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Cast

Brad Davis
as Querelle

Franco Nero
as Lieutenant Seblon

Jeanne Moreau
as Lysiane

Laurent Malet
as Roger Bataille

Nadja Brunkhorst
as Paulette

Hanno Pöschl
as Robert/Gil

Günther Kaufmann
as Nono

Burkhardt Driest
as Mario

Burkhard Driest
as Mario

Dieter Schidor
as Vic

Roger Fritz
as Marcellin

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Michael McLernon
as Sailor

Neil Bell
as Theo

Harry Baer
as Armenian

Volker Spengler
as Armenian

Isolde Barth
as Young Woman

Y Sa Lo
as Young Woman

Robert Van Ackeren
as Drunk Soldier

Wolf Gremm
as Drunk Soldier

Frank Ripploh
as Drunk Soldier

Rainer Will
as Dede

Gillis Gavois
as Sailor

Karl Scheydt
as Sailor

Werner Asam
as Worker

Axel Bauer
as Worker

Vitus Zeplichal
as Worker

Karl-Heinz von Hassel
as Worker

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Critic Reviews for Querelle

Audience Reviews for Querelle

• Jan 21, 2014

  It's as if Andre Gide directed a film written by Tom of Finland and cast by the Village People. Striking visuals. Avant garde, to say the least!
  Christian C Super Reviewer
• Sep 16, 2013

  Fassbinder's last work only proves that he wasn't really in tune with Genet's vision to adapt one of his stories, since this is only a convoluted, aimless mess packed with ridiculous, pseudo-poetic dialogue and unable to make you feel any connection with its characters.
  Carlos M Super Reviewer
• Dec 22, 2011

  Robert(Hanno Poschl) receives a foreboding premonition from Lysiane(Jeanne Moreau) about his brother Querelle(Brad Davis). That proves eerily true when arriving in town, he makes a drug deal with Mario(Burkhard Driest), a crooked cop, that is brokered by Nono(Gunther Kaufmann), before killing a fellow sailor in a fight. Feeling lucky, Querelle makes a wager with Nono... With his last film, "Querelle," Rainer Werner Fassbinder goes out on a very, very odd note with a movie that even with its languorous pacing cannot maintain its focus for very long. I know that he was no stranger to homoeroticism in his films but here it is not that the characters are in denial about their sexuality but that they need to get in touch with their feelings. So, if things seem a little dreamlike, it is not your imagination with the deliberate artificiality of the sets, dueling narration, occasional title cards and anachronistic items like a video game and the tape recorder that Lieutenant Seblon(Franco Nero) uses to dictate his feelings about Querelle into. All of which might be explained by this being based on a novel by Jean Genet.
  Walter M Super Reviewer
• Aug 01, 2011

  A director's wicked sexual fantasies writen in Shakesperian terms and photographed in lush Technicolor hues. A shame the characters' only motivations seem to be following their hormonal instincts and find revenge and redemption through screwing.
  

  Matheus C Super Reviewer

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