End of the Commune?

Movie·1970·0h 49m

End of the Commune?

Country

Germany

Language

German

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The Story

Original title: Ende einer Kommune?

A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group 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 rehearsals for his play "The Coffeehouse," which also became a television movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" was shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature movie was given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder Than Death,” while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!” In this documentary, Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father, who was a respectable doctor.

Cinematography

Jürgen Haigis

Themes

new german wavenew german cinemacinema history

Production House

Süddeutscher Rundfunk

Audience Score

80%

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Cast

Hanna Schygulla

Hanna Schygulla

Self

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Self (uncredited)

Irm Hermann

Irm Hermann

Self (uncredited)

Kurt Raab

Kurt Raab

Self (uncredited)

Gisela Otto

Self (uncredited)

Peer Raben

Peer Raben

Self (uncredited)

// crew

Crew

Joachim von Mengershausen

Director, Writer

Jürgen Haigis

Director of Photography

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