Thea Eymèsz

Highlighted works

• Satansbraten

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

• 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.

• PIONIERE IN INGOLSTADT

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

• Die BITTEREN TRÄNEN DER PETRA VON KANT

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

• MUTTER KÜSTERS FAHRT ZUM HIMMEL

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

• RIO DAS MORTES

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

• Die NIKLASHAUSER FAHRT

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

• FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT

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

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  Fear Eats the Soul

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

• Der AMERIKANISCHE SOLDAT

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

• HÄNDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN

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

• WHITY

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

• 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.

• GÖTTER DER PEST

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