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Katzelmacher
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRainer Werner Fassbinder
Written byRainer Werner Fassbinder
Produced byPeer Raben
Starring
CinematographyDietrich Lohmann
Music byPeer Raben
Release date
  • 8 October 1969 (1969-10-08) (West Germany)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman
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]

Cast

Reception

When the film was released in America in 1977, Vincent Canby in The New York Times called it "extraordinarily stylish... quite unlike anything else I've seen... an early glimpse of his [Fassbinder's] dazzling talent and the talents of the stock company of performers and technicians who, with him, have created a body of film work unique in any country in recent years".[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Canby, Vincent (4 June 1977). "Film : 'Katzelmacher' Hypnotizes and Amuses". The New York Times. p. 11. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
  2. ^ Malcolm, Derek (11 June 1982). "Radical without chic". The Guardian. p. 10.

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