Burkhard Driest

It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and the courageous Corporal Steiner.

In Rainer Werner Fassbinder's final film, A violent drug smuggler embarks oin a journey of homoeritic self-discovery.