Eva Pampuch

Wonnekloß

Marran Gosov

Dieter Augustin, Daisy von Lilienfeld

Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler

Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab

The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

Volker Schlöndorff

Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.

Rocker

Klaus Lemke

Hans-Jürgen Modschiedler, Gerd Kruskopf

In Hamburg, West Germany, a rocker biker gang helps a kid avenge his brother who was murdered by a two thugs.

Fremde Stadt

Rudolf Thome

Roger Fritz, Karin Thome

A former bank clerk conceives a one-man robbery at the bank he works. He had before established an alibi for himself pretending and declaring him legally dead. Further complications ensue when he rejoins his estranged wife.

Baal

Volker Schlöndorff

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Rio das Mortes

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Hanna Schygulla, Günther Kaufmann

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.