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PRODUCTION / FUNDING Germany

Oskar Roehler readying Enfant Terrible, a film about Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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- Oliver Masucci, best known for playing Adolf Hitler in Look Who’s Back, will portray the legendary German filmmaker

Oskar Roehler readying Enfant Terrible, a film about Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Markus Zimmer (Bavaria Filmproduktion), Alexander Bickel (WDR), Oliver Masucci, Katja Riemann, Oskar Roehler and Petra Müller (Film- und Medienstiftung NRW) on the set of Enfant Terrible (© Bavaria Filmproduktion/Ralf Jürgens)

Best known for his film No Place to Go, which won the Dutch Film Critics' Award at the 2001 International Film Festival Rotterdam as well as the Golden German Film Award in 2000, but also for titles such as Suck My Dick and Agnes and his Brothers, German director Oskar Roehler has now taken on the challenge of making a film about Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Aiming to interpret the life and impact of this cinematic legend in an artistically innovative form, Roehler’s Enfant Terrible [+see also:
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will star Oliver Masucci in the lead role, an actor best known for portraying Adolf Hitler in the film adaptation of the satirical novel Look Who’s Back [+see also:
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and for playing a part in the Netflix Original series Dark. The cast of the ambitious upcoming film also includes Katja Riemann, Hary Prinz, Anton Rattinger, Felix Hellmann, Erdal Yildiz, Jochen Schropp, Sunnyi Melles and Isolde Barth. Roehler penned the script of the movie, which was initially meant to be entitled Fassbinder, together with Klaus Richter, with whom he previously collaborated on Jew Suss: Rise and Fall [+see also:
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Enfant Terrible is being produced by Bavaria Filmproduktion (Markus Zimmer), in co-production with X Filme Creative Pool (Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott), and benefits from the support of the West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR), Bavarian Broadcasting (BR) and ARTE. The film has been backed by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF). Weltkino is on board as the German distributor of the upcoming feature.

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