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The destructive nature of a rising Nazi menace is the subtext in this drama about a young man in Germany in the late ’20s. While he enjoys a certain immunity from hard times because of a rich friend and female companionship, he is not blind. He sees mounting injustices in the society around him and cannot always reconcile them with his own views. After his love life gets a jolt and he loses his job, he debates whether or not to work for a Nazi newspaper as the future seems to look worse each day.

795MB | 1h 49mn | 544×416 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/3F56AA3544AA03F/Fabian.avi

Language(s):German
Subtitles:None

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This is a TV documentary featuring footage of Fassbinder on the sets of “Kamikaze 89” and “Querelle”. There is also an interview with him (I think it might be the last interview he gave before his death). “Last Works” director Gremm was staying at Fassbinder’s apartment during the night of his overdose.

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

This portrait, drawn by Wolf Gremm, shows Rainer Werner Fassbinder both as an actor – taking the leading role in the film “KAMIKAZE 1989”, also directed by Wolf Gremm – and as a director working on “QUERELE”, his adaption of the work by Jean Genet. Wolf Gremm: “We met at a football match – we were players, not spectators. He was shooting “Alexanderplatz” in Berlin at the time, and I was working on “Fabian”. I challenged his team… A lot of books are going to be written about Rainer Werner Fassbinder by people who worked closely with him. The question is, will they be as fascinating as the films he made years ago about his relationship with them? I think anyone who wants to make a staement about his indefatigable life and the fascination of the memorable encounters and the act of working together with him, has to film his life, and to do that you would have an ability matching Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s: to describe not the people, but what lies inbetween them”. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s favourite line, which he used to scrawl everywhere: Life is very precious even right now!

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/8A0E47E40840956/rainerwernerfassbinder-lastworks.avi
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/357944CD8A56E63/rainerwernerfassbinder-lastworks.srt

Language: German (with English subtitles)

The post Wolf Gremm – Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Letzte Arbeiten AKA Last Works (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Wolf Gremm’s Kamikaze ‘89 gleefully engages the Eurotrash spirit of liberation from corporate culture. It places Berlin’s rabble-rousing nighthawks in the midst of a terrorist investigation that may-or-may-not implicate a fascistic media conglomerate known as The Combine. Caught in step with music and sex above politics, the libidinous partygoers remain oblivious to the rampant corruption that exists beyond the pulsating speakers.

The decidedly batshit plot pits thriving corporate interests against Jansen (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), a rogue lieutenant whose proclivities for leopard-print suits and bicarbonate soda mark him as a pastiche, taken in part from elements of garish German high fashion and the sadistic American detective (think Glenn Ford in The Big Heat, which was directed by German expat Fritz Lang). Kamikaze ‘89 is less a genre shrine to the neon-drenched future of skyscraper-sized advertisements for Coke than a satire on the preceding generation’s “conquest of cool,” to borrow a phrase from Thomas Frank.

3.10GB | 1h 46m | 956×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0422E251EFB7D7C/Kamikaze.1989.AKA.Kamikaze.89.1982.576p.BluRay.x264.AAC.1.0-dps.mkv

Language(s):German+commentary
Subtitles:English

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