Titles Comprise: 1. Fear Eats the Soul (1974) 2. Effi Briest (1974) 3. Fox and His Friends (1975) 4. Mother Kuster's Trip to Heave (1975) 5. Fear of Fear (1975) 6. Satan's Brew (1976) 7. Chinese Roulette (1976) 8. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
Maria (Hanna Schygulla) marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II only for him to disappear in the war. Alone Maria uses her beauty and ambition to prosper in Germany's ""economic miracle"" of the 1950s. Fassbinder's biggest international box-office success and the first part of his 'postwar trilogy' (along with Veronica Voss and Lola) The Marriage of Maria Braun is a heartbreaking study of a woman picking herself up from the ruins of her own life as well as a pointed metaphorical attack on a society determined to forget its past.
His first time may be his last. Jonathan Moore (Edwards) is a shy UCLA veterinary student and the reigning champion at 'Gotcha' a campus-wide paintball game. While on vacation in West Germany he's seduced by an older woman the sexy and mysterious Sasha (Fiorentino) who turns out to be an international spy. When he returns home to LA there's a strange canister of film in his backpack and a team of KGB agents on his back. Suddenly he's in the middle of a real life-or-death game of
Famed German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder typically portrays aspects of the human struggle using an unwavering style that is often difficult to watch but provides a refreshingly raw and honest narrative perspective. Merchant Of Four Seasons is an engaging close-up portrait of a downtrodden fruit seller named Hans. Full of hope after serving with the Foreign Legion Hans becomes a police officer--only to be fired for an indiscretion with a prostitute humiliating himself and his family. Hungry for a piece of the economic boom of the 1950s Hans begins selling produce from a cart much to the dismay of his class-conscious family. Saddled with a shrewish wife Hans derives most of his pleasure from drink and flirting with a former girlfriend whom he truly loves. However when he hires a former Foreign Legion friend to help with his business things suddenly take an unfortunate turn making Hans obsolete in the process. The Merchant Of Four Seasons was a turning point in Fassbinder's career marking his entry into the international arena and the subsequent scrutiny of his notorious private life
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