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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)Angst Essen Seele Auf $ 19.99 Director R.W. Fassbinder helmed this powerful film, winner of the International Critics' Prize at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, about an unlikely love affair between Emmi (Brigitte Mira), an elderly German cleaning lady, and Ali (El Hedi Ben Salem), a Moroccan boxer. When they decide to marry, the underlying prejudice that first reared its ugly head when they were dating wreaks havoc in their lives.
Fox and His Friends $ 9.99 1975, 123 min.German Language with English Subtitles. - Starring and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A lower class carnival entertainer professionally known as "Fox, the Talking Head" (played by Fassbinder himself) strikes it rich, after a life of hard knocks, by winning the lottery. His new-found wealth attracts an elegant, bourgeois lover, who proceeds to vamp Fox as thoroughly and unthinkingly as Theda Bara. This ill-fated romance between the capitalist and the "lottery queen" makes for one of Fassbinder's most skillfully wrought films.
Gods of the Plague (1970) Götter der Pest Fassbinder Film $ 12.99 Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta....German Language with English subtitles.Munich's directionless, grim youth culture is the focus of this German crime drama. Included in the action is a flashy nightclub singer who allows herself to be seduced by a handsome cop and then sells out her former boyfriend (a petty crook) to him. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
I only want You to Love Me $ 19.99 1976, 104 min. German Language with English Subtitles.- Deprived of parental affection throughout childhood, Peter takes his wife and leaves his small town home and moves to the city. Determined to disprove his father's belief that he will never be able to support a family, Peter lands a job and begins a new life. Soon the strains of work, money and marriage aggravate his anxieties. He becomes a compulsive worker and consumer, slowly falling deeper into debt and despair. Finally, Peter snaps and in a terrifying moment of psychological displacement, commits a senseless murder. Written and Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Starring: Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Ernie Mangold, Joanna Hofer, and Alexander Allerson.
Love Is Colder than Death (1969) Liebe ist Kälter als der Tod $ 24.99 subt. in english Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs and stars in his first film as Franz, a pimp who has refused to join a local crime syndicate. When the syndicate sends some "muscle" (a guy named Bruno) to persuade Franz to join, the two criminals hit it off. Soon, the pair of wise guys begin a dangerous crime spree that alarms Franz's girlfriend, Joanna, and builds toward a daring bank robbery.
Lili Marleen $ 9.99 (1981) Laufzeit: 121 Minuten : Sprache, Deutsch ONLY ! Inhalt des filmes.Zürich 1938. Willie (Hanna Schygulla) liebt Robert (Giancarlo Giannini). Das Glück ist groß für Willie. Es strahlt über ihr ganzes Gesicht. Willie singt, nicht besonders erfolgreich, nicht einmal besonders gut, aber sie träumt von einer großen Karriere. Robert ist Komponist und hat Chancen, berühmt zu werden. Willie ist Deutsche, Robert ist Jude, sie lieben sich in der Schweiz. Aaron (Gottfried John) holt die beiden in die Wirklichkeit zurück, die Wirklichkeit von Roberts Vater David Mendelsson (Mel Ferrer), einem begüterten Mann, der eine Hilfsorganisation leitet, mit Hilfe derer er Juden und jüdisches Vermögen aus Deutschland herausholt. Robert arbeitet als Kurier für diese Organisation, und sein Vater betrachtet die Verbindung mit einer Deutschen als Gefahr für seine Arbeit. Doch Robert hält an der Verbindung zu Willie fest. Willie weiß zunächst nichts von Roberts Tätigkeit. Sie singt, und sie wird in Zürich gehört von zwei Deutschen in Zivil, dem SS-Gruppenführer Hans Henkel (Karl-Heinz von Hassel) und dessen Adjutanten von Strehlow (Erik Schumann). Henkel ist fasziniert von Willie. Er ist Beauftragter Goebbels für Kultur in München.
Mother Küster Goes to Heaven $ 9.99 Reiner Werner Fassbinder Film, German Language with English Subtitles. 108 min. 1976 Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven opens to an portentous shot of a mechanized, tedious activity, as Emma Kusters (Brigitte Mira) and her son Ernst (Armin Meier) assemble small electrical appliances in silence at the kitchen table: snapping the mechanism to the case, tightening the sunken screws, packing the completed assemblies into a cardboard box. It is this sense of quiet despair and dehumanization that will one day lead Emma's husband, Hermann Kusters, to a senseless act of murder and suicide at a chemical factory plant. The newspapers are quick to capitalize on the story, and the Kusters tragedy is soon turned into the eye-catching headline, "The Factory Murderer".
Pionniere in Ingolstadt $ 6.991970 - Farbe - German Language - 87 min.Fassbinder Film . Ein Pionierbautrupp zieht in Ingolstadt ein-der Ort steht als Beispiel für jede andere Provinzstadt-um eine Brücke zu errichten. Die Anwesenheit des Militärs bringt Bewegung in das idyllische Städtchen.Das Dienstmädchen Berta verliebt sich in den gemeinen Soldaten Karl, doch dieser will nichts rechtes von ihr wissen, da sie nicht bereit ist, sogleich sich mit ihm, so wie es alle anderen tun, einzulassen. Berta wiederum mag nicht den Sohn ihres Dienstherren, Fabian, der es als sein gutes Recht betrachtet, beim Personal erotische Erfahrungen zu sammeln. Die Pioniere leiden unter der Knute des Feldwebels, der seine verklemmten Männlichkeitskomplexe abreagiert, indem er seine Untergebenen schindet und schleift.
The Merchant of Four Seasons $ 15.99 1972, 88 min.German Language with English Subtitles. - Starring Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Hirschmuller, Karl Scheydt and Andrea Schober and directed By Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Famed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder typically portrays aspects of the human struggle using an unwavering style that is often difficult to watch but provides a refreshingly raw and honest narrative perspective. MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS is an engaging close-up portrait of a downtrodden fruit seller named Hans. Full of hope after serving with the Foreign Legion, Hans becomes a police officer--only to be fired for an indiscretion with a prostitute, humiliating himself and his family. Hungry for a piece of the economic boom of the 1950s, Hans begins selling produce from a cart, much to the dismay of his class-conscious family. Saddled with a shrewish wife, Hans derives most of his pleasure from drink and flirting with a former girlfriend, whom he truly loves. However, when he hires a former Foreign Legion friend to help with his business, things suddenly take an unfortunate turn, making Hans obsolete in the process. THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS was a turning point in Fassbinder's career, marking his entry into the international arena and the subsequent scrutiny of his notorious private life.
Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst) $ 19.99 RARE ! 120 min.German Language with English subtitles. Mono sound !. - 5 German directors including Werner Fassbinder present a segment of their work. An outcry against hysteria, hypocrisy, and inhumanity. Throughout the decade, the Red Army Fraction - an outgrowth of the notorious Baader-Meinhof Group - had waged a campaign of terror against those in power, and the government's escalating efforts to root out the terrorists had resulted in a virtual state of siege by the Autumn of 1977. Here is an immediate, impassioned response to the events of that Autumn: the RAF kidnapping and murder of industrialist Hans-Martin Schleyer and the subsequent, highly suspicious deaths of three imprisoned Baader-Meinhof terrorists. German language with English subtitles. Starring Volker Schoendorff, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupe.
Berlin Alexanderplatz VHS Video Set 8 VHS $ 99.99 Total Running Time 15 hours and 30 min. German language with English subtitle. Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story in Alfred Döblin's novel "Berlin Alexanderplatz" as follows: "... The former transport worker Franz Biberkopf is released from prison where he served a four-year sentence for killing his former girl-friend Ida with an egg-beater. Ida had turned to prostitution to support him in Berlin in the economically troubled 20s. At first, the former jailbird has considerable problems with his virility, but overcomes these by almost raping his victim's sister, so that he is subsequently able to start a relationship with a Polish girl, Lina. Their relationship is such that they consider it to be love and Franz is persuaded to swear that he will lead an honest life from now on, so help ... or something like that. The financial conditions are catastrophic and all attempts to establish a sound foundation prove futile, be it tie clasps, erotic literature, the Völkischer Beobachter - but that creates trouble with former friends, communists, with whom he had once sympathized because he liked them. And so he sells shoelaces, they are always needed, together with Lina's uncle, but he eventually takes advantage of Franz's trust in him and starts blackmailing and threatening a widow whom Franz had once helped out in return for money. With his inshatterable faith in the goodness in people, Franz is so hurt that he withdraws from the world and other people and spends several weeks just drinking, eventually returning to life and the rest of mankind.
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