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Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Fear of Fear

1h 28m

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1975 • West Germany
Starring Margit Cartensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira

A woman in a stable-but-passionless marriage suddenly begins to lose her mind when she becomes pregnant with her second child.

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