Self
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.
Self
Travelling between Germany, France and Morocco, Viola Shafik reconstructs and deconstructs the unknown life story of El Hedi Ben Salem through interviews with his companions and family members as well as archive material. With openness and slight naivety the interviewees explain how “Ali” became an oriental object of projection for the Fassbinder group, while El Hedi Ben Salem, the human being, was overlooked in order to establish the foreigner as “other.” A no-frills examination of a piece of German and Munich film history.
Writer
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that he had AIDS. Despite his deteriorating health, and with the caring support of his friend Hans Hirshmuller, he carried on working. This tape is his last testimony. Awarded with the Adolf Grimme Award and Cinéma du Réel Award
Director
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that he had AIDS. Despite his deteriorating health, and with the caring support of his friend Hans Hirshmuller, he carried on working. This tape is his last testimony. Awarded with the Adolf Grimme Award and Cinéma du Réel Award
Himself
Made during the last months of actor Kurt Raab, who died of AIDS in 1988. Raab, who had worked in both theatre and film, most notably with Fassbinder, was in the process of making a series of video sketches for a new production when he learned that he had AIDS. Despite his deteriorating health, and with the caring support of his friend Hans Hirshmuller, he carried on working. This tape is his last testimony. Awarded with the Adolf Grimme Award and Cinéma du Réel Award
Mahr
At Gestapo head quarters a young woman establishes a relationship with another inmate. This young woman is Sophie Scholl who tells the story of her life and of her resistance movement′s courageous fight against Hitler′s Nazi regime.
Rudi
Theo Gromberg is a bon vivant, apparently with built-in guarantee to failure. Faithful to his side is his friend Enno, an Italian guest workers. Both have a dream: to which they want to get into the trucking business its own trucks.
Police Officer
El periodista alemán Felix Winter recorre los Estados Unidos buscando temas para escribir un libro, pero como ni siquiera consigue empezarlo, su editor cancela el contrato. Cuando Félix decide regresar a Alemania, en el aeropuerto conoce a una mujer, y como no hay vuelos hasta el día siguiente pasa la noche con ella. La mujer desaparece, pero le deja un recado: que vaya con su hija Alicia, de nueve años, a Amsterdam para reunirse con ella.
Fahrradkäufer
En 1925, en Alemania, Fritz Haarmann, es un ladrón homosexual y furtivo, con una licencia especial de la policía. Vende carne en el mercado negro. También mata a los niños y jóvenes, bebe su sangre, cose sus cuerpos y tira sus partes en un río. Ciertamente, lo que vende en el mercado negro es carne humana... Nueva reedición de la historia de "El Vampiro de Düsseldorf", acentuando en este caso su trasfondo de crítica social y explicitando sus elementos sádicos, homosexuales y canibalescos.
Hans Epp
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...
Offizier
Avant-garde adaptation of a Carlo Goldoni play. Well-to-do Venetians congregate in a coffee house and discuss their problems.
Peter
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...
Erich
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.
A man bored with his wife goes to the Munich Oktoberfest. He meets a pregnant student who discusses the problems of bourgeois marriage with him and finally returns home disappointed.
