Released Date:
1976-02-02
Languages:
German, English, French
Countries:
West Germany
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (3027 Reviews)
Director:
Rainer Werner FassbinderRainer Werner Fassbinder
Christian Hohoff (contributing writer)
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. Fassbinder plays Fox, he is working class, a former circus performer who wins the lottery of DM 500,000. His life starts to look up and doesn't have to struggle financially. Fox can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He begins a new relationship with Eugen, creates a business partnership, and his life is looking bright. While he wants to climb up the social ladder, it isn't without turmoil, and being torn between his old working class roots, and the shiny new facade of middle class consciousness.
Released Date:
1983-06-01
Languages:
German
Countries:
Switzerland, West Germany
Runtime:
101 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (135 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel SchmidGenres:
DramaRainer Werner Fassbinder (dialogue)
Daniel Schmid (screenplay)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (screenplay)
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist who is a cabaret singer in drag and her wheelchair-bound mother, offer no refuge. Even though all have a philosophical bent, the other whores reject Lily because she tolerates everyone, including men. She tires of her lonely life and looks for a way out. Even that act serves the local corrupt powers.
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