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2 February 1976 (USA)
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Franz "Fox" Biberkopf is a working-class guy, at loose ends when his lover is arrested and the police shutter their carnival booth...
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Fassbinder's finest performance?
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Peter Chatel | ... | Eugen Thiess | |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | ... | Franz Bieberkopf / 'Fox' | |
| Karlheinz Böhm | ... | Max (as Karl-Heinz Böhm) | |
| Adrian Hoven | ... | Wolf Thiess, Eugen's father | |
| Christiane Maybach | ... | Hedwig | |
| Harry Baer | ... | Philip (as Harry Bär) | |
| Hans Zander | ... | Barman Springer | |
| Kurt Raab | ... | Wodka-Peter | |
| Rudolf Lenz | ... | Attorney Dr. Siebenkäss | |
| Karl Scheydt | ... | Klaus | |
| Peter Kern | ... | Florist 'Fatty' Schmidt | |
| Karl-Heinz Staudenmeyer | ... | Krapp | |
| Walter Sedlmayr | ... | Car dealer | |
| Bruce Low | ... | Doctor | |
| Marquard Bohm | ... | American Soldier (as Marquart Bohm) |
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123 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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The normally overweight Rainer Werner Fassbinder dieted strenuously to lose weight in order to play the role of Fox, which included a full-frontal nude scene.
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Featured in Die Nacht der Regisseure (1995)
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Bird On A Wire
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Fox and his Friends caused some controversy when it was first made - it was thought that this story of a gay sideshow worker who wins the lottery, only to be exploited to the hilt by his upper-class lover, was potentially homophobic. Fassbinder himself commented that the story could have been about a heterosexual relationship, but it wouldn't have been as clear.
Fassbinder himself plays Fox - the burly ugly duckling of German cinema miraculously slimmed down, looking almost handsome. Fox's street skills and good humour are undercut by his naivety, as his repellently snobbish boyfriend systematically scams him out of the thousands of marks he's won on the lottery. The story proceeds with ruthless inevitability, as Fox becomes more and more demoralised. Yet the film contains some of Fassbinder's sharpest comedy, particularly in a brilliantly embarrassing dinner party scene. RWF is excellent in the title role; amazing to think that the guy who wrote and directed the film (among so many others) could play a good-natured dimwit with such conviction.