Hanna Schygulla

Bella Baxter es una joven revivida por el brillante y poco ortodoxo científico Dr. Godwin Baxter. Bajo la protección de Baxter, Bella está ansiosa por aprender. Hambrienta de la mundanidad que le falta, Bella se escapa con Duncan Wedderburn, un sofisticado y perverso abogado, en una aventura vertiginosa a través de los continentes. Libre de los prejuicios de su época, Bella se vuelve firme en su propósito de defender la igualdad y la liberación.

Jean-Luc Godard is cinema, its quintessence. Just turned 91, he has made more than 140 films. We hate him as much as we worship him. Where does his aura come from? From legendary films of course, but also from Godard himself. He is a public figure as much as a man shrouded in mystery. Everything and its opposite, he has taken all possible paths. It is not easy to seize such a legendary, enigmatic giant. Godard’s itinerary follows one direction only: a constant renewal of his art. He sees the creative act as a necessary act of criticism and deconstruction.” I always start from the negative. I am a positive man who starts from the negative”. The artist reinvents himself tirelessly, and inevitably destroys himself. This portrait wants to take us beyond the clichés of a myth that has sometimes become caricatural, to meet a man more sentimental than it seems, a man inhabited, sometimes surpassed, by his art. Because yes, Godard is human. Not just a machine who thinks and creates images.

An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife's diary, we get closer to this man surrounded by mystery.

Peter von Kant es un director de cine de éxito. Vive con su asistente Karl, a quien le gusta maltratar y humillar. Sidonie es la gran actriz que fue su musa durante muchos años. Ella es quien le presenta a Amir, un apuesto joven de escasos recursos. Peter se enamora de Amir al instante, le ofrece alojamiento en su apartamento y ayudarle a entrar en la industria del cine. El plan funciona, pero en cuanto adquiere fama, Amir rompe con Peter, dejándole solo enfrentandose a sus demonios. Adaptación libre de 'Las amargas lágrimas de Petra von Kant' de Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.

Las mujeres fueron sin duda la esencia del trabajo del legendario fotógrafo Helmut Newton. Las estrellas de sus icónicos retratos y editoriales de moda – desde Catherine Deneuve hasta Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling o Isabella Rossellini – dan finalmente su interpretación sobre la vida y obra de este controvertido genio. Un retrato hecho ahora por las retratadas entonces. Provocativo, revolucionario y subversivo, su representación de las mujeres sigue provocando una pregunta: ¿ellas eran protagonistas u objetos?

The story of Irmi Selver, who lost her family while fleeing Germany in 1939 and overcame tragedy and upheavals to establish a new life in New York.

Un curioso bibliotecario decide albergar todos los libros que han sido rechazados por las editoriales. Un día, una joven escritora descubrirá esta biblioteca que esconde grandes tesoros, uno de ellos será la novela Las últimas horas de una historia de amor, escrita por Henri Pick. El desconocido escritor, fallecido dos años antes, era un cocinero que jamás leyó un libro y no escribió otra cosa que la lista de la compra, según su mujer.

Un joven de 22 años, Thomas, decide que es el momento de dejar su adicción a las drogas. Para ello, decide apartarse a una comunidad aislada en una montaña, en los Alpes. Dirigida por ex drogadictos, todos los que llegan allí siguen un método divino para curarse de su dependencia: La oración. Un lugar dónde descubrirá la sencillez, el amor, la amistad, la paz...

Relata la historia de una joven madre (Jasmine Trinca) que, con un matrimonio fallido a sus espaldas, hace lo posible por luchar día tras día para alcanzar su sueño: abrir una peluquería con la que desafiar a su destino, en un intento de emanciparse y conquistar la independencia y su derecho a la felicidad.

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.

Documentary about the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 German television series EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY, featuring interviews with actors Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Wolfgang Schenck, and Hans Hirschmüller.

A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets.

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.

Verging on Alzheimer’s, an aging actress (played by Hanna Schygulla) finds that the power of memory is stronger than ever.

MARIANNE (Evabritt Strandberg) is a 68-year old woman diagnosed with a terminal disease. Left with angst, she seeks therapy at a clinic where she is treated with Psilocybin (LSD) and meditation by a counselor, Eva (Hanna Schygulla). Through this she is transferred to her subconscious, where she meets and confronts her 25-year old self and her former husband.

The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give form to this architecture. We follow the journey of Munio, my father, born in 1909 in Silesia, Poland, the son of a tenant farmer of a Prussian junker. At the age of 18, Munio goes to Berlin and Dessau to meet Walter Gropius, Kandinsky and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus. In 1933, the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, who accused Munio of treason against the German people. Munio was imprisoned, then deported to Basel. He left for Palestine. Upon his arrival in Haifa, he began a career as an architect and adapted European modernist principles to the Middle East.

What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants to see her returned to the psychiatric clinic, but Léa refuses to see her mother in the same light: Suzanne is happy – even if she doesn’t act like others expect her to. She appears to live a joyfully infantile existence after calmly letting go of life’s pressures. Léa captures her mother’s life on film and focuses her attention on examining the old super-8 films from the family archives. When she is left to drive her mother back to the clinic after a weekend at home, Léa grabs her opportunity: She turns the car around and whisks Suzanne off on a journey; a road trip without the judgements of others. AVANTI follows a mother-daughter relationship with an ease and depth that highlights the complexity of the emotional ties within a family.

A documentary that focuses on the making of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "The Marriage of Maria Braun".

A deeply felt personal story of Hanna Schygulla filmed in 2012 at a moment when she was moving back to Germany, to Berlin, having lived for twenty years in France.

Ambientada en el siglo XIX. Se basa en la leyenda alemana de Fausto, un sabio que hace un pacto con el diablo, y en las adaptaciones literarias del mito por parte de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe y Thomas Mann.

Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.

Short film based on Thomas Mann's short story "Der Kleiderschrank".

Unique archives show a world that no longer exists: pre-war Poland in which two cultures: Jewish and Polish, coexisted wall-in-wall; cottage in a cottage; town next to town. "Po-lin" - meaning "we will stop here" in Yiddish - does not deny the painful past. It only shows that there was something more next to them. Worth remembering and - perhaps - reconstruction.

A documentary about the making of the television mini-series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, including interviewees with the principal actors.

A través de una serie de encuentros, relaciones e incluso muertes, las frágiles vidas de seis personas se cruzan durante sus viajes emocionales hacia el perdón y la reconciliación en Alemania y Turquía. Nejat (Baki Davrak) no mira con buenos ojos la relación que su padre Ali (Tuncel Kurtiz), un pensionista, mantiene con la prostituta Yeter (Nursel Köse). Pero todo cambia cuando descubre que ella manda dinero a Turquía para pagar los estudios universitarios de su hija. La inesperada muerte de Yeter distancia al hijo y al padre. Nejat decide irse a Estambul a buscar a Ayten, la hija de Yeter. Pero Ayten, una activista política que huye de la policía turca, se ha ido a Alemania...

Despite advancing age, rural businessman Franz has remained fit and energetic, but serious mental illness and financial problems mean that this hitherto ordinary man one day finds himself on a journey to Nairobi to get his money back, and perhaps his human dignity as well.

Two very different love stories cross each other in warm and magical way. A humanistic and yet mysterious film about love and death near the German/Danish border.

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

Una noche en el desierto de Sinai. Un grupo de hombres y mujeres se calientan alrededor de un fuego de campamento bajo la luna. Las mujeres vienen de Europa del este. Los hombres son beduinos. Al día siguiente, cruzarán la frontera en secreto, y las mujeres serán golpeadas, violadas y subastadas como mercancía.

Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age of 36, was influenced greatly by Amercian studio films of the 1950s and the convention of melodrama (the link most often mentioned is Douglas Sirk).

Nineteen people with differing degrees of visual impairment – from mild nearsightedness to total blindness – discuss how they see themselves, how they see others and how they perceive the world. Unusual images, of burning trees or empty deserts, link the interviews, which vary from deep to funny to poetic.

Un circo llega a un pequeño pueblo en el que todos sus habitantes se conocen. La llegada de este circo, que promete el espectáculo de ver a un Príncipe y una ballena gigante despierta recelos en los habitantes, que comienzan a manifestarse contra los signos de violencia callejera que encuentran y que atribuyen al circo. El protagonista asistirá atónito y perplejo a todos estos acontecimientos que se desencadenan de forma precipitada.

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.

Documentary musing upon the work of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking resemblance to Herbert's dead wife. They get married, but their relationship seems doomed, until gradually each one manages to penetrate the mysterious world of the other, and they begin to realize that they are bound by a kind of spiritual relationship. For Lea it is the death of her mother, for Herbert it is the death of his first wife. His hard exterior slowly beings to thaw, and he starts to show feelings and responses that soften Lea's initial hatred and fear of him, and which put their relationship in a more positive light.

Tres amigos cumplen el deseo del cuarto, agonizante, y le llevan a Heidelberg, donde se conocieron 45 años antes, con el fin de que vea a su antigua novia por última vez. Sin embargo, los habitantes de la ciudad no hablan de ella, debido a un secreto que se remonta a la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring some of its greatest directors.

Fábula que celebra el centenario del cine. En ella intervienen de forma desinteresada Harrison Ford, Depardieu, De Niro, Jane Birkin, Belmondo, Anouk Aimée, Deneuve, Delon, Moreau, Lollobrigida, Di Caprio, Martin Sheen, Dean Stanton, Léaud y muchos otros.

This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.

Mavi Sürgün is a fictionalized account of one period of the life of a Turkish journalist who was condemned to exile for an article he wrote in 1925. He turned his punishment into a reward by creating a little paradise in what is today the holiday resort, Bodrum. In fact he is considered by some to be the first ecologist. The film concentrates on this latter aspect of his character and through flashbacks portrays the inner turmoil of a man who is trying to come to terms with his past. The slow pace is somewhat of a drawback, the flashbacks are often confusing and the protagonist is not always very convincing. But the photography of the country side is exceptional Kenan Ormanlar and the short appearance by a very theatrical Hanna Schygulla of Fassbinder fame adds a little spice to the drama.

On the Schiermoser farm tense expectation prevails. The 'Urban', the Schaubleins, surprisingly announced their arrival. In the past, they were welcome as generous summer visitors. But now the shortage years of the First World War prevail. And the farmer's wife suspects lazy parasites in the townsfolk. The city family is indeed facing ruin. Especially since the defiant daughter Rosalie has just knocked out a promising money marriage without regard to scandal. The Rosalie is attracted to the Schiermoser heir Franz. His mother already drives the thought of a 'Madame Bäurin' to madness. Everyone experiences a turbulent time of upheaval. The end of the First World War will shake the social fronts as well as the new machine age.

Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem. The uncle's will instructs Danny to find the rest of the statue, so Danny, who speaks no Russian, embarks on a trip that takes him (and the Golem's hand) to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia, fumbling with hotel clerks, taxi drivers, and bureaucrats, following leads, and making discoveries about myth, story telling, art, and hope.

El título es una variación del título de una película que Fassbinder realizó en 1976, Sólo quiero que me queráis (Ich will doch nur, dass ihr mich liebt). Este es el primer intento tras la muerte del director de acercarse a la compleja personalidad de Fassbinder, profundizando en los aspectos más polémicos de su vida, como su abierta homosexualidad y su relación con las drogas. (FILMAFFINITY)

An allegory of the Golem, a Jewish mythical creature personifying displacement and exile, this film tells the story of a woman (similar to the biblical Ruth) and her sisters, who are forced into exile after the death of their husbands. It is set in 1990s Paris, where the director was living in self-imposed exile following the ban on his 1982 documentary in Israel. The recurring theme of the film is migrations and unrooting, like the legendary Golem.

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.

Mike Church es un detective de Los Angeles especializado en la búsqueda de personas desaparecidas. Pero el último trabajo que le han encargado es muy distinto: debe ayudar a una hermosa mujer a recuperar la memoria perdida, a descubrir quién es. La única pista es una pesadilla recurrente en la que alguien, en los años cuarenta, la apuñala con unas tijeras. El sueño es de un realismo tal que ha convertido su vida en un infierno. Mike decide poner un anuncio en un periódico para encontrar a alguien que conozca a la chica y pueda ayudarle. Se presenta Franklyn Madson, anticuario e hipnotizador, que propone adentrarse en sus recuerdos mediante la hipnosis. Así es como empieza a recordar, pero no su propia vida, sino la de Margaret Strauss, famosa pianista de los años 40 que murió asesinada.

In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her.

In this tragic melodrama, a man who has been hiding his Nazi past has it come back to haunt him when his hippie daughter, whom he disapproves of, comes back to bond with her daughter, whom he's been raising. Meanwhile, he and his drinking buddy, a beer-truck driver, go on a jaunt to Poland to recover some gold fillings he had hidden years ago during the time when he worked in a concentration camp. The truck driver inadvertently leaves a filling lying around at home, and his mother immediately recognizes it for what it is. When she confronts him, he claims that "Jews don't mean anything to me" and she must then reveal his Jewish heritage to him: she was a housekeeper in a Jewish household and he was a child there whom she adopted during the Holocaust in order to save his life. The driver then confronts the wily old Nazi, who conceives a brutal scheme which will save his cozy life at the expense of the reputations of the driver and his granddaughter.

Mrs. Forbes, a German governess, is hired for six weeks to take care of two children, while their parents are away. She is authoritarian and repressive, so the children plan to murder her. But when they spy on her during the night, they discover Mrs. Forbes' secret.

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

TV Movie version of the story of Giacomo Casanova, the famous eighteenth century womanizer.

The amazing biography of legendary circus impresario and unparalleled showman, P.T. Barnum.

When Elaine, an adventurous young woman from Germany, arrives in New York City, she sets out to be a famous writer. After a brief stint at a mundane job, Elaine falls on hard times and also becomes intrigued by a mysterious stranger named Lulu. Before long, Elaine gets roped into situations involving theft, murder and the mob. Can the beleaguered expatriate with big dreams turn her life around and steer clear of crime and chaos?

Cuando unos terroristas secuestran un avión de pasajeros lleno de ciudadanos estadounidenses, un comando especial de fuerzas de élite será el encargado de intentar liberar a los rehenes.

Anna y Gordon viven juntos y se aman. Han decidido no tener hijos, porque están asustados por la amenaza de las bombas atómicas. Hasta que conocen a Malvina, una chica solitaria y nómada que está embarazada de seis meses. Un extraño afecto se desarrolla entre ellos, mezclado de tentaciones y deseos.

En mayo de 1983, un hombre de 49 años, acompañado de su hijo, viaja al pueblo de su infancia, en Baden. Su deseo es descubrir qué le sucedió en realidad a su madre. Sus recuerdos son muy borrosos y, además, por aquel entonces era demasiado pequeño para comprender lo que ocurría a su alrededor.

Ruth, esposa de un célebre pacifista, tiene miedo de la gente. Olga, profesora de literatura y esposa de un exitoso director de teatro, conoce a Ruth durante unas vacaciones, y ambas se hacen amigas. Los hombres hablan, las mujeres escuchan, ignoradas por sus maridos...

En un pueblo italiano vive Piera, una mujer que carece de principios morales. Sus modales no están bien vistos entre sus vecinos. Cuando era pequeña acompañaba a su madre a sus citas con hombres y ella misma inicia una relación incestuosa con su propia hija. La ausencia de moral y de estabilidad familiar que han marcado su vida desde la niñez acabarán creándole problemas de salud.

Mientras se documenta para escribir un libro sobre el suicidio, a Anna le llama especialmente la atención una historia: la de Antonieta Rivas, una mujer de fuerte carácter que fue testigo de la revolución mexicana y amante de José Vasconcelos, aspirante a Presidente de la República. Anna decide entonces ir a México para investigar "in situ" el pasado de Antonieta.

Jerzy, un director polaco, está rodando un filme sobre pinturas famosas. Isabelle, una muchacha tartamuda de clase obrera, pierde su trabajo. Ambos se conocen, se convierten en amantes y se van a vivir a Polonia.

Siglo XVIII. Crónica de un viaje que comparten Luis XVI, María Antonieta, Casanova, el novelista francés Restif de la Bretonne, una de las damas de compañía de la reina y el estadounidense Thomas Paine.

Producido inicialmente para emitirse en televisión, en este trabajo Jean-Luc Godard habla sobre la práctica del cine y se pregunta sobre el origen de la creatividad. (FILMAFFINITY)

Georg Laschen leaves his family in West Germany to go work as a war correspondent in Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians.

A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.

Lili Marleen es la historia de una canción que, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, llegó a convertirse en un himno, primero del nazismo y después del bando aliado. En 1936, Norbert Schultze, un pianista de cabaret, le puso música a la letra que había escrito años atrás un soldado alemán. Tres años más tarde la grabó en disco una bella pero mediocre cantante, Lale Andersen, que consiguió un éxito y una popularidad tales que los servicios de propaganda del Tercer Reich decidieron hacer suya la canción.

Comedia de humor negro que satiriza las peripecias de una banda de terroristas de Berlín, cuyos miembros pertenecen a las clases altas. Un nuevo análisis de la sociedad alemana, común denominador de la mayoría de las obras del director.

Maria y Hermann Braun se casan durante un bombardeo, poco antes de que él sea enviado al frente ruso. Al final de la guerra, Hermann figura en las listas de desaparecidos. En la ciudad, entre las ruinas, reina el mercado negro y la prostitución. También Maria, para poder sobrevivir, debe prostituirse. Así se hace amante de Bill, un soldado negro americano, del que queda embarazada; pero su marido reaparece.

Encouraged by Fassbinder, with whom he became friendly after the then-enfant terrible of the German cinema visited him in Lugano, Sirk also did some teaching during the late 1970s at the film school in Munich, where he made three short films with his students.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

Basada en la novela homónima de Theodor Fontane, trata sobre el estricto código moral de los prusianos durante los tiempos de Bismarck. Effi Briest es una joven que se casa con un hombre mayor que ella, el Baron von Instetten. Tras unos años en los que la pareja vive feliz, la amistad de ella con el Mayor Crampas supondrá un conflicto ético que concluirá con un duelo entre el marido ofendido y el supuesto amante.

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown unbearable.

A very stylized TV version of the Fassbinder play. The set consists of a few pieces of furniture in front of a large screen on which coastal scenery is back projected. Geesche is a nineteenth century woman who wants to have a mind of her own. She defies convention and will do anything to achieve her freedom from oppression by her family and friends. (synopsis written by Will Gilbert)

Petra von Kant, una diseñadora de moda que acaba de separarse de su marido, vive con su secretaria-esclava Marlene (personaje simbólicamente mudo). Cuando su amiga y confidente Sidonie le presenta a Karin, una joven de origen humilde, se enamora locamente de ella y le promete que va a convertirla en una famosa modelo. Sin embargo, Karin la abandona poco tiempo después para irse con su marido que, después de un viaje, acaba de volver a Frankfurt. Petra cae entonces en una profunda depresión.

Hans es un frutero ambulante que vende su mercancía por las calles de Múnich. Es un hombre fracasado y que ha perdido la autoestima, entre otras cosas porque tiene una madre dominante que siempre se ha mostado insatisfecha con él. Además, la mujer de su vida lo dejó plantado, y su fría y celosa esposa y su cínica hermana le han destrozado la vida. Su debilidad es tal que se deja arrastrar por la violencia y al alcohol...

Adaptation of Robert Walser's novel about a young man who enters an oppressive servant school.

Un equipo de rodaje, y el reparto de la película, incluido Eddie Constantine, está sentado alrededor de un hotel de playa cutre en España esperando al director de la película para empezar el rodaje. Mientras tanto, el director de producción intimida a todo el mundo, y se desarrollan intrigas en el bar del hotel.

Una adinerada familia posee una plantación en el Far West. Junto a Ben, el poderoso patriarca, encontramos a Catherine, su joven, bella y masoquista esposa; a los dos hijos habidos en su primer matrimonio: Frank, homosexual atraído tanto por las prendas femeninas como por la vestimenta típica del Ku Klux Klan, y el albino retrasado mental Davy; Whity, sirviente negro de la casa e hijo ilegítimo de Ben que cumple su trabajo con abnegada y surrealista dedicación sin dar importancia a las humillaciones a que es sometido; y su madre, cocinera de la casa que canta canciones típicas de los negros mientras realiza sus quehaceres.

Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.

German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are watching them and musing about their ideas on men and relationships. The soldiers (often referred to as pioneers) have been given the task of building a bridge in the town. Alma seems to understand that the soldiers only want her for short sexual encounters, so she's prepared to live her life accordingly. Meanwhile, romantic Berta falls in love with self-centered soldier Karl (Harry Baer), who all but tells her to get lost. The soldiers get drunk and beat up a random passerby. The women grow to hate Alma for her acceptance of life as a sex object. Naïve Berta is ultimately humiliated.

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.

El 3 de mayo de 1476, el pastor Hans Böhm dice haber visto la Virgen María en Niklashausen. Treinta mil campesinos creyeron que Böhm era el nuevo Mesías y se agruparon a su alrededor. Después de predicar la doctrina revolucionaria en contra el privilegio personal, fue arrestado por el obispo y quemado en Würzburg el 15 de julio, cinco meses después de su visión. La película no es una reconstrucción histórica, sino mas bien un ensayo de Fassbinder sobre cómo el pasado afecta el presente. (FILMAFFINITY)

A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.

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.

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffehouse" which also became a television-movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film-Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" were shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature-movie were given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder than Death", while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!". In this interesting documentary Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father which was a respectable doctor.

Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.

A Franz (Fassbinder), un chulo de poca monta cuya novia es una prostituta (Hanna Schygulla), se le plantea un problema. Acostumbrado a "trabajar" por cuenta y riesgo propios, un sindicato de gánsteres le pide que actúe para ellos, pero él se niega a ingresar en la organización criminal. Ésta lo hace vigilar por un confidente para doblegar su voluntad. Mientras la organización lo tiene secuestrado, entre él y el espía Bruno (Ulli Lommel) surge espontáneamente una relación de amistad. Franz se siente fascinado por la belleza angelical de Bruno...

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.’

Jorgos, un inmigrante griego, se une a un grupo de jóvenes que por lo general pierden el tiempo. Este extranjero despierta la hostilidad y los celos entre ellos, y es insultado como "un Comunista" y "el perro griego". Después de haber sido atacado, Jorgos le confiesa a María su deseo de volver a casa.

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.