Katzelmacher

Katzelmacher is a 1969 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. The film centers on an aimless group of friends whose lives are shaken up by the arrival of an immigrant Greek worker, Jorgos (played by Fassbinder himself).

Cast

 * Hanna Schygulla: Marie
 * Lilith Ungerer: Helga
 * Rudolf Waldemar Brem: Paul
 * Elga Sorbas: Rosy
 * Doris Mattes: Gunda
 * Irm Hermann: Elisabeth
 * Peter Moland: Peter
 * Hans Hirschmüller: Erich
 * Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Jorgos
 * Harry Baer: Franz
 * Hannes Gromball: Klaus
 * Katrin Schaake: Woman

Reception
When the film was released in America in 1977, Vincent Canby in The New York Times called it "extraordinarily stylish... quite unlike anything else I've seen... an early glimpse of his [Fassbinder's] dazzling talent and the talents of the stock company of performers and technicians who, with him, have created a body of film work unique in any country in recent years".