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This film is dedicated to three French film directors, Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, and Jean-Marie Straub, as well as Linio and Cuncho, who were two characters from Damiano Damiani's A Bullet for the General.
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The character played by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Franz Biberkopf, has the same name as that of the lead character (played by Günter Lamprecht in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's later Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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This film is considered as the first part of a black-and-white Gangster Film Trilogy by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the subsequent films being Gods of the Plague and The American Soldier.
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The film's editor Franz Walsch is actually a pseudonym for director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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The film won Best Cinematography and an ensemble award for the cast at the 1970 German Film Awards.
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This film is considered to mark the beginning of the film careers of actress Hanna Schygulla, producer-actor-director Ulli Lommel and actor-writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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The film's title, "Love Is Colder Than Death", also became the title of a biography of the film's writer-director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. "Love Is Colder Than Death: The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder" was written by Robert Katz and first published in 1987.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder performs a number of different roles on this film. Fassbinder was writer, director, an actor, editor and a co-production designer.
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This movie was initially poorly received and booed at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival in 1969.
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