“Fucking Liberty” opens on January 17 in the main auditorium Ladies & Gentlemen! … A vaudeville show! Duck shooting in America! A world in 3D! With film, live music, quotations, icons of popular culture and a puppet show!!! A trip to the Planet of the Apes and back again, going way back to Nazi Germany, (…)

The sensibilities of a country towards “intellectual-moral” transformation Director Patrick Wengenroth characterizes his piece as, “retrospectively looking forward from the viewpoint and with the words of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.” The series of interviews conducted with Fassbinder between 1969 and 1982 and published unabridged for the first time in 2004 by Verlag the Autoren in the (…)

Legendary tracking shot through Landsberger Strasse was a gift to RWF Born January 8, 1933, Jean-Marie Straub initially grew up speaking French but was forced to learn German in the course of the German occupation. Following the end of the war he attended the Saint-Clément Jesuit school and, after completing his schooling there, spent one (…)

Poisonings and an ugly scandal in late 1972 On December 27, 1972, BREMEN FREEDOM was shown for the first time on German television and, from December 30, 1972 onwards, JAILBAIT caused a stir across the Federal Republic. Both films deal with the attempt by characters to free themselves from the restrictiveness of dominant social conventions (…)

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