Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (Motion picture)
Title:
Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant : ein Krankheitsfall gewidmet dem, der hier Marlene wurde / Janus Films ; Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation presents ; Buch und Regie, Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; Tango Film Produktion Nummer Zwei.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey, Irm Hermann. Originally released as a motion picture in 1972. Special features: New interviews with Ballhaus and actors Margit Carstensen, Eva, Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla; New interview with film scholar Jane Schattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film; Role play: women on Fassbinder, a 1992 German television documentary by Thomas Honickel featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zeck; New English subtitle translation; Plus: an essay by critic Peter Matthews.
Summary:
One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor.
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