Full awards and nominations of Katzelmacher
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Drama
Jorgos is a young Greek guest worker in Germany, known pejoratively as a “Katzelmacher,” Bavarian slang for “cat screwer,” referring to the supposed sexual habits of foreigners. He rents a room in Elisabeth’s house in the Munich suburbs. She and Peter hang out with a group of disaffected and bored young people who resent Jorgos and beat him up when he dates a German girl.
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German Film Awards 1970 - Films 1969
- winner Best Film
- winner Best Screenplay (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- winner Best Cinematography (Dietrich Lohmann)