Rent Fox and His Friends / Chinese Roulette (1976)
3.8 of 5 from 75 ratings
3h 25min
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- Synopsis:
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 here.
Fox and His Friends (1975) is among the director's most personal works and the first to tackle homosexuality in a direct manner. Fassbinder himself plays Fox, a sweet working class soul whose relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen, he discovers, is based almost wholly on his unexpected lottery win. When his money runs out, so does any affection, with tragic consequences.
Chinese Roulette (1976), set in an isolated house during a weekend break, is like Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None without the murders a tense psychodrama in which infidelities are revealed and families breakdown. At its centre is nouvelle vague icon Anna Karina, a rare outsider alongside the familiar Fassbinder faces.- Actors:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer, Hans Zander, Kurt Raab, Rudolf Lenz, Karl Scheydt, Peter Kern, Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer, Walter Sedlmayr, Bruce Low, Marquard Bohm, Brigitte Mira, Evelyn Künneke, Barbara Valentin, Elma Karlowa, Ingrid Caven
- Directors:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producers:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler, Barbet Schroeder
- Writers:
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Christian Hohoff
- Aka:
- Faustrecht der Freiheit / Chinesisches Roulette
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Lesbian & Gay, Romance, Thrillers
- Collections:
- The Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide to: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Countries:
- Germany
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- Release Date:
- 18/07/2016
- Run Time:
- 209 minutes
- Languages:
- German LPCM 1.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Mixed
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary on Fox and His Friends by Hamish Ford
- Brand-new interview with Ulli Lommel on Chinese Roulette
- Theatrical Trailers
