French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice ...
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Cast
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| Brad Davis | ... | Querelle | |
| Franco Nero | ... | Lieutenant Seblon | |
| Jeanne Moreau | ... | Lysiane | |
| Laurent Malet | ... | Roger Bataille | |
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Hanno Pöschl | ... | Robert / Gil |
| Günther Kaufmann | ... | Nono | |
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Burkhard Driest | ... | Mario |
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Roger Fritz | ... | Marcellin |
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Dieter Schidor | ... | Vic Rivette |
| Natja Brunckhorst | ... | Paulette (as Nadja Brunkhorst) | |
| Robert van Ackeren | ... | Betrunkener Legionär (as Robert v. Ackeren) | |
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Werner Asam | ... | Arbeiter |
| Isolde Barth | ... | Mädchen | |
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Axel Bauer | ... | Arbeiter |
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Neil Bell | ... | Theo |
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French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband : if you win, you are allowed to make love with Lysiane, if you lose, you have to make love with Nono... Querelle loses on purpose... Written by Yepok
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 September 1982 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Matrosen och stjärnan See more »Filming Locations:
CCC-Atelier, Spandau, Berlin, GermanyEdit
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DEM 4,400,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Music by Peer Raben
Vocals [Version Chantée Par] 'Günter Kaufmann'
Written By Jeanne Moreau
(P) Schlicht Musikverlage, 1982 RCA/Ciné Music
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Published and Licensed by Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
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The picture was first released posthumously after the its director Rainer Werner Fassbinder had passed away. The picture premiered at the end of August 1982 which was just about six weeks after Fassbinder's passing in mid-June of that year. See more »Soundtracks
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© Schlicht Musikverlage
Published and Licensed by Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
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Jean Genet's queer theory is still cutting edge and controversial. The film version can't begin to encompass all the ideas in the novel, but it stands on its own. This film is stylized and poetic, raw and crass. Tenderness and brutality blend until you can't tell one from the other. Betrayal becomes an act of affection. Submission is empowering.
Characters travel to extremes in their journeys of self discovery. One man seduces his young lover with lecherous statements about the boy's sister, "Imagine what I'd do to her if I were holding her like I'm holding you right now." The same man later rants in a bar, "I'm all man!!! I even f*** guys!" This dichotomy of gender-play and defiant same-sexuality is at the root of Genet's queer theory. Even someone with no knowledge of Genet's philosophy will be struck by its power in this film.