The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
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This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from...
Hansi is elated and looks forward to a happy life when his childhood sweetheart Regina marries him. However, he is unaware that his rival is conspiring to cause a rift in his family.
Bad news for Irmi Sandgruber: her son Franz has become engaged to her arch-enemy, the scheming Viktoria; it also turns out that Irmi is up to her ears in debt after a failed loan speculation. Hansi and his wife Regina search in vain for a solution. Viktoria offers to pay off the debts if Irmi and...
A pregnant 22-year-old with a dreary job, a difficult home life and an absent boyfriend learns to love her life and share this love with the child in her womb.