The retrospective is from the year 1969 to 1978.

The film festival is on from June 11 to June 16, 2007, at the Film Chamber Theatre, Chennai -600 006. The festival is open to all.

Naturally Yours: The Auroville Boutique "Malltastic": Citi Centre Mall Shriya Does The Disappearing Act Trisha In 'Marmayogi' இளையராஜாவின் திடீர் விசிட் ஜீவனின் தொடரும் சென்ட்டிமென்ட் சர்வத்தில் சர்க்கஸ்

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was born in 1945 and died in 1982. He was one of the most significant directors of the ‘New German Cinema’. In just 13 years, between 1969 and 1982, he made 44 films, including ‘Katzelmacher’ (1969), ‘The Merchant of Four Seasons’ (‘Der Haendler der vier Jahreszeiten’, 1971), ‘The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant’ (‘Die bitteren Traenen der Petra von Kant’, 1972), ‘Fear Eats the Soul’ (‘Angst essen Seele auf’, 1973), ‘Fontane Effi Briest’ (1974), ‘Despair’ (1978), ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun’ (‘Die Ehe der Maria Braun’, 1979), ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ (1980), ‘Lili Marleen’ (1981), ‘Lola’ (1981), and ‘Querelle’ (1982), among others.

He wrote 14 plays, revised six others and directed 25.

He wrote four radio plays and 37 screenplays and worked on another 13 scripts with other writers. Fassbinder’s films are among the most valid social documents produced between the late ‘60s and early ‘80s in Germany; his plays are among the most performed of any post-war German dramatist.

Now, 25 years after his death, the Goethe-Institut Chennai remembers R W Fassbinder by presenting nine of his films.

Film screening schedule:

For further information, please call:
Max Mueller Bhavan
Phone No.: 2833 1314, 2833 2343
E-mail: info@chennai.goethe.org

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