Fox and His Friends
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- Released
- 1975
- Country
- West Germany
Details
Release year: 1975
Storyline
A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
Top credits
Rainer Werner Fassbinder — Franz Biberkopf
Peter Chatel — Eugen Thiess
Karlheinz Böhm — Max
Adrian Hoven — Wolf Thiess, Eugen's father
Did you know
• Inspired by the films of Douglas Sirk. Sirk had this to say of Fassbinder: "There is a certain kind of artist--the reckless genius. He just shrugs all setbacks off, he is so ultimately convinced that he is bound to succeed. Now Fassbinder has that. I'm not necessarily saying he's a genius--but I personally think he is--but he has that kind of confidence in his own talent. And in Germany, he needs it."
• The normally overweight Rainer Werner Fassbinder dieted strenuously to lose weight in order to play the role of Fox, which included a full-frontal nude scene.
• Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $8,144
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $11,623 (2003-02-16)
User reviews
One of Fassbinder's Best
9/10
Fasssbinder at his best
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Mono
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
- Color
- Color
