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Director Fassbinder in his Munich commune 1970: bodies in the cellar
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Michael Friedel
This leather jacket.
These boots.
These sunglasses.
That hat.
These pants that stretched fat over his bum.
That suburban face.
This wide-leggedness.
This unwashed.
Those cigarettes, the smoke of which he blew into the faces of the others.
That droning voice, her self-assurance, her arrogance.
This "ne?"
at the end of his sentences, which wanted to sound as if he knew everything, he could do everything.
An imposition from man.
An asshole.
A seducer for whatever reason.
An artist, one of the great ones in the history of this country.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 42 films between 1969 and 1982. In one year, 1970, he made five.
Total nonsense underneath, so what?
Shoot during the day, write in the evening, and into the gay underworld at night.
13 years in which Fassbinder reinvented German cinema and achieved world fame.
He was a manic-depressive human catcher who gathered a few lost young people in Munich in the 1960s, young people with "film-eaters", as he called them, from whom he got something out in front of the camera that didn't really exist there.
Young people whom he made dependent on himself and despised for it.
Men and women whom he beat and humiliated and tormented.
On whose arm he stubbed out cigarettes.
Women whom he married or promised them, only to have them watch him sleep with men.
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