Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Franz Biberkopf is an unforgettable man: good-natured, soft, tender, but also hard, violent and brutal. Released from prison following a four-year sentence for the manslaughter of his girlfriend, he plans to make a new start and a decent life for himself. But a chaotic, decadent Berlin of the 20’s is not the easiest place for […]

Few filmmakers have enjoyed a decade quite so diverse or quite so prolific as Rainer Werner Fassbinder did during the seventies. Amid the likes of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Fear Eats the Soul, it s easy to forget some of the lesser-known and more singular works, two of which are presented […]

Filmen bygger på Jean Genets banbrytande och omstridda bok från 1947 om matrosen Querelle som gör sig skyldig till ett mord och därefter gömmer sig på en hamnbordell där han för första gången blir tagen av en annan man.