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Katzelmacher
Katzelmacher is a 1969 West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film centers on an aimless group of friends whose lives are shaken up by the arrival of an immigrant Greek worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself, in an uncredited role).
Cast.
- Hanna Schygulla: Marie
- Lilith Ungerer: Helga
- Rudolf Waldemar Brem: Paul
- Elga Sorbas: Rosy
- Doris Mattes: Gunda
- Irm Hermann: Elisabeth
- Peter Moland: Peter
- Hans
Film Festival. The film, however, already displays the themes that were to remain present through the director's subsequent work: loneliness, the longing for companionship and love, and the fear and reality of betrayal.
Film career Avant-garde films (1969–1971) "Katzelmacher" (1969).
Fassbinder's second film, "Katzelmacher" (1969), (Bavarian pejorative slang term for a foreign worker from the Mediterranean), was received more positively, garnering five prizes after its debut at Mannheim. It features a group of