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Harry Baer
Harry Baer (born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947) is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also been credited as Harry Bär. Life Harry Baer began his career in Munich when he joined the Action Theatre, a theatrical experimental group that later regrouped as the Antitheather under the leadership of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Lorenz '' Chaos as Usual'', p.48 He made his debut in Fassbinder's play ''Katzelmacher'' and had his first movie role in Fassbinder's film adaptation. He had starring roles in '' Gods of the Plague'' (''Götter der Pest'') (1970) and ' ''(Wildwechsel)'' (1972), both directed by Fassbinder.Lorenz '' Chaos as Usual'', p.47 During this early period of his career he also had the leading role in director Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film '' Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King'' ''(Ludwig - Requiem für einen jungfräulichen König)'' (1972), in which he played the title role, King Ludwig II of Bavaria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biberach An Der Riss
Biberach may refer to: *Biberach an der Riß, a town in Upper Swabia, Germany *Biberach (district), which has Biberach an der Riß as its capital * Biberach, Baden, a municipality in the ''Ortenaukreis'', Germany *Biberach is a part of Roggenburg, Bavaria, Germany *Biberach is also a part of the town of Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. From the late Middle Ages on, it developed into an important trading centre. At the begi ..., Germany See also * Battle of Biberach (1800), a May 9, 1800 battle at Biberach an der Riß {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Dörrie
Doris Dörrie (; born 26 May 1955) is a German film director, producer and author. Early life and education Born in Hanover, Dörrie completed her secondary education there in 1973. The same year, she began a two-year attendance in film studies in the drama department of the University of the Pacific (United States), University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied at the New School of Social Research in New York. She worked odd jobs in cafés and as a film presenter in New York's Goethe-Institut. In 1975, back in West Germany, Dörrie began to study at the University of Television and Film Munich. Career Dörrie wrote film reviews for the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', where she was also assistant editor. Subsequently, Dörrie worked as a volunteer for various television stations, and filmed short documentaries. She has published several novels, short story collections and children's books, and also staged and directed a number of operas. Awards *1999 Bavarian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Third Generation (1979 Film)
''The Third Generation'' () is a 1979 West German film, a black comedy about terrorism, written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The plot follows an ineffectual cell of underground terrorists who plan to kidnap an industrialist. Plot P.J. Lurz, an industrialist with an office in a Berlin high-rise, informs his American headquarters that the company has difficulty selling its security-related computer systems to the West German government in Bonn. However, Lurz has already hatched a secret plan to boost sales. Meanwhile, Susanne, Lurz's secretary, receives a phone call with the message "The world as will and idea". This is a code phrase among a secret group of thirty-something middle-class leftists and would-be terrorists to which she belongs. The phrase has been taken from the central work of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, ''The World as Will and Representation''. With these words, Susanne sets an ambiguous covert plot into motion, alerting the members of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffic Jam (film)
''Traffic Jam'' () is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. The film, although uncredited, is based on the 1966 short story "L'Autoroute du sud" by Julio Cortázar. Plot In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Despair (film)
''Despair'' is a 1978 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Dirk Bogarde, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Vladimir Nabokov. It was Fassbinder's first English-language film and was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. Similarly to the novel, the tone of the film is ironic. The plot is mostly similar to the novel, although one of the key characters is significantly altered in the adaptation. Plot Hermann Hermann lives in Berlin during the Weimar Republic. A refugee from Soviet Russia, with a Baltic German father and a wealthy Jewish mother, he has inherited a business making chocolates. His Jewish wife Lydia, voluptuous but not intelligent, has an over-close relationship with her bachelor cousin, a painter called Ardalion. As the Great Depression bites and Nazi thugs start targeting Jewish businesses, with his firm becoming less profitable and Germany less hospitable, Hermann starts dreaming of escape. He already has moments of leaving his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitler - Ein Film Aus Deutschland
''Hitler: A Film from Germany'' (), called ''Our Hitler'' in the US, is a 1977 film written, directed and narrated by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, and produced by Bernd Eichinger. A co-production by West Germany, France and the United Kingdom, the film stars Heinz Schubert in a dual role, as Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler. Along with Syberberg's characteristic and unusual motifs and style, it is notable for its 442-minute running time. Structure ''Hitler: A Film from Germany'' has no clear plot or chronology. Instead, each part explores one particular topic. * Part 1: ''Der Gral - Von der Weltesche bis zur Goethe-Eiche von Buchenwald'' (''The Grail - From the Cosmic Ash-Tree to the Goethe Oak of Buchenwald'') deals with Hitler's cult of personality in Nazi propaganda. * Part 2: ''Ein deutscher Traum ... bis ans Ende der Welt'' (''A German Dream ... Until the End of the World'') focuses on how Nazi propaganda was associated with pre-Nazi German cultural, spiritual, and national h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mister Scarface
''Mister Scarface'' () is a 1976 noir action thriller film directed by Fernando di Leo from a screenplay he co-wrote with Peter Berling. It stars Jack Palance, Harry Baer, Al Cliver, Gisela Hahn, Edmund Purdom and Vittorio Caprioli. Plot Tony is a mob protection money collector who is unsatisfied with his position in life, and constantly dreams of living it rich in Brazil with his brother. To make some quick cash, Tony joins the forces of organized crime, making his way up the ladder. Together with Napoli, another mob enforcer, Tony hatches a plan to con mob boss “Scarface” Manzari out of a fortune, but Manzari isn't about to let that happen. Cast Production ''Mister Scarface'' was the last film produced by Daunia 80 Cinematografica, the independent film company that had financed all of director Fernando di Leo's previous films starting with '' Naked Violence'', with the exception of '' Shoot First, Die Later'' and '' Kidnap Syndicate''. The film was shot at De P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Of Angels
''Shadow of Angels'' () is a 1976 Swiss drama film directed by Daniel Schmid. It was entered into the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The film is based upon the play ''Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod'' by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Cast * Ingrid Caven - Lily Brest * Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Raoul * Klaus Löwitsch - Jude / Broker * Annemarie Düringer - Luise Müller * Adrian Hoven - Herr Müller, ihr Mann * Boy Gobert - Chief of Police: Müller II * Ulli Lommel - Der kleine Prinz / Little Prince * Jean-Claude Dreyfus - Zwerg / Dwarf (as Jean-Claude Dreyfuss) * Irm Hermann - Emma * Alexander Allerson - Hans von Gluck * Harry Baer Harry Baer (born Harry Zöttl on 27 September 1947) is a German actor, producer and author, best known for his work with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He has also been credited as Harry Bär. Life Harry Baer began his career in Munich when h ... - Helfritz References External links * 1976 films 1976 drama films 1970s German-language films Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox And His Friends
''Fox and His Friends'' (; also known as ''Fist-Right of Freedom'') is a 1975 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Fassbinder, Peter Chatel and Karlheinz Böhm. The plot follows the misadventures of a working-class gay man who wins the lottery, then falls in love with the elegant son of an industrialist. His lover tries to mold him into a gilt-edged mirror of upper-class values, and ultimately swindles the easily flattered "Fox" out of his fortune. The film is an incisive look at the relationship between money and emotions. Love is seen as a commodity that can be bought for money and lasts only as long as it is profitable. Plot Franz Bieberkopf is a sweet and unsophisticated working-class gay man who works in a carnival as "Fox, the Talking Head". He loses his job when his boyfriend Klaus, the carnival owner, is arrested for tax fraud. Fox visits his alcoholic sister Hedwig who cannot help. After losing his remaining money, Fox meets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Merchant Of Four Seasons
''The Merchant of Four Seasons'' () is a 1972 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring and Irm Hermann. The plot follows the life of a fruit-peddler, living in 1950s Munich. "Hans - wife-beater, caricature of stunted manhood, treated like shit by his middle-class family—tries to make a little happiness of his own, and fails miserably." The title derives from the French expression for a fruit and vegetable seller, ''un marchand des quatre-saisons''. The film explores issues of class prejudices, domestic violence, infidelity, family discord, depression and self-destructive behavior. Plot Munich, the 1950s. Hans Epp, an ordinary but likable man, returns home after spending several years in the French Foreign Legion. He is berated by his mother ("The good die young, and people like you come back", she says after hearing about the death of the young friend Hans had taken to the army with him). Hans works as a fruit peddler, calling out his produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beware Of A Holy Whore
''Beware of a Holy Whore'' () is a 1971 West German drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that features Lou Castel, Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla and Fassbinder himself. Fassbinder considered this to be his favorite of his own films. While in a hotel with too much drink, drugs and time, the cast and crew of a film are gradually unravelling as they await the arrival of their director. Semi-autobiographical, the film was influenced by the shooting of the director's earlier ''Whity (film), Whity'' in Spain. The film features music from Leonard Cohen's first album ''Songs of Leonard Cohen'' and from ''Spooky Two'' by Spooky Tooth, among others. Plot ''Beware of a Holy Whore'' opens with a soliloquy (delivered by Werner Schroeter) about the synopsis of a The Walt Disney Company, Disney story featuring Goofy, the dog. Goofy Transvestism, cross-dresses in his aunt's clothes to teach a kindergarten class and, after being ridiculed by the class, takes a "poor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |