Plot:
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

	
baal.1970.720p.bluray.x264-pussyfoot.mkv

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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One of the most controversial productions by the late German writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was his stage play The Garbage, the City and Death; when he sought to film the play in Germany, Fassbinder was denied state funds on the basis of a charge of anti-Semitic content. Swiss filmmaker Daniel Schmid, a film-school colleague and longtime friend of Fassbinder’s, undertook the project in 1976, employing Fassbinder’s now-familiar repertory company including Fassbinder and his then-wife Ingrid Caven. Set amid the Frankfurt lowlife–prostitutes, pimps, sadistic police and perverted businessmen–the story concerns a streetwalker (Caven) who is reportedly too chic for her own good and can’t make a go of it among her only available clientele. She is brutalized by her pimp (portrayed by a very slim Fassbinder), who continues to send her out on the streets while he indulges his preference for men. Luck comes her way in the form of a Jewish businessman (Klaus Lowitsch); he hires her only to listen to him talk and, occasionally, pose as his bride in the murky nocturnal street scene.

This character, referred to simply as “the rich Jew,” is the center of the controversy surrounding both the play and the film. American critics have responded in a somewhat more favorable light to the character, Jim Hoberman (Village Voice) noting, “Making Frankfurt’s ace capitalist a Jew is aggressively tasteless but not, I think, anti-Semitic…Lowitsch is neither unsympathetic nor racially stereotyped.” His viewpoint concurs more or less with that of the director, Daniel Schmid, who notes, “For us, Shadow of Angels was a film about a Germany where no one is starving and no one is scared anymore, and the only two people who are still sensitive are the prostitute and the Jew, because both of them are outcasts.”

Shadow of Angels is as provocative as one might expect from Fassbinder; it is not a pretty picture, and it anticipates in a raw way themes which he would take up in a later, more commercial period of filmmaking, from Berlin Alexanderplatz to Lola. Schmid, whose films include La Paloma (1974), Violanta (1978) and Hecate (1982), sketches Fassbinder’s cryptic dialogue, characters and action in broad, operatic terms characteristic of his own work, sometimes jarring scenes alive with unexpected riffs of Latin music. His style adds to the generally disquieting mood of this tour of prosperity’s grotesque underside.

Schatten der Engel.1976.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 41 min
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Language(s):German
Subtitles:Japanese, English

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Viola Shafik’s documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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‘My Name Is Not Ali’ is the very sad and bizarre story of one of Fassbinder’s most recognisable stars, the mysterious, gentle-hearted Moroccan immigrant of ‘Fear Eats the Soul’, El Hedi ben Salem.

This documentary is both moving and confusing, we never really get to find out who the real Salem was or understand what motivated him, but it seems like no one in his real life did either. The mystery of his suicide in a French prison seems to be cleared up, at least, as apparently instead he died of a heart attack when playing football with other inmates.

While both actor and director were dead before they reached 45, the real victims of the romantic and artistic collaboration between El Hedi ben Salem and Rainer Werner Fassbinder were Salem’s children, who were uprooted from their basic but happy lives in Morocco to be thrust into Fassbinder’s dangerous and alien fast-living world of cocaine, controversial filmmaking and emotional chaos, and their participation in the documentary makes for the most gripping interviews.

Possibly because his aura of mystery was so powerful, one of Salem’s sons even believes that he never died and is still alive somewhere today, with a new family.

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Runtime: 	1 h 36 min
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Language(s):German, Arabic
Subtitles:English

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Harry Baer plays a newly released ex-convict who slowly but surely finds his way back into the Munich criminal underworld. Meanwhile, his attentions are torn between two women (Hanna Schygulla and Margarethe von Trotta) and the friend (Günther Kaufmann) who shot his brother. This sensual, artfully composed film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder is a study of romantic and professional futility.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (1970) Gods of the Plague.mkv

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English, French

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Based on the personal recollections of Danish film journalist Christian Braad Thomsen, Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands is an episodic but thorough examination of the man and his works. Starting with the terrible reception of his first feature film Love Is Colder Than Death at the 1969 Berlin Film Festival, the bio-doc builds through photographs, stills, audio recordings and filmed interviews a portrait of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his loose but consuming relationships with his family and the extended families he created around him. [MARK WILSHIN, Dog and Wolf]

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

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PLOT: Hans is an ex-foreign legionnaire, ex-cop and a lifelong member of the middle-class. His family, especially his wife, derides him for his lack of ambition and his chosen profession: running a fruit stand. When a heart attack impedes his ability to work, his dissatisfaction turns into despair…

The Merchant of Four Seasons.1971.720p.CriterionBluRay.AVC-mfcorrea.mkv

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English

The post Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Händler der vier Jahreszeiten AKA The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

PLOT: Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director and star to arrive on location.

Beware.of.a.Holy.Whore.1971.Rainer.Werner.Fassbinder.576p.BluRay.AAC1.0.x264.mkv

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Language(s):German,Spanish,English,French
Subtitles:English, French

The post Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte AKA Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.