Der Stadtstreicher
Vagrant![](/media/filmstills/2016/retrospektive/201602816_1_RWD_1380.jpg)
© Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
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Christoph Roser
Der Stadtstreicher | Vagrant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
BRD 1966, Retrospective
© Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation
A man in tattered clothing empties a bottle of wine at a tram stop in Munich. A pistol he finds on a bridge starts him thinking about suicide. His existential crisis is just a game to others. This melancholy drama of an underdog was inspired by Eric Rohmer’s Le signe du lion (1959) and the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini.