Querelle (1982)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s adaptation of one of his favourite novels by Jean Genet – a dream-like tale of sex, murder and the quest for self-realisation.

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"The ultimate goal of human endeavour: to live one’s own life." Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s words on the subject of his last film are movingly apt. It’s an adaptation of one of his all-time favourites, Jean Genet’s homoerotic novel about a beautiful, opium-dealing sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest. A dream-like tale of sex, murder and the quest for self-realisation.

: 1982 Federal Republic of Germany, France
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Produced by: Dieter Schidor
Written by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Burkhard Driest
Featuring: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau
Running time: 108 minutes