Querelle ( 1982 ) ( Querelle: A Film About Jean Genet's 'Querelle de Brest )

Querelle ( 1982 ) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Alternate Title: Querelle: A Film About Jean Genet's 'Querelle de Brest
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Mono )
French ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By:
Jean Genet

Actors:
Brad Davis ..... Querelle
Franco Nero ..... Lieutenant Seblon
Jeanne Moreau ..... Lysiane

Synopsis:

A sailor learns to take, and give, it like a man in this surrealistic adaptation of writer and thief Jean Genet's novel Querelle de Brest by avant-garde German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In a colorful brothel in the port of Brest, proprietor Nono (Gunther Kaufmann) is known for wagering with his customers. Win a throw of the dice, and they get to make love with his wife, Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau); lose, and they must take it from behind by Nono himself. One day, Lysiane reads the tarot for her lover, Robert (Hanno Poschl), and learns in the cards of his intense passion for his brother, Querelle (Brad Davis). Querelle himself soon arrives, and the brothers enact a bizarre greeting halfway between a hug and a wrestling match. Querelle, it seems, is looking for partners in a drug deal; Robert points him in the right direction. An argument about the merits of sex between men soon leads Querelle to murder his fellow smuggler, Vic (Dieter Schidor). Back at the whorehouse, Querelle loses on purpose to Nono and finds he has a taste for passive gay sex. Meanwhile, fellow sailor Gil, who looks exactly like Querelle's brother (and is played by the same actor), murders one of his compatriots after the brute publicly impugns his manhood. Wanted by the police for both his own crime and Querelle's, Gil goes on the lam. Querelle soon crashes his hideout, and an intense bond develops between the two murderers - a friendship that will lead Querelle to the greatest love, and the greatest treachery, of his life.

French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband: if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane, if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose...

It will take you into a surreal world of passion and sexuality, further than most would dare to go.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 29 August, 2012.

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