Isn’t the trajectory of a shared life determined in advance? Get married, have kids, be like everyone else… According to Dietrich Brüggemann, who competed in Vary six years ago, 30-somethings conceivably have it all, yet they fail in their attempts to achieve their set ideals. Nö delivers a critique of contemporary values, while also highlighting the struggle to find and nurture love.
When 22-year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder storms the stage of a small, progressive theatre in Munich 1967, and seizes the production without further ado, nobody suspects this brazen young rebel to become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. Despite early setbacks, many of his films breakout at the most renowned films festivals and polarise audience, critics and filmmakers alike. His radical views and self-exploitation, as well as his longing for love, have made him one of the most fascinating film directors of this time.
Unfortunately, Fanny can only enjoy her unexpected wealth for a short time. The tax office asks her to pay a hefty inheritance tax. Because of the valuable property, she has to pay far more than she was bequeathed in cash. Debts again - and her "crazy" half-brother Elias on top of that? She would like to get rid of him as quickly as possible.
A property on Lake Ammersee including inventory plus 183,000 euros and 47 cents - Fanny Steininger is over the moon about this inheritance! A certain Walter Jeromin bequeathed it all to her. Allegedly her biological father, but the 60-year-old slob, who has just quit her job as a train attendant, more or less ignores this. After all, her dad, who once made a name for himself as the white sausage king (and regularly appears in her daydreams as an advisor), died back in 1969. However, Fanny has to fulfill one condition in order to inherit her estate, as her junior boss Tristan from the law firm Hackenbusch & Söhne informs her: She is to apply for guardianship of her supposed half-brother Elias, who lives with Asperger's syndrome.
The siblings Bebe and Mikhail leave their country of Moldova to apply for asylum in Germany. Their flight turns into a modern odyssey.
This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.
A desperate family on its way to self-destruction - a drama about struggling generations, "Kronos" becomes an absurd symbol of the recurrent process of perishing and new beginnings.
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
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