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An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Baal
Sigi Graue
Ekart
Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie
Günther Neutze
Nech
Hanna Schygulla
Luise
Marian Seidowsky
Johannes
Irmgard Paulis
Johanna
Wilmut Borell
Mjurk
Christine Schuberth
Stripperin Sabitka
Walter Sedlmayr
Anwalt Pschierer
Günther Kaufmann
Kutscher Orgauer
Miriam Spoerri
Emilie Mech
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