Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 2 1973 - 1982 8-DVD Set ( Angst essen Seele auf / Fontane - Effi Briest oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen / Fa ) ( Fear Eats the Soul / Fontane Effi Briest / Fox and His Friends / Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven / Fear of Fear / Satan's Brew / Chinese Roulette / The Marriage of Maria Braun )

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 2 1973 - 1982 8-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Angst essen Seele auf / Fontane - Effi Briest oder: Viele, die eine Ahnung haben von ihren Möglichkeiten und Bedürfnissen und dennoch das herrschende System in ihrem Kopf akzeptieren durch ihre Taten und es somit festigen und durchaus bestätigen / Fa
Alternate Title: Fear Eats the Soul / Fontane Effi Briest / Fox and His Friends / Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven / Fear of Fear / Satan's Brew / Chinese Roulette / The Marriage of Maria Braun
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
David Donatello Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
856 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1974 - 197 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Theodor Fontane
Christian Hohoff
Kurt Raab
Asta Scheib

Actors:
Brigitte Mira ..... Emmi Kurowski (Emanuela ben Salem M'Barek Mohammed Mustapha)
El Hedi ben Salem ..... Ali (El Hedi ben Salem M'Barek Mohammed Mustapha)
Barbara Valentin ..... Barbara
Irm Hermann ..... Krista
Karl Scheydt ..... Albert Kurowski
Marquard Bohm ..... Gruber
Walter Sedlmayr ..... Angermayer
Doris Mattes ..... Mrs. Angermeyer (as Doris Mathes)
Lilo Pempeit ..... Mrs. Münchmeyer
Gusti Kreissl ..... Paula
Margit Symo ..... Hedwig
Elisabeth Bertram ..... Frieda
Helga Ballhaus ..... Yolanda
Elma Karlowa ..... Mrs. Kargus
Anita Bucher ..... Mrs. Ellis
Hanna Schygulla ..... Effi Briest
Wolfgang Schenck ..... Baron Geert von Instetten
Ulli Lommel ..... Major Crampas
Lilo Pempeit ..... Louise Briest, Mutter
Herbert Steinmetz ..... Herr Briest, Vater
Ursula Strätz ..... Roswitha, Kindermädchen
Irm Hermann ..... Johanna, Haushälterin
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Geheimrat Wüllersdorf (as Karl-Heinz Böhm)
Karl Scheydt ..... Kruse
Barbara Lass ..... Polnische Köchin
Rudolf Lenz ..... Geheimrat Rummschüttel
Andrea Schober ..... Annie von Instetten, Tochter
Eva Mattes ..... Hulda
Theo Tecklenburg ..... Pastor Niemeyer
An Dorthe Braker ..... Frau Pasche (as Anndorthe Braker)
Peter Chatel ..... Eugen Thiess
Rainer Werner Fassbinder ..... Franz Bieberkopf alias 'Fox'
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Max (as Karl-Heinz Böhm)
Adrian Hoven ..... Wolf Thiess, Eugen's father
Christiane Maybach ..... Hedwig
Harry Baer ..... Philip (as Harry Bär)
Hans Zander ..... Barman Springer
Kurt Raab ..... Wodka-Peter
Rudolf Lenz ..... Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss
Karl Scheydt ..... Klaus
Peter Kern ..... Florist 'Fatty' Schmidt
Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer ..... Krapp
Walter Sedlmayr ..... Car dealer
Bruce Low ..... Doctor
Marquard Bohm ..... American Soldier (as Marquart Bohm)
Brigitte Mira ..... Emma Küsters
Ingrid Caven ..... Corinna
Margit Carstensen ..... Frau Thälmann
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Thälmann
Irm Hermann ..... Helene
Gottfried John ..... Niemeyer
Peter Kern ..... Nachtclubbesitzer
Kurt Raab ..... Barbesitzer Gustav
Gustav Holzapfel ..... Herr Holzapfel
Lilo Pempeit ..... Sekretärin
Peter Chatel ..... Photograph
Peter Bollag ..... Photograph
Vitus Zeplichal ..... Reporter
Volker Spengler ..... Photograph
Y Sa Lo ..... Terroristin
Margit Carstensen ..... Margot
Ulrich Faulhaber ..... Kurt, ihr Mann
Brigitte Mira ..... Mutter
Irm Hermann ..... Lore
Armin Meier ..... Karli
Adrian Hoven ..... Dr. Merck
Kurt Raab ..... Herr Bauer
Ingrid Caven ..... Edda
Lilo Pempeit ..... Mrs. Schall
Helga Maerthesheimer ..... Dr. von Unruh (as Helga Märthesheimer)
Herbert Steinmetz ..... Dr. Auer
Hark Bohm ..... Dr. Rozenbaum
Constanze Haas ..... Bibi, Margots Tochter
Kurt Raab ..... Walter Kranz
Margit Carstensen ..... Andrée
Helen Vita ..... Luise Kranz
Volker Spengler ..... Ernst Kranz
Ingrid Caven ..... Lisa
Y Sa Lo ..... Lana von Meyerbeer
Ulli Lommel ..... Lauf
Armin Meier ..... Stricher
Katherina Buchhammer ..... Irmgart von Witzleben
Vitus Zeplichal ..... Urs
Brigitte Mira ..... Walter's mother
Hannes Kaetner ..... Walter's father
Peter Chatel ..... Eugen
Heli Finkenzeller ..... Rolf
Marquard Bohm
Anna Karina ..... Irene Cartis
Margit Carstensen ..... Ariane Christ
Brigitte Mira ..... Kast
Ulli Lommel ..... Kolbe
Alexander Allerson ..... Gerhard Christ
Volker Spengler ..... Gabriel Kast
Andrea Schober ..... Angela Christ
Macha Méril ..... Traunitz
Hanna Schygulla ..... Maria Braun
Klaus Löwitsch ..... Hermann Braun
Ivan Desny ..... Karl Oswald
Gisela Uhlen ..... Mother
Elisabeth Trissenaar ..... Betti Klenze
Gottfried John ..... Willi Klenze
Hark Bohm ..... Senkenberg
George Eagles ..... Bill
Claus Holm ..... Doctor
Günter Lamprecht ..... Hans Wetzel
Anton Schiersner ..... Grandpa Berger
Lilo Pempeit ..... Frau Ehmke
Sonja Neudorfer ..... Red Cross nurse
Volker Spengler ..... Train conductor
Isolde Barth ..... Vevi

Synopsis:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads the cast as a lonely German cleaning woman, who enters into an affair with equally lonely--and much, much younger--Moroccan mechanic El Hedi Ben Salem. They marry, despite the shocked, bigoted reactions of those around them. This thinly disguised remake of Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (cult favorite Sirk was one of Fassbinder's personal heroes) won the international critic's prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least characteristic of the German director's films. The titular heroine, played by Fassbinder regular Hanna Schygulla, is a 17-year-old girl forced into a loveless marriage with an old count. Living as the aristocrat's trophy wife, Effi endures her provincial existence unhappily. Her circumstances lead to a brief affair with a young lieutenant that attracts the attention of the townspeople, but not her unsuspecting husband's. Years later, however, the count discovers the love letters between his wife and her lover. As dictated by convention, he challenges the lieutenant to a duel and throws his wife out of their home. The shamed Effi is forced to live by herself, shunned by society and spurned by her family. Effi eventually returns to her unsympathetic parents, who reluctantly take in their disgraced daughter.

Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends) was one of the many films in the short, but prolific, career of German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder plays Franz Biberkopf, a financially poor gay man who performs in a traveling circus as Fox the Talking Head. One day, he lucks into winning half a million marks in a lottery. This attracts the attention of numerous swindlers, including Eugen (Peter Chatel), who becomes Fox's lover, gets Fox to spend the money on Eugen, and then dumps Fox mercilessly once the money is gone. Unable to come to terms with how he has been used, and miserable at being in the same place he was before he won the money, Fox commits suicide. The cast is rounded out by El Hedi ben Salem and Brigitte Mira, the stars of Fassbinder's celebrated Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.

Mother Kusters (Brigette Kira) is the wife of a factory worker who goes beserk one day, killing himself and the boss' son. Mother finds herself a media celebrity, which only serves to make herself and her late husband look like idiots. Later, Mother is 'adopted' by a Communist couple who wish to exploit her husband's 'act of defiance' for their own purposes. Finally left alone, Mother Kusters decides to stop living off her husband's notoriety and turn into a human being again. Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder used the 1929 film Mother Krausen's Journey to Happiness as a springboard for his own mysoginistic slant on opportunism. The film hit a bit too close to home in his own country, where it was banned from entering the Berlin Film Festival.

A housewife's slow descent into suicidal depression is chronicled in great detail in this movie by experimental film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

This fast-paced black comedy by wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder follows the frantic efforts of a starving and confused writer, Walter Kranz (Kurt Raab) to beg, borrow or steal enough money to survive on, and at the same time make some sense of his confusing life. Unable to write enough to keep his publisher's royalty advances coming, he seeks out a woman he imagines is a prostitute and interviews her for material. He is also inspired to utter some poetry, which his brassy, outspoken wife identifies as coming from the famous homosexuality-advocating mystical German poet, Stefan George. This inspires Walter to take a closer look at the 'gay scene,' and he quickly becomes a sort of celebrity there.

Angela is the crippled daughter of two separated but still-feuding parents. In this Rainer Werner Fassbinder film, the wealthy parents are both induced to come to their country vacation house with their lovers in tow. For years, they have tried to make Angela feel guilty for having driven them to seek comfort outside their marriage, though ironically there is some indication that their dalliances may have had a hand in the accident that caused her condition. In this unpleasant milieu, they begin playing a truth-telling game called 'Chinese Roulette,' which leads to even more distasteful revelations and recriminations.

'The Marriage of Maria Braun' is both an epic comedy and a romantic ballad, two not especially friendly forms that become seamlessly one in the sweet, tough, brilliantly complex performance of Hanna Schygulla, who is becoming for Mr. Fassbinder what St

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