Katrin Schaake

Highlighted works

• 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.

• 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.

• WHITY

  A black butler in the American South of the 1870s holds a strange erotic power over his masters.

• Die BITTEREN TRÄNEN DER PETRA VON KANT

  A brilliant all-female cast star in this visual and verbal extravaganza about a lonely fashion designer.

• RIO DAS MORTES

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

• Der AMERIKANISCHE SOLDAT

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

• KATZELMACHER

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

• 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.

• WARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK?

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

• WELT AM DRAHT

  Fassbinder’s two-part TV sci-fi anticipates both Blade Runner and The Matrix.

• ACHT STUNDEN SIND KEIN TAG

  Fassbinder’s controversial five-part TV soap opera.