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When Rainer Werner Fassbinder
He died at the age of 37 in 1982,

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He left 44 films and television series.

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"What matters is the totality of the works
what are you leaving," he thought.

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It must say something about the time when
was made or has no value.

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In his films he talks about
great fears and taboos of the Germans.

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No other German director
It was so productive,

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controversial and obsessive
like Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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My goal is to make movies.
that they are perfect,

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that are indistinguishable from
French, Italian or American films,

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but let them remain personal reflections
of its creator

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and you can't go wrong
with anyone else's work.

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I knew I would make movies. I knew it...

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From 12 years old.

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For me it was just a matter of time.

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I did several things,

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A little acting, a little writing.

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Ravioli!

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I spent two years in theater school.

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Cinema was what I knew the least,
so I liked it more.

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That's the story at its core.

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I'm used to a big camera.
I still haven't mastered this little one.

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Voila!

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He would die laughing if he could see me now.

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-Lucy!
- You have to dump the water.

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- What water?
- That water.

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You are lying. Come closer.

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What do you want?
Defend yourself. Look at me.

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I remember well that at school
We always had to do these exercises.

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ACTRESS

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What school?

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It was a private school
where I ended up by chance.

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I didn't know
I wanted to be an actress.

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Then I noticed this guy.

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There was something moving about it.
and intimidating at the same time.

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Something vulnerable and something...

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predator, rapacious.

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He was that mix...

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Everything he did,
He did it unlike anyone else.

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I met Fassbinder through a friend.

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who was in drama school with him.

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She told me,

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ACTRESS

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"There is an actor coming,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder...

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to do some kind of reading.

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Do you want to come?"

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I remember smoking 100 cigarettes.

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and read from a novel.
I was electrified.

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What hurts me makes me feel good.

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How many people were there?

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maybe three

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And what was so electrifying?

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The focus, the intensity,
with which he read...

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It electrified me.
It was completely new to me.

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A few weeks later, Christoph Roser
He called me at the office where I worked.

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and said, "you know...

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Rainer would like...
He is filming a short film...

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We have no money, we are very sorry..."
But would you act on it?

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I thought I would faint.
I was completely confused. And...

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Why?

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I was so excited. I did not know
how to do it. I didn't feel able to do it.

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But we filmed it,

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and from that moment on
I was under his spell.

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- Really?
- yes yes

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The way you spoke to me,

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He told me to do this, and so,
and he showed me how...

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He showed me how to recite
each of my lines.

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And it was more intimate.
than anything else I've ever done.

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It was incredible.

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No one had ever spoken to me like that before.

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Not like he did.
It was absolutely unique.

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Then he moved into my apartment.

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I was with him day and night.

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It was exhausting.
We never went to bed before 4am.

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We never sleep more than three or four hours.

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We were always on the move.

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We watched all the American B movies.
four a day

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Then we went to a bar.

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We drank Coca Cola.
Fassbinder didn't drink alcohol then.

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- Only tea or coke.
- Really?

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Yes. For years. It wasn't until '74
at the am turm theater

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When he started with alcohol or drugs.

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In '67 I met a fellow student.
from theater school

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She told me she was doing Antigone
in action theater,

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and to go see him.

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When the theater emptied,

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I was standing at the bar
after the performance,

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and the director, Peer Raben,
joined me

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He said he was looking for actors.
with a Bavarian accent, and...

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we decided to try it
to work together.

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He made me leave a note in my mailbox.

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I don't know if it was his handwriting.
I hadn't seen much of his writing.

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It was only written:

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"Do you want to act in Antigone?
The premiere is in two days."

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It was very fast.

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You had to act so much in Antigone
and in the choir.

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It was enough to copy in the choir.
what others did

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And then in your moment like Antigone,

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They didn't tell you much more than
"Do what you want...

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And you can also do very little.
That works too."

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Who was directing?

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Peer Raben.

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Yes, he was really...

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The most important one there.

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He was...
Later he made a lot of music,

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but sometimes it was also
Fassbinder's lover.

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I was overcome by ecstasy
at the moment -

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The ecstasy of acting, I mean...

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As soon as the spotlight fell on me,

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and suddenly I realized, “Right!

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This is precisely the feeling
"what am I looking for?"

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Since then I was part of it.

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They moved suddenly
They were called antitheatre.

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/ACTOR

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They had a play,
The Beggar's Opera.

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There was a drummer in it
who will beat his drum

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and say a few lines.
That was my entry.

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I had never heard of Fassbinder.

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The first time I saw him

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I was bent over with laughter
for my performance.

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Because I spoke very slowly

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and it seemed
the embodiment of the revolution. ...

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mustache, sideburns, leather coat.
Like from the Gestapo.

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sat there
He leaned in to laugh with Hanna.

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It never occurred to me
that they were laughing at me.

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Meanwhile,
for my parents,

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I continued my studies.

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They would have been worried.

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Of all people, only Fassbinder!

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- Because?
- He was a provocateur.

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Really?

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He was the ogre of the middle class.

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I used to write theater and film.
Reviews for a Hamburg newspaper.

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ACTOR/DIRECTOR

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And I was sitting there

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In what was half theater, half bar...

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He stayed there.
I thought, who is that?

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He looked like a boy
that had just passed through...

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But then it became, in fact,

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in the central figure of action theater.

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He can do anything.
He would be excellent as von Schmettwitz.

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He took over the direction.

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The oldest is forceful.

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He imposes his decisions.

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You have to play the way he wants,
not how you would

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You could feel it had begun

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to dominate the action theater company.

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At one point I realized that he was the driving force
behind the whole thing.

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The way he directed...

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I had always thought that Willi,
Peer Raben, was the boss.

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And it was at the beginning,
But Rainer more or less took charge.

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That's how society is.
Those in charge don't have the money.

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So everyone can be on the payroll.

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So almost everyone must have
a second job

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Only a few of us are always available,
So we are the ones involved.

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Why do you call it Antitheatre?

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Is it experimental, or anti-theater?

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It's more than just anti-theatre.

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- Anti what?
- Oh, anti-state.

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Anti...

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Against violence, war...

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It was this great longing

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to change this capitalist,
Fascist, warmongering world.

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Love is colder than death

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I wanted to make movies.
That was clear.

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AND...

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It's always a matter of chance encounters.

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He met Ulli Lommel.

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And then they got money.

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From an heiress to the Bosch fortune.
10,000 marks.

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I was very convincing

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when you ask people for money

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Because I was so convinced of him.

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I knew... I always said,
"He's a genius.

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He is a genius.
You have to give him money."

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- Did you know?
- I was sure of it, that he is a genius.

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Dear!

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- Can I help you?
- Do you have glasses with steel frames?

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- Steel frames?
- I don't...

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- Do they fit me well?
- Don't know. Maybe.

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They are fine, yes.

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- Can you finally help me?
- Yes sir?

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- Just tell me if you have steel frames.
- Don't know.

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Wait your turn!

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-She just...
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I'm looking for a pair of round glasses,

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Like the policeman from Psycho.

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The one who finds Janet Leigh's car.

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- You understand?
- What terrible service!

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- I only have two arms, damn it!
- Steel frames.

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- Steel frames!
- yes

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If you don't have rounds,
Which ones do you have, dear?

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Our selection is limited.
We are a supermarket.

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Thank you so much.

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I let him do whatever he wanted.

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Because of course I realized.

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how ahead of us he was creatively.

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It hadn't escaped me that...

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he had something

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There was never any hesitation in him.

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Many times I did not understand
what he wanted.

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His performances were so strange to me.

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Even when it came to
stinky little children,

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I wanted to put something in it

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that went above and beyond that.

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Maybe I would have wanted
make love stories

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if I had experienced
that kind of thing by itself.

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But there must have been
a lot of gaps to fill,

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the absences of the central figures in his life.

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His mother, his father and everyone...

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Your mother?

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The relationship I had with his mother?

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I found Lilo...

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Of course it didn't escape me

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that we were a bit alike.

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You can see it in this book
what did he do for her

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And I saw it here too.

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So there must have been something to that.

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And this book of his poems.

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It was also an act of tenderness.
for his mother

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That probably wasn't possible.
to express directly.

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Because in the first place she was distant,

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and second he always sick
and away in a sanatorium.

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So she married a man
who was never close to him.

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They constantly gave him money
to go to the cinema.

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And thus the filmmaker was born.

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The 19th International Festival
of Berlin cinema...

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presents the German feature film
Colder than death.

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Finally the movie was finished.

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We send a copy without any sound.
to the Berlinale...

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and was invited
To the 1969 Berlin competition.

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This just confirmed everything for us.

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We waited and waited.

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The quick camera captures.
the contrasts of black and white,

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as you explore every shade of gray

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from the deepest darkness
to the blinding white, dissolving.

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- Mr. Fassbinder, good luck with your film.
- Thank you.

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It will be quick, simple.
and unconventional.

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- Goodbye, Mr. Fassbinder.
- Thank you.

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Boo!

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Shit!

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I have the honor to present to you
to the star of the film and its director...

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Ulli Lommel
and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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You like me?

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Where is the director?

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We wanted the movie to make millions.

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We thought it would be
an international success.

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We were convinced
that it would be a great success.

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That's the only way you can survive
to such a production.

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Of course he was bitter.

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Of course he was angry and bitter.

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But he wasn't going to give up.
with your potential and slide,

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His tail between his legs, saying:"I quit."
It was just taking off.

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Harry! If I had known,
I would have taken the afternoon off.

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You know what I was thinking
on the way?

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Someone who would never have done it
what we are doing is Rainer.

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He would have said, "Fuck!"

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There you are!

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He wouldn't do an interview
with another director! By no means!

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He always said:
"No one cares about me."

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Which wasn't true. They all did it.

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I wanted to do Baal.
It was in pre-production

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and I was still looking for someone
for the lead role.

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In any case, Rainer projected
the post-production copy...

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DIRECTOR

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from "Love is colder than death"

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in a cinema now gone
on Thierschstrasse.

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I saw the movie there.

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And it was clear that
his screen presence was so strong...

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that I didn't need to do
one audition or another.

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We quickly agreed.

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The condition was that I hire
as many of its people as possible.

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He said: "If we rehearse for two weeks"
As I had suggested,

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"then the movie for three,
I'm leaving for five weeks.

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What will my company do while you?

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They need to eat.
I have to feed them somehow."

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So I entrusted the roles to many of them.
I still hadn't had my fill.

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He also loved his people.
See all phases,

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the first assembly,
The second assembly.

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Everyone had to come
both cast and crew.

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I wanted them to learn from it.

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For him it was like a big workshop.

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It was difficult
when your people were around?

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His worst tantrum was...

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when he saw that the taxes
had been deducted from his salary.

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He ripped it all out, threw it away,

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and he told me:"I can't work like this.

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Everything is paid gross, not net! "

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And that's how he produced
then the next three or four movies,

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like the previous ones.

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He didn't keep a single receipt.
or something.

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In fact that saved him.

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A few years later,
when people realized,

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Prosecutors had no evidence against him.

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Colleagues like Schlondorff...

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who had prepared baal, and then
It started shooting three days later...

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when he saw it
was out of the way...

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Because five weeks later
of the screening of his latest film. ...

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at the Berlinale,
There was already another one.

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I always said, and I still do,

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If you have to make movies, then make them.

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Which side of Greece are you from?

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- What city?
- Piraeus.

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- Is there no work there?
- Jobs, yes, but without money.

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It's a political statement, too.

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This Greek who comes from Greece.

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and steal our women,
so to speak,

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and fucks better than us...

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It represents us as fools,
clumsy, backward Bavarians,

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who join forces
to beat up the Greeks.

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That?

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I see it as a protest against
the stupid reactions at the Berlinale.

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where the critics kept talking

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how static everything was,
Filming so slow.

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So I made Katzelmacher.
Even more static and slow.

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Regardless of whether it was
just for the topic.

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With Rainer Werner everything had to be unique.

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And in that respect I think Rainer Werner.

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belonged to a tradition
of German and European art.

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You have to create something
that has never been done before.

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Aesthetically, too.

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Dietrich Lohmann told me

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Like a Katzelmacher reel.
had been exposed incorrectly.

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God!

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And Rainer Werner said:

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"It's magnificent, I've never seen it
incorrectly exposed.

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Everyone will think it's intentional."

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We won the German Film Award.
for Katzelmacher

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And it gained some popularity.

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Shortly after Fassbinder
It became very visible in the press.

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That's how it was, Fassbinder in the early days...

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DIRECTOR OF TELEVISION COMEDIES
FROM WESTDEUTSCHE RUNDFUNK (65-79)

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Both in public and in private.

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00:21:31,321 --> 00:21:35,321
Fassbinder was something of an antihero.

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He played that role...
He always behaved like a rock star...

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A temperamental and sullen rock star

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with some tangible aggression,

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with leather jacket and everything,

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He presented himself as a tough guy.

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So he came to see us in the GDR.

340
00:22:01,121 --> 00:22:05,001
It can't have been easy for him.
meet us television people,

341
00:22:05,121 --> 00:22:09,361
whose money I wanted and needed

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to make his movies.

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00:22:12,121 --> 00:22:15,761
But he came and we talked.

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00:22:15,881 --> 00:22:20,641
I asked him if he would like a drink.
He said, "I wouldn't mind a whiskey."

345
00:22:20,761 --> 00:22:25,561
Then it happened,
I don't know, an hour with me.

346
00:22:25,681 --> 00:22:28,001
and in that hour

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smoked at least 20 cigarettes

348
00:22:32,001 --> 00:22:33,961
and drank half a bottle of whiskey.

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00:22:34,721 --> 00:22:39,361
From everywhere,
particularly WDR TV and its subsidiaries,

350
00:22:39,481 --> 00:22:44,601
There was always money coming in.

351
00:22:44,721 --> 00:22:47,041
Movies cost money, after all.

352
00:22:47,161 --> 00:22:48,761
And...

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00:22:49,961 --> 00:22:52,361
That's how so many movies were made.

354
00:22:52,481 --> 00:22:55,281
This production frenzy...

355
00:22:55,401 --> 00:23:00,681
We experience it as something that
He focused more and more on him.

356
00:23:00,801 --> 00:23:05,361
Do you think the qualities
from the author, director,

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00:23:05,481 --> 00:23:08,441
and the complete man,
Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

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Munich icon of subculture,

359
00:23:11,481 --> 00:23:15,161
Will it lead to a Fassbinder inflation?

360
00:23:15,281 --> 00:23:18,281
Absolutely not.
No doubt.

361
00:23:20,081 --> 00:23:22,041
Plague Gods

362
00:23:22,161 --> 00:23:23,961
The American Soldier

363
00:23:28,001 --> 00:23:29,681
The trip to Niklashhauser

364
00:23:29,801 --> 00:23:32,121
Why does Mr. R. go mad?

365
00:23:32,241 --> 00:23:33,681
Attention to that beloved prostitute

366
00:23:34,681 --> 00:23:36,721
There is an energy,

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00:23:36,841 --> 00:23:38,281
a necessity -

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00:23:38,401 --> 00:23:40,281
has to go out

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00:23:40,401 --> 00:23:42,921
And the strength to articulate them.

370
00:23:43,041 --> 00:23:46,121
And he had mastered the instruments.

371
00:23:46,881 --> 00:23:49,481
to do it
And it was obvious

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00:23:50,721 --> 00:23:52,121
He would go his way.

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00:23:52,241 --> 00:23:55,401
It wouldn't work with a 30-man squad.

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00:23:55,521 --> 00:23:57,481
It worked because

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The actors also had other jobs to do.

376
00:24:01,321 --> 00:24:06,161
Kurt Raab was a brilliant actor.
And also the production designer.

377
00:24:06,281 --> 00:24:11,481
Mr. Baer was an amateur actor.
who would do anything for a part,

378
00:24:11,601 --> 00:24:14,721
And he also worked as an assistant director.
or production manager.

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00:24:14,841 --> 00:24:20,601
They all had two or three functions,

380
00:24:20,721 --> 00:24:24,041
and as a result they could work
very fast and efficient.

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00:24:25,121 --> 00:24:30,161
The sense of community.
It was very present.

382
00:24:30,281 --> 00:24:33,921
On Stollbergstrasse we really try

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live like a commune.

384
00:24:38,201 --> 00:24:41,081
It was fascinating, the discussions...

385
00:24:41,201 --> 00:24:45,801
What we would do and how
was discussed beforehand.

386
00:24:45,921 --> 00:24:47,761
We had a large apartment.

387
00:24:47,881 --> 00:24:51,961
First a small one
with Peer Raben and Stratz and me.

388
00:24:52,081 --> 00:24:54,881
- In a small apartment?
- Yes, for a while.

389
00:24:55,001 --> 00:24:58,001
So we live close
the Nymphenburger canal,

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00:24:58,121 --> 00:25:00,961
only Peer Raben, he, I,

391
00:25:01,081 --> 00:25:04,521
and Stratz sometimes stayed.
It was a bigger place.

392
00:25:04,641 --> 00:25:09,401
He often visited the villa, of course,
and the apartment in Lehel, but...

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00:25:12,801 --> 00:25:14,601
I was...

394
00:25:15,801 --> 00:25:17,761
It was a good thing he didn't live there.

395
00:25:18,561 --> 00:25:21,961
We would have killed each other.

396
00:25:24,961 --> 00:25:27,681
I wouldn't have had
emotional strength

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00:25:27,801 --> 00:25:33,521
live 24 hours a day
with a whole company

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00:25:33,641 --> 00:25:38,161
and participate
in resolving group conflicts,

399
00:25:38,281 --> 00:25:42,121
In addition to doing my own work,
And make all that the center of my work.

400
00:25:43,561 --> 00:25:45,841
I love it.

401
00:25:45,961 --> 00:25:47,201
More than ever!

402
00:25:50,001 --> 00:25:53,801
I can't exist without him in my head.

403
00:25:53,921 --> 00:26:00,481
I met him for the first time on production
from The Coffee,

404
00:26:00,561 --> 00:26:02,121
ACTRESS

405
00:26:02,201 --> 00:26:04,881
A work adapted from Goldoni.

406
00:26:06,561 --> 00:26:09,721
It was based on that,
although the dialogue,

407
00:26:09,841 --> 00:26:13,201
that I remember,

408
00:26:14,161 --> 00:26:19,481
It was heavily based on his own intuition.

409
00:26:19,601 --> 00:26:22,881
It was a very important one.
experience for us,

410
00:26:23,001 --> 00:26:27,401
seeing that it was possible

411
00:26:27,521 --> 00:26:30,361
work with actors
who were not members of the group,

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00:26:30,481 --> 00:26:35,521
to create something special,
specific and original.

413
00:26:36,121 --> 00:26:41,281
He gave me the lead role.
in everything we did...

414
00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:46,081
And little by little I found my way.

415
00:26:48,121 --> 00:26:50,961
That all sounds so harmonious.

416
00:26:51,081 --> 00:26:53,281
Yes...No, no.

417
00:26:53,401 --> 00:26:57,361
Well, it was more like... More like...

418
00:26:57,481 --> 00:26:59,641
a kind of education

419
00:27:00,761 --> 00:27:03,161
For example, he also did...

420
00:27:03,281 --> 00:27:07,601
This was really cruel, bad.

421
00:27:07,721 --> 00:27:12,321
One night, after our performances,
after a performance,

422
00:27:12,441 --> 00:27:16,201
I take a piece of paper
and I fold it several times,

423
00:27:16,321 --> 00:27:21,961
write our names, and each of us
I had to rate the other actors.

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00:27:23,081 --> 00:27:25,561
in his performance that night.

425
00:27:26,201 --> 00:27:29,601
And everyone gave their votes.

426
00:27:29,721 --> 00:27:32,601
Then we would unfold the sheet.

427
00:27:32,721 --> 00:27:34,761
and you could see who had won.

428
00:27:35,881 --> 00:27:37,721
Most of the time I won.

429
00:27:38,761 --> 00:27:42,721
It was so awkward. They were all...

430
00:27:42,841 --> 00:27:44,801
so scared of him

431
00:27:44,921 --> 00:27:48,521
They tried to vote
the way he wanted.

432
00:27:48,641 --> 00:27:51,681
The American Soldier

433
00:27:57,441 --> 00:27:59,161
Oh, it's...

434
00:27:59,281 --> 00:28:03,641
Isn't this the American soldier?

435
00:28:03,761 --> 00:28:06,761
Ricky's role
German-American Vietnam veteran

436
00:28:06,881 --> 00:28:10,401
was written by Fassbinder
for Gunther Kaufmann.

437
00:28:10,521 --> 00:28:14,521
He met him doing Baal.

438
00:28:15,561 --> 00:28:19,401
and he wished for it,
But Gunther kept a distance.

439
00:28:20,841 --> 00:28:23,361
Gunther was married, and...

440
00:28:25,401 --> 00:28:29,081
Fassbinder was hot for him,
for this black man.

441
00:28:31,921 --> 00:28:33,561
What is he doing here?

442
00:28:41,721 --> 00:28:43,641
There I am.

443
00:28:43,761 --> 00:28:46,521
I didn't realize
that she was naked very often.

444
00:28:47,961 --> 00:28:49,561
It was never shown...

445
00:28:50,721 --> 00:28:53,041
The scene is not in the movie.

446
00:28:53,161 --> 00:28:54,481
Oh, isn't it?

447
00:28:55,641 --> 00:29:02,081
I left the movie because
I couldn't stand being naked so much,

448
00:29:02,201 --> 00:29:05,001
and filmed from below, you know.

449
00:29:05,121 --> 00:29:07,281
He interrupted filming...

450
00:29:07,401 --> 00:29:10,881
because I couldn't use the scenes
where we appeared.

451
00:29:11,001 --> 00:29:13,201
On that occasion he also said.

452
00:29:13,321 --> 00:29:17,161
who had married Ingrid Caven.

453
00:29:18,761 --> 00:29:21,281
We should never have gotten married.

454
00:29:21,401 --> 00:29:24,961
We get along better before and after

455
00:29:25,561 --> 00:29:27,041
than during our marriage.

456
00:29:27,161 --> 00:29:30,641
A strange mechanism took over,

457
00:29:30,761 --> 00:29:33,561
one that I would not have expected with us

458
00:29:33,681 --> 00:29:40,321
It was this strange possessiveness.

459
00:29:40,441 --> 00:29:43,281
which strangely took over.

460
00:29:44,161 --> 00:29:46,361
After our divorce...

461
00:29:46,481 --> 00:29:48,161
He disappeared again.

462
00:29:51,921 --> 00:29:56,921
They came here after the wedding,
Him and Ingrid.

463
00:29:57,041 --> 00:29:59,001
They both came here that day.

464
00:29:59,121 --> 00:30:00,681
With Kaufmann, too.

465
00:30:01,361 --> 00:30:02,881
They were already...

466
00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:05,601
Ingrid, at least, was drunk.

467
00:30:05,721 --> 00:30:08,521
She suddenly said,

468
00:30:08,641 --> 00:30:13,041
"Just so you know,
We have good sex together"

469
00:30:13,161 --> 00:30:15,561
I wanted to sink into the ground

470
00:30:15,681 --> 00:30:19,161
because ok,
you can do sexual things

471
00:30:19,281 --> 00:30:21,801
But you don't talk about it.

472
00:30:25,681 --> 00:30:29,201
He had a real relationship with Ingrid.

473
00:30:29,321 --> 00:30:33,641
And he had another one with Kaufmann, too.
I wanted to have both.

474
00:30:43,201 --> 00:30:46,361
Then Kaufmann returned to his wife.

475
00:30:46,481 --> 00:30:48,561
He was married, after all.

476
00:30:48,681 --> 00:30:50,881
When Rainer found out,

477
00:30:51,001 --> 00:30:53,121
he fired him

478
00:30:53,961 --> 00:30:57,561
Your cow! you are so bad
Like a third-rate ham actor.

479
00:30:57,681 --> 00:31:00,641
Katrin, you take the role!

480
00:31:02,321 --> 00:31:05,681
I didn't know anything about homosexuality.

481
00:31:05,801 --> 00:31:08,481
I didn't realize he was gay.

482
00:31:08,601 --> 00:31:10,601
And anyway he was bi.

483
00:31:10,721 --> 00:31:12,721
That is, he was...

484
00:31:12,841 --> 00:31:14,921
I mean, he was a real man.

485
00:31:15,041 --> 00:31:19,321
I didn't think, "That's weird, gay."

486
00:31:19,441 --> 00:31:22,081
He invited me to Paris.

487
00:31:23,881 --> 00:31:27,641
Of course he tried to put in
our hotel double bed.

488
00:31:27,761 --> 00:31:31,281
I turned around
I didn't know how to respond.

489
00:31:31,961 --> 00:31:33,921
The thing was completely unknown to me.

490
00:31:34,041 --> 00:31:38,521
The next day he rewarded me.
With a trip to the sauna.

491
00:31:38,641 --> 00:31:40,481
A gay sauna, of course.

492
00:31:41,321 --> 00:31:43,241
I had no idea what was happening.

493
00:31:43,361 --> 00:31:48,801
I found myself surrounded by
five or six French and Arabs,

494
00:31:49,241 --> 00:31:53,201
each one clung to one of my orifices.
So I ran away

495
00:31:54,201 --> 00:31:57,801
and I landed in the arms of an older man.

496
00:31:58,921 --> 00:32:02,081
That was my first time.

497
00:32:03,561 --> 00:32:09,161
That was the only dispute that
I had with him in this regard.

498
00:32:09,281 --> 00:32:12,401
What happened?
I had taken you there to...

499
00:32:12,521 --> 00:32:17,201
He watched, truly enjoying himself.
I could hear him laughing.

500
00:32:23,881 --> 00:32:27,841
That's when we filmed
The group's farewell song.

501
00:32:27,961 --> 00:32:29,321
What was his name?

502
00:32:31,001 --> 00:32:33,841
Attention to that beloved prostitute

503
00:32:35,681 --> 00:32:40,201
Each of us asks ourselves
If we were that prostitute so beloved

504
00:32:41,361 --> 00:32:44,681
He dubbed everyone's voice.

505
00:32:44,801 --> 00:32:46,441
But he left mine to me.

506
00:32:46,561 --> 00:32:51,481
For example,
gave to Magdalena Moctezuma

507
00:32:51,601 --> 00:32:54,841
- Irm's voice.
- Not just his voice.

508
00:32:54,961 --> 00:32:57,001
-The paper, too.
-The paper, too.

509
00:32:57,121 --> 00:33:01,241
He himself had acted
by someone else, too,

510
00:33:01,361 --> 00:33:04,961
While the production manager was playing.

511
00:33:05,081 --> 00:33:08,281
You exploit me and then you throw me away.

512
00:33:08,401 --> 00:33:11,681
You terrify me, you bastards!
You are killing me!

513
00:33:11,801 --> 00:33:14,481
I hate you! Korbinian!

514
00:33:14,601 --> 00:33:18,001
I want ten Cuba Libres!
Ten, do you hear?

515
00:33:19,481 --> 00:33:22,761
I kept up to date on things by phone,

516
00:33:22,881 --> 00:33:28,001
the events in Sorrento
or wherever it was.

517
00:33:28,121 --> 00:33:33,761
The pattern was always the same:
Humiliation, praise, praise, humiliation.

518
00:33:33,881 --> 00:33:38,801
Create dependency, exclude,
then accept back into the group.

519
00:33:38,921 --> 00:33:44,721
An endless cycle
of emotional power struggles.

520
00:33:45,681 --> 00:33:47,841
Of course it tasted perfectly good,

521
00:33:48,321 --> 00:33:51,801
that these power struggles simply reflect

522
00:33:51,921 --> 00:33:54,601
what happens everywhere in society.

523
00:33:54,721 --> 00:33:58,401
That's why he never had
moral scruples

524
00:33:58,521 --> 00:34:00,921
to exasperate someone.

525
00:34:01,041 --> 00:34:06,041
He said:"I'm just doing
what happens constantly in society."

526
00:34:06,161 --> 00:34:08,681
If someone was on the ground moaning,

527
00:34:08,801 --> 00:34:12,081
He said, "coward,
why are you whining

528
00:34:12,201 --> 00:34:15,241
Why don't you stand up and defend yourself? "

529
00:34:15,361 --> 00:34:18,241
You know, make a fist and fight.

530
00:34:18,361 --> 00:34:22,281
The film sets were often battlefields.

531
00:34:23,761 --> 00:34:28,721
I was not involved
because he didn't belong to the clique.

532
00:34:29,761 --> 00:34:32,561
I have never depended on him.

533
00:34:32,681 --> 00:34:35,961
Of course, as part of your group...

534
00:34:36,081 --> 00:34:42,281
you depended on whether he would have thought of you to
the cast of the next movie, or not.

535
00:34:43,681 --> 00:34:48,521
if he had a decent part for you

536
00:34:48,641 --> 00:34:53,161
So you hold on to these hopes.
and to each of his words.

537
00:34:54,561 --> 00:34:58,121
Anyway, directing is about playing God.

538
00:34:58,241 --> 00:35:01,561
Everyone does what you tell them.

539
00:35:01,681 --> 00:35:03,041
And then...

540
00:35:03,921 --> 00:35:08,281
It's easy for them
become your creatures.

541
00:35:09,721 --> 00:35:13,521
Fassbinder was a man
with many people in his troop.

542
00:35:14,961 --> 00:35:18,401
It's an expression
which is no longer used today.

543
00:35:18,521 --> 00:35:20,081
"Exalted."

544
00:35:20,201 --> 00:35:24,961
Here you have a better opportunity
to have fun at work.

545
00:35:26,321 --> 00:35:27,801
Try to understand.

546
00:35:29,641 --> 00:35:32,721
It's true,
But we still depend on you.

547
00:35:32,841 --> 00:35:37,001
And it carries dependency.
to the same fear from which we had fled.

548
00:35:37,921 --> 00:35:40,401
Why are you dependent?

549
00:35:40,521 --> 00:35:45,921
I think that is an example
of group psychology that you often see.

550
00:35:46,881 --> 00:35:50,121
selfish alpha animals

551
00:35:51,041 --> 00:35:53,921
That attract the herd around them.

552
00:35:54,041 --> 00:35:58,961
Maybe there are characters
Thus, born followers.

553
00:36:00,241 --> 00:36:01,641
Loyal vassals?

554
00:36:02,281 --> 00:36:03,361
Yeah?

555
00:36:05,601 --> 00:36:08,641
I guess you could say it was in my...

556
00:36:10,201 --> 00:36:12,961
Heyday as an actor.

557
00:36:13,081 --> 00:36:16,961
I needed someone to tell me,
"Send Fassbinder to hell!

558
00:36:17,081 --> 00:36:20,721
Why be at your complete disposal?
as assistant director? "

559
00:36:21,161 --> 00:36:25,921
But there was no such person.
to give me a boost

560
00:36:26,041 --> 00:36:29,721
and say: "Now I push you higher."

561
00:36:30,441 --> 00:36:32,401
And for me it was...

562
00:36:33,481 --> 00:36:34,481
To me...

563
00:36:35,321 --> 00:36:37,681
I liked working with Fassbinder.

564
00:36:37,801 --> 00:36:42,041
It's not like they're forcing me
to do anything.

565
00:36:42,161 --> 00:36:46,161
And there was always something to do,
let's not forget

566
00:36:51,121 --> 00:36:54,361
If you can find a lawyer,
I think you'd better hire one.

567
00:36:55,201 --> 00:36:58,281
Fassbinder continued making films
regardless of losses.

568
00:36:58,401 --> 00:37:03,041
Liquidity problems led to
debts for a long time.

569
00:37:03,881 --> 00:37:07,161
"Taxes? Why should we pay taxes?

570
00:37:07,281 --> 00:37:10,201
You pigs build tanks,
so you can...

571
00:37:10,321 --> 00:37:11,481
Forget it!"

572
00:37:11,601 --> 00:37:14,681
He didn't think about the tax collectors.

573
00:37:14,801 --> 00:37:16,881
But then they came after him.

574
00:37:17,841 --> 00:37:20,481
He was threatened with jail.

575
00:37:20,601 --> 00:37:23,121
He owed more than 200,000 marks.

576
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:26,121
To put the company's finances in order,

577
00:37:26,241 --> 00:37:28,601
Fassbinder's mother, Lilo Eder,

578
00:37:28,721 --> 00:37:31,241
He becomes production manager.

579
00:37:32,041 --> 00:37:34,241
He dedicated himself completely to him.

580
00:37:34,361 --> 00:37:36,801
Her husband had died,

581
00:37:38,841 --> 00:37:42,321
so Rainer became the only one.

582
00:37:42,441 --> 00:37:46,281
TENNIS TABLE
FIVE DAYS IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD

583
00:37:46,401 --> 00:37:49,321
It is set
at the Schwedenheim boarding school.

584
00:37:49,921 --> 00:37:54,361
The mother tries to do school.
interesting for him and for the girls.

585
00:37:54,481 --> 00:37:58,041
It can be said that Franz
Is he Fassbinder's alter ego?

586
00:37:58,161 --> 00:38:00,441
Yes. Absolutely.

587
00:38:00,561 --> 00:38:03,201
It's obvious that he is Franz.

588
00:38:05,201 --> 00:38:09,481
"Franz carries two suitcases.
Mother: This is okay, right?

589
00:38:09,601 --> 00:38:11,521
Trees, lots of green.

590
00:38:12,321 --> 00:38:15,361
Franz:
Why don't you move here?

591
00:38:16,521 --> 00:38:17,761
Mother:

592
00:38:17,881 --> 00:38:22,721
Why are you always so bad, Franz?
You know my life is not easy.

593
00:38:23,361 --> 00:38:26,121
Franz: Sure.
Nobody's life is easy.

594
00:38:26,241 --> 00:38:30,681
Mother: But things are going now.
much better than before."

595
00:38:31,601 --> 00:38:36,401
I was always looking for stories.

596
00:38:36,961 --> 00:38:40,281
He always wore, or often...

597
00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:43,881
a small notepad

598
00:38:44,001 --> 00:38:47,481
and took notes to remember things.

599
00:38:48,401 --> 00:38:52,481
That's why it always remained.
a little apart

600
00:38:52,601 --> 00:38:57,081
Judging by what I read here,
It was to better observe the events.

601
00:39:00,161 --> 00:39:01,161
"Helga:

602
00:39:01,281 --> 00:39:04,881
"I told him he should tell me now,
'I love you'

603
00:39:05,001 --> 00:39:06,441
Waltraud:

604
00:39:06,561 --> 00:39:09,001
Good? Did he say it?

605
00:39:09,121 --> 00:39:11,041
Helga: No.

606
00:39:11,161 --> 00:39:12,681
"I think it's evil.

607
00:39:12,801 --> 00:39:14,161
I don't.

608
00:39:14,281 --> 00:39:18,001
This way I can continue thinking:
He loves me.

609
00:39:18,121 --> 00:39:20,161
"Oh yes, love."

610
00:39:20,881 --> 00:39:24,241
Very realistic about life there.

611
00:39:24,361 --> 00:39:25,641
- yes
- yes

612
00:39:25,761 --> 00:39:29,121
Although I can't say anything
of the story with his mother.

613
00:39:29,241 --> 00:39:33,001
I don't know her
so I can't judge their relationship.

614
00:39:36,361 --> 00:39:40,361
"Mom take the letter
from the drawer. Franz reads it.

615
00:39:40,481 --> 00:39:42,721
Franz: given this situation,

616
00:39:42,841 --> 00:39:47,401
"We can no longer support your son
in our school

617
00:39:48,281 --> 00:39:52,401
Mother: now you have to look for an apprenticeship,
Become a respectable young man.

618
00:39:52,521 --> 00:39:56,241
I've always hoped you would come out
to be respectable."

619
00:39:56,961 --> 00:40:00,081
In your opinion,
Was it respectable?

620
00:40:01,801 --> 00:40:05,401
In the way he did things,
He practiced his profession,

621
00:40:05,521 --> 00:40:09,881
Yes, it turned out respectable,
as his mother wanted.

622
00:40:11,361 --> 00:40:12,641
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT

623
00:40:12,761 --> 00:40:13,841
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS

624
00:40:13,961 --> 00:40:15,481
JAILBAIT

625
00:40:15,601 --> 00:40:17,001
EIGHT HOURS DO NOT MAKE A DAY

626
00:40:21,921 --> 00:40:23,361
MOM KUSTERS' JOURNEY TO HAPPINESS

627
00:40:23,481 --> 00:40:24,841
I ONLY WANT YOU TO LOVE ME

628
00:40:25,281 --> 00:40:28,081
I don't like to talk bad about him.

629
00:40:28,201 --> 00:40:30,641
although he was not an angel.

630
00:40:31,321 --> 00:40:33,041
However, he was also an angel.

631
00:40:33,161 --> 00:40:39,001
For most of us, most of them
involved with him, made life...

632
00:40:39,121 --> 00:40:42,161
Much more interesting than it had been.

633
00:40:48,481 --> 00:40:51,881
"You're probably in bed
with a girl right now.

634
00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:54,161
Or is he a man again?

635
00:40:55,081 --> 00:40:57,921
You are caressing
Her smooth skin and hips...

636
00:40:58,041 --> 00:41:02,401
Her thighs, belly, breasts...
You kiss her hair, her eyes, her...

637
00:41:03,441 --> 00:41:05,961
"Shit. Enough. I can't take it."

638
00:41:06,641 --> 00:41:10,201
When you didn't come, he didn't smile.

639
00:41:10,321 --> 00:41:11,921
I didn't talk about love...

640
00:41:12,721 --> 00:41:17,321
When I had to stop thinking about you.
like something real,

641
00:41:18,241 --> 00:41:20,281
I said to myself,

642
00:41:20,401 --> 00:41:22,881
I have to die
so that he loves me."

643
00:41:25,921 --> 00:41:27,761
What can you say?

644
00:41:28,961 --> 00:41:30,801
A powerful text. Marvelous.

645
00:41:32,161 --> 00:41:34,041
For me it is great poetry.

646
00:41:34,801 --> 00:41:36,201
Great job

647
00:41:36,921 --> 00:41:38,721
Any idea who it was intended for?

648
00:41:38,841 --> 00:41:40,281
AGONY

649
00:41:40,401 --> 00:41:44,001
Yes, I can imagine it.

650
00:41:44,681 --> 00:41:46,961
It goes back to then, I think.

651
00:41:47,081 --> 00:41:51,081
Imagine, his big black hands
on my white skin.

652
00:41:52,281 --> 00:41:54,321
And those lips!

653
00:41:54,441 --> 00:41:56,961
You know,
All black people have thick, warm lips.

654
00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:07,081
Don't faint, darling!

655
00:42:09,321 --> 00:42:12,761
Stop looking, cow!
Bring the newspapers!

656
00:42:13,401 --> 00:42:17,401
What I didn't know then,
and Willi didn't tell me,

657
00:42:17,521 --> 00:42:22,401
It was all an analysis
of Rainer's love life.

658
00:42:23,641 --> 00:42:25,481
I didn't know that.

659
00:42:27,201 --> 00:42:29,521
What do you mean by Rainer's love life?

660
00:42:30,241 --> 00:42:33,121
Because it was Petra. Rainer.

661
00:42:35,801 --> 00:42:37,161
I didn't know that.

662
00:42:37,281 --> 00:42:39,321
We said we would be honest with each other.

663
00:42:40,361 --> 00:42:42,521
But you can't stand it.

664
00:42:42,641 --> 00:42:44,601
You want to be lied to.

665
00:42:46,841 --> 00:42:48,201
Yes.

666
00:42:49,121 --> 00:42:50,521
Lie to me.

667
00:42:52,161 --> 00:42:53,801
please lie to me

668
00:42:59,281 --> 00:43:01,441
All good It's not true

669
00:43:03,321 --> 00:43:05,721
I spent the night walking alone.

670
00:43:05,841 --> 00:43:07,961
thinking of us

671
00:43:10,441 --> 00:43:12,001
Really?

672
00:43:14,241 --> 00:43:16,241
Isn't that true?

673
00:43:17,241 --> 00:43:18,801
Of course not

674
00:43:19,801 --> 00:43:22,361
I actually slept with a man.

675
00:43:22,481 --> 00:43:24,721
But it doesn't matter, right?

676
00:43:25,921 --> 00:43:27,841
No no.

677
00:43:27,961 --> 00:43:29,841
Of course not.

678
00:43:30,401 --> 00:43:31,881
But...

679
00:43:35,161 --> 00:43:37,081
I don't understand.

680
00:43:39,401 --> 00:43:40,921
Really.

681
00:43:42,361 --> 00:43:44,401
I don't understand.

682
00:43:49,161 --> 00:43:50,841
Because?

683
00:43:56,281 --> 00:43:57,761
Because?

684
00:44:12,601 --> 00:44:14,321
Don't cry, Petra.

685
00:44:16,921 --> 00:44:19,961
Look I like you I love you but...

686
00:44:22,561 --> 00:44:24,281
But it's obvious.

687
00:44:24,401 --> 00:44:26,801
I need a man from time to time.

688
00:44:26,921 --> 00:44:28,281
That's how I am.

689
00:44:28,401 --> 00:44:31,681
There were no explanations or evidence.

690
00:44:32,641 --> 00:44:36,401
I wanted people who interact.
be individuals

691
00:44:36,521 --> 00:44:39,121
I think Rainer always wanted

692
00:44:39,241 --> 00:44:42,441
let people
was as different as possible...

693
00:44:43,761 --> 00:44:46,481
somehow...

694
00:44:46,601 --> 00:44:50,281
to characterize them
and maybe even report them.

695
00:44:50,401 --> 00:44:53,361
I liked that, I thought it was cool.

696
00:44:53,481 --> 00:44:58,201
Drawing characters so clearly.
that are also being denounced.

697
00:44:58,321 --> 00:45:01,521
I just took in what Margit
was saying.

698
00:45:01,641 --> 00:45:04,601
And then I reacted to it.

699
00:45:04,721 --> 00:45:06,161
That's easy for me

700
00:45:07,201 --> 00:45:11,801
reacting to what other people say.

701
00:45:13,281 --> 00:45:16,001
In those nine days of filming,

702
00:45:16,121 --> 00:45:18,201
I totally destroyed myself

703
00:45:18,321 --> 00:45:22,121
over and over again
He managed to reduce me to tears.

704
00:45:22,241 --> 00:45:27,721
The poor makeup artist had to retouch
constantly my makeup,

705
00:45:27,841 --> 00:45:30,041
because the tears were flowing.

706
00:45:30,161 --> 00:45:34,481
It reduced me to a state of mind.

707
00:45:34,601 --> 00:45:38,161
complete depression
In those nine days.

708
00:45:38,281 --> 00:45:42,561
- Although it was not necessary.
- How did he make you cry?

709
00:45:42,681 --> 00:45:46,401
Disclosing intimate details.
In front of 50 people.

710
00:45:46,521 --> 00:45:50,121
It was a game he liked to play.
Not only with me.

711
00:45:50,241 --> 00:45:55,641
Once made me so insecure,
Telling me to learn a text by heart...

712
00:45:55,761 --> 00:46:00,041
a long text like this,
And that was right before filming.

713
00:46:00,161 --> 00:46:02,841
I was supposed to learn it in minutes.

714
00:46:02,961 --> 00:46:05,161
memorize it, you know.

715
00:46:05,601 --> 00:46:06,721
Impossible.

716
00:46:07,961 --> 00:46:10,641
You are in such a state after that,

717
00:46:10,761 --> 00:46:14,001
That you can't describe.

718
00:46:15,201 --> 00:46:18,561
You are suffering horribly.

719
00:46:18,681 --> 00:46:21,201
I'm so screwed.

720
00:46:22,521 --> 00:46:25,441
Dear God, what did I do to deserve this?

721
00:46:26,681 --> 00:46:28,481
What did I do?

722
00:46:29,641 --> 00:46:31,121
Karin?

723
00:46:33,801 --> 00:46:35,441
Those women...

724
00:46:36,881 --> 00:46:40,161
There is this wonderful quote
by James Cagney.

725
00:46:40,281 --> 00:46:42,361
He once said to an actor:

726
00:46:42,481 --> 00:46:44,521
"Learn your lines,

727
00:46:44,641 --> 00:46:46,601
find your brand,

728
00:46:47,721 --> 00:46:49,681
look people in the eyes,

729
00:46:50,521 --> 00:46:52,241
tell the truth

730
00:46:53,081 --> 00:46:55,201
and don't trip over the furniture."

731
00:46:55,961 --> 00:46:57,201
That's really...

732
00:47:00,121 --> 00:47:03,841
And that was always my focus.
like an actor.

733
00:47:04,401 --> 00:47:05,801
Do you act or not?

734
00:47:08,041 --> 00:47:09,361
- Of course.
- Well then.

735
00:47:14,321 --> 00:47:16,801
I never thought about

736
00:47:16,921 --> 00:47:19,681
what was the story
behind the character,

737
00:47:19,801 --> 00:47:21,681
What did I eat for breakfast...

738
00:47:21,801 --> 00:47:25,121
For me, all that nonsense.
by Stanislavsky is...

739
00:47:25,241 --> 00:47:29,201
Also, I don't like to work
with amateur actors.

740
00:47:30,201 --> 00:47:31,521
Because...

741
00:47:32,441 --> 00:47:34,761
Because I'm trying...

742
00:47:35,401 --> 00:47:40,241
Develop together with the actors.
a way of acting,

743
00:47:40,361 --> 00:47:43,481
that cannot be developed with fans.

744
00:47:43,601 --> 00:47:47,881
There is an evolution, I would say,
From one movie to another.

745
00:47:48,001 --> 00:47:53,041
Besides the fact that it seems right to me
Work with those actors as long as...

746
00:47:53,161 --> 00:47:57,361
A director is inspired by them.
and vice versa.

747
00:47:57,481 --> 00:48:00,521
Due to influence and intrusion.

748
00:48:00,641 --> 00:48:03,641
from external actors...

749
00:48:03,761 --> 00:48:07,361
and the so-called stars,

750
00:48:07,481 --> 00:48:10,401
He distanced himself from me, of course.

751
00:48:10,521 --> 00:48:14,161
That is, I had become
like a burden from the past.

752
00:48:15,281 --> 00:48:16,521
In a sense, yes.

753
00:48:18,921 --> 00:48:21,801
THE CONNECTED WORLD

754
00:48:22,481 --> 00:48:26,001
The group around Rainer,
and Rainer himself...

755
00:48:26,121 --> 00:48:28,521
Everything was like a machine.

756
00:48:29,521 --> 00:48:34,241
As with road construction.
Move forward slowly but surely.

757
00:48:34,361 --> 00:48:35,761
And...

758
00:48:36,601 --> 00:48:39,041
while filming a movie,

759
00:48:40,561 --> 00:48:44,361
the next one was in development.

760
00:48:45,921 --> 00:48:50,121
It would go into pre-production,
generally under Kurt Raab.

761
00:48:51,161 --> 00:48:54,681
And since
had been developed,

762
00:48:54,801 --> 00:48:57,521
Then I was ready to roll.

763
00:48:57,641 --> 00:49:01,001
So you jumped
from one project to another.

764
00:49:01,081 --> 00:49:02,841
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/WRITER

765
00:49:02,921 --> 00:49:04,961
In the meantime, you would continue working on it.

766
00:49:05,041 --> 00:49:08,121
then the material would mature
and you would be ready to go.

767
00:49:08,201 --> 00:49:11,841
Yes, the situation was the following:

768
00:49:11,961 --> 00:49:15,641
"Now we will write The Connected World."

769
00:49:15,761 --> 00:49:17,961
We did it like this:

770
00:49:18,081 --> 00:49:22,241
One Friday afternoon
around 6 pm we fly to Paris,

771
00:49:22,361 --> 00:49:25,881
because at that moment
It was Rainer's favorite city.

772
00:49:26,801 --> 00:49:30,761
saturday and sunday
we work on the script,

773
00:49:30,881 --> 00:49:35,441
and on monday
took the first flight back to Bochum.

774
00:49:35,561 --> 00:49:38,641
If everything has gone as planned,

775
00:49:40,481 --> 00:49:44,521
he is already here
with the straitjacket.

776
00:49:44,641 --> 00:49:47,881
We had actually wanted

777
00:49:48,721 --> 00:49:51,281
just write
an exciting thriller.

778
00:49:51,401 --> 00:49:54,081
We thought we could do it.

779
00:49:55,681 --> 00:49:57,841
And we wanted to have fun, too.

780
00:49:58,681 --> 00:50:04,321
Back then we always managed,
To have fun while we work.

781
00:50:04,441 --> 00:50:05,921
Really.

782
00:50:06,841 --> 00:50:11,921
We were young, we were both 27.

783
00:50:13,041 --> 00:50:14,121
And...

784
00:50:15,521 --> 00:50:18,481
We thought we could do it.
And we achieved it.

785
00:50:23,521 --> 00:50:28,081
It was a great adventure for me.
Being with this crazy man...

786
00:50:29,841 --> 00:50:33,361
whom others saw as an agitator.

787
00:50:33,481 --> 00:50:35,881
It was fascinating

788
00:50:36,001 --> 00:50:40,641
And gave you access to a world where
Otherwise you would never have entered.

789
00:50:40,761 --> 00:50:42,601
The boy was so charming

790
00:50:42,721 --> 00:50:46,121
and yet it was also a carrion...

791
00:50:46,881 --> 00:50:49,961
A tyrant, a manipulator.

792
00:50:50,081 --> 00:50:51,641
Terrible.

793
00:50:51,761 --> 00:50:53,641
But also fantastic.

794
00:50:58,121 --> 00:51:01,841
Do your stories inhabit you
long before filming them?

795
00:51:01,961 --> 00:51:04,881
Generally, yes. Most of the stories.

796
00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:08,241
They are there for a couple of years.

797
00:51:12,881 --> 00:51:15,801
Two years before filming.
We are all called Ali,

798
00:51:15,921 --> 00:51:19,881
Fassbinder tells Margarethe
von Trotta the following story:

799
00:51:20,921 --> 00:51:22,801
Happiness is not always fun.

800
00:51:24,321 --> 00:51:26,081
Once upon a time there was a cleaning woman.

801
00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:30,041
Her name was Emmi, she was 60 or 65 years old.

802
00:51:30,841 --> 00:51:32,601
One day,

803
00:51:33,241 --> 00:51:36,561
On their way home, a storm breaks out.

804
00:51:36,681 --> 00:51:38,761
So she walks into a bar,

805
00:51:39,761 --> 00:51:41,481
A bar for immigrant workers.

806
00:51:42,961 --> 00:51:44,841
She sits down and drinks a Coke.

807
00:51:46,681 --> 00:51:48,841
Suddenly a man asks him

808
00:51:49,641 --> 00:51:51,641
if you want to dance with him

809
00:51:52,961 --> 00:51:56,481
It's very tall,
with beautiful shoulders.

810
00:51:57,561 --> 00:51:59,241
And she finds him handsome

811
00:52:00,321 --> 00:52:02,241
and dance with him.

812
00:52:03,601 --> 00:52:05,881
Then he sits with her.

813
00:52:06,001 --> 00:52:07,561
and talk to her.

814
00:52:09,601 --> 00:52:11,761
He says he has nowhere to stay,

815
00:52:13,241 --> 00:52:16,281
and Emmi offers him
stay with her.

816
00:52:18,401 --> 00:52:21,961
He goes to his house
and sleep with her.

817
00:52:23,601 --> 00:52:25,521
And a few days later.

818
00:52:27,321 --> 00:52:29,561
He says they should get married.

819
00:52:30,201 --> 00:52:32,041
Why are you crying?

820
00:52:32,161 --> 00:52:35,361
Because I am very happy
and also full of fear.

821
00:52:35,481 --> 00:52:37,361
Fearless. Fear is not good.

822
00:52:37,481 --> 00:52:39,001
Fear eats the soul.

823
00:52:39,121 --> 00:52:40,961
Fear eats the soul.

824
00:52:42,161 --> 00:52:43,881
That's beautiful.

825
00:52:45,201 --> 00:52:47,001
We are all called Ali,

826
00:52:47,121 --> 00:52:52,281
I have been linked to the protagonist
Moroccan for two years.

827
00:52:52,401 --> 00:52:56,281
And a lot of what's in the movie
is the reaction

828
00:52:57,161 --> 00:53:00,841
from other people to us.

829
00:53:00,961 --> 00:53:02,441
I have gotten married

830
00:53:03,001 --> 00:53:04,481
Go ahead.

831
00:53:07,121 --> 00:53:09,201
This is my husband.

832
00:53:09,321 --> 00:53:13,401
El Hedi Ben Salem
m'Barek Mohammed Mustafa.

833
00:53:13,521 --> 00:53:14,601
I call him Ali.

834
00:53:14,721 --> 00:53:17,441
- Mother!
- But...

835
00:53:21,521 --> 00:53:23,721
Come, Eugene. We are not going to stay...

836
00:53:23,841 --> 00:53:25,561
in this pigsty!

837
00:53:27,641 --> 00:53:30,121
He was Rainer's partner at the time.

838
00:53:30,921 --> 00:53:33,601
You know, boyfriend, lover, whatever.

839
00:53:34,441 --> 00:53:35,921
And...

840
00:53:36,041 --> 00:53:39,121
I had to be there,
bored to death of course.

841
00:53:39,241 --> 00:53:43,281
He had a sense of honor,
a very strong sense of honor,

842
00:53:43,401 --> 00:53:48,481
and he insisted on working,
in participating,

843
00:53:48,601 --> 00:53:53,281
not just sitting there in the corner
like Rainer's lover.

844
00:53:54,401 --> 00:53:56,281
Rainer had to give up.

845
00:53:56,401 --> 00:53:59,361
- Do you like it?
- He seems like a strong guy.

846
00:54:00,521 --> 00:54:02,281
At least he's well dressed.

847
00:54:03,401 --> 00:54:06,641
Judging by his nose and hands,
It must be well equipped.

848
00:54:07,441 --> 00:54:09,761
Marry him if you want, I don't have one.
nothing against

849
00:54:13,481 --> 00:54:17,921
The story has a sad ending.

850
00:54:18,041 --> 00:54:24,201
When Rainer Werner
El Hedi couldn't be more

851
00:54:25,721 --> 00:54:29,441
someone made sure
so that he was...

852
00:54:30,481 --> 00:54:35,361
sent by the authorities to Paris,
to France.

853
00:54:36,121 --> 00:54:39,881
He finally ended up in jail.
and died there.

854
00:54:41,641 --> 00:54:43,641
In truth,

855
00:54:43,761 --> 00:54:45,721
It's pretty macabre, right?

856
00:54:45,841 --> 00:54:49,241
Here was this calm guy,

857
00:54:50,081 --> 00:54:53,881
that I was not comfortable
With people and Western culture.

858
00:54:54,001 --> 00:54:58,721
Who knows what he would have become.
of him if he had stayed home?

859
00:55:08,521 --> 00:55:11,521
In 1974, Fassbinder.
arrives at the theater in Frankfurt am Turm

860
00:55:11,641 --> 00:55:14,601
To save it from imminent closure.

861
00:55:14,721 --> 00:55:16,881
Although hired as its director,

862
00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:20,361
has no interest in driving
budgets, public relations,

863
00:55:20,481 --> 00:55:22,641
or the dogma of
collective decision making.

864
00:55:22,761 --> 00:55:25,521
He and his company hijack the stage.

865
00:55:25,641 --> 00:55:28,521
Common decision
A DIABOLIC IDEA OF CAPITALISM?

866
00:55:28,641 --> 00:55:32,001
I think he organized only one performance

867
00:55:32,601 --> 00:55:35,921
I learned during rehearsals

868
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:38,281
and then performances

869
00:55:38,401 --> 00:55:41,681
that Rainer
He was much more sensitive than me.

870
00:55:41,801 --> 00:55:46,441
Jean is actually the only one
that torments Miss Julie.

871
00:55:47,641 --> 00:55:52,641
But he interpreted it
as a really sensitive individual.

872
00:55:52,761 --> 00:55:54,521
He represented it in a way
so delicate

873
00:55:55,281 --> 00:55:57,121
Incomparable!

874
00:55:57,241 --> 00:55:59,521
I can imagine that

875
00:55:59,641 --> 00:56:05,761
in a theater that depends
in municipal and state financing,

876
00:56:05,881 --> 00:56:13,281
you can understand a lot about
Political processes at work in a city.

877
00:56:13,921 --> 00:56:17,561
and I'm sure
can be developed from this...

878
00:56:17,681 --> 00:56:21,241
you can develop themes
That's true for Frankfurt

879
00:56:21,361 --> 00:56:25,121
and also relevant
in any political discussion.

880
00:56:25,241 --> 00:56:27,601
The important thing for him...

881
00:56:27,721 --> 00:56:30,801
was that he later wrote
"Waste, the city and death."

882
00:56:32,001 --> 00:56:34,721
I don't know how much time he spent on it.

883
00:56:34,841 --> 00:56:37,841
It is wonderfully written and structured.

884
00:56:38,921 --> 00:56:40,841
a strange look
about the life of a city,

885
00:56:40,961 --> 00:56:44,161
With which Fassbinder alludes to the role.
of the Jewish speculators,

886
00:56:44,281 --> 00:56:48,361
in the demolition of old buildings
in Frankfurt

887
00:56:48,481 --> 00:56:50,281
Someone assumed

888
00:56:50,401 --> 00:56:57,161
than the Frankfurt real estate shark
in the play it had to be Ignatz Bubis.

889
00:56:57,961 --> 00:57:00,761
The very word "Jew" was taboo.

890
00:57:01,601 --> 00:57:05,881
So there was this sudden clamor

891
00:57:07,281 --> 00:57:09,481
from each classroom

892
00:57:09,601 --> 00:57:14,521
all the way to...
the management of the weekly "Die Zeit" ...

893
00:57:17,121 --> 00:57:20,241
He had thought of everything, of course.

894
00:57:20,961 --> 00:57:23,801
He did not suspect that
would explode like this,

895
00:57:23,921 --> 00:57:27,281
that the reaction would be so extreme,

896
00:57:27,841 --> 00:57:30,201
and the work even prohibited.

897
00:57:30,321 --> 00:57:32,601
It was a real political scandal.

898
00:57:32,721 --> 00:57:35,721
And it gave him a reason to leave.

899
00:57:35,841 --> 00:57:39,041
He wouldn't have written a play.
if you imagined it

900
00:57:39,161 --> 00:57:43,241
It would never be staged in Germany.

901
00:57:43,361 --> 00:57:46,401
But what he always kept in mind

902
00:57:46,521 --> 00:57:49,561
It was the relevance of a topic.

903
00:57:50,801 --> 00:57:52,681
And the topic was relevant.

904
00:57:52,801 --> 00:57:59,161
To me simply
somehow confirmed the fact

905
00:58:00,361 --> 00:58:03,561
that once you create something,

906
00:58:03,681 --> 00:58:05,801
then it is about

907
00:58:07,481 --> 00:58:10,561
in a way you don't have
but no influence.

908
00:58:11,601 --> 00:58:14,081
On the other hand...

909
00:58:14,201 --> 00:58:18,881
the accusations of course
They made me sad, because...

910
00:58:20,241 --> 00:58:24,001
like i said,
I think in everything I've done.

911
00:58:24,841 --> 00:58:28,361
I have made it quite clear

912
00:58:30,201 --> 00:58:32,001
what an accusation

913
00:58:33,401 --> 00:58:35,761
It just doesn't apply to me.

914
00:58:35,881 --> 00:58:37,161
FEAR OF FEAR

915
00:58:37,281 --> 00:58:38,401
THE ROAST OF SATAN

916
00:58:38,521 --> 00:58:40,001
CHINESE ROULETTE

917
00:58:40,121 --> 00:58:41,441
THE RAILROADMAN'S WOMAN

918
00:58:41,561 --> 00:58:42,961
WOMEN IN NEW YORK

919
00:58:44,841 --> 00:58:51,921
GERMANY IN AUTUMN

920
00:58:52,601 --> 00:58:54,441
October 1977.

921
00:58:54,561 --> 00:58:59,241
After RAF members fail
by force the release of its three leaders,

922
00:58:59,361 --> 00:59:03,201
these allegedly commit suicide
in their cells.

923
00:59:03,321 --> 00:59:05,281
Fear of more terrorist activity.

924
00:59:05,401 --> 00:59:08,561
leads to incommunicado confinement,
and the persecution of RAF sympathizers.

925
00:59:08,681 --> 00:59:12,321
Germany is close to
a state of emergency:

926
00:59:12,441 --> 00:59:15,961
One of the worst crises in the FRG.

927
00:59:16,081 --> 00:59:19,441
We all felt like we had to react.

928
00:59:19,561 --> 00:59:23,001
Because our generation

929
00:59:23,121 --> 00:59:26,321
and the image of our generation
were at stake.

930
00:59:26,441 --> 00:59:29,001
But while we were still talking,

931
00:59:29,121 --> 00:59:34,521
Rainer was filming quickly
his own contribution in his apartment.

932
00:59:41,321 --> 00:59:45,521
Don't know.
They had a gun and they shot each other.

933
00:59:47,601 --> 00:59:50,401
Nobody knows how the weapons got in.

934
00:59:54,481 --> 00:59:58,881
An international commission
have to investigate

935
00:59:59,001 --> 01:00:01,201
Whether it was suicide or not.

936
01:00:02,241 --> 01:00:04,241
That...

937
01:00:04,361 --> 01:00:08,681
We were all deeply surprised when we saw it.

938
01:00:08,801 --> 01:00:12,001
We said,
"You can't put that in our movie.

939
01:00:12,841 --> 01:00:18,201
"It's fitting for a Fassbinder film,
But not to a collective film."

940
01:00:18,321 --> 01:00:21,361
You could even say literally

941
01:00:21,481 --> 01:00:26,801
That the high intentions of the film.
they were dirty

942
01:00:26,921 --> 01:00:30,881
for his appearance sitting
completely naked,

943
01:00:31,001 --> 01:00:34,881
in such a provocative way.

944
01:00:35,001 --> 01:00:39,481
But Alexander Kluge immediately recognized

945
01:00:39,601 --> 01:00:43,681
that that was the most important
contribution to the subject.

946
01:00:43,801 --> 01:00:49,441
When the pilot was shot
in Mogadishu or Aden,

947
01:00:49,561 --> 01:00:53,721
you said you wanted
that for every person killed in Aden,

948
01:00:53,841 --> 01:00:56,561
a terrorist was killed
in Stammheim prison.

949
01:00:56,681 --> 01:00:58,641
- Yes. In public.
- In public, yes.

950
01:00:58,761 --> 01:01:01,161
- Yeah
- Is that democratic?

951
01:01:01,281 --> 01:01:04,241
No, it is not democratic.
But it wasn't either...

952
01:01:04,361 --> 01:01:07,121
hijack that plane and announce,

953
01:01:07,241 --> 01:01:09,641
"We will shoot them one after another."

954
01:01:09,761 --> 01:01:12,921
What if you had been on board? Or me?

955
01:01:13,041 --> 01:01:17,641
How would you have felt?
You have to consider that.

956
01:01:17,761 --> 01:01:21,281
- An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth?
- No, not that.

957
01:01:21,401 --> 01:01:27,201
But in a situation like that,
Democracy will get you nowhere.

958
01:01:27,321 --> 01:01:33,921
Your sequence has lost none of its power
as a defining document.

959
01:01:34,041 --> 01:01:38,121
The scene of him naked,
and that of him and his mother.

960
01:01:38,241 --> 01:01:40,921
That's really the conversation.

961
01:01:41,041 --> 01:01:45,521
that for generations
was missing in post-war Germany.

962
01:01:45,641 --> 01:01:48,961
Here we have it in its essence.

963
01:01:59,801 --> 01:02:03,521
It was Germany, 1945.
The war was over.

964
01:02:04,281 --> 01:02:06,961
There were many people
east german

965
01:02:07,681 --> 01:02:12,081
who had fled from the Russians
to the so-called west

966
01:02:12,201 --> 01:02:14,561
Where were the Americans and the English?
and so on.

967
01:02:16,361 --> 01:02:20,801
Suddenly all these relatives appeared.

968
01:02:20,921 --> 01:02:25,321
that normally
they would have had no reason to stay with us

969
01:02:25,441 --> 01:02:27,241
who appeared there

970
01:02:28,641 --> 01:02:31,681
My father a doctor
He also had his surgery there.

971
01:02:31,801 --> 01:02:36,601
Besides that,
Since we had a very large apartment,

972
01:02:36,721 --> 01:02:40,721
my father rented some of the rooms.

973
01:02:40,841 --> 01:02:46,601
So there were a good number of adults
They were there regularly.

974
01:02:53,401 --> 01:02:55,201
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN

975
01:02:55,321 --> 01:02:58,001
I trusted more than I could...

976
01:02:59,601 --> 01:03:03,241
what I could remember
in terms of emotions.

977
01:03:03,361 --> 01:03:07,801
My mother putting on her stockings,
the way she...

978
01:03:07,921 --> 01:03:11,561
I don't know, he combed his hair.
That kind of thing.

979
01:03:11,681 --> 01:03:15,881
I used them a lot more
than any photographic material.

980
01:03:16,001 --> 01:03:19,441
I got closer to the story
in very personal terms.

981
01:03:19,561 --> 01:03:24,481
often women
They come towards me...

982
01:03:27,601 --> 01:03:29,761
and they still do it,

983
01:03:29,881 --> 01:03:32,121
to hug me and say,

984
01:03:32,241 --> 01:03:34,561
"Thank you for Maria Braun."

985
01:03:35,681 --> 01:03:39,121
The movie was incredibly important.
for women.

986
01:03:39,241 --> 01:03:42,041
Because for them
It was a movie where the woman.

987
01:03:42,161 --> 01:03:46,641
He finally understood that he had to
come out of the shadows

988
01:03:47,241 --> 01:03:51,321
and that she could control her own life.

989
01:03:51,441 --> 01:03:57,121
But where does this determination lead?
They deleted it completely.

990
01:03:57,241 --> 01:04:00,521
They only took the positive side.

991
01:04:01,961 --> 01:04:05,441
While in reality it was
very negative

992
01:04:06,041 --> 01:04:09,081
- Do you know each other personally?
- Very personally I would dare to say.

993
01:04:09,201 --> 01:04:12,601
I didn't realize this whole time.

994
01:04:12,721 --> 01:04:14,841
Because I am a master of disguise.

995
01:04:14,961 --> 01:04:20,281
A puppet of capitalism by day,
An agent of the working masses at night.

996
01:04:21,881 --> 01:04:24,841
The mata hari of the economic miracle.

997
01:04:26,681 --> 01:04:30,201
It was the result of power
divide

998
01:04:30,321 --> 01:04:33,441
between a rude materialist and...

999
01:04:33,561 --> 01:04:35,801
An equally crude idealist.

1000
01:04:35,921 --> 01:04:38,601
It was the continuation
of German history.

1001
01:04:39,681 --> 01:04:43,801
Despite the idealism,
Hitler had been there.

1002
01:04:44,881 --> 01:04:48,081
And then,
The people were not overwhelmed by grief,

1003
01:04:48,201 --> 01:04:52,201
But he acted like nothing had happened,

1004
01:04:52,321 --> 01:04:59,401
and got drunk
with the new materialist boom.

1005
01:05:00,681 --> 01:05:03,921
It all ended in a kind of...

1006
01:05:05,361 --> 01:05:07,241
unreality.

1007
01:05:07,361 --> 01:05:11,761
In this way Maria Braun recovered

1008
01:05:11,881 --> 01:05:15,521
Real life, so to speak,
It just didn't exist.

1009
01:05:15,641 --> 01:05:20,401
The unreal, the transitory,
had taken his place.

1010
01:05:20,521 --> 01:05:24,681
When your husband returns
and starts eating sardines...

1011
01:05:24,801 --> 01:05:26,681
instead of giving him a kiss,

1012
01:05:26,801 --> 01:05:30,241
The disenchantment was complete.

1013
01:05:30,361 --> 01:05:35,081
a soccer match
It counted more than their reunion.

1014
01:05:35,201 --> 01:05:37,441
Just like Germany won again.

1015
01:05:37,561 --> 01:05:40,401
And they were both the victims
of history.

1016
01:05:40,521 --> 01:05:42,761
That's why everything had to explode.

1017
01:05:46,401 --> 01:05:49,921
1979. A triumphant Berlinale premiere.

1018
01:05:50,041 --> 01:05:53,841
The best actress and team
They win two silver bears.

1019
01:05:53,961 --> 01:05:58,241
The director gets nothing,
but "Maria Braun" is a worldwide success:

1020
01:05:58,361 --> 01:06:01,001
It looks like the brand
of the new German cinema

1021
01:06:01,121 --> 01:06:06,041
and has a projection of 54 weeks
at Lincoln Center in New York.

1022
01:06:06,161 --> 01:06:08,841
It's no coincidence...

1023
01:06:08,961 --> 01:06:14,801
that Wim and I, at this moment, are
the only ones who master this profession.

1024
01:06:14,921 --> 01:06:18,241
That's not arrogant,
don't get me wrong

1025
01:06:18,361 --> 01:06:23,201
But you need that if you want to negotiate
with very personal material.

1026
01:06:23,321 --> 01:06:26,721
If you don't have that mastery.
and staff,

1027
01:06:26,841 --> 01:06:31,761
succumbs somehow,
you are vulnerable and amateur...

1028
01:06:31,881 --> 01:06:36,841
and subject to public rejection.
In terms of external factors.

1029
01:06:36,961 --> 01:06:41,641
My goal is to make movies.
that they are perfect,

1030
01:06:41,761 --> 01:06:46,441
that are indistinguishable from
French, Italian or American films,

1031
01:06:46,561 --> 01:06:50,441
But they are an expression, nonetheless.
Totally personal to those who made them.

1032
01:06:50,561 --> 01:06:55,121
I felt a surprising sense
of realization.

1033
01:06:55,321 --> 01:06:59,681
I understood what it means to edit a film.
and be one with a director.

1034
01:06:59,761 --> 01:07:01,321
EDITOR

1035
01:07:01,401 --> 01:07:05,161
You really let go.
It was like a dance.

1036
01:07:05,281 --> 01:07:07,121
Then he said:"Listen,

1037
01:07:07,241 --> 01:07:08,641
honey"

1038
01:07:09,801 --> 01:07:11,281
I thought, uh-oh!

1039
01:07:11,401 --> 01:07:14,961
And he said,"Hanna look at...
one two three...

1040
01:07:15,081 --> 01:07:17,201
right, left, cut, cut, cut! "

1041
01:07:17,721 --> 01:07:21,881
I hadn't taken notes,
He had only listened, as if in a daze.

1042
01:07:22,001 --> 01:07:24,641
And then I thought:
"Oh shit! I'm in trouble!"

1043
01:07:25,641 --> 01:07:31,081
I stayed in for two nights,
then she showed it to him.

1044
01:07:31,201 --> 01:07:35,161
About one scene he said:
"I said the shot from that angle,

1045
01:07:35,281 --> 01:07:37,201
It's not here. "Good.

1046
01:07:37,721 --> 01:07:40,081
I was so under pressure

1047
01:07:40,201 --> 01:07:43,841
I didn't have time to think,
and no one gave me a break saying:

1048
01:07:43,961 --> 01:07:45,801
"Are you still going?"

1049
01:07:45,921 --> 01:07:48,761
or "Do you need a hand?"
That didn't happen.

1050
01:07:54,041 --> 01:07:55,481
Armin!

1051
01:07:59,121 --> 01:08:03,801
Fassbinder meets the butcher
Armin Meier at his favorite bar.

1052
01:08:03,921 --> 01:08:07,721
He becomes her lover
And he acts in his movie.

1053
01:08:07,841 --> 01:08:12,121
He is the first person
in establishing a home with Fassbinder.

1054
01:08:14,601 --> 01:08:18,521
I thought, those two,
It can only end badly.

1055
01:08:18,641 --> 01:08:22,161
And he did it.
Intellectually, too, of course.

1056
01:08:22,281 --> 01:08:23,881
It's my apartment!

1057
01:08:33,561 --> 01:08:35,881
OK OK OK.

1058
01:08:36,721 --> 01:08:38,121
Go outside now.

1059
01:08:38,241 --> 01:08:39,601
Get out, I said!

1060
01:08:39,721 --> 01:08:41,161
They separated.

1061
01:08:41,281 --> 01:08:45,001
He did it intentionally,
out of desperation,

1062
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:49,521
because he couldn't cope
with the complex issue of Armin,

1063
01:08:49,641 --> 01:08:52,561
and because he... wanted to work.

1064
01:08:52,681 --> 01:08:56,441
Finally, Armin realized that
Rainer didn't love him anymore.

1065
01:08:56,561 --> 01:09:00,081
He wanted to liquidate it
with another apartment...

1066
01:09:00,201 --> 01:09:04,681
or with that same apartment, or like
Always... with money, with anything.

1067
01:09:04,801 --> 01:09:07,561
Armin was found dead on the floor.

1068
01:09:07,681 --> 01:09:12,761
The real cause is written in the call.
autopsy report

1069
01:09:12,881 --> 01:09:16,761
Poppers, cocaine, heroin, whatever.

1070
01:09:16,881 --> 01:09:20,521
Maybe it was an act of desperation,
I have no idea.

1071
01:09:21,841 --> 01:09:27,881
But he died of an overdose.
Of the whole mix.

1072
01:09:29,441 --> 01:09:31,681
And then, Rainer...

1073
01:09:32,841 --> 01:09:37,201
He never returned to the apartment,
not once.

1074
01:09:37,321 --> 01:09:41,001
It was traumatic for him.
And he felt guilty.

1075
01:09:41,121 --> 01:09:43,921
And was seen as guilty

1076
01:09:44,041 --> 01:09:48,121
for those of the group,
that had long since fallen apart.

1077
01:09:48,241 --> 01:09:51,681
But there were those who said:
"He killed him" and things like that.

1078
01:09:52,481 --> 01:09:54,601
Meanwhile the funeral was held.

1079
01:09:54,721 --> 01:10:00,441
The press asked: "Is Fassbinder here?"
Of course he wasn't.

1080
01:10:00,561 --> 01:10:04,001
For weeks, months,
I had no news about him.

1081
01:10:04,121 --> 01:10:07,841
Then I heard that
I had made a film in Frankfurt,

1082
01:10:07,961 --> 01:10:09,601
The a year of 13 moons.

1083
01:10:09,721 --> 01:10:13,761
for a moment
Give me back the present!

1084
01:10:13,881 --> 01:10:18,041
Concept Script Production Design
Camera direction editing

1085
01:10:18,161 --> 01:10:21,681
And even if a man is
silenced by his pain,...

1086
01:10:21,801 --> 01:10:25,121
a god gave me the power to say...
how much I...

1087
01:10:25,241 --> 01:10:28,961
I can't tell you how it was.
It was so...

1088
01:10:29,481 --> 01:10:32,721
It was so complete.
you could feel

1089
01:10:34,121 --> 01:10:39,841
how he must have recovered
transpose so much pain that way.

1090
01:10:44,921 --> 01:10:47,601
He earned enough money

1091
01:10:47,721 --> 01:10:50,521
so that I wouldn't have
what to do on the street

1092
01:10:50,641 --> 01:10:52,961
I wanted to support myself.

1093
01:10:53,081 --> 01:10:56,641
I just gave it a push
bought the apartment

1094
01:10:56,761 --> 01:11:02,281
But these last few years I have lived off of it.
He wants to make me happy. I know.

1095
01:11:02,401 --> 01:11:05,961
Believe me, Zora,
I really tried, but in the end

1096
01:11:06,081 --> 01:11:09,161
had to admit that
It wasn't worth enough.

1097
01:11:09,281 --> 01:11:15,041
Still, I helped him secure
their chance of survival.

1098
01:11:15,161 --> 01:11:18,801
Officially I was his assistant.
I wanted to do the editing.

1099
01:11:18,921 --> 01:11:21,641
And that's what we did.

1100
01:11:21,761 --> 01:11:25,841
I said, "You edit, I help."
I totally played along.

1101
01:11:25,961 --> 01:11:30,321
He sticks black and white film well,
click

1102
01:11:30,441 --> 01:11:33,601
delete the first scene,
He puts it back on the shelf.

1103
01:11:33,721 --> 01:11:36,601
Suddenly he stands up and says:
"Keep it up." And he leaves.

1104
01:11:39,161 --> 01:11:43,361
Germany's most expensive TV series
in its day, Berlin Alexanderplatz.

1105
01:11:43,481 --> 01:11:47,641
This story of the rise of fascism
has fascinated Fassbinder

1106
01:11:47,761 --> 01:11:49,441
since the age of 19.

1107
01:11:49,561 --> 01:11:53,161
In less than a year
shoots more than 14 hours of film

1108
01:11:53,281 --> 01:11:55,601
with 50 main roles.

1109
01:11:56,721 --> 01:11:59,441
I remember that Horst Wendlandt,

1110
01:11:59,561 --> 01:12:03,761
A well-known producer back then...

1111
01:12:03,881 --> 01:12:07,081
Unfortunately he is no longer alive.

1112
01:12:07,201 --> 01:12:08,801
He told me,

1113
01:12:08,921 --> 01:12:10,841
"It's impossible!

1114
01:12:10,961 --> 01:12:13,561
It is a huge production.

1115
01:12:13,681 --> 01:12:16,521
There is no chance of him surviving.

1116
01:12:16,641 --> 01:12:20,241
You have to have
another director as substitute."

1117
01:12:21,201 --> 01:12:23,121
- Was it like that?
- yes

1118
01:12:23,241 --> 01:12:26,881
- Why?
- Well, for all his, you know,

1119
01:12:27,001 --> 01:12:31,441
drug and alcohol use, and so on...

1120
01:12:31,561 --> 01:12:35,761
He was seen as not being up to par.
of such a company

1121
01:12:35,881 --> 01:12:37,921
I wasn't up to it physically.

1122
01:12:38,601 --> 01:12:41,441
I can only answer...

1123
01:12:41,561 --> 01:12:45,561
saying that until
the first day of filming,

1124
01:12:45,681 --> 01:12:49,641
He tried everything to get out of the direction.
And from the first...

1125
01:12:49,761 --> 01:12:52,081
- Really?
- yes yes

1126
01:12:52,201 --> 01:12:56,281
He suggested to me,
but Xaver Schwarzenberger said:

1127
01:12:56,401 --> 01:12:58,321
"I'll only do it with you."

1128
01:12:58,441 --> 01:13:01,361
Then he wanted Lowitsch
in the lead role. And then...

1129
01:13:02,641 --> 01:13:04,481
Complete chaos

1130
01:13:04,601 --> 01:13:06,681
- In Berlin Alexanderplatz?
- yes

1131
01:13:06,801 --> 01:13:11,801
But from the first day of filming.
was on top of everything. Incredible!

1132
01:13:11,921 --> 01:13:16,921
They were filming a scene with Sukowa,
His first big scene.

1133
01:13:17,041 --> 01:13:19,281
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

1134
01:13:19,361 --> 01:13:22,161
I was standing around and I had to...

1135
01:13:22,281 --> 01:13:25,201
- What episode is this?
- No idea.

1136
01:13:25,321 --> 01:13:28,441
It must be one of the first scenes.

1137
01:13:28,561 --> 01:13:31,841
- When she has brought.
- That is.

1138
01:13:31,961 --> 01:13:35,401
I was standing around
and he told me:

1139
01:13:35,521 --> 01:13:39,921
"Now I'll show you how to lead.
What is it about?"

1140
01:13:40,041 --> 01:13:42,361
He sat under the table,

1141
01:13:43,041 --> 01:13:46,001
He gently placed a hand on her thigh,

1142
01:13:46,121 --> 01:13:49,721
very gentle,
And he looked at her from below.

1143
01:13:49,841 --> 01:13:50,841
Franz

1144
01:13:50,961 --> 01:13:52,801
Leave politics alone.

1145
01:13:53,481 --> 01:13:55,321
I'm not in politics.

1146
01:13:55,441 --> 01:13:57,881
And she did the scene fantastically.

1147
01:13:58,761 --> 01:14:01,281
Berlin Alexanderplatz,

1148
01:14:01,401 --> 01:14:04,601
a television series

1149
01:14:05,801 --> 01:14:07,841
Based on the novel by Alfred Doblin.

1150
01:14:07,961 --> 01:14:10,281
He more or less dictated it.

1151
01:14:10,401 --> 01:14:15,321
He went through the novel,

1152
01:14:16,321 --> 01:14:23,561
and then he dictated the script,
page by page on a dictaphone.

1153
01:14:23,681 --> 01:14:25,881
It was then typed.

1154
01:14:30,401 --> 01:14:32,121
Eight hundred...

1155
01:14:33,361 --> 01:14:34,841
and forty-three.

1156
01:14:34,961 --> 01:14:37,161
At least that's what I think.

1157
01:14:38,161 --> 01:14:42,521
Street in front of Fabisch and Co.

1158
01:14:42,641 --> 01:14:45,001
Franz, two points:

1159
01:14:47,161 --> 01:14:50,641
Must buy a tie clip

1160
01:14:50,761 --> 01:14:55,241
and when you have bought one,
It doesn't work, he can't cut his tie.

1161
01:14:55,361 --> 01:14:57,481
It's a scam, it makes people bitter.

1162
01:14:57,601 --> 01:15:02,321
and push Germany deeper
in the misery in which it already is

1163
01:15:03,441 --> 01:15:06,081
It's a scam, it makes people bitter.

1164
01:15:06,201 --> 01:15:10,841
and push Germany deeper
in the misery in which it already is

1165
01:15:11,961 --> 01:15:12,961
Thank you.

1166
01:15:13,081 --> 01:15:17,521
I am sure that an accurate description
of the Weimar Republic,

1167
01:15:17,641 --> 01:15:19,721
like Alexanderplatz,

1168
01:15:21,641 --> 01:15:24,281
Has something to say about our republic,

1169
01:15:24,401 --> 01:15:26,601
a republic that I think

1170
01:15:27,681 --> 01:15:32,401
is moving to the right
as did the Weimar Republic.

1171
01:15:32,521 --> 01:15:38,001
And if the next elections
It's going down the path that I hope it doesn't go,

1172
01:15:38,121 --> 01:15:40,521
So I really don't know what's going to happen.

1173
01:15:41,561 --> 01:15:43,601
There will still be entertainment.

1174
01:15:43,721 --> 01:15:46,361
Not for me in Germany. I'll go.

1175
01:15:48,041 --> 01:15:50,361
- And where are you going?
- To America.

1176
01:15:51,441 --> 01:15:53,201
We both wanted it:

1177
01:15:53,321 --> 01:15:56,561
Go to New York and look for an apartment.
That was the plan.

1178
01:15:56,641 --> 01:15:58,401
FASSBINDER PARTNER

1179
01:15:58,481 --> 01:16:02,241
But then came the next plan,
and the next...

1180
01:16:11,281 --> 01:16:13,881
VERONIKA VOSS

1181
01:16:17,121 --> 01:16:22,641
In “Veronika Voss,” Fassbinder observes.
The film industry itself...

1182
01:16:22,761 --> 01:16:28,321
The story of a star addicted to drugs ends.
With the death of his heroine.

1183
01:16:28,441 --> 01:16:30,881
At the 1982 Berlinale

1184
01:16:31,001 --> 01:16:34,921
The film brings its director.
the coveted golden bear.

1185
01:16:35,961 --> 01:16:40,601
I once had a movie in Berlin
So I expected a prize.

1186
01:16:40,721 --> 01:16:44,881
It was Effi Briest.
I was surprised I didn't receive it.

1187
01:16:45,001 --> 01:16:47,081
Nothing surprises me anymore.

1188
01:16:47,681 --> 01:16:50,201
He kept improving,

1189
01:16:50,321 --> 01:16:53,001
And he continued to receive more recognition.

1190
01:16:53,121 --> 01:16:56,201
But he also realized.
That wasn't important.

1191
01:16:56,321 --> 01:16:59,001
And so he imposed himself on the pose of...

1192
01:16:59,841 --> 01:17:02,281
exhausted ruler or emperor...

1193
01:17:04,001 --> 01:17:06,801
In a state of deep melancholy.

1194
01:17:08,081 --> 01:17:11,641
He said,
"The worst thing about success is

1195
01:17:11,761 --> 01:17:16,601
People are not really who they are
when they are with me."

1196
01:17:17,681 --> 01:17:22,441
It was a combination of many things.
There was disappointment,

1197
01:17:22,561 --> 01:17:27,321
combined, without a doubt,
With many stimulants.

1198
01:17:27,441 --> 01:17:30,281
Because it had been completely burned.

1199
01:17:35,521 --> 01:17:38,961
Maybe it's comparable to pop groups,

1200
01:17:39,081 --> 01:17:43,321
they have to go on stage
sing and rock.

1201
01:17:43,441 --> 01:17:47,881
They are not drinking chamomile tea.
behind the scenes.

1202
01:17:48,001 --> 01:17:50,881
They have to be dragged.

1203
01:17:51,001 --> 01:17:56,041
And if you make five films.
and every day we need new ideas,

1204
01:17:56,161 --> 01:17:59,161
use certain means

1205
01:17:59,281 --> 01:18:03,681
Plus he had all these yes men
and sycophants around him...

1206
01:18:03,801 --> 01:18:08,521
I really hated that,
I saw them for what they were.

1207
01:18:08,641 --> 01:18:11,321
what they wanted from him,

1208
01:18:11,441 --> 01:18:15,401
and how they got along
with him.

1209
01:18:16,641 --> 01:18:19,561
Men are crazy about addicted women.

1210
01:18:19,681 --> 01:18:22,841
- Do you need an injection for your return?
- Naturally.

1211
01:18:22,961 --> 01:18:24,561
I already imagined it.

1212
01:18:25,201 --> 01:18:27,921
And how do you intend to pay for it?

1213
01:18:33,361 --> 01:18:34,881
With my salary.

1214
01:18:35,001 --> 01:18:41,041
Like a man giving a woman
a bouquet of roses...

1215
01:18:41,161 --> 01:18:44,121
I knew where I would be

1216
01:18:44,241 --> 01:18:46,721
and I brought her the roses.

1217
01:18:46,841 --> 01:18:52,401
I took her hand, kissed it.
and gave him the roses.

1218
01:18:52,521 --> 01:18:58,721
But... I knew
It was out of reach then.

1219
01:18:58,841 --> 01:19:02,001
That there was nothing left to...

1220
01:19:03,361 --> 01:19:04,961
It was too late.

1221
01:19:05,081 --> 01:19:06,961
- Really?
- yes

1222
01:19:07,961 --> 01:19:09,361
How come

1223
01:19:09,921 --> 01:19:13,801
Without knowing
How immersed in drugs he was

1224
01:19:13,921 --> 01:19:18,841
since he was always very focused
when it rolled...

1225
01:19:18,961 --> 01:19:23,721
But there is...
I knew there was something...

1226
01:19:24,561 --> 01:19:27,761
That had gotten out of hand a long time ago.

1227
01:19:29,801 --> 01:19:31,361
So let's move on.

1228
01:19:34,721 --> 01:19:36,921
Goodbye...

1229
01:19:37,041 --> 01:19:41,881
Goodbye love!

1230
01:19:46,481 --> 01:19:49,361
He is someone who led a kamikaze life.

1231
01:19:49,481 --> 01:19:54,161
That is, someone's life
who doesn't care about anything.

1232
01:19:54,281 --> 01:19:56,921
He just wants to live in the now.

1233
01:19:57,041 --> 01:20:00,481
That's what counts.
That's why it's called Kamikaze.

1234
01:20:03,841 --> 01:20:06,841
It was over. It was really over.

1235
01:20:08,001 --> 01:20:12,761
There is always a reason
if someone takes this or that...

1236
01:20:12,881 --> 01:20:14,561
and uses drugs...

1237
01:20:14,681 --> 01:20:16,921
There is always a deeper reason.

1238
01:20:17,041 --> 01:20:19,601
There was so much pressure...

1239
01:20:19,721 --> 01:20:24,681
It took so long
get the money for Querelle.

1240
01:20:24,801 --> 01:20:27,641
And the pressure of having another success

1241
01:20:27,761 --> 01:20:31,161
It was incredibly strong.

1242
01:20:31,281 --> 01:20:34,601
His only way to deal with it was...
you get a part, you feel good...

1243
01:20:34,721 --> 01:20:38,641
He has this big glass of whiskey.

1244
01:20:38,761 --> 01:20:40,841
It's all in my documentary.

1245
01:20:40,961 --> 01:20:44,201
The day passes and you barely survive.

1246
01:20:44,321 --> 01:20:45,961
But at night...

1247
01:20:46,081 --> 01:20:51,041
I always say, if you step on the accelerator.

1248
01:20:51,161 --> 01:20:55,481
while pressing the brake,
you destroy the transmission.

1249
01:20:56,081 --> 01:20:59,641
He wanted to go out
to get off the roller coaster.

1250
01:20:59,761 --> 01:21:02,961
- And do what?
- Just take a break.

1251
01:21:03,801 --> 01:21:05,361
He once said,

1252
01:21:06,161 --> 01:21:08,081
"I'm going to live another life."

1253
01:21:08,921 --> 01:21:10,641
It was an interesting phrase.

1254
01:21:10,761 --> 01:21:14,681
Very interesting.
I asked him: "What will it be like?"

1255
01:21:14,801 --> 01:21:16,801
"I'm going to live another life..."

1256
01:21:17,961 --> 01:21:22,241
And he said,
"Well, we will live a different life."

1257
01:21:31,801 --> 01:21:35,921
I saw that Rainer's life
was coming to an end.

1258
01:21:37,201 --> 01:21:39,561
It was so hot...

1259
01:21:39,681 --> 01:21:42,281
Two mandrax, two valium,

1260
01:21:42,401 --> 01:21:45,201
that fucking cut cocaine,

1261
01:21:45,321 --> 01:21:50,441
and that asshole, how incredibly.
and unspeakably irresponsible Mick...

1262
01:21:51,201 --> 01:21:55,161
Everything that led to an end.
Physically he was healthy.

1263
01:21:55,281 --> 01:21:57,401
Now we turn left, right?

1264
01:22:01,121 --> 01:22:03,401
I always stayed away...

1265
01:22:03,521 --> 01:22:05,961
Clemensstrasse and the apartment.

1266
01:22:06,081 --> 01:22:10,001
I was close sometimes
but I never went in.

1267
01:22:10,761 --> 01:22:12,721
I just couldn't

1268
01:22:13,401 --> 01:22:15,161
Oh my god!

1269
01:22:17,401 --> 01:22:19,081
There was a door here.

1270
01:22:21,761 --> 01:22:23,281
I can't believe it.

1271
01:22:25,081 --> 01:22:28,081
Rainer would laugh.

1272
01:22:28,201 --> 01:22:31,201
Sorry, but all this baby stuff!

1273
01:22:31,761 --> 01:22:33,521
It's very sweet!

1274
01:22:34,281 --> 01:22:38,361
He had a deep longing for a son,
a deep longing for...

1275
01:22:40,601 --> 01:22:41,801
a family

1276
01:22:41,921 --> 01:22:47,041
But the family was naturally not
A family of mom, dad, a baby.

1277
01:22:47,161 --> 01:22:48,641
Was...

1278
01:22:48,761 --> 01:22:55,601
Rainer's true wish
It was living with a man I loved.

1279
01:22:57,641 --> 01:23:00,321
I asked him, "Where do I fit in?"

1280
01:23:01,081 --> 01:23:02,681
And he said,

1281
01:23:02,801 --> 01:23:04,961
"Well, you're the one I love."

1282
01:23:20,201 --> 01:23:24,841
We had agreed that we would each
our own documentary about our films,

1283
01:23:24,961 --> 01:23:27,401
Don't let the TV people do them.

1284
01:23:27,521 --> 01:23:30,441
So I went to interview him.

1285
01:23:30,561 --> 01:23:32,161
- who?
- Fassbinder.

1286
01:23:32,281 --> 01:23:35,241
I went to Munich to interview him

1287
01:23:35,361 --> 01:23:39,041
The day before his death.
He was sitting there...

1288
01:23:39,161 --> 01:23:41,601
- The day before?
- yes

1289
01:23:41,721 --> 01:23:44,841
It still exists.
We just need to find it.

1290
01:23:44,961 --> 01:23:49,481
He was wearing a red shirt,
his hat, sunglasses.

1291
01:23:49,601 --> 01:23:54,481
He was sitting there,
so completely exhausted.

1292
01:23:55,161 --> 01:23:59,161
And the next day...
He died that night.

1293
01:23:59,281 --> 01:24:01,441
Thirty-two years ago,

1294
01:24:01,561 --> 01:24:06,801
I left the apartment at night to go.
to the editing room at Bavaria Studio,

1295
01:24:07,801 --> 01:24:11,641
and came back at 4am...just before 5.

1296
01:24:11,761 --> 01:24:14,201
- Where did you find it?
- In his bed.

1297
01:24:15,481 --> 01:24:17,321
He was lying in his bed.

1298
01:24:17,441 --> 01:24:19,201
The television was on

1299
01:24:19,321 --> 01:24:22,921
He had a burnt cigarette
in his hand.

1300
01:24:23,641 --> 01:24:27,441
And he lay there.
His head rested peacefully,

1301
01:24:27,561 --> 01:24:29,441
This way, with a smile.

1302
01:24:29,561 --> 01:24:32,641
"...I found Mr. Fassbinder
that lay lifeless..."Yes, yes

1303
01:24:33,561 --> 01:24:36,841
for half an hour
She tried to shake him awake.

1304
01:24:36,961 --> 01:24:39,361
My God! How horrible!

1305
01:24:40,601 --> 01:24:43,841
Didn't she say she came to find me?

1306
01:24:44,441 --> 01:24:47,801
Wolf didn't want to wake up.
I shook him until he woke up.

1307
01:24:47,921 --> 01:24:49,921
The wine

1308
01:24:50,041 --> 01:24:54,561
and lifted him up,
and then he said:"He's dead."

1309
01:24:54,681 --> 01:25:00,201
What can I say? I knew that
My whole life was going to change.

1310
01:25:00,321 --> 01:25:05,241
Life in...
West Germany was going to change.

1311
01:25:05,361 --> 01:25:07,961
One of its main public figures.

1312
01:25:08,081 --> 01:25:12,401
Who had documented German history
with "Maria Braun"

1313
01:25:12,521 --> 01:25:17,561
and made Germany understand,
internationally

1314
01:25:17,681 --> 01:25:22,401
His death was the end
of a great friendship

1315
01:25:22,521 --> 01:25:26,001
And the end of an era.

1316
01:25:26,121 --> 01:25:28,841
- Did you notice that?
- Immediately, yes.

1317
01:25:28,961 --> 01:25:34,721
And the impact it unleashed,
The shock waves continued for years.

1318
01:25:35,601 --> 01:25:39,961
I think I had to live
The life I lived to make...

1319
01:25:40,081 --> 01:25:44,441
I had to lead the life I led.
so I can make my movies.

1320
01:25:54,321 --> 01:26:00,121
I really thought you'd be standing
in my grave and cries over me.

1321
01:26:00,241 --> 01:26:02,201
That was childish too.

1322
01:26:03,161 --> 01:26:04,961
I had to accept

1323
01:26:05,681 --> 01:26:08,881
that I am alone,
I was alone, I will be alone.

1324
01:26:10,521 --> 01:26:13,121
you won't come

1325
01:26:13,241 --> 01:26:15,761
To save me, to free me.

1326
01:26:15,881 --> 01:26:17,721
no one will come

1327
01:26:20,401 --> 01:26:22,921
Somehow each of us had...

1328
01:26:24,841 --> 01:26:28,601
you know,
a private relationship with him.

1329
01:26:29,441 --> 01:26:34,041
Because it was so existentially linked
to each of us

1330
01:26:34,161 --> 01:26:37,721
that had a direct effect on your life.

1331
01:26:38,481 --> 01:26:43,241
So all of us had our burden to bear.

1332
01:26:44,201 --> 01:26:48,001
And...he had to deal with it.

1333
01:26:50,641 --> 01:26:51,881
Me too.

1334
01:26:52,001 --> 01:26:55,441
That's why I left Munich

1335
01:26:56,321 --> 01:26:58,241
for west berlin.

1336
01:26:58,361 --> 01:27:00,161
Because I...

1337
01:27:02,041 --> 01:27:06,281
Controversies began about whether
must be buried

1338
01:27:06,401 --> 01:27:09,881
with other notables
in the Bogenhausen cemetery.

1339
01:27:10,001 --> 01:27:16,041
The clamor about itself
that faggot bastard, you know...

1340
01:27:16,161 --> 01:27:18,761
A grave should be allowed there.

1341
01:27:19,641 --> 01:27:22,441
Do you think anyone would hire us?

1342
01:27:22,561 --> 01:27:26,001
"You? You never did anything for us."

1343
01:27:26,121 --> 01:27:29,561
They came crawling
while he was still alive.

1344
01:27:29,681 --> 01:27:35,961
Begging us to help them
to access it.

1345
01:27:36,081 --> 01:27:38,641
It was barely buried that...

1346
01:27:38,761 --> 01:27:41,961
What would you say to Fassbinder now?
If you could?

1347
01:27:44,441 --> 01:27:46,281
Thank you...

1348
01:27:47,041 --> 01:27:49,401
For such a wonderful time

1349
01:27:49,521 --> 01:27:53,041
Thank you
for the joy you gave

1350
01:27:53,161 --> 01:27:55,761
If he could hear me now,

1351
01:27:55,881 --> 01:27:57,961
I would find it really strange.

1352
01:27:59,041 --> 01:28:05,241
Maybe it is exactly the proof of love.
He always wanted to listen.

1353
01:28:05,361 --> 01:28:09,321
If I had said something like that to him...

1354
01:28:09,441 --> 01:28:17,401
It's exactly what you learn
every time you lose someone...

1355
01:28:17,521 --> 01:28:20,281
That you shouldn't
leave things for later

1356
01:28:20,401 --> 01:28:24,641
Because maybe it's too late to say.

1357
01:28:25,641 --> 01:28:29,041
So, all the nice things you can say...

1358
01:28:30,521 --> 01:28:31,761
Tell them!

1359
01:28:34,161 --> 01:28:35,161
Yes.

1360
01:28:39,081 --> 01:28:40,921
You're nice, I like you

1361
01:28:44,361 --> 01:28:46,121
You can't say anything.