DVD
Fox and his friends
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In German, with English subtitles.
Performers
Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karlheinz Böhm, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends. The film is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1975.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation ; 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.