1971 · drama · tv · new german cinema
Rio das Mortes
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder1h 24m1971
Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.
Our read: Rio das Mortes (1971) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · tv · new german cinema entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / tv, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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