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Bremen Freedom
(Bremen Freiheit)

Screening on Film
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Schenck, Wolfgang Kieling.
West Germany, 1972, 35mm, color, 87 min.
German with English subtitles.

This made-for-television period drama set in early nineteenth-century Bremen focuses on an abused wife and mother turned serial murderer who obtains the titled "freedom" with the help of a poison bottle. Fassbinder based his work on an historical account of a middle-class woman and pillar of the community who managed to kill not only a tyrannical spouse and her own harping mother but also another dozen or so additional individuals.

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