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The 120 Days of Bottrop
6.9
/10
591 Ratings

Synopsis

The survivors of the old Fassbinder crew gather one last time to shoot a remake of Pasolini’s Salò. Meanwhile, the producer sends an agent to Hollywood to meet Udo Kier, Kitten Natividad and others on a mission to raise money and get ex-Visconti superstar Helmut Berger to appear in the film.

Our take

Fassbinder, Pasolini, Udo Kier, Margit Carstensen and Helmut Berger: these are the ingredients for Christoph Schlingensief’s uncompromising tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and a slap in the face of the German film industry.