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Fox and His Friends (1975) |
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123
minutes
Rated: NR
German with English subtitles
Country: Germany
Studio: Wellspring
Cast: Rainer Werner
Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Harry
Baer, Kurt Raab
Director/Screenwriter: Rainer
Werner Fassbinder |
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Franz Biberkopf, known as “Fox” and
played by Fassbinder himself, is a
carnival worker at loose ends when
his lover is arrested and the police
shutter their carnival booth. In
need of cash for his weekly lottery
purchase, Fox lets himself be picked
up in a public lavatory by an
elegant older man named Max, an
antique furniture dealer. At Max's
house, he meets two younger gay men
who have expensive tastes and images
to uphold. The next day, Fox wins
500,000 marks in the lottery, and
Max's friends suddenly become his
friends, especially Eugen, the heir
to a bookbinding firm that's short
of cash. Fox and Eugen become
lovers. Fox, brash, uncouth,
warmhearted and naïve, dominates at
first, or seems to, but soon he is
tamed and exploited by the effete
and bourgeois Eugen. Fox’s winning
lottery ticket is used to rescue
Eugen’s collapsing family business,
and he is eventually jilted, broke
and without recourse. His dead body
is found next to an empty pill
bottle by two teenagers who pick
through his pockets even while two
of his old friends flee to avoid
involvement. |
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