The bitter tears of Petra Von Kant
(2015, original release: 1972)

Fiction

DVD

Series:
Call Numbers:
DVD/FOREIGN/GERMAN/BITTER

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/FOREIGN/GERMAN/BITTER Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2015]
EDITION
Special edition
DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
9781604659405 CC2432DDVD, 1604659408, 9781604659405, 1604659408 :, 715515135610
LANGUAGE
German
NOTES

Title from sell sheet

One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director's own desperate obsession with a young actor

Originally released as a motion picture in 1972

Special features: new interviews ; Role play: women on Fassbinder, a 1992 German television documentary; essay by critic Peter Matthews

Director of photography, Michael Ballhaus

Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Margit Carstensen

DVD, (1.37:1) aspect ratio, monaural

German dialogue; English subtitles

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