Film series at the Film Museum

Love Is Colder Than Death - Rainer Werner FassbinderZum 30th Death of Rainer Werner Fassbinder film shows the museum from 03.04. 06/26/2012 to twelve films of the director, who have a special connection to the city of Munich. Will open the series on Tuesday, 03/04/2012, with "Love Is Colder Than Death" (1969), Fassbinder's first feature film in which he plays a pimp himself. "Katzelmacher" (1969) came after Fassbinder's play is set in a bleak area of ​​Munich.

Fassbinder's films show not just the sights of Munich, not Leopold in Schwabing, but some streets in the neighborhood, indefinable backyards, simple corner pubs. He rarely shows recognizable places like the U-Bahn station Marienplatz in "Fox and His Friends" (1975) or the Löwenbräukeller in "Gods of the Plague". Fassbinder turned you in (small) or philistine bourgeois apartments, stairwells shows, remains close to the people, so that the exact environment not only becomes visible.

"In Fassbinder's Munich triumph nor the closest semi-Silk, opportunists, traitors and exploiters. But if Fassbinder's characters leave the city once, then they usually go through barren Ausfalllstraßen or move in a featureless wasteland. "(Hans Günther Pflaum)

The city of Munich is not the only clip from the movie. As an ensemble performer is always his "family drama" brings together: Hanna Schygulla, Irm Her husband, Harry Baer, ​​Ingrid Caven, Klaus Löwitsch, Barbara Valentin, Margit Carstensen. In "Gods of the Plague" (1970) and "The American Soldier" (1970) affects the subsequent director Margarethe von Trotta as actress. Even the cameramen Dietrich Lohmann and Michael Ballhaus shot several films with Fassbinder and there began their international careers. The music is always Peer Raben.

Visit the film set Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the period from 03.04. until 06.26.2012 at the Film Museum in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.