Plagues of the God: Fassbinder’s Torturous Cinema

Plagues of the God: Fassbinder’s Torturous Cinema

Commissioned by Arrow Video for their box set The Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection, vol. III, released in summer 2022. -- J.R. “Capitalism is the plague. Criminals are its gods.” --Fassbinder during the German trailer of Gods of the Plague Rainer Werner Fassbinder was only twenty-four when he made his first four features in 1969, the third of which was Gods of the Plague. Years later, when he compiled a list of what he believed were his ten …