Enfant Terrible
West Germany, 1967. Rainer Werner Fassbinder is 22 years old; he is swashbuckling, vulgar and enters the world of Munich theater with a hit. Here, but also in the pubs which he so often frequents, he meets the colleagues with whom he would go on to build an artistic commune and make his debut film, Love Is Colder Than Death. The biography of this legendary German director also reveals the backstage of such classics as Fear to Eat the Soul or Querelle, but above all his private life. For Enfant Terrible focuses on Fassbinder's exciting and destructive lifestyle, including his addictions to drugs, alcohol, work and complicated relationships - especially homosexual ones - with Armin Maier or El Hedi Ben Salem that ended tragically. This film by Oskar Roehler (Untouchable, Particles) was selected to screen in last year's Cannes festival, which was not held and the movie ultimately premiered at FilmFest Hamburg.
Oskar Roehler
Oskar Roehler was born in 1959 in Starnberg, Bavaria. He is a writer and director, and one of the most important German artists of his generation. He started in the 1980s as a journalist and screenwriter for films, including those by Niklaus Schilling or Christoph Schlingensief. Roehler went on to direct his debut film, Gentleman, in 1995 and garnered fame five years later with No Place to Go followed by The Elementary Particles, a screen adaptation of the novel by Michel Houellebecq as well as Jew Süss: Rise and Fall, which unmasks the behind-the-scenes of Nazi propaganda.
Selected filmography
1995 Gentleman
2000 Nie ma dokąd iść / Die Unberührbare / No Place to Go
2001 Suck My Dick
2006 Cząstki elementarne / Elementarteilchen / The Elementary Particles
2010 Żyd Süss – wzlot i upadek / Jud Süss – Film ohne Gewissen / Jew Suss: Rise and Fall
2013 Źródła życia / Quellen des Lebens / Sources of Life
2020 Enfant Terrible