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Budget. ~ DEM 80,000. Katzelmacher is a 1969 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. [1] [2] The film centers on an aimless group of friends whose lives are shaken up by the arrival of an immigrant Greek worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself). [1]
Katzelmacher: Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas. Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog".
Katzelmacher. In this unflinching German drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a group of young slackers, including the couple Erich (Hans Hirschmuller) and Marie (Hanna Schygulla), spend most of ...
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Katzelmacher. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s second feature depicts the intolerance of a circle of financially and sexually frustrated friends when an immigrant laborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. This scalpel-sharp theatrical experiment, based on one of the director’s successful early stage plays, is both a personal ...
Aug 8, 2020 · Shot in just nine days on a shoestring budget (DEM 80,000, then US $25,000), Katzelmacher explores the rootless but circumscribed lives of a group of young working class people. They hang around their dull Munich apartment complex, smoking cigarettes, sipping beer, exchanging banalities, and sleeping with each other – sometimes for money.
Katzelmacher. Jump to Edit. Summaries. Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.
KATZELMACHER, a slang term for troublemaker, is a challenging story that kinda feels like a companion piece to THE WHITE RIBBON but told from a postwar German perspective (I’ll tease this in a moment). It’s about lower middle-class lowlifes who ramble outside a…
