Christian Hohoff

Highlighted works

• HÄNDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN

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

• Der AMERIKANISCHE SOLDAT

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

• GÖTTER DER PEST

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

• WARNUNG VOR EINER HEILIGEN NUTTE

  Awaiting a shoot, the cast and crew of a film outdo one another in displays of professional and sexual rivalry.

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  Fear Eats the Soul

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

• PIONIERE IN INGOLSTADT

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

• Faustrecht der Freheit

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

• 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.

• Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel

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

• Chinesisches Roulette

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

• WARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK?

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

• KATZELMACHER

  A Greek immigrant (Fassbinder) unleashes jealousy and xenophobia among a group of his Munich neighbours.

• LIEBE IST KÄLTER ALS DER TOD

  Fassbinder stars in his debut feature as a petty criminal whose desire for freedom is undermined by his emotional needs.

• Bolwieser

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

• Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt

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