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 and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Schallplattenverkäuferin
건축사무소의 전문 기사인 R씨는 기혼이며 멋진 집에 사랑스런 아내와 소 한 마리가 있다. 다른 사람들처럼 지극히 평범하게 살고 있다. R씨는 이웃 사람과 시시콜콜한 것을 이야기한다. 무덤덤하게 듣고 있던 R씨는 뭔가를 곰곰이 생각하다가 게걸스럽게 먹는다. 그러던 R씨는 갑자기 일어나서 큰 촛대를 들고 옆집 사람과 부인, 아이까지 때려죽인다. 다음날 사무실에 형사가 온다. R씨는 화장실에서 목을 맨 채 발견된다.
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.’
