Cast: Karl Scheydt

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Gottfried John · Hanna Schygulla · Luise Ullrich · Werner Finck

Plot TV Miniseries (1972-1973). Five episodes. "Eight Hours are Not a Day" describes the problems and reality of the german society in the 70's, through the lives of a young man,...

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 Volker Spengler · Ingrid Caven · Gottfried John · Elisabeth Trissenaar

Plot When his wealthy male lover dumps him, Erwin Weishaupt makes a desperate attempt to win his man back by having a sex change operation. But the sacrifice is doomed to...

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 Lou Castel · Eddie Constantine · Marquand Böhm · Hanna Schygulla

Plot On a film set there are two things missing, the film material and the director. So the actors and actresses as well as the crew try to make the best...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast Karl Scheydt · Elga Sorbas · Jan George · Margarethe von Trotta

Plot After his return from Vietnam war, an American with German origins comes to Germany for a visit - not as a tourist but as a hit-man. Policemen from Munich have...

Direction Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Michael Fengler

Cast Michael König · Hanna Schygulla · Margit Carstensen · Michael Gordon

Plot Can a small group of people start a proletarian revolution, asks the "Black Monk" in a leather jacket. The medieval shepherd, Hans Boehm, claims to have been called by the...

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,...