MATINEE | LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
Germany (2015), 92 min. DCP Projection
German and English with English Subtitles
Director: Annekatrin Hendel
Screenplay: Annekatrin Hendel, Juliane Lorenz
Cinematography: Martin Farkas
Cast: Juliane Lorenz, Hanna Schygulla, Wolf Gremm, Thomas Schühly, Margit Carstensen
Producers: Annekatrin Hendel
Co-Producer: Juliane Lorenz
Production Company: IT WORKS! Medien/Berlin, in co-production with Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is arguably one of the most prolific and controversial figures in German film history. Abruptly cut short by his untimely death in 1982 at the age of 37,
Fassbinder’s legacy included his revolutionary work in theater, as well as the 44 films he directed in only 18 years.
Fassbinder’s unique ability to portray German society with such painful honesty, often polarizing the nation, remains unparalleled.
Skillfully blending elements of
Fassbinder’s tremendous body of work with his biography,
Annekatrin Hendel illustrates various details of
Fassbinder’s personal life through carefully selected autobiographical elements within his films. Never-before-seen archival material, excerpts from
Fassbinder’s early literary work, as well as rare interviews with his friends and colleagues
Irm Hermann, Margit Carstensen, Harry Baer, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Schlöndorff and
Juliane Maria Lorenz all shed new light on
Fassbinder’s career.
Hendel blurs the lines between
Fassbinder’s life and art to explore the roots of New German Cinema’s enfant terrible, providing fresh insight into the audacity, determination and assertiveness
Fassbinder relied upon in order to become the notorious, obsessive artist, driven by a desire to create at all costs.
In Person: Director
Annekatrin Hendel
PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF OUTFEST AND THE VILLA AURORA
TICKETS
$11.-/ General Audiences
$9.- / Seniors, Students, Friends of Goethe
$7.- / Cinematheque Members
Annekatrin Hendel was born in Berlin. After studying Design, she worked as a costume and set designer for film and theater, later co-founding the Berlin-based Theater 89. In 2004 she founded
IT WORKS! Medien, whose first production
ZUR ZEIT VERSTORBEN was nominated for the 2004 German Short Film Award. Her other films as a director include:
FLAKE - MEIN LEBEN (2011) about the Keyboarder of RAMMSTEIN,
VATERLANDSVERRAETER and
ANDERSON, which has received numerous awards.
WORLD SALES
Rainer Werner Fassbinder Werkschau
www.fassbinderfoundation.de
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