Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 1 1969 - 1972 9-DVD Set ( Liebe ist kälter als der Tod / Katzelmacher / Götter der Pest / Der Amerikanische Soldat / Die Niklashauser Fart / Rio das Mortes / Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte / Händler der vier Jahreszeiten / Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant ) ( Love Is Colder Than Death / Katzelmacher / Gods of the Plague / The American Soldier / The Niklashausen Journey / Rio das Mortes / Beware of a Holy Whore / The Merchant of Four Seasons / The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant )

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 1 1969 - 1972 9-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Liebe ist kälter als der Tod / Katzelmacher / Götter der Pest / Der Amerikanische Soldat / Die Niklashauser Fart / Rio das Mortes / Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte / Händler der vier Jahreszeiten / Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
Alternate Title: Love Is Colder Than Death / Katzelmacher / Gods of the Plague / The American Soldier / The Niklashausen Journey / Rio das Mortes / Beware of a Holy Whore / The Merchant of Four Seasons / The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
850 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Short Film
Uncut

Movie filmed in 1969 - 197 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Michael Fengler

Written By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Michael Fengler

Actors:
Ulli Lommel ..... Bruno
Hanna Schygulla ..... Johanna
Katrin Schaake ..... Dame im Zug
Liz Soellner ..... Zeitungsverkäuferin
Gisela Otto ..... 1. Prostituierte
Ursula Strätz ..... Fette Prostituierte
Monika Nüchtern ..... Kellnerin beim Türken (as Monika Stadler)
Hans Hirschmüller ..... Peter
Les Olvides ..... Georges
Peer Raben ..... Jürgen (as Wil Rabenbauer)
Howard Gaines ..... Raoul
Peter Moland ..... Leiter des Syndikatsverhörs
Kurt Raab ..... Aufsichtsperson im Kaufhaus
Peter Berling ..... Illegaler Waffenhändler
Anastassios Karalas ..... Türke
Hanna Schygulla ..... Marie
Lilith Ungerer ..... Helga
Rudolf Waldemar Brem ..... Paul
Elga Sorbas ..... Rosy
Doris Mattes ..... Gunda
Irm Hermann ..... Elisabeth
Peter Moland ..... Peter
Hans Hirschmüller ..... Erich
Harry Baer ..... Franz (as Harry Bär)
Hannes Gromball ..... Klaus (as Hannes Grombal)
Katrin Schaake ..... Frau im Restaurant
Hanna Schygulla ..... Johanna Reiher
Margarethe von Trotta ..... Margarethe
Harry Baer ..... Franz Walsch
Günther Kaufmann ..... Günther
Carla Egerer ..... Carla (as Carla Aulaulu)
Ingrid Caven ..... Magdalena Fuller
Jan George ..... Polizist
Lilo Pempeit ..... Mutter
Marian Seidowsky ..... Marian
Micha Cochina ..... Joe
Yaak Karsunke ..... Kommissar
Hannes Gromball ..... Supermarkt-Chef
Karl Scheydt ..... Ricky
Elga Sorbas ..... Rosa von Praunheim
Jan George ..... Jan
Hark Bohm ..... Doc
Marius Aicher ..... Polizist
Margarethe von Trotta ..... Zimmermädchen
Ulli Lommel ..... Zigeuner
Katrin Schaake ..... Magdalena Fuller
Ingrid Caven ..... Sängerin
Eva Ingeborg Scholz ..... Rickys Mutter
Kurt Raab ..... Rickys Bruder
Irm Hermann ..... Hure
Gustl Datz ..... Polizeipräsident
Michael König ..... Hans Boehm
Margit Carstensen ..... Magarethe
Michael Gordon ..... Antonio
Günther Kaufmann ..... Leader of the farmers
Kurt Raab ..... Bishop
Franz Maron ..... Magarethe's husband
Walter Sedlmayr ..... Pastor
Karl Scheydt ..... Niklashausen citizen
Peter Berling ..... Executioner
Ingrid Caven ..... Screaming girl
Carla Egerer ..... Epileptic girl (as Carla Aulaulu)
Michael Fengler ..... Farmer
Sigi Graue ..... Farmer
Chris Karrer ..... Himself (as Amon Düül II)
Peter Leopold ..... Himself (as Amon Düül II)
Magdalena Montezuma ..... Penthesilea
Peer Raben ..... Monsignor
Falk Rogner ..... Himself (as Amon Düül II)
Guenther Rupp ..... Bishop's advisor
Elga Sorbas ..... Helpless girl
John Weinzierl ..... Himself (as Amon Düül II)
Hanna Schygulla ..... Hanna
Michael König ..... Michel
Katrin Schaake ..... Katrin - Hannas Freundin
Harry Baer ..... Michels Kollege
Ulli Lommel ..... Autohändler
Marius Aicher ..... Meister
Walter Sedlmayr ..... Sekretär
Carla Egerer ..... Kundin (as Carla Aulaulu)
Joachim von Mengershausen ..... Joachim - Katrins Freund
Hanna Axmann-Rezzori ..... Mäzenin
Franz Maron ..... Hannas Onkel
Elga Sorbas ..... Secretary to Hannas Onkel
Rudolf Waldemar Brem ..... Kneipenbesucher
Eva Pampuch ..... Freundin des Tänzers
Lou Castel ..... Jeff, Regisseur
Eddie Constantine ..... Er selbst
Marquard Bohm ..... Ricky, Schauspieler
Hanna Schygulla ..... Hanna, Schauspielerin
Rainer Werner Fassbinder ..... Sascha, Herstellungsleiter
Margarethe von Trotta ..... Produktionssekretärin
Hannes Fuchs ..... David
Marcella Michelangeli ..... Margret
Karl Scheydt ..... Manfred
Ulli Lommel ..... Korbinian, Aufnahmeleiter
Kurt Raab ..... Fred
Herb Andress ..... Coach
Monica Teuber ..... Billi, Maskenbildnerin (as Monika Teuber)
Benjamin Lev ..... Candy, spanischer Aufnahmeleiter
Gianni Di Luigi ..... Kameramann
Hans Hirschmüller ..... Hans Epp
Irm Hermann ..... Irmgard Epp
Hanna Schygulla ..... Anna Epp, Hans's sister
Andrea Schober ..... Renate Epp, Hans's daughter
Gusti Kreissl ..... Mother Epp
Klaus Löwitsch ..... Harry Radek
Karl Scheydt ..... Anzell
Ingrid Caven ..... The merchant's great love
Kurt Raab ..... Kurt, Heide's husband
Heide Simon ..... Heide, Hans's second sister
Peter Chatel ..... Dr. Harlach
Elga Sorbas ..... Marile Kosemund, a whore
Lilo Pempeit ..... Customer
Walter Sedlmayr ..... Fruit cart salesman (as Walther Sedlmayer)
El Hedi ben Salem ..... The Arab (as Salem El Heïdi)
Margit Carstensen ..... Petra von Kant
Hanna Schygulla ..... Karin Thimm
Katrin Schaake ..... Sidonie von Grasenabb
Eva Mattes ..... Gabriele von Kant
Gisela Fackeldey ..... Valerie von Kant
Irm Hermann ..... Marlene

Synopsis:

Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)

An independent criminal's work is admired by organized crime. He is tortured after he refuses the invitation to join the gang but later relents and becomes a member. He continues to be a pimp and a murderer in this disturbing film that appeared at the Berlin Film Festival in 1969. This feature garnered international recognition for writer/director Rainer Werner Fassbinder who would go on to become one of Germany's most prolific directors of the post-World War II era.

Katzelmacher (1969)

Jorgos (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) is a Greek immigrant in Germany who encounters the intolerance of the locals against foreign workers. Open hostility turns to violence when he is beaten up by the authoritarian thugs after dating a German woman. Male and female nudity along with hetero and homosexual sex scenes are shown in this searing indictment against prejudice and fascism. This feature took the Prize of International Film Critics at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1969.

Gods of the Plague (1970)

Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's Fassbinder, however, playing the small role of a buyer of pornography. The main story involves a pair of two-bit hoods who spend most of the film one-upping each other with a brace of scheming females. Their dreary life of crime comes to a spectacular head in a shoot-out at a supermarket.

The American Soldier (1970)

American Soldier (originally Der Amerikanische Soldat) was the third of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'gangster trilogy.' The film stars Karl Scheid as a German/American Vietnam veteran who takes a job as a hired assassin on behalf of the Munich crime lords. Scheid works both sides of the fence when three policemen engage him to knock off some awkward malcontents.

The Niklashausen Journey (1970)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs and stars in this allegorical picture about Hans Boehm, a medieval shepherd who claims that the Virgin Mary has called him to start a revolution against the church and the upper class. Based on the true story of a shepherd who believed that he was a new messiah in 1476 and was subsequently burned at the stake, Fassbinder uses the tale to evoke the political and sexual turmoil of late 1960s Germany. Mixing the medieval with elements of other time periods, including postwar Germany, Fassbinder even goes so far as to don a leather jacket himself to play the 'black monk', a follower of Boehm's misguided messiah. A thoughtful examination of the ultimate fecklessness of his generation's revolt against the status quo, THE NIKLASHUASEN JOURNEY is an acerbic and witty critique of the culture of the late 1960s.

Rio das Mortes (1971)

Aimlessness and misplaced ambition take two friends in unexpected directions in this made-for-TV drama directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Michel (Michael Konig) and Gunther (Gunther Kauffmann) are two friends who feel trapped in Germany and are trying to decide what to do with their lives; Gunther has recently gotten out of the Army and is looking for work, while Michel installs floor tiles. Michel and Gunther get hold of a map of the Rio das Mortes in Peru, and become obsessed with the idea of leaving everything behind and going to Peru in search of treasure. Hanna (Hanna Schygulla), who is engaged to marry Michel, doesn't think much of this idea and wishes her boyfriend would come to his senses, eventually threatening violence to prevent him from leaving her.

Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)

This film by wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his 10th, is one of the rare films about filmmaking which was said by the critics to have succeeded both technically and as drama. In it, a German film crew sits in their Italian hotel, waiting for the arrival of their director (Lou Castel), their star (Eddie Constantine) and more money. While they wait, argue, complain, and enter and leave romances, the delusions of a whole community of filmmakers are humorously unveiled. This film is said to be a scathing and satirical self-criticism by Fassbinder of his own methods and of his colleagues and entourage.

The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)

Hailed as the defining moment in Fassbinder's career, The Merchant of Four Seasons tells the story of Hans, a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However, the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes. One sociable day, while toasting his friends and family, he decides to drink himself to death.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)

The film traces the emotional decline of a fashion designer lamenting her divorced husband and the lady friend who refuses to love her.

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