Rating: 7.5/10 (492 votes)
Runtime: 88 min | Germany:90 min (Festivalfassung)
Language: German With Hardcoded English Sub
Country: West Germany
Color: Color
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066546/
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
Cast:
Lilith Ungerer … Frau R.
Kurt Raab … Herr R.
Lilo Pempeit … Kollegin im Büro
Franz Maron … Chef
Harry Baer … Kollege im Büro
Peter Moland … Kollege im Büro
Hanna Schygulla … Schulfreundin
Ingrid Caven … Nachbarin
Irm Hermann … Nachbarin
Doris Mattes … Nachbarin
Hannes Gromball … Nachbar
Vinzenz Sterr … Opa Raab (as Herr Sterr)
Maria Sterr … Oma Raab (as Frau Sterr)
Peer Raben … Schulfreund
Eva Pampuch … Schallplattenverkäuferin
Description: Wild and winsome yet tragic tale of a man who falls apart before our very eyes. Whats so exciting about this film is not the plot or the climax, which is given away in the title, but the sheer breathless spontaneity of the unfolding drama/trauma, presented in breezy interchanges between characters and told in an intimate verite style that looks disarmingly nontheatrical. We are like a fly on the wall making a documentary about a loser’s last days. It is thus alternately exciting, maddening, sad and boring, just as those moments in his life actually would be. The only thing about the film that didn’t really click was Herr R.’s final act(s) of violence. They seem at first glance sort of unsolicited, melodramatic, over-reactive, out of context. But then, the whole point of “running amok,” as the Eskimos tell it, is that after six months of indoor living with no sunlight, the mere tedium and monotony of cohabitation becomes too much to bear. Thus, it isn’t trauma after trauma, or some big nasty blowout that causes the final snap; it’s the soul-crushing redundancy of the countless minuscule agitations and frustrations that causes, perhaps at no particular or predictable moment, the final psychological break for the poor damned fool. Fassbinder loves greasy, pudgy, gluttonous, hard-drinking losers, probably because he saw himself as one, but alcohol as the vehicle of mental deterioration, and sometimes the means of actual death, seems to feature prominently in many Fassfilms.
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