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A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.
Original Release
06/06/1975
US Release
02/02/1976
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Peter Chatel | Eugen Thiess |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Franz Biberkopf / Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf |
Karlheinz Böhm | Max |
Adrian Hoven | Wolf Thiess, Eugen's father |
Christiane Maybach | Hedwig |
Harry Baer | Philip |
Hans Zander | Barman Springer |
Kurt Raab | Wodka-Peter |
Rudolf Lenz | Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss |
Karl Scheydt | Klaus |
Directors
Writers
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Christian Hohoff
Cast
Name | Character |
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Peter Chatel | Eugen Thiess |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Franz Biberkopf / Franz "Fox" Bieberkopf |
Karlheinz Böhm | Max |
Adrian Hoven | Wolf Thiess, Eugen's father |
Christiane Maybach | Hedwig |
Harry Baer | Philip |
Hans Zander | Barman Springer |
Kurt Raab | Wodka-Peter |
Rudolf Lenz | Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss |
Karl Scheydt | Klaus |
Peter Kern | Florist 'Fatty' Schmidt / Florist "Fatty" Schmidt |
Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer | Krapp |
Walter Sedlmayr | Car dealer |
Bruce Low | Doctor |
Marquard Bohm | American Soldier |
Brigitte Mira | Shopkeeper #2 |
Evelyn Künneke | Secretary at Travel Agency |
Barbara Valentin | Albine |
Elma Karlowa | Shopkeeper #1 |
Ingrid Caven | Singer in bar |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Producer |