![]() It’s based on Jean Genet’s 1953 novel Querelle de Brest, admittedly a most difficult story to film it’s perhaps the most radical novel in world literature (at least Fassbinder thought so). The film was not received well by the mainstream critics, perhaps because it was misunderstood, too difficult a story to tell, too messy or because it at times veered from arty pretensions to listless dramatics to an immature nihilism. It’s dedicated to the director’s former Arab lover El Hedi Ben Salem, who had recently committed suicide. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s (“The Marriage of Maria Braun”/”Ali–Fear Eats the Soul”) final film before his drug overdose suspected suicide in June 1982 asks what’s normal and is addressed more to gays than a wider audience. “Stays faithful to Genet’s lurid poetry.” ![]() ![]() ![]() (director/writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder screenwriters: based on the novel Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet/Burkhard Driest cinematographers: Xaver Schwarzenberger/Josef Vavra editors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder/Juliane Lorenz music: Peer Raben cast: Brad Davis (Querelle), Franco Nero (Lieutenant Seblon), Jeanne Moreau (Lysiane), Laurent Malet (Roger Bataille), Hanno Pöschl (Robert/Gil), Günther Kaufmann (Nono), Burkhard Driest (Mario), Dieter Schidor (Vic) Runtime: 108 MPAA Rating: R producer: Dieter Schidor New Yorker Films 1982-West Germany-in English) ![]()
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