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Special features tbc: interviews with Barbara Sukowa, co-writer Peter Märthesheimer & composer Xaver Schwarzenberger/ theatrical trailer
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? - Fassbinder’s savage and provocative portrait of middle-class banality and alienation follows the monotonous daily routines of the mild-mannered Herr R. Until, one evening, he finds that he can take no more.
Special features tbc: Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Kurt Raab biographies
Martha - Margit Carstensen stars as a young woman who finds herself slowly stripped of her freedom by her sadistic and tyrannical husband. Fassbinder’s bold homage to Douglas Sirk’s 1950s Technicolor melodramas finds him at his most wickedly perverse and stylistically assured.
Special features tbc: interview with cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and actor Karlheinz Böhm/ theatrical trailer
I Don’t Just Want You To Love Me - Fassbinder’s friends and closest colleagues remember him in this documentary profile which also includes interviews with Fassbinder himself and excerpts from his work.
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Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's The Entire History of the German Federal Republic trilogy, Lola stars Barbara Sukowa in the title role, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s who is romantically involved with Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl), a straight-as-an-arrow building inspector. Recently appointed Building Commissioner, Von Bohm is committed to eradicating corruption. Consequently, he's given quite a shock when he is called into inspect the brothel where Lola works and discovers her dancing there. With that, Von Bohm is left to question whether he is more loyal to the woman he loves so passionately or the career he believes in so strongly. The other entries in the trilogy are Veronika Voss and The Marriage of Maria Braun.
Martha (1974)
Martha is a wealthy and totally self-involved woman -- so much so that on a trip during which her father dies, she does indeed cry, but only because she lost her purse. She marries a stranger who claims not to be at all attracted to her, and their wedding is only the beginning of a battle between them to determine who will get the upper hand over the other. Martha holds her own in this genuinely sado-masochistic relationship, until a tragic accident paralyzes her.
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
With slicked-down hair and three-piece suits, dependable Herr Raab is a technical draftsman. He gets along with his colleagues although his boss wants him to go beyond technical cleanliness to problem solving. He's a dutiful husband; his wife's a social climber a...Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 1 4-DVD Set ( Lola / Martha / Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? / I Dont Just Want You To Love Me )
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