| Description |
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical mono rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion picture. |
| Series |
Criterion collection. |
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Criterion collection.
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| System Details |
DVD, full screen (1.37:1); monaural. |
| Note |
Title from sell sheet. |
| Cast |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harry Baer, Peter Chatel. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. |
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Full screen (1.37:1). |
| Summary |
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery. It is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany. |
| Note |
Special features: New interviews with Michael Harry Baer and Ira Sachs; excerpts from a 1975 interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder; excerpts from a 1981 interview wioth Peer Raben; trailer; essay. |
| Language |
German dialogue; English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Lottery winners -- Germany -- Drama.
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Gay men -- Germany -- Drama.
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Exploitation -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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| Added Author |
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982, filmmaker, actor.
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Baer, Harry, 1947- actor.
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Chatel, Peter, -1986, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
715515191517 |
| ISBN |
9781681432465 |
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1681432463 |
| Music No. |
CC2719DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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