Irm Hermann

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was probably Germany's most significant post-war director. His swift and dramatic demise at the early age of 37 in 1982 left behind a vacuum in European filmmaking that has yet to be filled.

A German widow strikes up an unlikely romance with a much younger Moroccan guest worker, navigating a relationship complicated by the prejudices of family and friends.

Effi Briest tells of a seventeen-year-old girl who is married off by her parents to a wealthy Baron more than twice her age. Lonely and dissatisfied, she seeks solace in the companionship of her husband's friend, Major Crampas.