Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Bitter Tears of Petra von KantFormat: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 2Release Date: 01/13/2015Genre: DramaActors: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm HermannDirector: Rainer Werner FassbinderAudio Language: GermanRuntime: 2 hours and 4 minutesRegion Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)Studio: Criterion Collection (Direct)Subtitle Language: EnglishCertificate: MPAA Not RatedDescription: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz) discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional register. One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director’s roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) and a beautiful but icy ingenue (Hanna Schygulla)—based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director’s own desperate obsession with a young actor—is a fully Fassbinder affair, featuring exquisitely claustrophobic cinematography by Michael Ballhaus (The Last Temptation of Christ) and full-throttle performances by an all-female cast. SET CONTAINS: • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Michael Ballhaus • New interviews with Ballhaus and actors Margit Carstensen, Eva Mattes, Katrin Schaake, and Hanna Schygulla • New interview with film scholar Jane Shattuc about director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the film • Role Play: Women on Fassbinder, a 1992 German television documentary by Thomas Honickel featuring interviews with Carstensen, Schygulla, and actors Irm Hermann and Rosel Zech • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by critic Peter Matthews"DVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Title: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actor: Irm Hermann
Rating: MPAA Not Rated
No Of Discs: 2
Run Time: 2 hours and 4 minutes
Release Date: 01/13/2015
Release Year: 2015
Language: German
Subtitle Language: English
EAN: 0715515135610
Country/Region of Manufacture: USA
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Movie/TV Title: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Criterion Collection)
Format: DVD
Genre: Drama
Studio: Criterion Collection
Sub-Genre: Foreign-German
