Wolfgang Knigge

Hámos' fascination with the cultural mythology of the hero culminates in this witty, elaborately crafted drama, which was produced for European television. Hámos intercuts two parallel narratives to tell his story: a cartoonish, campy science fiction adventure, shot on video; and an elegant, cinematic political thriller, shot on film. Hámos blends the two genres into a tragicomic tale of the role of heroes, their immortality, and the catharsis of a heroic death. The science fiction melodrama features a comic book superhero, Hurry Cane, who saves the earth from the evil Emperor Argon; in the film noir, hired killers have a contract out on the hero Cane. Hámos' analysis of the myth of the hero is articulated in his collusion of the two stylized dramas and their contrasting representational modes..

A detective with the highest clearance rate in the country, gets involved in a case with a young woman arrested for having killed her child. The detective falls under the spell of the young woman.

In the winter of 1977 Schaubühne staged texts from Hölderlin's "Hyperion" in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, associating with historical, political events and terrorism of recent times.

Cahiers du cinéma critic Serge Daney asks whether The Kingdom of Naples is "leftist fiction, kitschy melodrama, photo-roman, a decadent chronicle of a city, opera in a minor key, or simply the first realistic narrative film by Schroeter?" It is all of these and more: an epic chronicle of proletarian family life in Naples from 1943 to 1972 that brilliantly captures the wretched poverty, overwrought passions, and political, religious and economic upheavals of Sicily across two generations. Schroeter assimilates neorealist aesthetics and class sympathies with the tempestuous excesses of popular melodrama, borrowing freely from Rossellini, Pasolini, Visconti, Brecht, and Rossini. (Facets)

방랑 음악인이자 발라드 가수인 브루노 슈트로스체크가 석방된다. 감독은 그에게 더이상 술을 마시지 말라고 경고한다. 그러나 그는 감옥 문지방을 넘자마자 모퉁이에 있는 술집에서 맥주를 마시며 바깥 세상과의 만남을 축하한다. 그는 매춘부 에바를 만나면서 새 삶을 살기로 결심한다. 그들은 에바를 학대하는 포주로부터 벗어나기 위해 이웃에 사는 노인 샤이츠씨의 조카가 주유소를 하고 있는 미국으로 도주한다. 행복한 시간도 잠시 에바는 화물 운전수와 달아나고 슈트로스체크는 추운 11월의 어느 아침, 안개가 자욱한 언덕에서 총으로 자살하고 만다.

Buddies Frank and Fred have their own company, "Frank & Fred's All-Around Service", a maintenance company that services a large apartment complex. However, the main "services" they provide are to the lonely and horny housewives who live in the complex.

Con man and gigolo Harry Korda decides he has to strike it big by finding a millionaire's daughter to marry so he can gather enough money to move to the Bahamas.