Opening Berlinale Retrospective: ‘Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe’ (Tenderness of the Wolves)

FRG 1973, directed by Ulli Lommel, OVenSubs, 82 min

Starring: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Wolfgang Schenck, Brigitte Mira, Rainer Hauer, Barbara Bertram, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Heinrich Giskes 

Ulli Lommel’s film about a serial killer in the early post-war era echoes the real story of “wolf man” murderer Fritz Haarmann. A mix of Fritz Lang’s M and Hitchcock’s Psycho that follows in the tradition of Weimar cinema.

The film screening will take place at our new location in E-Werk.