Released from jail, Franz (Baer) seeks comfort from two different women but is happiest with his friend ‘Gorilla’ (Kaufmann), with whom he plans a supermarket robbery.
Fassbinder captures the late 60s Zeitgeist – its uneasy blend of bohemian dreams, bourgeois aspirations and Third Reich nostalgia.
GÖTTER DER PEST (1970)
In this melancholy thriller, capitalism is the ‘plague’ and criminals are its ‘gods’.
- 1970 Federal Republic of Germany
- Directed by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Produced by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Written by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Featuring
- Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer
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