Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Jean-Marie Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith’s subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub. AKA The Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the Pimp.
Writers: Ferdinand Bruckner (play), Juan de la Cruz (poems), Helmut Färber (text), Jean-Marie Straub (adaptation) (uncredited).
Stars: Irm Hermann, Kristin Peterson, Hanna Schygulla, Peer Raben, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Jimmy Powell, Lilith Ungerer, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Cinematographers: Hubertus Hagen (as Hubs Hagen), Niklaus Schilling (as Klaus Schilling).
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Note: Only hardcoded copy available on source. Also, I noticed that not every single line is subtitled on the film, I don’t know if this is intentional or not but it could be as it’s not the first Straub film that I see with parts of dialogue left untranslated.
Some might like it. A film of it’s time.. I tired and packed it in after five minutes. Bollocks, in a word.,