Armin Meier

Highlighted works

• Faustrecht der Freheit

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

• Angst vor der Angst

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

• Despair

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

• Bolwieser

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s striking adaptation of Oskar Maria Graf’s novel about a small-town Bavarian stationmaster.

• Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel

  The wife of a factory worker gone murderously berserk finds herself hounded and exploited.

• Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt

  Chilling drama based on a real-life interview with a convicted murderer.

• Satansbraten

  Black comedy about a left-wing poet which skewers the cult of the charismatic artist.

• Chinesisches Roulette

  A bitter young girl brings her emotionally estranged parents together in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gothic psychodrama.

• Germany in Autumn

  This portmanteau film was the collective response of leading German filmmakers to the dramatic Baader-Meinhof terrorist crisis of autumn 1977.