A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Production
Genuinely artificial sets that reject reality entirely.
Direction
Fassbinder's swan song, completed weeks before his death.
Cinematography
Orange and teal before it was a cliché—here it's poetry.
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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