Elfriede Jelinek zum Geburtstag

LIEBE IST KÄLTER ALS DER TOD

LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
BRD 1969
85 min
V'06

This is a prodigious debut film, a revisionist film noir as stark in its visual style as it is powerful in its seething, but repressed emotions, and with a wonderfully sardonic sense of humor. Even as it draws on his work in theatre, Liebe ist kälter als der Tod points to the forty films which were to come in terms of its themes, aesthetic techniques, and psychological insights. But this is no mere warm-up for later triumphs (and tribulations); it seems more resonant with each subsequent viewing, and a third of a century after that fateful premiere, this film still feels fresh, strange, and resonant in its chillingly casual violence and unspoken, sometimes heartbreaking, passion. (Jim Clark)

Credits
  • Irm Hermann - Daughter Krista
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Son-in-law Eugen
  • Hanna Schygulla - Lucy
  • Ingrid Caven - Joséphines Tante
  • Ulli Lommel
  • Hans Hirschmüller
  • Katrin Schaake
  • Peter Berling
  • Hannes Gromball
  • Gisela Otto
  • Ursula Strätz
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Dietrich Lohmann
  • Franz Walsch (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  • Peer Raben
  • Holger Münzer
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Ulli Lommel
antitheater-X-Film

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35 mm
bw
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