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Querelle
GERMANY · 1982

Querelle

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
homosexual identity and self-discovery masculinity and vulnerability criminality and morality desire and obsession transformation and rebirth
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Synopsis

A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.

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