Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 2 - 4-DVD Box Set ( Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss / In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden / Die Dritte Generation / Deutschland im Herbst ) ( Veronika Voss / In a Year of 13 Moons / The Third Generation / Germany in Autumn )

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 2 - 4-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss / In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden / Die Dritte Generation / Deutschland im Herbst
Alternate Title: Veronika Voss / In a Year of 13 Moons / The Third Generation / Germany in Autumn
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
441 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 - 1982 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Alf Brustellin

Written By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Pea Fröhlich
Alf Brustellin
Heinrich Böll

Actors:
Rosel Zech ..... Veronika Voss
Hilmar Thate ..... Robert Krohn
Cornelia Froboess ..... Henriette
Annemarie Düringer ..... Dr. Marianne Katz
Doris Schade ..... Josefa
Erik Schumann ..... Dr. Edel
Peter Berling ..... Filmproduzent / Dicker Mann
Günther Kaufmann ..... G.I. / Dealer (as Günter Kaufmann)
Sonja Neudorfer ..... Verkäuferin
Lilo Pempeit ..... Chehm
Volker Spengler ..... 1. Regisseur
Herbert Steinmetz ..... Gärtner
Elisabeth Volkmann ..... Grete
Hans Wyprächtiger ..... Chefredakteur
Peter Zadek ..... 2. Regisseur
Volker Spengler ..... Erwin / Elvira Weishaupt
Ingrid Caven ..... Die rote Zora
Gottfried John ..... Anton Saitz
Elisabeth Trissenaar ..... Irene Weishaupt
Eva Mattes ..... Marie-Ann Weishaupt
Günther Kaufmann ..... J. Smolik, Chauffeur
Lilo Pempeit ..... Schwester Gudrun (as Lieselotte Pempeit)
Isolde Barth ..... Sybille
Karl Scheydt ..... Christoph Hacker
Walter Bockmayer ..... Seelenfrieda
Peter Kollek ..... Saeufer
Bob Dorsay ..... Selbstmörder
Gerhard Zwerenz ..... Burghard Hauser, Schriftsteller
Harry Baer ..... Rudolf Mann
Hark Bohm ..... Gerhard Gast
Margit Carstensen ..... Petra Vielhaber
Eddie Constantine ..... Peter Lurz
Jürgen Draeger ..... Hans Vielhaber
Raúl Gimenez ..... Paul
Claus Holm ..... Grandpa Gast
Günther Kaufmann ..... Franz Walsch
Udo Kier ..... Edgar Gast
Y Sa Lo ..... Ilse Hoffmann
Bulle Ogier ..... Hilde Krieger
Lilo Pempeit ..... Mother Gast
Peer Raben ..... Susanne Gast
Hanna Schygulla ..... August Brem
Volker Spengler ..... Bernhard von Stein
Vitus Zeplichal
Wolfgang Bächler ..... TV committee member
Heinz Bennent ..... Himself
Wolf Biermann ..... Foreigner
Joachim Bissmeier ..... Freiermuth
Caroline Chaniolleau ..... Mahler's interviewer
Hans Peter Cloos ..... Gabi Teichert
Otto Friebel ..... TV committee member
Hildegard Friese ..... Himself
Michael Gahr
Vadim Glowna
Helmut Griem
Hannelore Hoger
Petra Kiener
Dieter Laser
Horst Mahler

Synopsis:

Veronika Voss (1982)

Originally Die Sehnsucht de Veronika Voss, this Rainer Werner Fassbinder spin on Sunset Boulevard stars Rosel Zech as film actress Veronika Voss. Once the toast of Germany, Veronika had allegedly been an intimate of Joseph Gobbels. But the Third Reich is dead...and Veronika may as well be. Playing to an increasingly diminishing fan following, Veronika turns to drugs to cushion her against the cruelties of life. Her self-destruction is accelerated by her 'Doctor Feelgood' Annemaire Duringer, who plys Veronika with morphine in order to gain control of the actress's money and property. Well-meaning sportswriter Hilmar Thate tries to save Veronika from herself, sacrificing his own personal happiness -- and the life of his girlfriend Cornelia Froeboess -- in the process. Allegedly an amalgam of several true stories, Veronika Voss is the last of Fassbinder's 'postwar trilogy' (the first two were The Marriage of Maria Braun and Lola).

In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)

This Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama centers around the lonely quest for love of Elvira Weishaupt, a man who became a woman to please his/her man. Just prior to that, Elivira had been jilted by her previous live-in partner, a man. She does the operation to win the heart of another, Anton. Unfortunately, the sex-change operation does not change the intended's mind; Anton is simply not interested.

The Third Generation (1979)

Displaying a sense of humor that can most kindly be described as perverse, Fassbinder follows the exploits of a group of well-heeled German terrorists. Without truly taking sides, the director demonstrates how the terrorists are essentially shooting themselves in the foot. The more havoc they spread, the tighter the government restrictions against other radicals. Eddie Constantine, the sang-froid leading man of many a Lemmy Caution espionage film, is ironically cast in The Third Generation.

Germany in Autumn (1978)

This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Germany when terrorism ran rampant. Filmmakers include Fassbinder, Boll, Schlondorff, Sinkel, Kluge (who narrates) and more.

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