Film screening
Enfant Terrible

Join us to watch the film with English subtitles on the big screen in our hall.

Thu, 11.04.2024
6:30 PM BST Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Using stylised images and theatrical backdrops that are often reminiscent of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's cinematic masterpieces, Oskar Roehler stages a tour de force through the excessive life and polarising work of the legendary filmmaker, dominated by a hunger for love, drug excesses, and a work mania between genius and madness.

Germany 2020, Director: Oskar Roehler | Duration: 134 min. | in German with English subtitles  | Cast: Oliver Masucci, Hary Prinz, Katja Riemann, Frida-Lovisa Hamann, Eva Mattes, Erdal Yıldız, and more.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-82), the focus of Oskar Roehler's cinematic commemoration, remains without doubt the most important German filmmaker of the last 60 years. From the early days at the Munich Action Theatre and the shoots of early films such as Love Is Colder than Death (1969) to the screening of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) at Cannes or the press conference after winning the Golden Bear for Veronika Voss (1982), Enfant Terrible is as much of an episodic revue through Fassbinder's work as it is also a thorough evisceration of his colourful private life – the humiliations poured upon his entourage, and the insatiable hunger for love underlying everything: the mania to produce, the excess of drugs, the genius, the madness, the tragedy, the death. Roehler not only uses a theatrical and stylised aesthetic inspired by Fassbinder's own cinematic universe, but is also ably supported by a superb ensemble of actors.