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Querelle review by from DENBIGHSHIRE

Homophobes Need Not Apply!! 5 February 2004
...'Querelle' was the final film in the prolific career of Germany's Rainer Werner Fassbinder, completed shortly before his untimely death at age 37 in June 1982. Based on Jean Genet's n... Read customer review

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - filmography

Room 666 on DVD (1982)
Starring: Chantal Akerman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Maroun Bagdadi
Director: Wim Wenders
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During the Cannes Film Festival of 1982 Wenders persuades a number of film directors to lock themselves in a hotel room, switch on the camera and ponder on the question "What is the future of cinema?".

58% from 49 members

Querelle on DVD (1982)
Starring: Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau, Franco Nero
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Fassbind
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A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colourful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering ..read more »

50% from 1,423 member

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - Veron... on DVD (1982)
Starring: Rosel Zech, Volker Spengler
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Influeneced by Billy Wilder's 'Sunset Boulevard', Fassbinder's savage satire stars Rosel Zech as the eponymous Veronika Voss, a washed-up film star who dreams of returning to the glory days of her past.

75% from 127 members

Lola (1981)
Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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In a Bavarian nightclub, Lola seduces Herr von Bohm through a mixture of deceit, desire and ambition. Throughout the film director Fassbinder attacks hypocrisy, corruption, double-standards and Germany.

68% from 51 members
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (6 discs) on DVD (1980)
Starring: Gunter Lamprecht
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Franz Biberkopf is an unforgettable man: good-natured, soft, tender, but also hard, violent and brutal. Released from prison following a four year sentence for the manslaughter of his girlfriend, he plans to make a new start and a decent life for himself. But a chaotic, decadent Berlin of the 20's ..read more »

66% from 487 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - The T... on DVD (1979)
Starring: Rosel Zech, Volker Spengler
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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One of Fassbinder's most controversial films, 'The Third Generation' is a perverse satire about an incompetent gang of bourgeois terrorists who are motivated more by a desire for action than by their weak political convictions.

71% from 77 members

In A Year Of 13 Moons (1978)
Starring: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS presents a darkly comic, melodramatic study of a life in the midst of transformation and discovery. Erwin Weishaupt (Volker Spengler) desperately loves his girlfriend, and becomes devastated when she casually remarks that she wishes he were a woman. This comment sets Erwin on ..read more »

74% from 26 members
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Despair on DVD (1978)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set in ..read more »

66% from 23 members

Despair - Blu-ray (1978)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Andréa Ferréol, Klaus Löwitsch
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd film, Despair. Here, he uses a witty screenplay written by the well-known playwright Tom Stoppard, based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Furthermore, the entire film, set in ..read more »

52% from 8 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - Germa... on DVD (1978)
Starring: Rosel Zech, Volker Spengler
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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This fascinating portmanteau film also takes as its subject the political unrest wrought in the autumn of 1977 by the terrorist activities of Red Army Faction. Through documentary, dramatised vignettes and archival footage, Fassbinder and his collaborators examine the events and explore the ..read more »

73% from 63 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - In A ... on DVD (1978)
Starring: Rosel Zech, Volker Spengler
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Volker Spengler gives an extraordinary performance as the transgendered Elvira, a man who has become a woman in a desperate bid to please a former lover. Relaying various episodes from Elvira's life, Fassbinder's powerful film is one of his most intensely personal.

76% from 83 members

I Only Want You to Love Me on DVD (1976)
Starring: Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs this bleak morality tale about a young Bavarian bricklayer who longs for love. Raised in a rigid, remote household and married to an emotionally distant woman, everyone in his life seems indifferent to his suffering. His life takes a further unfortunate turn when, ..read more »

66% from 10 members

World On A Wire (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
Starring: Klaus Lowitsch, Gunter Lamprecht, Ulli Lommel
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Fassbind
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Originally broadcast in 1973, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's two-part science-fiction mini series set in a computer-generated 'other world' pre-dates the similarly themed THE MATRIX by more than a quarter of a century. Simulacron 1 is an advanced project used to create a virtual reality that is ..read more »

69% from 200 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection - 19... (9 discs) on DVD
Starring: Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Fassbind
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Features a collection of films by highly acclaimed directer Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Titles include LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH, KATZELMACHER, GODS OF THE PLAGUE, THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY, RIO DAS MORTES, BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE, THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS, and THE BITTER TEARS OF ..read more »

65% from 345 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Rosel Zech, Volker Spengler
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Until his untimely death aged just 36, Rainer Werner Fassbinder blazed a trail through post-war German cinema leaving a prolific and celebrated body of work that continues to inspire, shock and challenge audiences and filmmakers. This set includes Veronika Voss / In A Year of 13 Moons / The Third ..read more »

72% from 174 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol 1 (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Barbara Sukowa, Margit Carstensen, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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One of the most acclaimed and controversial post-war German filmmakers, Rainer Werner Fassbinder created a prolific and extraordinarily influential body of work that revolutionised cinema. This set includes Lola / Martha / Why Does Herr R Run Amok? / I Donï¿½t Just Want You To Love Me

74% from 251 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection - 19... (8 discs) on DVD
Starring: Brigitte Mira, Margit Carstensen, Klaus Lowitsch
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Fassbind
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Features a collection of films by highly acclaimed directer Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Includes the films FEAR EATS THE SOUL, EFFI BRIEST, FOX AND HIS FRIENDS, MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN, FEAR OF FEAR, SATAN'S BREW, CHINESE ROULETTE, and THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN.

74% from 742 members

Rainer Werner Fassbinder facts

5 most recent films

Room 666 - 3.0 stars
Querelle - 2.5 stars
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - Veronika Voss - 4.0 stars
Lola - 3.5 stars
Berlin Alexanderplatz - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - In A Year Of Thirteen Moons - 4.0 stars
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - Veronika Voss - 4.0 stars
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol 1 - 3.5 stars
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Vol.2 - Germany In Autumn - 3.5 stars
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection - 1973-1982 - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Despair - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
I Only Want You to Love Me - 3.0 stars
Despair - 3.5 stars
In A Year Of 13 Moons - 3.5 stars
Querelle - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Volker Spengler - 8 times - show films
Margit Carstensen - 6 times - show films
Rosel Zech - 5 times - show films
Gunter Lamprecht - 4 times - show films
Ulli Lommel - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rainer Werner Fassbind - 4 times - show films
Wim Wenders - 2 times - show films