Cast: El Hedi ben Salem

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · El Hedi ben Salem · Barbara Valentin · Irm Hermann

Plot Emmi, a woman truly in the second half of life, falls in love with Ali, a Berber guest worker more than ten years younger. When they both decide to marry,...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Peter Chatel · Karlheinz Böhm · Rudolf Lenz

Plot Franz "Fox" Biberkopf is a working-class guy, at loose ends when his lover is arrested and the police shutter their carnival booth. In need of cash for his weekly lottery...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Hans Hirschmüller · Irm Hermann · Hanna Schygulla · Gusti Kreisal

Plot Der Händler der vier Jahreszeiten (The Merchant of Four Seasons) is one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's several "bourgeois films" that depict and critique middle-class society. The film deceptively unfolds like...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Brigitte Mira · Evelyn Künneke · Ingfried Hoffmann · El Hedi ben Salem

Plot "Like a Bird on a Wire" is a forty minutes television production featuring Brigitte Mira, the main actress in "Fear eats the Soul", singing cabaret songs and love ballads from...

Direction Viola Shafik

Cast El Hedi ben Salem · Rudolf Waldemar Brem · Thea Eymèsz · Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Plot El Hedi Ben Salem, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's unlucky North-African lover, lead player of Ali Fear Eats Soul (1973) has been the subject of a myth: described as a'cultural miracle' he...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Eva Mattes · Harry Baer · Jörg von Liebenfels · Ruth Drexel

Plot Hanni is only 13, but mature at an early age. Her Franz is 19 and an unskilled worker. His relationship with the minor does not go undetected. As a consequence,...