RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER | WEST GERMANY | 1978 | 124 MIN | NR | GERMAN
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s tragic odyssey of love, identity, and self-destruction traces the final days of Elvira, a transgender woman reeling from heartbreak after her lover abruptly deserts her.
Cast: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Part of the Philadelphia Film Society's Rainer and His Friends - Fassbinder Director Series.
The most recognizable, polarizing, and unclassifiable filmmaker out of New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder crafted dozens of films—in addition to plays, adaptations, and other texts—in a very short, prolific period of time. Utilizing a recurring troupe of actors throughout his many films, Fassbinder continually altered the perception of what modern cinema can be. Whether it’s confronting a taboo topic with great zeal or deconstructing the cinematic melodrama, Rainer and his friends changed films forever.
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