The Raspberry Reich

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Movie Info

A series of sexual escapades involving a revolutionary East German who plots the downfall of an industrialist.

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Art House & International, Comedy, Drama, Special Interest
Directed By:

Bruce La Bruce
Written By:

Bruce La Bruce
In Theaters:

Sep 24, 2004 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Oct 26, 2004
Runtime:

90 minutes
Studio:

Strand Releasing

Cast

Susanne Sachsse
as Gudrun

Daniel Bätscher
as Holger

Andreas Rupprecht

Dean Stathis

Anton Z. Risan

Daniel Fettig

Paul Gerrits

Stephan Dilschneider

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Critic Reviews for The Raspberry Reich

All Critics (14) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (7)

It's not good enough to be funny, not sexy enough to be erotic.

June 21, 2007 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Jason Gorber
Film Scouts
Top Critic
Quote not available.

December 6, 2005 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Film Threat
Top Critic
As thoroughly, gleefully disreputable a work of political critique as you could hope for.

October 13, 2004 | Full Review…

Alan Dale
Blogcritics.org
Top Critic
Whatever little involvement the viewer may have in the onscreen goings-on is effectively impeded.

October 6, 2004 | Full Review…

David Noh
Film Journal International
Top Critic
A highly awkward blending of gay porn and political satire.

September 29, 2004

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
Top Critic
A moderately entertaining movie that nevertheless says nothing revolutionary about the way we live now.

September 26, 2004 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

Shlomo Schwartzberg
Boxoffice Magazine
Top Critic
La Bruce is first and foremost a dedicated destroyer of cinema, and his chaotic movies are his weapons. If you can handle that, Reich feels just right.

September 25, 2004 | Rating: B | Full Review…

E! Online
Top Critic
Very silly, a bit tedious and if you cut out all the sex and sloganeering, the whole thing would run about 15 minutes.

September 24, 2004 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Ken Fox
TV Guide
Top Critic
The humorless Reich makes for one dull and repetitive skin flick.

September 24, 2004 | Rating: 1/4

Megan Lehmann
New York Post
Top Critic
An excuse to watch smut and not feel like a perv.

September 23, 2004 | Rating: 5/10

Jon Popick
Planet S Magazine
Top Critic
Revolting and hilarious satire.

September 23, 2004 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Ned Martel
New York Times
Top Critic
A lovingly overblown piece of terrorist-chic trashfilm.

September 21, 2004 | Full Review…

Ed Halter
Village Voice
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Audience Reviews for The Raspberry Reich

Nov 17, 2010

No, "The Raspberry Reich" is not the long awaited for sequel to "The Strawberry Statement." Rather, it is about Gudrun(Susanne Sachsse) who feels that having sex on a bed is bourgeois, so she persuades her partner Holger(Daniel Batscher) to use every surface imaginable in their apartment for their coupling, before taking it outside to the elevators, inspiring a couple of neighbors(Ulrike Schirm & Stephan Dilschneider) to have a go at it. Che(Daniel Fettig) is satisfied with simply masturbating which Gudrun claims is counterrevolutionary.(Say it ain't so!) Meanwhile, Andreas(Dean Stathis), Helmut(Gerrit) and Clyde(Anton Z. Risan) kidnap Patrick(Andreas Rupprecht), the son of an industrialist, for the people's cause which also allows Clyde and Patrick to get familiar with each other in the trunk of the car. While not the Marxist bisexual porn movie that the public has been clamoring for, "The Raspberry Reich" is still breezy hardcore fun that manages to have something meaningful to say about the state of the world between all of the sex. However, like pornography, the movie is interested in fantasy, in this case Gudrun's(who reminds me a little of somebody I used to know), both sexual and political, allowing her to play an extended game of cops and anarchists and forming conspiracy theories about the demise of the Baader-Meinhof gang who still resonate decades after their deaths in Germany.(As far to the left as I am politically, I don't take much stock in conspiracy theories.) At the same time, somewhat hypocritcally, she lives out her sexual fantasies in trying to liberate others but you cannot tell others to explore something they might be uncomfortable with.

Walter M Super Reviewer