Best known for his film No Place to Go, which won the Dutch Film Critics' Award at the 2001 International Film Festival Rotterdam as well as the Golden German Film Award in 2000, but also for titles such as Suck My Dick and Agnes and his Brothers, German director Oskar Roehler has now taken on the challenge of making a film about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Aiming to interpret the life and impact of this cinematic legend in an artistically innovative form, Roehler’s Enfant Terrible [+leggi anche:
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Enfant Terrible is being produced by Bavaria Filmproduktion (Markus Zimmer), in co-production with X Filme Creative Pool (Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott), and benefits from the support of the West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR), Bavarian Broadcasting (BR) and ARTE. The film has been backed by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF). Weltkino is on board as the German distributor of the upcoming feature.

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