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08/10/04
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1969)
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Reviews Counted:7
Fresh:7
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A middle-class German, like millions of other middle-class Germans, leads a life of boredom and quiet desperation. Between the blandness of his job and the disappointments and frustration of his... [More]
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Kurt Raab, Lilith Ungerer
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler
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Reviews for Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
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A dark and bitter work that is difficult for some viewers and fascinating for others.
09/18/06
Fassbinder navigates carefully between mockery and empathy, heightening the interior drama with his superior staging.
01/01/00
Top CriticWorks as caustic anti-theater theater.
05/24/06
'Its condemnation of the acceptance of life as determined by societal convention is so strongly felt that the extremity of the finale is...as encouraging as it is disturbing.'
07/18/04
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08/19/05
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09/23/06
provocative film that certainly isn't easy to forget%u2014as long as you patiently sit through its entirety
05/23/07
A revealing demonstration of how the style of a Fassbinder film becomes its subject.
05/09/05
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