Katzelmacher
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Katzelmacher | |
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Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
Written by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
Produced by | Peer Raben |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
Music by | Peer Raben |
Release date |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | West Germany |
Language | German |
Budget | ~ DEM 80,000 |
Katzelmacher is a 1969 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play.[1][2] The film centers on an aimless group of friends whose lives are shaken up by the arrival of an immigrant Greek worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself).[1]
Cast
[edit]- Hanna Schygulla: Marie
- Lilith Ungerer: Helga
- Rudolf Waldemar Brem: Paul
- Elga Sorbas: Rosy
- Doris Mattes: Gunda
- Irm Hermann: Elisabeth
- Peter Moland: Peter
- Hans Hirschmüller: Erich
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Jorgos
- Harry Baer: Franz
- Hannes Gromball: Klaus
- Katrin Schaake: Woman
Reception
[edit]When the film was released in America in 1977, Vincent Canby in The New York Times called it "extraordinarily stylish... quite unlike anything else I've seen... an early glimpse of his [Fassbinder's] dazzling talent and the talents of the stock company of performers and technicians who, with him, have created a body of film work unique in any country in recent years".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Canby, Vincent (4 June 1977). "Film : 'Katzelmacher' Hypnotizes and Amuses". The New York Times. p. 11. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ Malcolm, Derek (11 June 1982). "Radical without chic". The Guardian. p. 10.
External links
[edit]- Katzelmacher at IMDb
Categories:
- 1969 films
- 1960s avant-garde and experimental films
- 1969 drama films
- 1969 independent films
- German avant-garde and experimental films
- German independent films
- German drama films
- Films about immigration
- Films about race and ethnicity
- Films based on works by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- West German films
- German black-and-white films
- Films set in Munich
- 1960s German films
- Films scored by Peer Raben
- German-language drama films
- 1960s German film stubs