#Xaver Schwarzenberger

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Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982).

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Veronika Voss. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1982

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'Berlin Alexanderplatz' – Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic limited series on Criterion Channel

“Beginnings are hard, but without them there would be no endings.” Berlin Alexanderplatz (Germany, 1980), Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s fifteen-hour-plus adaptation of Alfred Döblin’s novel, is the filmmaker’s most lavish and complex production ever. The story of Franz Biberkopf (played with almost childlike openness and vulnerability by Gunter Lamprecht), who steps out of prison and into the…

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Querelle (1982)

The Gayest Director of All Time adapts the Gayest Book of All Time in this queer art house classic, which relishes in the perverse delights of the absolute gutter.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cinematographer: Xaver Schwarzenberger

Starring Jeanne Moreau, Brad Davis, Franco Nero,

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Brad Davis and Franco Nero in Querelle (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1982)

Cast: Brad Davis, Franco Nero, Jeanne Moreau, Laurent Malet, Hanno Pöschl, Günter Kaufmann, Burkhard Driest, Roger Fritz, Dieter Schidor, Natja Brunckhorst. Screenplay: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Burkhard Driest, based on a novel by Jean Genet. Cinematography: Xaver Schwarzenberger, Josef Vavra. Production design: Rolf Zehetbauer. Film editing: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Juliane Lorenz. Music: Peer Raben.

It's tempting to make jokes about Rainer Werner Fassbinder's last film, Querelle, which does sometimes look like a staging of Billy Budd designed by Tom of Finland. But for all its often overheated, overstylized, absurd moments, there is a a deep sadness at the core of the film. It was made, after all, at the beginning of the age of AIDS, from which its star, Brad Davis, would die. And even though it misses the poetry of the novel by Jean Genet on which Fassbinder and Burkhard Driest based their screenplay, it contains the essential sympathy for transgressors and outcasts that marks the work of both Genet and Fassbinder. That it no longer has the power to shock -- you can see far more outrageous images and situations on TV any night of the week -- almost works to its benefit. It has become a period piece almost before its time, but to say that it's "dated" is to miss the point. Querelle reflects an age of repression: The central character of the film is Franco Nero's Lt. Seblon, dictating his lust for Querelle into his tape recorder, watching the less-inhibited society of Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), Nono (Günther Kaufmannn), and the others who circle around Querelle like moths, swooping in for satisfaction and sometimes getting their wings singed. Is it a good film? No. The performances -- especially Davis's, whose line readings are sometimes amateurish -- don't measure up. The interpolated religious symbolism feels trite. The narrative, especially when it involves Gil and his double, Robert (Hanno Pöschl), is confusingly handled. But is it worth being annoyed and disappointed by? Absolutely.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz - ep.01

dir: R.W. Fassbinder

dop.:  Xaver Schwarzenberger

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Sisi (2009) dir. Xaver Schwarzenberger

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Rosel Zech in “Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss” (1982) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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Veronika Voss | dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1982)

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Querelle (1982) dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, cinematography by Xaver Schwarzenberger & Josef Vavra

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Veronika Voss. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 1982

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“They’re young. They’re in love. They need glasses.”

Otto - Der Film, 1985.

Dir. Xaver Schwarzenberger & Otto Waalkes | Writ. Bernd Eilert, Robert Gernhardt, Pit Knorr & Otto Waalkes

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Forgive me. I... got lost. So glad you were able to join us, Sissi. Sisi (Sissi (2009)) dir. Xaver Schwarzenberger

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FAVOURITE FILMS: Title: Querelle (1982). 

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Music by: Peer Raben. 

Adapted from: Querelle of Brest by Jean Genet. 

Cinematography: Xaver Schwarzenberger. 

Cast: Brad Davis, Jeanne Moreau, Franco Nero... 

In a French bordello, a young sailor meets a murderer who also is his supposed brother. Based on Jean Genet's novel. 

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“Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss” (1982) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Cinematography: Xaver Schwarzenberger

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Posted @withregram • @period.dramas.daily "Sisi was an idol, a pop star and a style icon at a time when these words didn't even exist."💫 says director Schwarzenberger. "She did things her way and refused to be reined in by conventions. With her rebellious insistence on standing up for her convictions, Sisi can be seen as a role model today as well. What particularly interested me here is the challenge to bring to life a Sisi in tune with our time, and to show all of Sisi's different facets." Cristiana Capotondi as Elisabeth of Austria in Sissi (2009) Dir. Xaver Schwarzenberger _ #queenborgias #perioddramas #perioddrama #perioddramasfashion #beauty #sissi #sisi #davidrott #empresselisabethofaustria #elisabethofaustria #cristianacapotondi https://www.instagram.com/p/CTchNgwjgZr/?utm_medium=tumblr