Germany 1981
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Skript: Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Camera: Xaver Schwarzenberger
Editor: Juliane Lorenz, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Music: Peer Raben
Actor: Barbara Sukowa, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mario Adorf
Production: Horst Wendlandt
Distribution: Studiocanal
115 Min., 35mm, colour, German

A new building department head arrives in Coburg, a small Bavarian town, in 1957. During his attempts to gain a social foothold, he gets to know a prostitute and lover of the local builder. Fassbinder’s version of the Sternberg classic THE BLUE ANGEL with Barbara Sukowa.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The director, producer, actor and writer Rainer Werner Fassbinder (* 1945, † 1982) is one of the most important representatives of the New German Film of the 1970s and 80s.

Films (Selection)
1969    Liebe ist kälter als der Tod
1973    Angst essen Seele auf
1978    Die Ehe der Maria Braun
1982    Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
1982    Querelle