Lilith Ungerer

The true story of Adele Spitzeder, who started her own private bank in 1870s Bavaria by promising everyone that gave her money high interest rates. Initially dubbed the "Angel of the poor", she was arrested for fraud after the whole scheme collapsed.

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.

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.

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.

When Peter proposes to his wife Ellen one evening that they have a three-way relationship with his girlfriend Stella and quotes from Goethe's tragedy "Stella" to back it up, she initially reproaches him for not wanting to compare himself to the great poet. But then she asks for Stella's telephone number.