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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: German ( Dolby Digital Stereo ), German ( Mono ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Featurette, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access, Short Film, Uncut, 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 ...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
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 ...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
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72 of 76 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The release of the vast Fassbinder catalogue on dvd seems a dream come true - co-ordinated box sets featuring (nearly) all the director's films in chronological order, with all the relevant documentaries & shorts. Fassbinder was so prolific that, if you are a big fan, box sets are the only affordable, practical & sensible way to go, especially given the large discounts you regularly find on boxes.
So what are the options?
Arrow box set RWF #1 "69-72" features the first 9 mostly experimental slow minimalist/pastiche films.
Arrow box set RWF #2 "73-82" features 8 films from Fassbinder's more polished, focused and successful mid 1970s period.
Artificial Eye box set #1 has 3 films plus a full-length documentary (note: NOT the actual film I Only Want You to Love Me).
Artificial Eye box set #2 has 4 films (looks a rather daunting selection!). As far as I can tell these Artificial Eye box sets are not really themed, but kind of round up films from RWF's late period (& have lots of extras).
The Second Sight box set presents Fassbinder's magnum opus Berlin Alexanderplatz on 6 discs.
There are no duplications across any of these releases (but there are still a few films missing).
I went for Arrow box set #1 "69-72" in the Amazon half-price pre-order sale because I like the early stuff best. This box is basic - there is no booklet & apart from trailers not many extras other than those on the Merchant & Petra Von Kant discs, but generally the packaging & presentation is fine & all the films have been restored by the RWF Foundation (though the original prints are often quite low-budget & rough). The early stuff may be derivative of Godard & French new wave but Fassbinder's sensibility is so different from his cinematic influences that the films now look utterly original & unique. Most of the films in box #1 are black comedies, droll rather than grim - the noir thriller parodies like Love is Colder than Death, Gods of Plague & American Soldier (uncut version) are "successful" whereas some of the other films might, individually, be "failures", but over 9 discs each film seems primarily like an episode in the intense psychodrama unfolding within the Fassbinder troupe of actors. All the films are pretty uncompromising & probably not for the uninitiated, but the set ends strongly with Beware the Holy Whore (a distant precursor of Almodovar?) and the first real "hits" - Merchant of Four Seasons & Petra Von Kant (the definitive Fassbinder film?) Overall, a fascinating if challenging collection. And addictive. I already need another box set...
So what are the options?
Arrow box set RWF #1 "69-72" features the first 9 mostly experimental slow minimalist/pastiche films.
Arrow box set RWF #2 "73-82" features 8 films from Fassbinder's more polished, focused and successful mid 1970s period.
Artificial Eye box set #1 has 3 films plus a full-length documentary (note: NOT the actual film I Only Want You to Love Me).
Artificial Eye box set #2 has 4 films (looks a rather daunting selection!). As far as I can tell these Artificial Eye box sets are not really themed, but kind of round up films from RWF's late period (& have lots of extras).
The Second Sight box set presents Fassbinder's magnum opus Berlin Alexanderplatz on 6 discs.
There are no duplications across any of these releases (but there are still a few films missing).
I went for Arrow box set #1 "69-72" in the Amazon half-price pre-order sale because I like the early stuff best. This box is basic - there is no booklet & apart from trailers not many extras other than those on the Merchant & Petra Von Kant discs, but generally the packaging & presentation is fine & all the films have been restored by the RWF Foundation (though the original prints are often quite low-budget & rough). The early stuff may be derivative of Godard & French new wave but Fassbinder's sensibility is so different from his cinematic influences that the films now look utterly original & unique. Most of the films in box #1 are black comedies, droll rather than grim - the noir thriller parodies like Love is Colder than Death, Gods of Plague & American Soldier (uncut version) are "successful" whereas some of the other films might, individually, be "failures", but over 9 discs each film seems primarily like an episode in the intense psychodrama unfolding within the Fassbinder troupe of actors. All the films are pretty uncompromising & probably not for the uninitiated, but the set ends strongly with Beware the Holy Whore (a distant precursor of Almodovar?) and the first real "hits" - Merchant of Four Seasons & Petra Von Kant (the definitive Fassbinder film?) Overall, a fascinating if challenging collection. And addictive. I already need another box set...
62 of 66 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Contains:
LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH
16:9, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
KATZELMACHER
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Trailer
GODS OF THE PLAGUE
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Trailer
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
RIO DAS MORTES
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
BEWARE OF THE HOLY WHORE
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Trailer
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Women of Fassbinder - The Women of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (58:40mins)
Life, Love & Celluloid - A Journey and a Film Retrospective (1:29:35)
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
End of the Commune (47:17mins)
Harry Baer Interview (40:53mins)
LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH
16:9, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
KATZELMACHER
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Trailer
GODS OF THE PLAGUE
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Trailer
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
THE NIKLASHAUSEN JOURNEY
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
RIO DAS MORTES
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
BEWARE OF THE HOLY WHORE
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Trailer
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
Women of Fassbinder - The Women of Rainer Werner Fassbinder (58:40mins)
Life, Love & Celluloid - A Journey and a Film Retrospective (1:29:35)
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
4:3, 2.0 audio with optional English subtitles
End of the Commune (47:17mins)
Harry Baer Interview (40:53mins)
8 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Er...which films are on this? It's kind of a big expense to make just as a gamble, you know?
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