Der BRäUTIGAM, DIE KOMöDIANTIN UND DER ZUHäLTER

Danièle Huillet
BRD 1968
23 min
V'04

Accepting an invitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Straub staged a strongly condensed version of Ferdinand Bruckner's play \"Illness of Youth\" in Munich's Action-Theater. Taking this performance as a starting-point, he produced a short film consisting of a few scenes, filmed in and around Munich, which catapulted the characters into the open and developed them. It is a \"film-within-a-film\" with a documentary-style introduction, a real chase and the only murder to be found in the Straubs' body of work. And this murder is a truly tremendous and tender escape act.

Credits
  • James Powell - James
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Freder/der Zuhälter
  • Peer Raben - Alt/Willi
  • Irm Hermann - Desirée
  • Hanna Schygulla - Lucy
  • Lilith Ungerer - Marie/Lilith
  • Kristin Peterson - Irene
Janus Film, Straub-Huillet