Zimmermädchen
A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife.
In Hamburg, West Germany, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a two thugs.
Gänseliesel
An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Michel y Guenther trabajan en sus respectivos trabajos obsesionados por conseguir el dinero suficiente para poder ir a Perú en busca de un tesoro, usando el mapa del Río Das Mortes. A Hanna, la novia de Michel, le disgusta este nuevo plan de su novio, puesto lo que ella quiere en realidad en casarse con él y formar una familia.
Schallplattenverkäuferin
El íntimo escepticismo del señor R., símbolo de una burguesía acomodada que dispone de un trabajo seguro, un hogar confortable, mujer e hijos, estallará en una reacción brutal contra la disciplina cotidiana.
Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
