Mira , Irm Hermann , Armin Meier
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
If not among the better-known films by the gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fear of Fear is nevertheless an absolutely characteristic work. A housewife, locked into a dull life with her distracted husband and two small children (plus nattering mother-in-law and sister-in-law living in the apartment upstairs) finds herself seized by uncontrollable anxiety. Although the wife has an affair with a doctor, there is little conventional melodrama; instead, Fassbinder strips away plot mechanics in favor of a complete identification with the woman's mysterious angst. The central role is tailor-made for one of RWF's favorite leading ladies, Margit Carstensen, whose regal cheekbones and elegant air belie the instability beneath the skin. Fassbinder's eye is exacting--the apartment is a dead-on purgatory of bourgeois nothingness--and his framing shows the influence of his Hollywood idol, Douglas Sirk. This is a small work in the bulging Fassbinder canon, but it's impeccably realized. --Robert Horton

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Tenderness of the Wolves

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Barbara Bertram , Margit Carstensen , Ingrid Caven , Christoph Eichhorn , Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Based on the same true story that inspired Fritz Lang's M, Ulli Lommel's Tenderness of the Wolves takes an unsettling look at the life of murderer, black marketeer, and police informant Fritz Haarman, a pedophile who used his position to sweep the train stations and pick up young runaway boys. Living in the depression of post-WWI Germany, Haarman lured the boys to his attic apartment with the promise of a warm meal and bed, only to emerge alone the next morning with secondhand clothes and black market "pork." Lommel melds images from M and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu with the elegant camerawork, evocative sets, and tableaux-style direction associated with the films of New German cinema auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who produced the film and appears in a small role. Screenwriter/star Kurt Raab suggests Peter Lorre by way of the vampire Nosferatu with his shaved head, child-like smile and hunched walk, an insidiously beguiling boy-man who strangles his innocent young victims and feasts on their blood. The film is handsomely photographed and well performed by a cast made up of Fassbinder's regular troupe, but becomes muddled toward the middle, tangling the...