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A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.A handsome sailor is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
- Awards
- 5 nominations
Natja Brunckhorst
- Paulette
- (as Nadja Brunkhorst)
Robert van Ackeren
- Betrunkener Legionär
- (as Robert v. Ackeren)
Karl-Heinz von Hassel
- Arbeiter
- (as K. H. v. Hassel)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaIn its first three weeks in theatrical release in Paris, France, more than 100,000 tickets were sold. According to "Genet: A Biography" (1993) by Edmund White, this was the first time that a film with such a strong gay theme had achieved this kind of box-office success.
- Alternate versionsFrench version credits Catherine Breillat for the French adaptation.
- ConnectionsEdited into Catalogue of Ships (2008)
- SoundtracksThe Tears Of The Lady
Composed By David Ambach, Peer Raben
Orchestrated By Peer Raben
(P) Schlicht Musikverlage, 1982 RCA/Ciné Music
© Schlicht Musikverlage
Published and Licensed by Musikverlage Hans Wewerka
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German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film before his untimely death at the age of 37 from a drug overdose of cocaine and sleeping pills. Adapted from the novel "Querelle De Brest" by Jean Genet this film is a visually striking surrealistic homoerotic fable, which starred the late bisexual American actor Brad Davis who was tragically ravaged by AIDS and died at the age of 41 some nine years after this film's release by assisted suicide. This highly stylized film concerns a handsome muscular amoral French sailor named Georges Querelle, played brilliantly by Davis who injects a raw and animistic complexity into role, he comes to terms was his latent homosexuality when his ship docks in the coastal town of Brest, and he makes his way to a local brothel which is run by Madame Lysiane, superbly played by the late great Jeanne Moreau, whose lover is Querelle's brother Robert, well played by Hanno Poschi, whom he has an odd love-hate relationship with. During his time in the coastal town Querelle will become a murderer and a magnet for a bunch of unsavory characters whom he meets for rough gay sex. Franco Nero superbly plays an officer from Querelle's ship that is enamored with him and worships him secretly from afar, and records his feelings on tape. Good direction by Fassbinder with impressive cinematography by Xaver Schwarzenberger and Josef Vavra. A disturbing art-house motion picture which is not for all tastes.
- dannyrovira-38154
- Jan 8, 2021
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- Also known as
- Querelle: A Film About Jean Genet's 'Querelle de Brest'
- Filming locations
- Berlin, Germany(only studio interiors)
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- DEM 4,400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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