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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
Herr R. (Kurt Raab) has a wife and a child, a medium-size rental apartment with a garden, he owns a TV set, and comfortable furniture complete his middle class existence. His work at home and in the office fulfills him, hobbies offer him a change; and then Herr R. loves peace and quiet.
The machinery of everyday routine functions. At work – Herr R. is an engineering draftsman – the colleagues are nice, his boss (Franz Maron) is content, his wife (Lilith Ungerer) picks him up every day after work in their car. He corrects his son’s homework, invites the in-laws and an old school friend on Sunday afternoons, a promotion is in sight. Everyone is happy.
It appears that without too much mental or physical complaint, Herr R.’s self-realization will be possible. Then one evening – a neighbor (Irm Hermann) has just stopped by – Herr R., like a machine, attacks his wife, child, and neighbor.
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Production Year:
1969/70
Direction:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Script:
draft for improvisation by Michael Fengler and Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director of Photography:
Dietrich Lohmann
Music:
Peer Raben
Editing:
Franz Walsch (i.e. Rainer Werner Fassbinder), Michael Fengler
Art Direction:
Kurt Raab
Cast:
Kurt Raab (Herr R.)
Lilith Ungerer (his wife)
Amadeus Fengler (their son)
Franz Maron (boss)
Harry Baer (first colleague)
Peter Moland (second colleague)
Lilo Pempeit (Frau Eder)
Hanna Schygulla (school friend)
Vinzenz Sterr (father)
Maria Sterr (mother)
Peer Raben (school friend)
Carla Aulaulu (first records salesgirl)
Eva Pampuch (second records salesgirl)
Ingrid Caven (first neighbor)
Doris Mattes (second neighbor)
Irm Hermann (third neighbor)
Hannes Gromball (neighbor)
Peter Hamm (First Detective Superintendant)
Jochen Pinkert (Second Detective Superintendant)
Eva Madelung (boss's sister)
Production Company
antiteater, produced by Maran Film (comissioned by SDR)
Format / Length
35mm (filmed in 16mm), Color, 88 min.
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