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“I KNOW you can’t talk. That’s what I like best.” So says Hanna Schygulla’s character Marie in Katzelmacher, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s second feature film.
She’s addressing Greek “guest worker” Jorgos, played by Fassbinder, who disrupts the lives of an aimless, alienated friendship group in Munich.
Like all of Fassbinder’s films, it sets out to interrogate the prejudices and unspoken crises of post-war German society.
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