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In June, we offer films that have been produced many decades before on an eternal human subject, which has not come to a rest over time, but to this day is one of the most divisive guidelines for exclusional powers around the world. But as a memento, they don't leave the viewer untouched.

Faustrecht der Freiheit German, 1974, 123 min. Writer, director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, cameraman: Michael Ballhaus, cast by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Franz Biberkopf), Peter Chatel (Eugen Thiess), Karlheinz Böhm (Max)

This is the only film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (1945/1982)! Fassbinder is not only one of the most original and extraordinary talents of German cinema, but also of universal cinema. Self-destroying genius who did everything he could to live a short life. During all 37 years, Fassbinder directed 42 films and also wrote theatres. He was one of the first artists in the world to openly engage in homosexuality. His films are small budgeted and his characters are mainly from the artistic/friendly community formed around him. They mainly take place in inner spaces, but always in the frame of social relations at the time. Fassbinder's oeuvre has the working class as a reference at the time.

In a strange way, seemingly unsatisfyingly, almost craftily portrays human nature in his films, but suddenly everything turns into a deep and revelative recognition , we see something very real. This could be the Fassbinder secret. In this film, a cool working guy (playing Fassbinder) is involved in the environment and company of their gay men in the upper middle class. This gives us the opportunity to present on several registers the bonds of lovers and rivals, vulnerable and humiliated, the strings of affections and betrayals, together with the fists of freedom. It's the '70s. We're waiting for everyone in our cordially cooled movie room.

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