Herbert Paetzold

Highlighted works

• PIONIERE IN INGOLSTADT

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

• 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.

• RIO DAS MORTES

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

• 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’.

• Der AMERIKANISCHE SOLDAT

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

• WARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK?

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

• HÄNDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN

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

• 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.