RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER COLLECTION – VOLUME 2 (15) GERMANY BLU RAY £64.99
Volume . 2 brings together a collection of his key works from the mid-section of his career in high definition digital restorations prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.
The films are –
ANGST ESSEN SEELE AUF/FEAR EATS THE SOUL (15 ) 1973 GERMANY
Film is about a German woman who strikes up a friendship with a Moroccan man and the racism they encounter.
EFFI BRIEST (U) 1974 GERMANY
Film adaptation of Theodor Fontane’s novel set in the late 19th century.
FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT/FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (15) 1975 GERMANY
In Fox and His Friends a young, homosexual man, who falls in love with a wealthy industrialist’s son after an unexpected lottery win. However he realises that the affections of his new partner are solely based on his wealth.
CHINESISCHES ROULETTE (15) 1976 GERMANY
Chinese Roulette is a tense psychodrama set in an isolated house during a weekend break in which infidelities are revealed and families break down. Fassbinder’s international breakthrough film,
EHE DER MARIA BRAUN/MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (15) 1978 GERMANY
Fassbinder’s biggest international hit, Hanna Schygulla plays Maria Braun, whose material
rise parallels Germany’s Economic Miracle of the 1950s.
In German with English subtitles
Limited Edition Features
High definition digital transfers of all films prepared by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
High Definition (1080p) Blu-rayTM presentations of all films
Original uncompressed PCM mono 1.0 sound for all films
Optional English subtitles for all films
Exclusive 140-page collectors booklet containing archive articles and new writing by Deborah Allison, Geoff Andrew, Margaret Deriaz and Travis Miles.
Disc One – Fear Eats The Soul
Audio commentary by critic and lecturer Mark Freeman
My Name is Not Ali, Viola Shafik’s 2011 feature-length documentary on the life and death of El Hedi ben Salem, star of Fear Eats the Soul
Interview with director of photography Jürgen Jürges
Theatrical trailer
Disc Two – Effi Briest
Audio commentary by Ken Moulden
Interview with actor Ulli Lommel
Interview with director of photography Jürgen Jürges
Theatrical trailer
Disc Three – Fox And His Friends & Chinese Roulette
Audio commentary by Hamish Ford on Fox and His Friends
Interview with actor Ulli Lommel on Chinese Roulette
Original theatrical trailers for both films
Disc Four – The Marriage Of Maria Braun
Life, Love & Celluloid, a 1998 feature-length documentary on Fassbinder, written and directed by his regular editor, Juliane Lorenz
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977, a candid 30-minute interview with the director
The Fassbinder Family, featurette detailing the actors who worked with Fassbinder time and again throughout his career
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