Hark Bohm

Highlighted works

• Der AMERIKANISCHE SOLDAT

  Fassbinder’s glorious re-working of Hollywood noir, about a man who becomes a contract killer.

• Lili Marleen

  Set in the Third Reich, this forbidden love story focuses on recording star Willie Bunterberg.

• Die Ehe der Maria Braun

  Hanna Schygulla gives a star performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, as a German woman who struggles to rebuild her life after the Second World War.

• FONTANE EFFI BRIEST ODER VIELE, DIE EINE AHNUNG HABEN VON IHREN MÖGLICHKEITEN UND IHREN BEDÜRFNISSEN UND TROTZDEM DAS

  An exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontane’s 1896 novel, about a 17-year-old forced into marriage with an older man.

• Lola

  Fantastically vulgar update of The Blue Angel (1930) set in late 1950s West Germany.

• Despair

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.

• Angst vor der Angst

  Overcome by anxiety, a middle-class wife and mother struggles to conform.

• Die dritte Generation

  Colourful farce centring on a group of bourgeois self-styled terrorists.

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  Fear Eats the Soul

  Fassbinder’s international breakthrough is an unconventional love story with devastating emotional power.

• HÄNDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN

  This heart-rending tale was Fassbinder’s first venture into popular melodrama.

• Faustrecht der Freheit

  In this funny and sad tale, Fox wins the lottery and falls in love with ‘posh and prissy’ Eugen.