Die Uraufführung im Münchener Action-Theater stand unter der Regie des Verfassers Fassbinder und des Komponisten Peer Raben.Ein Jahr später gelang Fassbinder mit der gleichnamigen Filmversion der künstlerische Durchbruch.

With Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas. There’s a fair amount of interesting social commentary within the subtext of Katzelmacher’s script. There’s a fair amount of interesting social commentary within the subtext of Katzelmacher’s script. R ainer Werner Fassbinder's second feature earned the 23-year-old film director widespread acclaim and set him on his course to become one of the key figures in the New German Cinema.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s second feature depicts the intolerance of a circle of financially and sexually frustrated friends when an immigrant laborer (Fassbinder) moves to their Munich neighborhood. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Katzelmacher (1969) If Fassbinder’s debut feature, Love Is Colder Than Death, set the tone for his theatrically-inclined early years, it was his second film, Katzelmacher, where he consolidated his immense skill as screen dramatist.

This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog".

A Greek immigrant (Fassbinder) unleashes jealousy and xenophobia among a group of neighbours in the Munich suburbs.
Fassbinder, who has become one of my very favorite directors, did not begin his career making masterpieces, but clumsy art films. Inhaltsangabe: Marie (Hanna Schygulla) geht … Katzelmacher feels more like you’re watching a group of friends doing their mundane activities, gossip and all.

Paul schläft mit Helga. Katzelmacher ist das erste eigenständige Bühnenstück des deutschen Regisseurs, Autors und Darstellers Rainer Werner Fassbinder aus dem Jahr 1968. Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. Fassbinder's second film, Katzelmacher (1969), (Bavarian pejorative slang term for a foreign worker from the Mediterranean), was received more positively, garnering five prizes after its debut at Mannheim.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the most ruthless observers of human nature the cinema has ever known. After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his …

Der nach eigenem Bühnenstück entstandene zweite Spielfilm von Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1946 - … Rated the #99 best film of 1969, and #7786 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).

Directed by: Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
One of the best known of the directors who flourished during the New German Cinema movement, his extraordinarily prolific output – 41 films in a 14-year period – almost certainly helped contribute to his early death aged just 37. Katzelmacher: Frühwerk von Rainer Werner Fassbinder um Gruppenzwang und Außenseiter.