v.l. Mareike Beykirch (Barbara, Hedwig), Taner Sahintürk (Ali), Sema Poyraz (Paula), TamerArslan (Fuad)
Sunday night. Starring our friend Daniel Kahn, the romantic-tragic Fassbinder film becomes a rom-com-trag-com in the hands of the Maxim Gorki Theater troupe. Staged and lit like a musical, making good-strange use of the rotating stage, slapstick as social commentary, the glitz and humor worked somehow to amplify Fassbinder’s story of the love between an immigrant from Morocco and a German Putzfrau 20 years his senior, and the remarkable atmosphere of gossip, everyday life, and racism in which it either lives or dies.
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