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The 120 Days of Bottrop (1997)
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Original name: Die 120 Tage von Bottrop
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Die letzten Überlebenden der alten Fassbinder-Zunft tun sich zusammen, um auf dem Potsdamerplatz den wirklich allerletzten Neuen Deutschen Film, ein Remake von Pasolinis "120 Tage von Bottrop" zu drehen. Schlingensief soll Regie führen, wird aber von einem gewissen "Sönke Buckmann" ersetzt, dem prompt Katja Riemann den Bundesfilmpreis überreicht. Eine Hommage an Rainer Werner Fassbinder, an die Exzentrik und den Wahnsinn einer längst vergangenen Zeit.
Style:
art house, independent film, experimental, stylized, retro, ironic, surreal, avant garde, controversial, psychological ...
Plot:
respect, filmmaking, camp, underground, sexuality, urban, satire, character study, artist, female nudity, male nudity, oral sex, coitus, woman on top, diva, nudity, unsimulated sex, weirdo, nude, pastiche, gay kiss, gore, tongue in cheek, screaming, bathtub ...
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