Helmut Petigk

Highlighted works

• Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel

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

• Satansbraten

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

• Bolwieser

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

• Lola

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

• Faustrecht der Freheit

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

• Lili Marleen

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