Katzelmacher (1969)

Directed by

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Genre

drama film, romance film, art film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young friends in Munich pass their time with gossip, boredom, and petty conflicts. Their dynamic is disrupted when a Greek immigrant named Jorgos moves into the neighborhood and becomes the target of suspicion and casual racism.

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What happens

Katzelmacher is a 1969 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. The film centers on an aimless group of friends whose lives are shaken up by the arrival of an immigrant Greek worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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