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Faustrecht der Freiheit (1975)

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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From Time Out Film Guide

One of Fassbinder's excellent melodramas focusing on the manipulation and destruction of a working-class victim-figure, in this case a surly fairground worker who is taken up by effete bourgeois gays when he wins a small fortune on a lottery. It's the usual vision of exploitation and complicity hidden under the deceiving mantle of love, but Fassbinder's precision, assured sense of milieu, and cool but human compassion for his characters, make it a work of brilliant intelligence. And the director himself is superb as the none-too-intelligent hero.

Author: GA

Time Out Film Guide

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Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cast: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karl-Heinz Böhm, Harry Bär, Adrian Hoven, Ulla Jacobsen, Kurt Raab full cast

Duration: 123 mins


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