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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (German: Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?) is a 1970 West German drama film directed by Michael Fengler and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.
Herr R. will run amok. But when? The film's genius lies in precisely this, the excruciating slow burn, the build-up of crushing banalities leading to the act of extreme violence at the end.
Nov 17, 1977 · Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? Mr. R. (Kurt Raab) leads a convenient bourgeois life: he has a steady job with chances of promotion, a good-looking wife (Lilith Ungerer), a kid and many family friends. Still, a growing sense of disillusionment and alienation is gnawing Mr. R.'s mind...
Why Does Herr R Run Amok? is a slow but sure dissection of bourgeois life, peeling back the polished layers of one man’s existence to reveal the ragged unhappiness that lies beneath.
At home, Herr R. and his wife, Frau R. (Lilith Ungerer), are good parents to their son (Amadeus Fengler), carefully monitoring his progress at school. Herr R. throws a dinner party for...
Notorious Fassbinder black comedy about a middle-class man, unable to cope with the increasing problems of modern life, who suddenly murders his family. The characters are called by the actors' names to heighten the sense of reality. Film is based on a case history.
May 5, 2014 · With a sardonic, scalpel-like technique, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his co-director, Michael Fengler, calmly and gleefully flay the West German version of the American dream. The actor Kurt Raab...
