93 mins - West Germany 1973 - Subtitles Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Starring: Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem and Barbara Valentin Emmi (Brigitte Mira), a widowed cleaning lady in her sixties, meets Ali (El Hedi ben Salem), a Moroccan immigrant in his thirties. Seeking companionship, the pair marry to the outrage of Emmi's family (including Fassbinder himself as her aggressive son-in-law), her friends and her colleagues. “The performances are flawless; the themes remain timely.” The Observer
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER The New German Cinema movement, a period which lasted from the sixties until the eighties, saw filmmakers such as Werner Herzog, Margarethe von Trotta, Wim Wenders and Helma Sanders-Brahms rise to prominence both in West Germany and internationally. One of the key directors of this movement was, without a doubt, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He helmed over 40 feature films and a 13 hour television series before his tragic death at the age of 37. Triskel Arts Centre presents a small sample of this incredible artist’s work with a selection of four of his films.
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