Faustrecht der Freiheit / Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation presents ; Produktionsleitung, Christian Hohoff ; Buch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder unter Mitarbeit von Christian Hohoff ; Tango Film Produktion ; in Coproduktion mit City-Film GmbH, Berlin ; ein Film von Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded insert.
Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl-Heinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Bär. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975. Wide screen (1.37:1). A new 4K restoration of the film, undertaken by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation. Special features: New interviews with Michael Harry Baer and Ira Sachs; Pour le cinéma television series excerpts from a 1975 interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Cinémania television series excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben; trailer; essay.
Summary:
"A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom, but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbiner could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking--f controversial--depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany"--Container.
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