FILM SCREENING

The American Soldier
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1970
Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George
BW / 80' / OV with subtitles: FR–NL

PLOT

A young Vietnam mercenary is recruited by several Munich police officers to carry out a series of murders. Fassbinder’s explicit homage to the American gangster films of the 1930s. The characters bear the names of various directors, including Rosa von Praunheim.