Fox and His Friends

Fox and His Friends

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1975 • West Germany
Starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Carl Boehm

A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. FOX AND HIS FRIENDS is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany.

Fox and His Friends
  • Fox and His Friends

    Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder • 1975 • West Germany
    Starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Carl Boehm

    A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casti...

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  • Harry Baer on FOX AND HIS FRIENDS

    This interview with actor Harry Baer was conducted in Berlin in September 2016.

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder on FOX AND HIS FRIENDS

    In this excerpt from a 1975 episode of the French television series “Pour le cinéma,” director Rainer Werner Fassbinder discusses the connection between FOX AND HIS FRIENDS’ commentary on class and homosexuality and his decision to play the lead role.

  • Peer Raben on Fassbinder

    In this excerpt from a 1981 episode of the French television series “Cinémania” exploring Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s career and impact on German cinema, composer Peer Raben discusses his long-term collaboration with the filmmaker and how Fassbinder’s love for cabaret music determined the sound of...

  • Ira Sachs on FOX AND HIS FRIENDS

    This interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs was conducted in New York in October 2016.

  • Michael Cera on FOX AND HIS FRIENDS