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6.6/10
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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
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- 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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After its end, easy to define it as a masterpiece. And the motives are so many than you can reduce them to cast - Jeanne Moreau , Franco Nero, Laurent Malet or, off course, Brad davis, to the illustration of the perspective about homosexuality of Jean Genet , to the touch, so obvious to bsessive, of Tom of Finland art , to the poetry, in bitter sparkles or to the crazness of Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
In same measure, it is far to be a film for you like or love it but for see it, time by time, having the feeling than you see it , always, the first time.
It is a film making you, for less two hours, its prisoner. For themes, ambiguity , dialogue, who, at first, sounds so forced, for the music, scenes and portraits of characters, for decisions and vulnerabilities , exposed so simple.
In short, a masterpiece. One far to be easy to define, enough being to feel it.
In same measure, it is far to be a film for you like or love it but for see it, time by time, having the feeling than you see it , always, the first time.
It is a film making you, for less two hours, its prisoner. For themes, ambiguity , dialogue, who, at first, sounds so forced, for the music, scenes and portraits of characters, for decisions and vulnerabilities , exposed so simple.
In short, a masterpiece. One far to be easy to define, enough being to feel it.
- Kirpianuscus
- May 26, 2023
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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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- Budget
- DEM 4,400,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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