End of the Commune?
1970•49m•8.0•Released
Documentary
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffeehouse," which also became a television movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" was shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature movie was given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder Than Death,” while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!” In this documentary, Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father, who was a respectable doctor.
Director
Joachim von Mengershausen
Writer
Joachim von Mengershausen
Languages
German
Studio
Süddeutscher Rundfunk
Cast
Hanna Schygulla
Self
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Self (uncredited)
Irm Hermann
Self (uncredited)
Kurt Raab
Self (uncredited)
Gisela Otto
Self (uncredited)
Peer Raben
Self (uncredited)
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