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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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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. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to a kind of resonant misery. It is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1975
Wide screen (1.37:1)
Special features: new interview with actor Harry Baer; New interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs; excerpt from a 1975 interview with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder; excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben; trailer; essay by film critic Michael Koresky
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Harry Baer, Peter Chatel
Blu-ray; requires Blu-ray player
German dialogue; English subtitles