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Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Featuring: Peter Chatel, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Karl-Heinz Böhm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane Maybach, Harry Baer, Hans Zander, Kurt Raab
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 (Peter Chatel) 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.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
German PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- New interview with actor Harry Baer
- New interview with filmmaker Ira Sachs
- Excerpt from a 1975 interview with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Excerpts from a 1981 interview with composer Peer Raben
- Trailer
- An essay by film critic Michael Koresky
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Release Credits
Artwork: Eric Skillman
Producer: Jason Altman
Release Notes on Restoration
Fox and His Friends
Fox and His Friends is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. Created by the Rainier Werner Fassbinder Foundation, this new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on an ARRISCAN film scanner from the original camera negative at ARRI Film & TV Services in Munich, where the film was also restored.
The original monaural soundtrack was restored from the 17.5mm magnetic track by the Fassbinder Foundation.
The original monaural soundtrack was restored from the 17.5mm magnetic track by the Fassbinder Foundation.