I just want you to love me

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Movie
Original title I just want you to love me
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1976
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
script Rainer Werner Fassbinder
production Peter Märthesheimer
music Peer ravens
camera Michael Ballhaus
cut Liesgret Schmitt-Klink
occupation

I just want you to love me is a German TV film by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder from 1975. The film was shot in 25 days in November and December 1975 and was broadcast on March 23, 1976 on ARD . The costs amounted to around 800,000 DM and it was produced by Bavaria Atelier GmbH, today's Bavaria Film , on behalf of the WDR .

The screenplay was written based on a true case from the book Life Prisoners - Protocols from Prison by Klaus Antes, Christiane Ehrhardt and Heinrich Hannover (Munich, 1972).

content

The film tells the story of a young man who has been sentenced to ten years in prison for manslaughter in emotions. The psychologist Erika Runge asks him about his life and his motives. The young bricklayer Peter (Vitus Zeplichal) experienced a loveless childhood with his wealthy innkeeper parents. When he did not succeed in gaining the affection of his parents through submission and good behavior, he married hastily and moved to the big city, where he continued the cramped efforts to buy the love of those around him. By adapting more and more assiduously, he gets more and more into a mental impasse. In addition, there are performance constraints and mountains of debt. When he loses his job, he goes nuts and in the affect kills a host who reminds him of his father.

criticism

  • Stern , March 18, 1976 (C.-F. Theill): Moritat from the good murderer
  • Der Tagesspiegel , March 21, 1976 (K. Wienert): Raised without love
  • FR , March 25, 1976 (W. Schütte): Punished love
  • epd, Kirch and Rundfunk , April 3, 1976 (J. Rölz): Dead demonstration objects

literature

  • Limmer, Wolfgang. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmmakers. Reinbek: Rowohlt, February 1981.

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