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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
(Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?)

Screening on Film
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
With Lilith Ungerer, Kurt Raab, Franz Maron.
West Germany, 1969, 35mm, color, 88 min.
German with English subtitles.

A devastating critique of the German middle class, Fassbinder's fourth feature film portrays the promising but normative life of Herr R., a skilled draftsman with an ambitious wife who nurtures no greater goals than to quietly pursue his hobbies, oversee his son's homework, and on occasion entertain his in-laws. But as the title suggests, all is not well, and one evening the contradictions and compromises that have remained in check erupt with a vengeance.

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