Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection - Volume 3

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, wrote, directed, produced and starred in over 40 films in his short but prolific life, before passing away of a drugs overdose in 1982 aged just 37. Rainer Werner Fassbinder Vol. 3 brings together a collection of his lesser seen works from various stages in his career, featuring high definition digital restorations prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation. Gods of the Plague portrays a newly released ex-con as he reacquaints himself with Munich's criminal underworld to plan the robbery of a supermarket. In Rio Das Mortes, two feckless young friends, Michel and Günther, embark on a hare-brained scheme to look for lost treasure in Peru, against strong opposition from Michel's fiancée. Unseen between its first television broadcast in 1970 and its rediscovery in 2002, The Niklashausen Journey chronicles the journey of a young peasant in the 15th century and his quest to overcome social injustice, in Fassbinder's allegorical critique of the student movement. The American Soldier sees Fassbinder continue to pursue the cinephilic homage to classic Hollywood crime films of his feature debut, Love is Colder than Death, in a tale of a German-American Vietnam vet turned small-time hoodlum who finds himself on the wrong side of the law in Munich, where he grew up. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven stars Brigitte Mira (Fear Eats the Soul) as a middle-aged housewife who is roused into revolutionary activity after her blue-collar husband runs amok at his workplace. Based on a story by Asta Scheib, Fear of Fear features Fassbinder favourite Margit Carstensen (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant) as the young mother plagued with feelings of anxiety and depression as she is left to spend her hours alone surrounded by her judgemental in-laws while her husband spends his days at work. Satan's Brew sees Fassbinder foray into riotous comedy, with Kurt Raab starring as a once famous poet stricken with writer's block who inadvertently assumes the persona of the prewar symbolist Stefan George.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Commentary: 'The Niklashausen Journey'/'Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven': Olaf Möller (critic); 'The American Soldier'/'Satan's Brew': Tony Rayns (critic), Documentaries: 'Fassbinder Shoots Film No. 8' (1971); 'Play It Again, Rainer! Fassbinder's Musical Obsessions'; 'The Culture Industry Needs Something Like Me: Views of Rainer Werner Fassbinder' (1976); 'Fassbinder: Love Without Demands' (2015), Interviews: Harry Baer (actor); Michael König (actor); Michael Fengler; Renate Leiffer (assistant director); Asta Scheib (writer), Reversible sleeves, Trailers

Actors: Volker Spengler, Hannes Kaetner, Michael König, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Katrin Schaake, Harry Baer, Armin Meier, Ulrich Faulhaber, Kurt Raab, Karlheinz Böhm, Günther Kaufmann, Hanna Schygulla, Gottfried John, Brigitte Mira, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ingrid Caven, Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Helen Vita

Audio Languages: German

Duration: 649 minutes

Number of Discs: 4

Subtitle Languages: English

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