Top Cast
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Baal
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Sigi Graue
Ekart
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Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie
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Günther Neutze
Nech
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Hanna Schygulla
Luise
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Marian Seidowsky
Johannes
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Irmgard Paulis
Johanna
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Wilmut Borell
Mjurk
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Christine Schuberth
Stripperin Sabitka
Overview
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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