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The Bridegroom, the Actress and the Pimp

Der Bräutigam, die Komödiantin und der Zuhälter

1968

Jean-Marie Straub

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irm Hermann, Kristin Peterson, Hanna Schygulla ...

6.7

75

Drama. Romance Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes playing their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith's subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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