The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited

The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited

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2011
1h 10m
6.5(4 votes)
Documentary

Overview

This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the film in question, but Fassbinder's meteoric career which ended all too soon with his untimely death. Archival footage of Fassbinder is utilized (including several fascinating snippets culled from interviews he did at the disastrous Cannes premiere of Despair), as well as many others involved in the film and its release. Even if you're not a particular fan of Despair, or even in fact of Fassbinder, this is stellar documentary film making and is an intriguing look at one of the most enigmatic masters of the New German Cinema.

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Andréa Ferréol

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Andréa Ferréol
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Michael Ballhaus

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Michael Ballhaus
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Tom Stoppard

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Tom Stoppard
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Juliane Lorenz

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Dieter Minx

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Alexander Allerson

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Harry Baer

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Harry Baer
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Isolde Barth

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Isolde Barth
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John Coldstream

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Brock Van Den Bogaerde

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