Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.
Leave your thoughts about Katzelmacher.
| Movie MetropolisChristopher LongShot in just over a week and provides the writer-director with a larger collection of personalities to send careening against each other. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonFassbinder's second film feels rarely moves, but simmers with a kind of rancid, unnamable anger. |
| The DissolveNoel MurrayThat's what Katzelmacher is: a punishment, via art, leveled at all the ignorant, egotistical racists Fassbinder had known. |
| eFilmCritic.comScott WeinbergOvert societal disillusionment with a healthy dose of violently expressed xenophobia. Understood. |
| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouMatt BaileyFor those looking to figure out what the hell Fassbinder was all about, this is an excellent starting point. |
| User ReviewLiam BFassbinder's ode to brecht. Lots of sitting still and staring forward. Totally intense experience. Great. |
| User ReviewTasha WAnother Masterpiece from Rainer Werner Fassbinder one of his early Black & White Movies with the Anti-Theater-Acting Characters with broken Personalitys in difficult Relationships who are bored, depressed and evil minded the Arrival of the Greek mix up their Relationships and they let their Anger out on him |
| User ReviewChad TI like the line of Hanna Schygulla's character when she tells the Greek guest worker: "I know you can't speak. That's why I love you." When taken in the context of all the other characters we've met in this film--a microcosm of all that's venal, petty, and toxic in Fassbinder's New Germany--it certainly resonates pretty strongly. This is quite a remarkable early film, and it would be interesting as a double feature with Ali: Fear Eats the Soul--a film with somewhat similar themes, but via Sirk rather than Brecht. Check it out some Sunday afternoon. |
| User ReviewJames CRelentlessly downbeat study of a group of brutal, racist, ignorant and terminally bored suburbanites who hang out together, bicker, moan, never smile and finally take out their frustrations on a foreign worker. Reminiscent of an early Edward Bond play, and very bleak indeed. Probably the most dislikeable bunch of characters I have ever witnessed in a film! |
| User ReviewDimitris MFascinating depiction of the reaction of a community to immigrants. 40 years later the countries that produced immigrants are now receiving them. History repeats itself... |
