Günther Kaufmann

Highlighted works

• RIO DAS MORTES

  Hanna Schygulla plays a girl who wants to settle down, but her free-wheeling boyfriend has other ideas.

• QUERELLE

  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.

• GÖTTER DER PEST

  In this melancholy thriller, capitalism is the ‘plague’ and criminals are its ‘gods’.

• Die NIKLASHAUSER FAHRT

  Fassbinder’s intriguing exploration of the arts of political mass manipulation.

• In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden

  A lonely transsexual journeys through modern Frankfurt in this dark elegy for doomed love.

• PIONIERE IN INGOLSTADT

  A newly arrived army regiment makes a big impression on the sexually frustrated women of a Bavarian town.

• Die DRITTE GENERATION

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

• Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

  A young sports journalist meets an ageing movie star in this eerie vision of 1950s Germany.

• Lola

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

• 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.

• WARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK?

  A brilliant black comedy of manners about a man surely at the end of his tether…