Fassbinder has made a car wreck of a movie but it's a beautiful one
Satan's Brew (1976)
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Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 6
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed this black comedy about a poet named Walter Kranz who imagines himself to be reincarnated from the 19th Century homosexual poet Stefan George. Struggling getting... Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed this black comedy about a poet named Walter Kranz who imagines himself to be reincarnated from the 19th Century homosexual poet Stefan George. Struggling getting his own work published, Kranz takes a page from George and conducts a real life Theatre of Cruelty in which savage jokes, debauchery and slapstick merge to form eviscerating social commentary. One of Fassbinder's lighter films, SATAN'S BREW is filled with outrageous slapstick and perverse behavior, resulting in one of the director's most entertaining movies. [More]
Starring: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven
Starring: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Helen Vita
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Reviews for Satan's Brew
[It] may be the least interesting film made by the great Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a shrill and tiresome attempt at a screwball black comedy.
It was enjoyable as offbeat entertainment from a director who is not afraid to take chances and change his filming style.
If you have any doubt that there's such a thing as being too prolific, by all means go see Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Satan's Brew.
To those who only know Fassbinder as the director of coolly distanced melodramas, Satan’s Brew will come as quite a shock. It is a flat-out screwball comedy, but one that is pitch black in tone.
A 1976 comedy by the well-known German humorist, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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