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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
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- Posted on Sep 01 2007 02:09 Contemporaries like Herzog and Wenders were at times equally stunning, but none could match the incredible prolificity of Fassbinder (whose 32 films in 15 years can go toe-to-toe with just about anything). Fox and His Friends is just one of Fassbinder's towering masterworks!
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Cast & crew
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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