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The destructive nature of a rising Nazi menace is the subtext in this drama about a young man in Germany in the late ’20s. While he enjoys a certain immunity from hard times because of a rich friend and female companionship, he is not blind. He sees mounting injustices in the society around him and cannot always reconcile them with his own views. After his love life gets a jolt and he loses his job, he debates whether or not to work for a Nazi newspaper as the future seems to look worse each day.Read More »
Wolf Gremm
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Wolf Gremm – Fabian (1980)
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Wolf Gremm – Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Letzte Arbeiten AKA Last Works (1982)
1981-1990DocumentaryGermanyRainer Werner FassbinderWolf GremmThis is a TV documentary featuring footage of Fassbinder on the sets of “Kamikaze 89” and “Querelle”. There is also an interview with him (I think it might be the last interview he gave before his death). “Last Works” director Gremm was staying at Fassbinder’s apartment during the night of his overdose.Read More »
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Wolf Gremm – Kamikaze 1989 (1982)
1981-1990GermanyRainer Werner FassbinderSci-FiThrillerWolf GremmWolf Gremm’s Kamikaze ‘89 gleefully engages the Eurotrash spirit of liberation from corporate culture. It places Berlin’s rabble-rousing nighthawks in the midst of a terrorist investigation that may-or-may-not implicate a fascistic media conglomerate known as The Combine. Caught in step with music and sex above politics, the libidinous partygoers remain oblivious to the rampant corruption that exists beyond the pulsating speakers.Read More »