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

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Linear PCM )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1982 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Written By:
Burkhard Driest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Actors:
Brad Davis ..... Querelle
Franco Nero ..... Lieutenant Seblon
Jeanne Moreau ..... Lysiane
Laurent Malet ..... Roger Bataille
Hanno Pöschl ..... Robert/Gil
Günther Kaufmann ..... Nono
Burkhard Driest ..... Mario
Roger Fritz ..... Marcellin
Dieter Schidor ..... Vic Rivette
Natja Brunckhorst ..... Paulette
Robert van Ackeren ..... Betrunkener Legionär
Werner Asam ..... Arbeiter
Isolde Barth ..... Mädchen
Axel Bauer ..... Arbeiter
Neil Bell ..... Theo

Synopsis:

The final film of acclaimed director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The story of a sailor named Querelle (Brad Davis), who turns on his drug-smuggling partner and murders him. He then goes to a notorious brothel run by the rapacious Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), who leads Querelle into his first homosexual encounter. Subsequently, he falls in love with a fellow murderer Gil (Hanno Poschl). Partly because his love for Gil panics him, and partly so that he can keep Gil all to himself.

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...

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