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Faustrecht der Freiheit = Fox and his friends [videorecording] / Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation presents ; Produktionsleitung, Christian Hohoff ; Buch, Rainer Werner Fassbinder unter Mitarbeit von Christian Hohoff ; Tango Film Produktion ; in Coproduktion mit City-Film GmbH, Berlin ; ein Film von Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2719D | The Criterion CollectionCC2719DDVD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: German Series: Criterion collection ; 851.Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]Edition: DVD special editionDescription: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 folded insertContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681432465
  • 1681432463
Other title:
  • Container title: Fox and his friends
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .F355 2017
Production credits:
  • Editor, Thea Eymesz ; art direction, Kurt Raab ; music, Peer Raben ; director of photography, Michael Ballhaus.
Cast: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl-Heinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Bär.Summary: "A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom, but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking--if controversial--depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany"--Container.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Media/Non-print collection Media/Non-print collection Albright College Library CCM--Ask at Reference Desk DVD DVD 791.4372 F791 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31856002515086
Total holds: 0

Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.

A new 4K restoration of the film, undertaken by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.

Special features: New interviews with Michael Harry Baer and Ira Sachs; Pour le cinéma television series excerpts from a 1975 interview with Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Cinémania television series excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben; trailer; essay.

Editor, Thea Eymesz ; art direction, Kurt Raab ; music, Peer Raben ; director of photography, Michael Ballhaus.

Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl-Heinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Bär.

"A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom, but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking--if controversial--depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany"--Container.

DVD, region 1, NTSC; full frame (1.37:1 screen ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.

German dialogue with optional English subtitles.

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