Released Date:
1979-03-23
Languages:
German, English
Countries:
West Germany
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (7915 Reviews)
Director:
Rainer Werner FassbinderGenres:
DramaPea Frèhlich (screenplay)
Peter Mèrthesheimer (screenplay)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (idea)
Pea Frèhlich (dialogue)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (dialogue)
Peter Mèrthesheimer (dialogue)
This movie follows the life of a young German woman, married to a soldier in the waning days of WWII. Fassbinder has tried to show the gritty life after the end of WWII and the turmoil of the people trapped in its wake.
Released Date:
1991-06-19
Languages:
French
Countries:
Belgium, France, Germany
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (3896 Reviews)
Director:
Jaco Van DormaelDidier De Neck (collaborator)
Pascal Lonhay (collaborator)
Jaco Van Dormael
Laurette Vankeerberghen (collaborator)
Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred's good fortune at being born into a wealthy family, Thomas conceives the idea that he and Alfred were switched at birth, and he can't help seeing that his unhappiness should be Alfred's, from the loss of his sister to his inability to have a relationship with the woman Evelyne. So, as his life is ending, he formulates a plan of revenge against his bitter enemy, his lifetime adversary, the man who stole his existence.
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