The Bridegroom, the Actress, and the Pimp
Directed by Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
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Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying 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. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.Read moreLess
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying 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. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.
The story
Three sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying 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. "The film is a look entirely at Western decadence" - Jean-Marie Straub.
Cast & crew
Irm HermannDesiree
Hanna SchygullaLucy
Peer RabenWilli
Rudolf Waldemar BremPetrell
Lilith UngererLilith
Rainer Werner Fassbinderthe pimpExplore the crew
- Director
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Screenplay
- Jean-Marie Straub
- Screenplay
- Danièle Huillet
- Director
- Danièle Huillet
- Writer
- Helmut Färber
- Producer
- Klaus Hellwig
- Producer
- Danièle Huillet
- Director of Photography
- Hubertus Hagen
- Director of Photography
- Niklaus Schilling
- Editor
- Danièle Huillet
- Editor
- Jean-Marie Straub