Lilo Pempeit

Highlighted works

• Die DRITTE GENERATION

  Colourful farce centring on a group of bourgeois self-styled terrorists.

• WARUM LÄUFT HERR R. AMOK?

  A brilliant black comedy of manners about a man surely at the end of his tether…

• FONTANE EFFI BRIEST ODER VIELE, DIE EINE AHNUNG HABEN VON IHREN MÖGLICHKEITEN UND IHREN BEDÜRFNISSEN UND TROTZDEM DAS

  An exquisitely subtle rendition of Fontane’s 1896 novel, about a 17-year-old forced into marriage with an older man.

• IN EINEM JAHR MIT 13 MONDEN

  A lonely transsexual journeys through modern Frankfurt in this dark elegy for doomed love.

• GÖTTER DER PEST

  In this melancholy thriller, capitalism is the ‘plague’ and criminals are its ‘gods’.

• ANGST VOR DER ANGST

  Overcome by anxiety, a middle-class wife and mother struggles to conform.

• Die SEHNSUCHT DER VERONIKA VOSS

  A young sports journalist meets an ageing movie star in this eerie vision of 1950s Germany.

• Die Ehe der Maria Braun

  Hanna Schygulla gives a star performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film, as a German woman who struggles to rebuild her life after the Second World War.

• HÄNDLER DER VIER JAHRESZEITEN

  This heart-rending tale was Fassbinder’s first venture into popular melodrama.

• DESPAIR

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film in English was brilliantly adapted by Tom Stoppard from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel set in 1930s Berlin.

• MUTTER KÜSTERS FAHRT ZUM HIMMEL

  The wife of a factory worker gone murderously berserk finds herself hounded and exploited.

• RIO DAS MORTES

  Hanna Schygulla plays a girl who wants to settle down, but her free-wheeling boyfriend has other ideas.

• MARTHA

  This ruthless dissection of a marriage is like Douglas Sirk on steroids.

• Lili Marleen

  Set in the Third Reich, this forbidden love story focuses on recording star Willie Bunterberg.

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  Fear Eats the Soul

  Fassbinder’s international breakthrough is an unconventional love story with devastating emotional power.

• FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT

  In this funny and sad tale, Fox wins the lottery and falls in love with ‘posh and prissy’ Eugen.

• Satansbraten

  Black comedy about a left-wing poet which skewers the cult of the charismatic artist.

• ICH WILL DOCH NUR, DAß IHR MICH LIEBT

  Chilling drama based on a real-life interview with a convicted murderer.

• ACHT STUNDEN SIND KEIN TAG

  Fassbinder’s controversial five-part TV soap opera.

• BOLWIESER

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s striking adaptation of Oskar Maria Graf’s novel about a small-town Bavarian stationmaster.

• WELT AM DRAHT

  Fassbinder’s two-part TV sci-fi anticipates both Blade Runner and The Matrix.