Peer Raben Movies

A pessimistic drama about a family struggling to survive after the death of their father. Left behind are the simple-minded mother, the strong-willed daughter Josefine, another sister and a mentally retarded brother. Josefine takes over the reins and looks after the family. She turns her sister...

"End of the Commune"/"Ende einer kommune" is a great 49 min. long movie made in 1969 about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows...

Cunning Hotzenplotz has managed to escape from the village prison with a trick. Kasperl and Seppl immediately set off to recapture the escaped villain. They finally find him in his secret hiding place in the middle of the deep forest. But not only is he at large again - he is also threatening the...

An abstract look at the changes in a woman's inner self. Married to a down-and-out writer, she is forced into a liaison with a book thief.

An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner Fassbinder."

A factory worker in the south of Italy, frustrated by work and marriage, withdraws into nature, but in the search for love and human warmth he ends up "on the dog" in the sense of the word.

A documentary about the Director Fassbinder but edited as if it was a film of the Master himself, with some sequences of his own movies.