Faustrecht der Freiheit [Fox and His Friends] (1975) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DVDrip | German | Subtitle: english, french, spanish, italian, dutch, brazilian-portuguese (srt) | 2h03 | 608 x 454 | PAL (25fps) | XviD | MP3 @ 128kbps | 830 MB
Genre: Drama | Crime | Romance
DVDrip | German | Subtitle: english, french, spanish, italian, dutch, brazilian-portuguese (srt) | 2h03 | 608 x 454 | PAL (25fps) | XviD | MP3 @ 128kbps | 830 MB
Genre: Drama | Crime | Romance
The only starring role which Fassbinder played himself.
Fox and His Friends is one of Fassbinder's most poignant and accessible films. The story and performances are direct, and the look of the film is polished and inviting. Yet it is also a powerful work, dealing with some of Fassbinder's central themes, such of the search for love, and exploitation in its many forms (both gay and straight).
Franz "Fox" Biberkopf (in a rare starring role for Fassbinder, who gives a brilliantly nuanced performance) is a hapless gay carnival worker, whose partner is hauled off to prison in the opening scene. Everything changes when he wins a fortune in the lottery, and finds himself among a circle of scheming "friends," including Eugen Theiss, his charming new lover (played with ideal restraint by Peter Chatel), and Eugen's parents, who fleece Fox out of his winnings for the "noble" purpose of saving their bankrupt company.
Cast:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Adrian Hoven, Ulla Jacobsson, Karlheinz Böhm, Harry Baer, El Hedi ben Salem.