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The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant [Criterion Collection]
by Eva Mattes (Gabriele von Kant),
Hanna Schygulla (Karin Thimm),
Irm Hermann (Marlene),
Gisela Fackeldey (Valerie von Kant),
Margit Carstensen (Petra von Kant),
Gisela Fackelday (Valerie von Kant),
Katrin Schaake (Sidonie von Grasenabb),
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director,Screenwriter),
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Director,Producer,Screenwriter),
Michael Fengler (Producer),
Michael Ballhaus (Cinematographer),
Thea Eymèsz (Editor),
Kurt Raab (Art Director),
Walker Brothers (Composer)
Walker Brothers (Composer)
Format: DVD
ISBN: 715515135610
Publication Date: 01/13/2015
Edition Description: Color
"Writer/director Rainer Werner Fassbinder turned out filmed dramas like The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant faster than we could watch them in the early 1970s. Fassbinder's favorite actress Hanna Schygulla plays the secretary of the title character (portrayed by Margit Carstensen). Recently divorced, the lonely Petra von Kant turns to Schygulla for comfort--and, eventually, sexual gratification. The thesis set forth by Fassbinder (who was himself gay) is that the same tensions and vacillations which attended a heterosexual relationship were also present in a homosexual liaison. The film's original German title was Die Bitteren Traenen Der Petra Von Kant."
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