124 mins - West Germany 1975 - Subtitles Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel and Karlheinz Böhm FOX AND HIS FRIENDS is among the director's most personal works and the first to tackle homosexuality in a direct manner. Fassbinder himself plays Fox, a sweet working-class soul whose relationship with wealthy industrialist Eugen, he discovers, is based almost wholly on his unexpected lottery win. When his money runs out, so does any affection, with tragic consequences. “This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise.” The New Yorker
RAINER WERNER FASSBINDERThe 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
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