Fassbinder On Sex - 3-DVD Set ( Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant / Faustrecht der Freiheit / In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden ) ( The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant / Fox and His Friends / In a Year with 13 Moons (In a Year of Thirteen Moons) )

Fassbinder On Sex - 3-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant / Faustrecht der Freiheit / In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden
Alternate Title: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant / Fox and His Friends / In a Year with 13 Moons (In a Year of Thirteen Moons)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
362 min + 52 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1972 - 1978 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Christian Hohoff

Actors:
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
Peter Chatel ..... Eugen Thiess
Rainer Werner Fassbinder ..... Franz Bieberkopf / 'Fox'
Karlheinz Böhm ..... Max
Adrian Hoven ..... Wolf Thiess, Eugen's father
Christiane Maybach ..... Hedwig
Harry Baer ..... Philip
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
Volker Spengler ..... Erwin
Elvira Weishaupt ..... Die rote Zora
Ingrid Caven ..... Anton Saitz
Gottfried John ..... Irene Weishaupt
Elisabeth Trissenaar ..... Marie-Ann Weishaupt
Eva Mattes ..... J. Smolik, Chauffeur
Günther Kaufmann ..... Schwester Gudrun
Lilo Pempeit ..... Sybille
Isolde Barth ..... Christoph Hacker
Karl Scheydt ..... Seelenfrieda
Walter Bockmayer ..... Saeufer
Peter Kollek ..... Selbstmörder
Bob Dorsay ..... Burghard Hauser, Schriftsteller
Gerhard Zwerenz

Synopsis:

The Bitter Tear of Petra von Kant (1972)
Petra enjoys the power she wields over her employees and the fashion world, but when she falls for Karin she discovers what it is like to be dominated.

Fox and his Friends (1975)
After Fox wins the lottery, he finds that he has become much more popular, with people anxious to exploit his sexual appetite for personal gain.

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
This film is a hymn to Fassbinder's former lover, Armin Meier, and it follows two days in the life of Elvira, a transsexual who had a sex change to win the love of an oblivious colleague.

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer - arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in. The rest of the film deals with the emotions of this affair and its aftermath. Fassbinder tells his story in a series of 5 or 6 long scenes with extended uses of a single camera shot and deep focus.

Fox and His Friends (1975)
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 purchase, Fox lets himself be picked up by an elegant older man named Max. At Max's, he meets two younger gay men who have expensive tastes and images to uphold. The next day, Fox wins 500,000 marks in the lottery, and Max's friends suddenly become Fox's friends, especially Eugen, the heir to a bookbinding firm that's short of cash. Eugen's polish beguiles Fox, and the fleecing begins.

In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. 'Too bad, you aren't a woman,' he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of his life, he now hopes that Anton will not reject him again.

Fassbinder on Sex combines three of Fassbinder's most risque and self-reflexive films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Fox and his Friends and In a Year with 13 Moons, which offer the maverick filmmaker's unique views about sex and the nature of sexuality.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 22 February, 2012.

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