Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971)

Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie

German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder directs the made-for-TV melodrama Pioneers in Ingolstadt, based on the play by Marieluise Fleisser. The film opens as a parade of soldiers are marching through a town square singing patriotic songs. Alma (Irm Hermann) and Berta (Hanna Schygulla) are watching them and musing about their ideas on men and relationships. The soldiers (often referred to as pioneers) have been given the task of building a bridge in the town. Alma seems to understand that the soldiers only want her for short sexual encounters, so she's prepared to live her life accordingly. Meanwhile, romantic Berta falls in love with self-centered soldier Karl (Harry Baer), who all but tells her to get lost. The soldiers get drunk and beat up a random passerby. The women grow to hate Alma for her acceptance of life as a sex object. Naïve Berta is ultimately humiliated.

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Runtime: 84 mins Rating: 5.7

Cast

Irm Hermann

Walter Sedlmayr

Fritz

Hanna Schygulla

Berta

Klaus Löwitsch

The Sergeant

Ulli Lommel

Kurt Raab

Harry Baer

Karl

Günther Kaufmann

Max

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Screenplay

Thea Eymèsz

Editor

Peer Raben

Original Music Composer

Dietrich Lohmann

Director of Photography

Kurt Raab

Production Design

Kurt Raab

Producer

Gernot Krää

Art Direction

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Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971)

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