Fox and His Friends
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with actor Harry Baer
- New interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs
- Excerpt from a 1975 interview with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Koresky
New cover by Grant Delin and Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview with actor Harry Baer
- New interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs
- Excerpt from a 1975 interview with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Koresky
New cover by Grant Delin and Eric Skillman
Cast
- Peter Chatel
- Eugen
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Franz Biberkopf
- Carl Boehm
- Max
- Adrian Hoven
- Eugen’s father
- Christiane Maybach
- Hedwig
- Harry Baer
- Philip
- Hans Zander
- Springer
- Kurt Raab
- Vodka-Peter
- Rudolf Lenz
- Lawyer
- Karl Scheydt
- Klaus
- Peter Kern
- Flower vendor
- Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer
- Krapp
- Walter Sedlmayr
- Car dealer
- Bruce Low
- Doctor
- Marquard Bohm
- GI
- Brigitte Mira
- Shopkeeper 2
- Evelyn Künneke
- Travel agent
- Barbara Valentin
- Max’s wife
- Elma Karlowa
- Shopkeeper 1
- Ingrid Caven
- Singer
- Lilo Pempeit
- Neighbor
- Ulla Jacobsson
- Eugen’s mother
Credits
- Director
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Screenplay by
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Contributing writer
- Christian Hohoff
- Director of photography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Art direction by
- Kurt Raab
- Editor
- Thea Eymèsz
- Costume design
- Helga Kempke
- Music by
- Peer Raben
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