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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?

1970 · 1h 24m · Not Rated Drama
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Michael Fengler

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The life of a married Munich technical draftsman with a son.

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92%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Fassbinder and Fengler opt to impress upon us a sense of almost unbearable tedium, a strategy so effective that, when drama arrives in the film's closing minutes, the eruption of violence feels like a kind of relief.

Calum Marsh, Village Voice
Fresh

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.

Richard Brody, New Yorker
Fresh

A revealing demonstration of how the style of a Fassbinder film becomes its subject.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh

Fassbinder navigates carefully between mockery and empathy, heightening the interior drama with his superior staging.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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