Renate Leiffer

Highlighted works

• 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.

• Martha

  This ruthless dissection of a marriage is like Douglas Sirk on steroids.

• Angst vor der Angst

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

• ACHT STUNDEN SIND KEIN TAG

  Fassbinder’s controversial five-part TV soap opera.

• 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.

• WELT AM DRAHT

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

• Lili Marleen

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

• Satansbraten

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