
End of the Commune?
A documentary about Fassbinder and the early years of the legendary Antiteater, the group he was a member/leader of. You can here see and hear some of the actors he was going to use in his movies for the next years. The movie shows rehearsals for his play "The Coffeehouse," which also became a television movie, and you can watch unique footage from the 19th Film Festival in Berlin (1969) where "Love is Colder Than Death" was shown. As told in this documentary, his first feature movie was given a cold shoulder by many of the journalists and visitors at the festival. You can in "End of the Commune" watch Fassbinder and actor Ulli Lommel walk out on stage after the opening of "Love is Colder Than Death,” while a man in the audience is shouting "Out with the director!” In this documentary, Fassbinder also talks a lot about his father, who was a respectable doctor.
You may like

In Search of Tomorrow

D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

Return to Nostalgia

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Lost in La Mancha

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Steven Spielberg, the “New Hollywood” Prodigy

The One, the Only, the Real Tarzan

Daughter of the Crater

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

The Brothers Warner

A Cooler Climate

Lumière, Le Cinéma!

Never Surrender: A Galaxy Quest Documentary

Fellini, confidences retrouvées

Reel Stories: An Oral History of London's Projectionists

Visions Cinema: Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema - A Report by Tony Rayns

Done the Impossible

Anselm

The Director and the Jedi

Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate

Heart of a Dog