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Love is Colder Than Death is a 1969 West German crime film written, starring, edited and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, his feature directorial debut. The film co-stars Ulli Lommel and Hanna Schygulla, both of whom would become regular collaborators of Fassbinder. The plot follows a small-time gangster (Lommel) who is caught in a love-triangle with a sex worker (Schygulla) and her pimp (Fassbinder).
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It is often interesting to discover how the childhood and youth influences a directors style and choices. In the case of (Western-) German Fassbinder, he was sent to the cinema almost every day in his youth, when his single mother preferred the silence of his absence to concentrate on her translation work. He grew up in the late 1950s and 60s and was off course heavily influenced by the avantgarde movies of that tim…More