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8:00 PM

German Film Forum 2015/16 - Director in Focus – Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Film|Satan's Brew

  • Hong Kong Film Archive Cinema, Hong Kong

  • Price HK$60/30 (full time students, senior citizens aged 60 or above and people with disabilities and minders and CSSA recipients). Other special offers: 20% off for each purchase of standard tickets for 3 (or more) different screenings. Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof enjoy 20% off. The above offers cannot be used in conjunction with other special offers. All films are shown with English subtitles (Except for English dialogues)

Satansbraten ©Goethe-Institut

1976, 112 mins, Germany, III

One of Fassbinder’s most difficult films, Satan’s Brew is dominated by a sarcastically bitter and sometimes cynical undertone. Walter Kranz, a modern poet, has been unable to produce anything in the past two years. One day, he writes a very nice poem, but it turns out to be the same poem written by another German poet. This throws him into a major crisis of identity. This film was made when Fassbinder was considered exhausted, and not so creative anymore. In this respect, there is no doubt a cross-reference to the poet in this film.